Podcasts about Arkady Babchenko

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The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Elena Pedigo Clark, Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars (Academic Studies Press, 2023) examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Elena Pedigo Clark, Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars (Academic Studies Press, 2023) examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/russian-studies

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Elena Pedigo Clark, Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars (Academic Studies Press, 2023) examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Elena Pedigo Clark, Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars (Academic Studies Press, 2023) examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Elena Pedigo Clark, Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars (Academic Studies Press, 2023) examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

The collapse of the USSR was relatively bloodless. The Chechen Wars were not. A tiny nation on the edge of Russia, Chechnya brought one of the largest armies in the world to its knees. Elena Pedigo Clark, Trauma and Truth: Teaching Russian Literature on the Chechen Wars (Academic Studies Press, 2023) examines significant works about these wars by some of Russia's leading contemporary war authors, including Anna Politkovskaya, Arkady Babchenko, and Zakhar Prilepin. Combining close reading of the texts with descriptions of the authors' social and political activities and suggestions on how to teach these challenging authors and texts, Trauma and Truth traces the psychological effects of the wars on their participants, and concludes with a discussion of what this means for Russia today. Jeff Bachman is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at American University's School of International Service in Washington, DC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Shownotes: This week, Matt and Cameron examine One Soldier's War by Arkady Babchenko, the biography of a Russian soldier who served in the first and second Russo-Chechen Wars. This is, in all honesty, a pretty tough read; but there is an unfortunately dearth of English-language focus on Russia's first military conflicts as a post-Soviet state. Don't worry if you're not all that familiar with Chechen history—we'll be covering all of that in an extremely long context section! We tried to keep the discussion from getting too dark, but it's hard to get away from the basic nature of the work. Just something to keep in mind as you decide whether or not you want to listen to this episode right this moment. Major themes: Major Bummers, the Republic of Chechnya, The Recursive Nature of Geo-Political Conflict 06:43 - Oops, I should have refreshed my memory before starting this episode. The basic breakdown of federal subdivisions in Russia is -Republics -Oblasts -Krais (Functionally indistinct from Oblasts) -Autonomous Okrugs (This and the above are what I forgot) -Autonomous Oblasts (This is the Jewish Autonomous Oblast I mention) Also there are the federal cities of Moscow and Petersburg, which are administered differently than other cities. (Also also there's technically Sevastopol but that's a hot can of worms that I'm not going to touch here). 12:24 - Bordering constituent republic of Russia, I meant to say. 21:50 - A few articles on this phenomenon. 38:33 - I should have said “Soviet military history” here. That would be a little more accurate to my knowledge base, as I admittedly am not as familiar with the Imperial era. 42:53 - Return from war, I meant to say. 47:05 - He may actually be living in Israel at the moment. It's not super clear. The music used in this episode was “soviet march,” by Toasted Tomatoes. You can find more of their work on Bandcamp and Youtube. Follow us on Instagram, check out our website, if you're so inclined, check out our Patreon!

Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko spoke out against the Kremlin and, like many others, was marked for death. But he managed to elude and expose those who sought to kill him. He faked his own death. In this episode, an exclusive interview, he details how it all happened, moment by moment.

EDITORS NOTE – This Mort Report Extra is a basic guide for keeping track of the world. It is long. Headlines are only headlines; news summaries and snippets are not enough for seeing detailed distant reality. We can read Sophocles in crib notes, but that risks missing the part about Oedipus poking out his own eyes. PARIS – The noble ostrich is impressive to watch loping along an African savannah at 50 miles an hour, but its survival strategy needs work. With head in the sand and tail in the air, it risks ending up skinned for some rich guy’s cowboy boots or maybe a Mar-a-Lago golf bag. My recent piece about the White House jihad on truth prompted one reader to remark that Donald Trump’s slurs resonate because “the msm (mainstream media) is no longer trustworthy or helpful.” Big news companies make up a single collective to be dismissed out of hand. Here’s a parallel: The smc (supermarket chains) no longer provide nutritious food. Of course, they do. Choice is up to each shopper. Those who load up their carts with only Twinkies and canned spaghetti can hardly blame the store. The “mainstream” is shot full of failings, but its broad reach provides essential basic coverage. That’s a start. Countless other sources add detail, verify or dispute facts, fill in context and sketch human backdrops. Anyone who fails to grasp global realities isn’t trying hard enough. This is a primer to help make sense of an unruly world. With threats of nuclear High Noon, climatic catastrophes, conflict on five continents, desperate millions on the move and fierce competition for dwindling resources, nothing matters more. In 2004, when far less was at stake, British editor Andrew Marr noted in his book, “My Trade,” that many people he knew ignored newspapers and dismissed broadcast news as mindless nonsense. They focus instead on their families, busy daily lives and local charity. “This is not good enough,” Marr wrote. “We are either players in open, democratic societies, all playing a part in their ultimate direction, or we are deserters.” Back then, A.J. Liebling’s quip was still true: freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. Anyone can play now, and that is a mixed blessing. “Journalist” is now as meaningless a word as “media.” We need to know who is telling us what – and why. The Web is a delivery system, not a source. People would be leery if some stranger on the street in a clown suit and floppy shoes bloviated about places he couldn’t pronounce. But clueless self-appointed experts on TV or computer screens receive far less scrutiny. Early on, Google claimed to offer news from 5,000 providers. But if, say, hostilities broke out in Kashmir, that meant 4,998 “outlets” riffed on the same dispatches from the AP and Reuters stringers in Srinagar. These days, such secondhand sourcing is beyond measure. Too many people now think news, unlike food, comes at no cost. And too many purveyors oblige with generic “content” packed in paid pitches and political cant. With a free lunch, it is hard to complain about quality. Much solid reporting comes at no charge, but we need to scale a few paywalls. We also have to budget our time. Nearly every substantive story comes with time-consuming kibitzing that also passes for journalism. Reveal, an arm of the California-based Center for Investigative Reporting, spent months documenting hidden safety issues at Tesla. The gold-standard CIR, founded in 1977 as the first U.S. investigative journalism nonprofit, relies on reporters and editors of proven credibility. Elon Musk, the man behind Tesla, fired off a series of tweets calling journalists corrupt and cowardly. The CIR, he said, was “just some rich kids in Berkeley who took their political science prof too seriously.” (It’s in Emeryville.) Jack Shafer, a kibitzer for Politico, fired back. He called Musk is a media assassin, not a critic, an example of nouveau-billionaires who think reporters should be fawning PR flacks. True enough. But he wrote, “Journalists love nothing more than to be slapped around (and) Musk’s sustained caning…has brought nothing but sunshine and smiles to newsrooms all over America.” Shafer speaks only for himself. Kathy Gannon, for one, does not love being slapped around. After 18 years in Afghanistan, she knows what “shoot the messenger” can mean. An Afghan cop shot up her car in 2014, killing her friend, photographer Anja Niedringhaus, and wounding her badly. After long, painful rehabilitation, she hurried back to Kabul. Gannon undermines another generality. Associated Press has axed experienced reporters to save money. It slashes travel expenses and often relies on untested stringers. Yet she is among top-quality AP pros who stay at their jobs. AP – like the “msm” – is neither all bad nor all good. AP illustrates how the global mediascape has evolved. During my 38 years of employ until 2005, we jokingly called it the A&P, a major grocery chain. It was a supermarket of news, cooperatively owned by newspapers and broadcasters that shared costs. Along with big stories, it kept track of small ones percolating under the surface before they erupted into “breaking news.” As its members saw profits decline, AP shifted focus to big projects with bragging rights and various “profit centers,” leaving too many world-changing trends and events uncovered. It can be excellent. And not. Newspapers also reinvented themselves, mostly cutting staff and shifting to “hyperlocal” coverage. A new breed of owners broke up family-founded chains forged by hard-earned public trust. Hedge fund hogs plundered. Shady magnates bought papers to push their own interests. A few dailies are now better than ever. Some try hard with what they’ve got. Many are a disgrace. Television news has changed beyond recognition. Once three U.S. networks kept large bureaus abroad. Walter Cronkite at CBS was the most trusted man in America. Today, CBS’s website lists only lone correspondents in Rome, Istanbul and Beijing. Four work from the London hub, where stories from elsewhere are often narrated from the studio, with purchased footage not from CBS crews.  (ABC and NBC staff reporters also cluster in London. It’s “foreign.”) Cronkite likely prolonged the Vietnam War at first by believing the Washington line rather than correspondents on the ground. But, a real journalist, he went to see for himself. He found a stalemate, and national sentiment shifted. Cronkite’s trademark tagline at the end of his newscasts, “And that’s the way it is,” defined the times. America had to take him and others at their word. Big media set the agenda, with a smattering of smaller papers, radio networks and freelancers as a counterbalance. Logically, countless interactive multimedia sources that speed words and images from everywhere would reflect a clear picture of the world. In fact, it allows people to form whatever picture comforts their beliefs. And with tools to measure what resonates, media executives try to give people what they want. Late in May, a Harvard study said Hurricane Maria killed 4,645 people in Puerto Rico, 70 times more than the official count. Beyond the human cost, it defies belief that a government so outrageously masks the toll of its feeble response. Yet CNN devoted 12 minutes to that story and nearly five hours to Roseanne Barr getting cancelled. MSNBC was not much better. Pandering to have-it-your-way news is a boon to despots. Anything that thwarts their narrative is labeled fake, feeding distrust of all “media.”  Trump’s campaign resonates with hardline tyrants and wannabe demagogues everywhere – particularly in Russia. David Ignatius, who spent decades as a foreign correspondent and then edited the International Herald Tribune before analyzing world affairs for the Washington Post, summed it up in a column about Arkady Babchenko, who miraculously returned from death: “When a prominent Russian journalist fakes news about his own murder to try to expose the Kremlin’s misdeeds, you know something has gone dangerously wrong in what we like to call the free marketplace of ideas. These days, it has become a battle space where anything goes.” Babchenko falsified his death with help from Ukrainian agents to elude Russian thugs. It worked. But reporters have enough trouble remaining credible, and alive, without an activist-journalist whose ploy, in effect, helps Vladimir Putin dismiss actual murders as hoaxes. Here are some thoughts on shaping a reality-based worldview, a framework that fits together odd shaped pieces into a quickly changing kaleidoscope: –Triangulate the way reporters do. When a new story breaks, check it against another version and add a third. As it develops, look for informed analysis that probes its broader meaning. Beyond who, what and where, look for why and what next. –Consider wider implications. A lifeless child on a beach in Turkey is only one dramatic symptom of diplomatic failure, needless conflict, economic imbalances, corruption, xenophobia. and, increasingly, a changing climate has been ignored for too long. –Subscribe to The New York Times. You need it, and it needs you. There is much to criticize. It makes mistakes, some serious, but it does not willfully distort or fabricate. It provides unmatched global coverage, with online graphics, visuals and data sets. Its archives give historical context. “The failing New York Times” is a Trump whopper. He has made it boom. It is publicly traded but still controlled by a newspaper family faithful to old principles. –Add The Washington Post for the cost of a few drinks in a fancy bar. It hounds Trump because that is a newspaper’s role. Its fact checkers found he made 3,251 false or misleading claims in 497 days, some clear-cut grounds for impeachment. I’m troubled by a publisher who also dominates a global empire of cheap books and canned beans. But Marty Baron is as good as editors get, and Jeff Bezos stays out of his way. Times’ editor Dean Baquet jokes that the new Post motto, Democracy Dies In Darkness, is a little grim. Maybe, but it’s true. The two editors cooperate as much as they compete. –No list can begin to be comprehensive, but I’ve got a few favorites. The New Yorker is worth whatever it costs. Look abroad. Britain’s The Guardian, free if you choose not to contribute, is a vital outsider’s eye on America and the wider world. Talk to friends and poke around. Try Germany’s Spiegel Online for probing analysis, interviews and hard-reporting at length. India’s The Hindu, with a circulation of 1.2 million, focuses on human factors behind the news, with a staff of savvy correspondents. –TV is tough to characterize. For me, BBC is best, with reporters and anchors whose faces often reflect a hard life on the road. Funded by a TV tax, it avoids disguising paid messages as editorial product and obnoxious chest-thumping. Which brings up CNN. Its focus on Trump’s campaign boosted ratings – and likely swayed the election. CNN can be excellent. Some of its correspondents are rock solid. Christiane Amanpour, who earned her chops in scary places, gets to the heart of what matters. Fareed Zakaria’s analyses are good enough to make you forget he backed the Iraq invasion. (“Any stirring of the pot is good.”) But keep a remote handy in case Richard Quest pops up. –Non-profit groups dig into specific subjects, with deeply reported investigations.  ProPublica, the Center of Public Integrity and Reveal are among some good ones based in America. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which produced the Panama Papers and much else, relies on a network of others across the world. These groups collaborate with NPR and PBS. Independents such as Amy Goodman add to the mix. –Read books for a broad view of the world to help you tune out peripheral noise. Today’s biggest story “broke” five centuries ago when Leonardo da Vinci nailed it. By tracing the flow of water and winds, he saw that humans live in sync with a single ecosystem. If that balance tips, no one will survive. Then, as now, deluded leaders fail to get this. We need reliable eyes and ears beyond every horizon. Real journalists are driven by curiosity, commitment, ethics, and a deeply ingrained horror of getting things wrong. Some young reporters seize this immediately. Some old ones never do. The trick for readers is to determine which is which. For more on Mort log on to https://www.mortreport.org/about/  

A Russian journalist living in Ukraine, Arkady Babchenko was supposedly shot to death in his apartment by an assassin operating on behalf of a mysterious Russian conspiracy. Or so the story went ... until Babchenko turned up at a press conference that had been convened to discuss his death. Rather than an assassination, the assembled media was informed that the hoax was perpetrated in order to foil a real plot. But, many have wondered if this explanation makes any sense. What could possibly account for the bizarre series of events that involved spies, an arms dealer, a monk, and a shady security consultancy in the suburbs of Washington, DC?

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan discuss tomorrow's historic meeting in Singapore between President Trump and Kim Jong-un. Radio Sputnik host Brian Becker joins the show live from Singapore to preview the upcoming events and expectations for the meeting.Scheduled Guests: (Show 7-10 AM ET)Brian Becker: Host of Loud And Clear on Radio Sputnik | Reporting LIVE from the Trump-Kim Singapore SummitDarlene Brown - CEO of DivineEmpowerment.org | Making Great Memories this Summer with Your Family and FriendsMark Sleboda - Moscow-Based International Relations & Security Analyst | A Rush to Blame Russia: The Skripal and Babchenko SagasJames Carey - Editor at GeoPolitics Alert dot com | Talking Turkey and Erdogan's Latest Plans Walter Smolarek [In-Studio] - Producer for Loud and Clear on Radio Sputnik | Takeaways from the G7 SummitThe unusual cases of the Skripal's in the UK and journalist Arkady Babchenko in Ukraine have highlighted how fast some individuals are to place blame on Russia regardless of evidence. Mark Sleboda, a Moscow-Based International Relations & Security Analyst, joins Fault Lines as a guest for the first time to give his take on these stories and the general "Rush to Blame Russia."President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey has been working to control Kurdish populations throughout Turkey, Syria, and Iraq. James Carey, editor and co-owner of GeoPoliticsAlert.com, recently wrote an article about the politics of Turkey which he will break down on today's show.For the final segment of the show, Walter Smolarek, producer for 'Loud and Clear' on Radio Sputnik joins Garland and Lee in-studio to recap his reporting from the G7 Summit in Quebec. What are the major takeaways from the weekend's events, and how have international relations between the US and other countries been impacted?

This week we talk about the death and resurrection of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, a story of a conspiracy which countered a conspiracy. Learn more about M's academic work on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theories at: http://episto.org/ Why not support The Podcaster's Guide to the Conspiracy by donating to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/conspiracism or Podbean crowdfunding? http://www.podbean.com/patron/crowdfund/profile/id/muv5b-79 You can contact us at: podcastconspiracy@gmail.com

Arkady Babchenko faked his death with the help of the Ukrainian government. Also, a female London CEO is attacked on the subway, and naturally blames white men for not coming to her aid. Breitbart: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/05/31/russian-journalist-thought-dead-pledges-to-dance-on-putins-grave/ The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/30/for-all-its-absurdity-the-babchenko-stunt-is-no-laughing-matter The Sun: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6465766/female-boss-slams-white-middle-class-men-who-fled-as-6ft-attacker-kicked-and-threatened-her-on-tube-in-london/amp/

This week (recorded June 5, 2018), the weird news stars aligned to bring the ladies several exposés related to con men/women, faked identities, and good old scams. Cate kicks things off with some random headlines followed by a story about a Russian journalist who faked his death to prove an assassination attempt. In Pop Culture, Liz reports on an insane attempted murder lawsuit involving Courtney Love, Britney Spear's ex-manager Sam Lufti, and Ross Butler of Riverdale and 13 Reasons Why fame (come again?). In Crime Time, the ladies take on the bizarre case of NYC fraudulent socialite Anna Delvey and how she conned her way through hotels, meals, trips, and friendships. In Sports, Liz reports on the strange case of Philadelphia 76ers General Manager Bryan Colangelo and his connection to 5 fake Twitter accounts that have been spreading private information about players, criticizing members of the coaching staff, and taunting beat reporters. As always, the ladies wrap things up sharing their results from this week's BuzzFeed quiz - This "Would You Rather" Quiz Will Reveal What Kind Of Friend You Are. This one is super hard! All this and so much more! We now have MERCH! Get our logo and some of Cate and Liz's favorite catch phases on accessories and apparel at eveningboozehour.threadless.com. We're also on Patreon! Support the Evening Booze Hour for as little as $1/month at patreon.com/eveningboozehour. Revolutionize the way you listen to everything. Visit Sudio.com and use our promo code BOOZE to get 15% off any headphones! Below are links to the original sources of the stories featured in this week's episode. • British Expert on the Royal Family Is Actually Tommy From Upstate New York The Wall Street Journal https://on.wsj.com/2LM2Vta • 'Murdered' Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko turns up alive CNN https://cnn.it/2H4kxgp • Arkady Babchenko says he faked his own death with pigs' blood and a makeup artist CNN https://cnn.it/2LP2z5c • After Arkady Babchenko’s ‘Murder,’ a Twist Was Revealed. By Him. The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2xsnvvJ • '13 reasons why' star ross butler is involved in an attempted murder lawsuit!? MTV News https://bit.ly/2xpsrBn • Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It. Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. New York Magazine, The Cut https://bit.ly/2sfpEpl • This Story About A Fake Socialite Who Scammed All Of New York Is Wild Betches https://betches.co/2Jk83mM • The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account The Ringer https://bit.ly/2xoQIHF • Wife of 76ers' executive Bryan Colangelo could be behind Twitter accounts USA Today https://usat.ly/2J6zgsX • BuzzFeed Quiz: This "Would You Rather" Quiz Will Reveal What Kind Of Friend You Are. https://bzfd.it/2M1EKaw --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Joel Murphy and Lars Periwinkle talk about Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who faked his own death. They also discuss the state of the Jurassic Park franchise, whether or not blue hair is a recessive gene in The Simpsons universe and what David Tennant's Doctor can teach us all about dealing with people using problematic language.

This week we looked inward for change; if you ever wondered what it's like to be a national technology and culture magazine that loses $100,000 in Bitcoin, have we got a story for you. If you'd rather an even wilder tale from around the globe, please read about how Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko faked his own death, and why some of his colleagues have cried foul.

Greetings, Comrades!In this episode, by popular demand, we look into the whole faked murder thing, concerning Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko. It also gets crazy, raises more questions than answers, and as I received more news, some of them being completely untested, amidst writing the script and then – recording, it'll also allow to test my sources. All in all, complex. Yet-I hope you'll like it! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/theeasternborder. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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This episode of The Russia Guy takes place a week after the staged murder of Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, who was dead to the world for almost 24 hours, from May 29 to May 30, until he was gloriously resurrected by Ukraine's National Security Agency, which revealed that his killing had been a hoax apparently designed to obtain a hit list with the names of 47 prominent Ukrainian and Russian journalists. The hired hitman was in on the sting operation, and the man arrested for hiring him — Boris German — says he was actually working for Ukrainian counterintelligence. This episode isn't about the investigative drama behind Babchenko's murder hoax, however, but the consequences of lying to the public and the media about the death of a prominent journalist. To learn more about the significance of this deception, Kevin spoke to Natalia Roudakova, a cultural anthropologist working in the field of political communication and comparative media studies. Natalia is the author of a new book called “Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia.”So what are you going to learn about on today's episode of The Russia Guy? Kevin asked Natalia to put the Babchenko murder hoax in the context of Ukraine and Russia's Soviet legacy. She explained what truth in journalism actually is — how it's constructed and understood in different societies. And she discussed why many journalists in Russia and especially Ukraine feel betrayed and manipulated by the Ukrainian authorities' decision to lie about Babchenko's murder. Check out Roudakova's book, “Losing Pravda: Ethics and the Press in Post-Truth Russia,” at Amazon:https://www.amazon.com/Losing-Pravda-Ethics-Post-Truth-Russia/dp/1316629775If you enjoy this podcast, please consider showing your support with a pledge at Patreon, where you can contribute as much or as little as you like. I'd like to thank those in the audience who are already pitching in.https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrockSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/kevinrothrock)

In this episode we talk Pusha T and Drake’s current rap beef, Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet results in the cancellation of her show’s reboot, Ukrainian intelligence officials staging the death of journalist Arkady Babchenko in effort to catch the people trying to kill him, Kim Kardasahian meeting with President Trump to talk prison reform, white people using the “N” word in a song, Cavs vs The Warriors in the Finals & more! Watch the interview with Miles Arnell here: https://youtu.be/yKM9ToToGWc We Break Silence Show E.Charlez - Pamela Rosario - Cash Walken - Vania

Today we are joined by Amanda Marcotte of Salon in Brooklyn and Alice Thwate in Oxford of the Echo Chamber. In a week that has seen Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko come back from the dead, we ask what is going on in Roseanne Barr's head? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan discuss the stunning news that journalist Arkady Babchenko, who had been reported murdered, turned up alive yesterday at a press conference in Ukraine. The incident was part of a "staged death" which has reporters asking, what exactly has occurred here?Scheduled Guests: (Show 7-10 AM ET)Andrew Spannaus - American Journalist and Writer in Italy | Is Populism Taking Over the World? Dr. Bosworth - Internal Medicine Physician & Author of the Book: 'ANYWAY YOU CAN' - STOP Your Kid's Brain from Frying Over the Summer!!! Miko Peled - Human Rights Activist and Author | How Are Potential Foreign Threats Being Interpreted in Iran?John Kiriakou - Co-Host of Loud & Clear on Radio Sputnik | What does the "Fake Murder" of a Journalist mean for Ukraine and Poroshenko? Whitney Webb - Staff Writer at Mint Press News | Where is the Reporting on Mass Starvation and Death in Yemen?Lucy Komisar - Investigative Journalist who Focuses on Corporate and Financial Corruption | Explaining Paul Manafort's Trump Tower Notes & Bill Browder's Latest "Incident"The end of the school year brings many challenges for parents including how to keep their children learning and engaged throughout the summer. Dr. Bosworth joins Garland and Lee to give her advice on the best activities for your kids over the next few months.The situation in Yemen is a full blown humanitarian crisis where millions more could starve to death by the end of 2018. Whitney Webb, a staff writer for Mint Press News, has been reporting on Yemen and will explain the gravity of the current problem on today's program.For the final segment of the show, investigative journalist Lucy Komisar returns to Fault Lines to discuss yesterday's arrest of Bill Browder in Spain and to explain Paul Manafort's Trump Tower notes. Are Manafort's notes as cryptic as some in the media have suggested, or is there a clear explanation to what he wrote?

1-Colpo di teatro dei servizi ucraini. L'omicidio del dissidente russo Arkady Babchenko era finto. Il giornalista si è presentato in conferenza stampa nella sorpresa generale. Kiev: lo abbiamo fatto per esporre il complotto di Mosca che voleva ucciderlo sul serio.2-Per vincere le elezioni ogni strumento è lecito. In Turchia spostati e accorpati alcuni seggi nella regione curda. La mossa potrebbe favorire il partito di Erdogan...Si vota il 24 giugno (Serena Tarabini).3-Egitto. Bloccati tutti i canali di dissenso. Dopo la conferma di al-Sisi al potere, a marzo, aumentati gli arresti degli oppositori (Giuseppe Acconcia).4-Il radicalismo islamico, un problema anche per il Mozambico. Almeno dieci persone decapitate nel nord del paese. I responsabili potrebbero essere legati ad altri gruppi integralisti africani (Raffaele Masto).5-Alimentazione virtuosa e rispettosa dell'ambiente. Gand in Belgio e il suo sistema alimentare sostenibile (Fabio Fimiani).6-Graphic Novel. The Beauty, la bellezza (Maurizio Principato)

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by Max Blumenthal, a bestselling author, senior editor of Grayzone Project, and co-host of the podcast “Moderate Rebels,” whose latest film is “Killing Gaza.” Washington is home to literally hundreds of think tanks. These quasi-academic institutions are supposed to be a home for subject matter experts to think the big thoughts, write important papers and books, and, perhaps to influence policy. But the truth isn’t that simple. Most think tanks are financed by special interests like defense contractors, foreign governments, and partisan billionaires. Very few Americans realize the impact these groups have on our government and on our politics.Beyond Nuclear with Kevin Kamps is Loud & Clear’s regular Wednesday segment. The hosts and Kevin look at nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, joins the show. Israelis and Palestinians traded fire today along the border with Gaza, as the two sides engaged in ceasefire talks. But even as the talks took place, Palestinians fired rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded by bombing 25 sites in Gaza. Brian and John speak with Ali Abunimah, the co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of the book “The Battle for Justice in Palestine.” The Treasury Department today levied new sanctions on six Iranian nationals and three Iran-based entities, including Ansar e-Hezbollah, the Hanista Programing Group, and the notorious Evin Prison. The hosts look at what this means in the broader context of US sanctions on Iran. Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labor lawyer who is the author of “The Plot to attack Iran,” and Mohammad Marandi, an expert on American studies and postcolonial literature who teaches at the University of Tehran, join the show.Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko was reported killed in Ukraine, and investigators had been looking for his killer. But today at a press conference about his death, Babchenko appeared—alive. Investigators say they were looking for people who were threatening him by faking his death. Brian and John speak with Mark Sleboda, an international affairs and security analyst. The Canadian government announced yesterday that it would buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain Pipeline for $3.5 billion, hoping to save a project that has met with strong political and environmental opposition. Alison Bodine, a member of the Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice and of Climate Convergence - Metro Vancouver, joins Brian and John. According to a new filing today, federal prosecutors are poised to receive more than 1 million files from the three cell phones of President Trump’s personal attorney, Daniel Cohen. Federal investigators already have access to more than 300,000 pages of documents seized from Cohen’s office. The filing was made by a special master, appointed to protect information subject to attorney-client privilege. But is that even possible in an investigation of this magnitude? Daniel Lazare, a journalist and author of “The Frozen Republic,” “The Velvet Coup,” and “America's Undeclared War,” joins the show.

Spegillinn 30. maí 2018 Meirihlutar í Reykjavík og Hafnarfirði eru í óða önn að taka á sig mynd. Samfylkingin, Vinstri Græn, Píratar og Viðreisn hafa átt í óformlegum viðræðum um myndun meirihluta í borginni síðustu daga. Ellefu manns hafa látist í níu slysum í umdæmi lögreglunnar á Suðurlandi það sem af er ári. Ný farþegaspá Isavia, sem kynnt var á Reykjavík Hilton Nordica í morgun, gerir ráð fyrir að færri erlendir ferðamenn komi til Íslands á þessu ári en reiknað hafði verið með. Stjórnvöld vinna að því að innleiða núvitund í skólum og heilsugæslu. Rússneskur blaðamaður, Arkady Babchenko, sem sagt var að hefði verið myrtur í Kænugarði í gær, dúkkaði upp á blaðamannafundi lögreglu í borginni í dag. Á hjúkrunarheimili á Dalvík er hverjum íbúa sinnt í rúmar þrjár klukkustundir á dag að meðaltali. Í Grindavík eru þær tæplega sex. Sums staðar úir og grúir af fagmenntuðu fólki. Annars staðar er skortur. Aðbúnaður íbúa er líka misjafn. Ríkið gerir ekki skýrar kröfur um lágmarksmönnun á hjúkrunarheimilum. Arnhildur Hálfdánardóttir. Milljarðamæringurinn Roman Abramovich hefur fengið ríkisborgararétt í Ísrael en hann er einn ríkasti maður heims og langríkastur í Ísrael. Honum hefur gengið erfiðlega að fá framlengda vegabréfsáritun í Bretlandi og er það tengt deilum Rússa og Breta. Sumir segja að hann sé að missa áhugann á fótboltaliðinu Chelsea sem hann hefur dælt peningum í á umliðnum árum. Pálmi Jónasson. Umsjón: Arnhildur Hálfdánardóttir Tæknimaður: Grétar Ævarsson.

1-Colpo di teatro dei servizi ucraini. L'omicidio del dissidente russo Arkady Babchenko era finto. Il giornalista si è presentato in conferenza stampa nella sorpresa generale. Kiev: lo abbiamo fatto per esporre il complotto di Mosca che voleva ucciderlo sul serio.2-Per vincere le elezioni ogni strumento è lecito. In Turchia spostati e accorpati alcuni seggi nella regione curda. La mossa potrebbe favorire il partito di Erdogan...Si vota il 24 giugno (Serena Tarabini).3-Egitto. Bloccati tutti i canali di dissenso. Dopo la conferma di al-Sisi al potere, a marzo, aumentati gli arresti degli oppositori (Giuseppe Acconcia).4-Il radicalismo islamico, un problema anche per il Mozambico. Almeno dieci persone decapitate nel nord del paese. I responsabili potrebbero essere legati ad altri gruppi integralisti africani (Raffaele Masto).5-Alimentazione virtuosa e rispettosa dell'ambiente. Gand in Belgio e il suo sistema alimentare sostenibile (Fabio Fimiani).6-Graphic Novel. The Beauty, la bellezza (Maurizio Principato)

1-Colpo di teatro dei servizi ucraini. L'omicidio del dissidente russo Arkady Babchenko era finto. Il giornalista si è presentato in conferenza stampa nella sorpresa generale. Kiev: lo abbiamo fatto per esporre il complotto di Mosca che voleva ucciderlo sul serio.2-Per vincere le elezioni ogni strumento è lecito. In Turchia spostati e accorpati alcuni seggi nella regione curda. La mossa potrebbe favorire il partito di Erdogan...Si vota il 24 giugno (Serena Tarabini).3-Egitto. Bloccati tutti i canali di dissenso. Dopo la conferma di al-Sisi al potere, a marzo, aumentati gli arresti degli oppositori (Giuseppe Acconcia).4-Il radicalismo islamico, un problema anche per il Mozambico. Almeno dieci persone decapitate nel nord del paese. I responsabili potrebbero essere legati ad altri gruppi integralisti africani (Raffaele Masto).5-Alimentazione virtuosa e rispettosa dell'ambiente. Gand in Belgio e il suo sistema alimentare sostenibile (Fabio Fimiani).6-Graphic Novel. The Beauty, la bellezza (Maurizio Principato)