Silicon Curtain

Jonathan Fink

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A podcast about propaganda, digital disinformation, politics, corruption, hybrid warfare, weaponised conspiracy theories, social echo chambers and digital dystopias.

1984, Authoritarian, Autocracy, Autocrat, Big Brother, Brainwashing, Cold war, Cold war propaganda, Communism, Conflict, Conspiracy theories, Control, Cults, Cyber warfare, Deception, Dictator, Dictatorship, Digital dystopia, Digital media, Disinformation, Echo chambers, Economic sanctions, Fascist, Fake news, Foreign correspondents, Foreign policy, Fossil fuel sanctions, George Orwell, History, Hybrid warfare, Industrial disinfo

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Mar 19, 2024 • 1h 33min

Berlin Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing with William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter.

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQRE Break 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8 Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmg Break 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1o Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64w Break 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli. https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJY Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwE Break 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel. https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfs Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Mar 19, 2024 • 11min

Berlin Panel 4 Break: Western Training Missions for Ukraine with Nathalie Vogel

Mar 18, 2024 • 15min

Berlin Panel 3 Break: The guns of Europe and Russia’s nuclear blackmailing with Mauro Gilli

Mar 18, 2024 • 30min

Berlin Panel 2 Break: Escalation from one War to Another with Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance

Mar 18, 2024 • 30min

Berlin Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another with Jonathan Fink and Sergej

Mar 18, 2024 • 34min

Berlin Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine, with Sergej Sumlenny and Sascha Ostanina

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center:https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResiliencehttps://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ----------The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters!https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event.----------The event schedule:Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds?With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka.https://youtu.be/_ejDvDpDQREBreak 1 Break: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko.https://youtu.be/mR0vYhAKKU8Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny.https://youtu.be/XUZzjfEdzmgBreak 2 Break: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance.https://youtu.be/8seIo1xGm1oPanel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter.https://youtu.be/lko-gNGc64wBreak 3 Break: With Mauro Gilli.https://youtu.be/9U09hpZrhJYPanel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina.https://youtu.be/5ANXhWkCDwEBreak 4 Break: with Nathalie Vogel.https://youtu.be/h49NsLdZAfsPanel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky.https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M----------SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtainhttps://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND:Save Ukrainehttps://www.saveukraineua.org/Superhumans - Hospital for war traumashttps://superhumans.com/en/UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukrainehttps://unbroken.org.ua/Come Back Alivehttps://savelife.in.ua/en/Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchenhttps://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraineUNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyyhttps://u24.gov.ua/Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundationhttps://prytulafoundation.org----------PLATFORMS:Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSiliconInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqmLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain----------

Mar 17, 2024 • 50min

370. Michal Rachon - Poland is a Key Target for Russian Active Measures to Create Division Among Allies

Michał Rachoń is a Polish TV presenter, who worked for many years on the public broadcaster TVP. In the past he was an activist for PiS, the Law and Justice party that led Poland's previous government. His coverage of the Ukraine war has been described as courageous, informative, and refreshing, and he has been a guest on Joseph Lindsley’s channel, who will be familiar to people watching Silicon Curtain. ---------- LINKS: https://rockrachon.substack.com/ https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micha%C5%82_Racho%C5%84 https://twitter.com/michalrachon ---------- ARTICLES: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/02/the-man-who-tricked-nazi-germany-lessons-from-the-past-on-how-to-beat-disinformation ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Mar 17, 2024 • 26min

Berlin Panel 1 Break: Western Support for Ukraine with Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest and Viktoriia Vdovychenko

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. Break 1: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. Break 2: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. Break 3: With Mauro Gilli. Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. Break 4: with Nathalie Vogel. Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. https://youtu.be/gKHXrALcy4M ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Mar 17, 2024 • 1h 27min

Berlin Panel 5: Weaponised Disinformation with Operator Starsky, Nikolai Klimeniouk & Jonathan Fink

This is a recording of the Marathon event in support of Ukraine that was jointly run in Berlin on 15th March 2024 by Silicon Curtain and the European Resilience Initiative Center: https://www.youtube.com/@EuroResilience https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconCurtain ---------- The online TV marathon was hosted to mark the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and 10 years of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Hosted in a recording studio in Berlin, by the European Resilience Initiative Center and Silicon Curtain channel. The event also aims to raise funds for the Ukrainian army to continue it's resistance against Russian aggression: Please donate to support Ukraine's army. It's vitally important and every donation matters! https://www.paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=JX6D2JAUSBX44 The European Resilience Initiative Center is raising money to support Ukraineʼs army units. They have been providing financial support for over a year and have delivered over €400,000 worth of vital supplies. They are in direct contact with specific units and know their needs. Help us to help them. We’ve set up this campaign with a goal of 20.000 € to be raised from the live event. ---------- The event schedule: Panel 1: Western Support of Ukraine: More Words Than Deeds? With Sergej Sumlenny (host), Aaron Burnett, Yevgheniya Gaber, and Olena Halushka. Break 1: With Ben Hodges, Hanna Shelest, and Viktoriia Vdovychenko. Panel 2: Russia’s Escalation Ladder: From One War to Another. With Jonathan Fink (host) and Sergej Sumlenny. Break 2: With Alina Frolova and Malcolm Nance. Panel 3: The guns of Europe & Russia’s nuclear blackmailing. With Sascha Ostanina (host), William Alberque, Mykola Bielieskov, Gustav Gressel, and Roderich Kiesewetter. Break 3: With Mauro Gilli. Panel 4: Western Training Missions for Ukraine. With Sergej Sumlenny (host) and Sascha Ostanina. Break 4: with Nathalie Vogel. Panel 5: The weaponisation of information, memory and politics. With Jonathan Fink (Host), Nikolai Klimeniouk, and Operator Starsky. ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ----------

Mar 16, 2024 • 53min

364. Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel - Russia and Ukraine have Tangled Histories, cut Through with Trauma.

In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to defend their country. What are the roots of this war, which has upended the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear escalation? How did these supposedly “brotherly peoples” become each other’s worst nightmare? ---------- Maria Popova is Jean Monnet Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University in Montreal. She holds a BA in Spanish Literature and Government from Dartmouth College and a PhD in Government from Harvard University. She has lived and conducted research across Eastern Europe and Eurasia and its various regime incarnations — to her current attempt to disentangle real from fake anti-corruption efforts in Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine. The ideal background to explore the road to war that Putin has taken. Oxana Shevel is an Associate Professor of comparative politic at Department of Political Science at Tufts University and Director of Tufts International Relations program. Her research and teaching focuses on the post-Soviet region, especially Ukraine and Russia, and issues such as nation building and identity politics, citizenship policies, memory politics, church-state relations, and democratization process in the post-Soviet region. She is a co-author (with Maria Popova) of a book on the root causes of the Russo-Ukrainian war Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States (2023). ---------- BOOKS: ---------- ARTICLES: ---------- SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/siliconcurtain https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- TRUSTED CHARITIES ON THE GROUND: Save Ukraine https://www.saveukraineua.org/ Superhumans - Hospital for war traumas https://superhumans.com/en/ UNBROKEN - Treatment. Prosthesis. Rehabilitation for Ukrainians in Ukraine https://unbroken.org.ua/ Come Back Alive https://savelife.in.ua/en/ Chefs For Ukraine - World Central Kitchen https://wck.org/relief/activation-chefs-for-ukraine UNITED24 - An initiative of President Zelenskyy https://u24.gov.ua/ Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation https://prytulafoundation.org ---------- PLATFORMS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CurtainSilicon Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siliconcurtain/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4thRZj6NO7y93zG11JMtqm Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/finkjonathan/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/siliconcurtain ---------- Welcome to the Silicon Curtain podcast. Please like and subscribe if you like the content we produce. It will really help to increase the popularity of our content in YouTube’s algorithm. Our material is now being made available on popular podcasting platforms as well, such as Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

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