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Information War

Information War

Liz Wahl and Jessikka Aro

We’re Liz Wahl and Jessikka Aro. We’ve been on the front lines of the information war for nearly a decade. In the courtroom, on the air, online, and at venues around the world, we’ve been exposing conspiracy, extremist, and disinformation movements mobilized by Russia and other authoritarians to break down democracy. This podcast tracks and exposes Russian influence operations against Ukraine and the world's democracies. Understanding Russian disinformation as it wages a full scale war on Ukraine and information war globally is essential to countering it.

12 - What it Means for Ukraine to Get EU Candidate Status and Russia's Long-Running Obsession With Preventing it
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  • 12 - What it Means for Ukraine to Get EU Candidate Status and Russia's Long-Running Obsession With Preventing it

    As Russia focuses its brutal war in the Eastern region of Ukraine, the European Parliament has recommend that EU leaders grant Ukraine candidate status. Liz and Jessikka speak with Dmytro Naumenko, Co-founder and Senior Analyst at the Ukrainian Centre for European Policy. Naumenko has worked to promote Ukraine’s European Union candidacy as well as countering Russian disinformation campaigns. They discuss Russia's long obsession with preventing Ukraine from forming ties with European democracies. 


    Fri, 10 Jun 2022 - 23min
  • 11 - Russia is Using Food and Energy as a Weapon Against the World

    A former member of Ukrainian Parliament and expert in energy security discusses how Russia is using food as a weapon. Ukraine grows enough food to feed 400 million people worldwide. Because of the war, crops won’t be planted and Russia has disrupted supply chains, possibly setting the conditions for a global food crisis.

    Liz and Jessikka speak to former member of Ukrainian Parliament, Ukrainian energy expert and environmental activist Nataliya Katser-Buchkovska about the war’s significance in the global battle between democracies and autocracies.

    Thu, 02 Jun 2022 - 17min
  • 10 - Finland and Sweden Apply for NATO membership, How Russia Uses Threats to Manipulate Western Leaders, and How the Kremlin Weaponizes Western Academics

    Liz and Jessikka speak with author and expert on Russian Armed Forces, Keir Giles. As Finland and Sweden formally submit applications to join NATO, they discuss how Russia uses threats to manipulate Western leaders' proclivity for conflict aversion. They also uncover how Russia weaponizes Western academics, such as John Mearsheimer.

    Preorder Keir Giles' book Russia's War on Everybody: And What it Means for You here: https://www.amazon.com/Russias-War-Everybody-What-Means/dp/1350255084

    Thu, 19 May 2022 - 30min
  • 9 - Ukrainian Journalist on their Pulitzer Prize, Russia's Increasingly Nazi-like Rhetoric and War Crimes, and Disinformation Efforts to Influence Upcoming Elections

    Liz and Jessikka speak to Ukrainian journalist Olga Tokariuk about the Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalists of Ukraine that continue to risk their lives despite being targeted for reporting the truth. As Ukraine officials say that Russia is forcibly deporting people from Mariupol and other areas in the country’s eastern region, they discuss how Russia is increasingly resembling Nazi-like behavior as it weaponizes the word Nazi to justify its war of aggression - from filtration camps to its rhetoric and accounts of a range of war crimes targeting civilians, women, and children. Also, Tokariuk uncovers how Russian disinformation infiltrates Western media sources and attempts underway to influence future elections in democracies. 


    Thu, 12 May 2022 - 40min
  • 8 - Russia's False Flag Operations Targeting Finland, Chomsky Echoes Trump Putin Propaganda

    As new evidence reveals more than 600 people died in the Mariupol theater airstrike, Liz and Jessikka discuss a newly uncovered Russian false flag operation targeting Finland. Also, propaganda campaigns targeting Sweden as both countries plan to join NATO after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

    They also discuss the underreported sources that have long been weaponized by Russia's information war - "anti-war" figures and academics that often support the foreign policy stances of autocrats, such as Noam Chomsky who recently echoed Trump Putin propaganda on NATO and Russia's war in Ukraine. 

    Cited:

    AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike https://apnews.com/article/Russia-ukraine-war-mariupol-theater-c321a196fbd568899841b506afcac7a1

    False news spreads in Russia over the massive transfer of Finnish tanks to the “border with Russia” https://www.is.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000008792920.html


    Thu, 05 May 2022 - 32min
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