Month: September 2024

Americans Colluding With Russia as Spies, Propagandists and Useful Idiots

We begin with the DOJ’s efforts underway to expose Americans who are colluding with Russia as spies, propagandists or useful idiots and speak with Natalie Manaeva Rice, Research Associate at Texas A&M University and formerly at the Center for Information and Communication Studies at the University of Tennessee who was a Co-PI for the research project funded by DoD’s Minerva initiative that studied effectiveness of Russian propaganda and disinformation in the former Soviet countries of Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia. Her research focuses on the use of digital and social media disinformation, propaganda, and other information warfare techniques used by state actors targeting the U.S. and foreign audiences. She also studies Russia’s foreign policy, its influence campaigns and the resulting impacts on global security.

UK and US Heads of Intelligence Warn of Russia’s “Reckless Campaign of Sabotage”

Then we examine the warning by the heads of British and American Intelligence that Russia’s intelligence services are using criminal elements in a “reckless campaign of sabotage” across Europe along with a cynical use of technology to spread lies and disinformation to sow division. Joining us is Steven Pifer, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, and as special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia on the National Security Council. He is the author of a number of books including The Eagle and the Trident: U.S.—Ukraine Relations in Turbulent Times and Averting Crisis in Ukraine and he has an article at American Diplomacy, “Ukraine’s Long Path towards NATO.”

The Accurate Predictor Issues His Presidential Prediction for 2024 

Then finally we get an update from the accurate predictor of presidential elections who has just released his findings for the 2024 election, Allan Lichtman, a political historian and Distinguished Professor at American University who has studied both the American right and the presidency. The author of The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Way to Predicting the Next President, his prediction system has correctly predicted the outcomes of all US presidential elections since 1984 including the 2016 election when against all odds, he predicted a Trump victory. His most recent books are The Embattled Vote in America, The Case For Impeachment, and Thirteen Cracks: Repairing American Democracy After Trump and he has a new weekly show on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 PM EST at @allanlichtmanyoutube. He has just issued his prediction for the 2024 presidential election.