Category: investigative journalism

#52. Russians are like the Scythians

“[Stalingrad] is our reference point now more than ever, an unparalleled symbol of resistance, our enemies’ worst nightmare…Whosoever tries it will meet the end of all the others – Swedes, Napoleon, the Germans and their allies…Russians are like the Scythians1,2: they wait, they suffer, they die, and then they kill.” Source

Scythians, Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

This post is opened with a quote from an article published on Substack in June 2024, by Kit Klarenberg (investigative journalist): The Franco-British Plot to Dismember Russia, because I was impressed by the last sentence of that specific quote: “Russians are like the Scythians: they wait, they suffer, they die, and then they kill“.

That last sentence fits Russia’s president Vladimir Putin’s system, in the way he protected his sacred red line, dating back to the 1990s: “Ukraine must never join NATO”, and all that has followed ever since, and what has created a logical historical timeline about what has been provoked by the west, by NATO expansion, and it seems that the last point of the quoted sentence has been reached: “…. then they kill”. Reason to believe so: the constantly increasing amount of shameless, provoking Ukrainian (=NATO) drone attacks, deep inside Russia, created severe, deadly answers and more are expected3,4.

To offer eventual readers the possibility to become updated about the causes of the long awaited answers from Russia on Ukrainian (=NATO) drone attacks on targets even deep inside Russia, the following articles and videos are published here, without additional personal comments.

Admin.

1. NRK5 shows a map

Ukraine: The Lord of the Drones
Fredrik Tombra – Correspondent
Torstein Georg Bøe – Photojournalist
Published June 20, 2026

Map, published on June 20, 2026, 12 days before the Russian strikes on Kiev and Sumy. Published by NRK, in their article Ukraina: Dronenes herre

2. Col. Douglas Macgregor6 explains

Published: June 30, 2026, 2 days before the Russian strikes on Kiev and Sumy
Published: July 1, 2026, 1 day before the Russian strikes on Kiev and Sumy.

3. Stanislav Krapivnik7 explains

Published: July 2, 2026, after the Russian strikes on Kiev and Sumy

Timestamps
00:00:00 Donbas school strike report
00:08:20 Targeting civilians and terror claims
00:19:01 Diplomacy, trust, and Trump
00:26:23 Russia prepares for wider war
00:35:23 Retaliation and war aims
00:45:51 NATO control and war cohesion

4. Alexander Mercouris8 explains

Published: July 2, 2026, after the Russian strikes on Kiev and Sumy

Timestamps
00:00:00 Introduction and Kiev strike overview
00:00:37 Scale of the massive strike
00:02:20 Missile and drone types used
00:04:32 Oreshnik hypersonic speculation
00:09:28 Why Oreshnik was held back
00:11:41 Russian justification for the strikes
00:14:09 Targets hit including Volgograd factory
00:16:15 Casualties and future strike campaign
00:17:04 Why Kiev is being targeted
00:20:37 Zelensky warns of Belarus threat
00:22:34 Source confirms Chernihiv offensive plan
00:28:01 Kupyansk situation update
00:33:30 Kharkov region recapture plan
00:34:14 Donbass pressure and Dobropillia advance
00:37:01 Sloviansk and Kostiantynivka clearing operations
00:41:11 Zaporizhzhia and Orikhiv front
00:47:21 Zelensky floats autumn elections
00:48:43 Zelensky requests more EU funding
00:50:48 UK defense spending controversy
00:59:04 Europe energy crisis and Trump LNG threat

5. The Duran9 explains

Published: July 2, 2026, after the Russian strikes on Kiev and Sumy

Timestamps
00:00:00 Russia launches massive strikes on Kiev and Sumy
00:00:58 Why Russia calls these strikes retaliatory
00:01:58 The pattern behind Russia’s escalating campaign
00:06:24 Russian air campaign targets Ukrainian logistics
00:08:32 Drones hit gas stations to choke supply lines
00:11:04 Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles strike
00:12:34 The new Dirty Dagger missile threat
00:17:56 Russia’s gasoline import mystery explained
00:18:30 Zelensky’s Pantheon of Heroes sparks backlash
00:21:35 Belarus Lukashenko meets Putin as Syrsky10 breaks with Zelensky

Footnotes

  1. Information about the Scythians is published on the Russian Wikipedia page, marked as a good article with a silver star. Скифо-сибирский мир. Since not any other language offers guaranteed correct information, it is a must to read all other languages with caution: Wikipedia can also provide misinformation, this depends on the editors. The opening text of the Russian page, machine translated:
    —- The Scytho-Siberian world (sometimes Scytho-Saka, Scythian world/circle, etc.) is a conventional name adopted in archaeology for a cultural and historical community whose sites are widespread in the steppe, part of the forest-steppe, and foothill zones of Central Eurasia (from the Lower Danube region to the Baikal region and Mongolia). It included a number of archaeological cultures, primarily united by the presence of three distinctive artefact complexes (the so-called Scythian triad). The probable place of formation is Central Asia, and the period of existence is the first millennium BC. This period in the Eurasian steppes is commonly referred to as the Scythian era.
    —- Representatives of the Scytho-Siberian world are Iranian-speaking Caucasoids, sometimes with Mongoloid elements. The majority were nomadic pastoralists, while a small portion of the population in the forest-steppe were sedentary herders-hunters and pastoralists-farmers. In the Eurasian steppes, the advent of the Early Iron Age is associated with the cultures of the Scytho-Siberian world; they had contacts with Ancient Greece, China, the Near East, and other countries.

    Name
    The name “Scytho-Siberian world” refers to the geographic distribution of this cultural and historical community, limited to the territory of its most famous tribes, the Scythians, in the west and encompassing part of the Siberian region in the east. Literature also sometimes uses the term “Scytho-Saka world,” adding another eastern boundary—Central Asia, inhabited by tribes known collectively as the Sakas. A shorter name, simply the “Scythian world,” is also used. Some authors use the word “world” in parallel with the meaning “circle,” for example, the Scythian-Siberian circle of archaeological cultures or monuments. Also synonymous is the term “Scythia” in the broad sense of a toponym or the Scythian-Siberian historical and cultural region. The term “Scythian cultures” is also present in literature.
    For all other following info please visit the Russian Wikipedia page.

    Since it is relevant here: Russian classical music, composed by Alexander Borodin, the video: In the steppes of East Asia – Mongolia ↩︎
  2. World History: Scythians ↩︎
  3. Videos APT, July 2, 2026
    – Russian Drones Hit Central Kyiv, Damaging Biochemistry Research Institute | APT
    – Russia Pounds Kyiv Overnight: Missiles, Drones Kill 11, Apartment Blocks Reduced to Rubble | APT
    ↩︎
  4. Ray McGovern: Ukraine has launched a string of high profile drone strikes on Moscow, St Petersburg and oil refineries. Commentators are, once again, claiming Russia is losing the war. But is it? ” Read his full article, published on June 23, 2026, on his website, and on Substack. ↩︎
  5. NRK is the Norwegian public broadcasting, radio corporation and news website. The corporation is state-owned, guided by its bylaws and ethical guidelines, with a board partly appointed by the government, through the Ministry of Culture and Equality, and elected by staff. Its bylaws and ethical guidelines secure independent editorial control for journalists and editors. ↩︎
  6. Colonel Douglas Macgregor is is a decorated combat veteran, an author of five books, a PhD, and a defense and foreign policy consultant. Macgregor was commissioned in the Regular Army in 1976 after 1 year at VMI and 4 years at West Point. In 2004, Macgregor retired with the rank of Colonel. In 2020, the President appointed Macgregor to serve as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense, a post he held until President Trump left office. He holds an MA in comparative politics and a PhD in international relations from the University of Virginia. YouTube playlist – Substack ↩︎
  7. Stanislav Krapivnik is a former US Army officer, supply chain exec and military-political expert, now based in Russia. He was born in Lugansk during the Soviet times, migrated to the US as a child, served in the US army, did not like what it was doing in former Yugoslavia, quit, and returned to Russia. Mr. Krapivnik is an independent contractor and consults and appears in the international media in his areas of expertise in military matters, NATO, America, history, economics and supply chains. Substack ↩︎
  8. Alexander Mercouris (The Duran) is a writer on international affairs with a special interest in Russia and law. He has written extensively on the legal aspects of NSA spying and events in Ukraine in terms of human rights, constitutionality and international law. He worked for 12 years in the Royal Courts of Justice in London as a lawyer, specializing in human rights and constitutional law. His family has been prominent in Greek politics for several generations. Together with Alex Christoforou he hosts the “The Duran” YT channel, plus his own YT channel. Bio, Videos ↩︎
  9. The Duran is a very popular YouTube channel, founded on 25 May 2016, by Alex Christoforou, a geopolitical analyst and Alexander Mercouris, who is a writer on international affairs with a special interest in Russia and law. He has written extensively on the legal aspects of NSA spying and events in Ukraine in terms of human rights, constitutionality and international law. He worked for 12 years in the Royal Courts of Justice in London as a lawyer, specializing in human rights and constitutional law. His family has been prominent in Greek politics for several generations. Videos. Total views, as of July 2, 2026: 256,185,789 and total subscribers is 530.000. ↩︎
  10. Oleksandr Syrskyi is a Ukrainian military officer holding the rank of four-star general who has served as the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 8 February 2024. ↩︎

#51. An Open Letter in Support of Academic Freedom and Ivan Katchanovski (Published)

An Open Letter in Support of Academic Freedom and Ivan Katchanovski (Published)
Published: June 21, 2026
By: The New Paradigm magazine with signatures of 248 people from 36 countries, including 116 scholars

An Open Letter in Support of Academic Freedom and Ivan Katchanovski is published by The New Paradigm magazine. 227 people from 36 countries, including 116 scholars, now signed it.

It can still be signed by sending to openletter2026@gmail.com the name, position/job title, institutional affiliation, country, and if prefer that the name is not published and only institutional affiliation and country are listed.

We, the undersigned, express our support for academic freedom and Dr. Ivan Katchanovski. We might differ on various issues, but agree on the importance of academic freedom and the need to protect it when it comes under attack. Professor Katchanovski is a well-known Ukrainian and Canadian political scientist at the University of Ottawa. A recent collective letter denounced him and his open access book The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War. The letter baselessly linked this peer-reviewed book published by a major Western academic press to Russian propaganda and the high popularity of the book to behind-the-scenes promotion by Elon Musk.

Dr. Katchanovski’s other recent academic press book titled The Maidan Massacre in Ukraine: The Mass Killing that Changed the World was banned by the Ukrainian State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting led by a far-right OUN leader. Professor Katchanovski was also blacklisted by Myrotvorets hit list for his scholarly studies of the Maidan massacre that were published in peer-reviewed journals and books and for his exposure of a Waffen SS Galicia Division veteran, who was given standing ovations in the Canadian parliament. He also reported that his home and all other property in Ukraine were seized in retaliation to his scholarly studies. Though we might not share all of Dr. Katchanovski’s academic perspectives, we denounce the persecution against him for his scholarly research.

Dr. Katchanovski is one of the most cited political scientists who specialize primarily in the politics and conflicts in Ukraine. His academic publications include 7 books and 3 dozen refereed journal articles and book chapters. He currently teaches at the University of Ottawa. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and a Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University under the direction of Seymour Martin Lipset.

We note that Dr. Katchanovski has condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 from the start, called for a long time for European Union membership of Ukraine, and supported democracy and freedom in Ukraine since before its independence. He is also widely quoted in many outlets around the world, does numerous media and social media interviews, and presents his research at major academic conferences in the field.

Academic freedom in both the West and Ukraine is especially important during times of crisis and conflict, such as the tragic Russia-Ukraine war. Academic freedom has to be protected even for scholarly research that challenges prevailing narratives. This particularly concerns politically charged topics regarding this war and its origins. Scholars and their books and other academic publications should not be subjected to collective denunciations, censorship, sanctions, criminal prosecution, and other such retaliation for their academic research. Scholarly publications need to be judged by academic standards. Scholarly disputes need to be settled in academic venues.

This applies to Dr. Katchanovski, his book The Russia-Ukraine War and its Origins: From the Maidan to the Ukraine War, and his other publications. Our position also applies to other scholars researching this war. We advocate for the defense of academic freedom and its application in the case of Dr. Ivan Katchanovski and his research.

Please send your name, position/job title, institutional affiliation, country, and whether you prefer that your name be published (or just your institutional affiliation and country) to openletter2026@gmail.com.

Signed (in alphabetical order, updated July 25, 2026, total from 227 to 248)

A (20)
Abelow, Benjamin, M.D. Formerly, Lecturer in Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
Acerbo, Maurizio, former member of the Italian Parliament
Agha, Moji, Iranian-American retired psychologist; Human rights activist; Founder, National Peace and Democracy Coalition of Iran (US)
Alper, Muzaffer Ege, Senior Researcher, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Amar, Tarik Cyril, Associate Professor, Department of History, Koc University, Istanbul
Ames, Mark, Journalist, podcast host, “Radio War Nerd,” New York, USA
Anonymous, Dr., School of Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada
Anonymous, former senior police officer, Italy
Anonymous, PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Anonymous, PhD Candidate & Lecturer, York University, Canada
Anonymous, PhD Candidate and Lecturer at the University of Potsdam, Germany
Anonymous, Photographer, freelance, Germany
Anonymous, Retired, Norway
Anonymous, Retired Solicitor, Inverness, Scotland
Anonymous, Student of Economic Sociology, University of Turku, Finland
Anonymous, Teaching Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada
Anonymous, Vocational College BS Wilhelms BURG, Germany
Anonymous, Worker, Slovyansk, Donetsk Region, Ukraine
Aunola, Otso, Political Science student, University of Helsinki, Finland
Azad, Nahid, Dr. retired physician, Professor of Medicine, University of Ottawa

B (20)
Bakić, Jovo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Serbia
Ball, Karyn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Baumgarten, Helga, Professor emeritus, Birzeit University, Palestine
Baysha, Olga, PhD, Associate Professor in Political Communication, National Research University “Higher School of Economics, “Moscow, Russia
Beauchamp, Jonathan P., Associate Professor, Department of Economics, George Mason University, USA
Belorusets, Yevgenia, writer, artist, Ukraine, Germany
Berekashvili, Bakar, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Georgian American University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Bergeron, Frédéric, Librarian, Quebec, Canada
Bihr, Alain, Professeur honoraire de sociologie, Université de Franche-Comté
Blackburn, Matthew, Senior Researcher, The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway
Blot, Lionel, copy editor, Éditions Gallimard, France
Bloxham, Donald, Richard Pares Professor of History, University of Edinburgh, UK
Blumenthal, Bud, artist, activist, Brussels, Belgium
Bolotenko, George, PhD in History (U of T, 1979), retired, former an adjunct prof at Ryerson University, a professor at the Scarborough Campus of the University of Toronto, an archivist at Library and Archives Canada
Borozna, Angela, California State University Fullerton
Bouzek, Tomáš, Mgr., military historian, Opava, Czech Republic
Brandist, Craig, Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History, University of Sheffield, UK
Buhre, Isabelle, MSc MA, Political scientist and latinist, The Netherlands
Buls, Zintis, IT support manager, Latvia

C (14)
Cafruny, Alan W., Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA
Carpenter, Cathy, Canada
Castelein, Luc, admin of the Karl Popper page on Facebook, Belgium
Cato, Jasper, retired conservator, previously at the Department of Cultural Heritage, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Cavallari, Gerard, Ethnomusicologist, UK
Chaufan, Claudia, MD, PhD, Professor, Health Policy, York University, Canada
Chebani, Rhizlaine, Retraitée, Québec, Canada
Cinquini, Nicolas, intelligence analyst, former French intelligence officer in counter-terrorism, Corsica
Clayton, James, Journalist, World Socialist Website
Colley, Philip, Literary executor, The Gareth Jones Society, United Kingdom
Cooke, Sophie, Associate Lecturer, The Open University
Cosma, Valer Simion, Dr., historian, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
Crews, Robert, Professor of History, Stanford University
Cuccoli, Lorenzo, independent historian, Centre d’études russes, caucasiennes, est-européennes et centrasiatiques (CERCEC, EHESS), France/Italy

D (7)
Dall’Asta, Monica, Full Professor, University of Bologna, Italy
De Leonardis, Fabio, Ass. Prof. of Semiotics, Shanghai International Studies University, PRC/Italy
De Zayas, Alfred, Prof. Dr. Geneva, Switzerland, Geneva School of Diplomacy, former UN Independent Expert on International Order (2012-18), former Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee, former Chief of the Petitions Department at OHCHR, former President PEN International Centre Suisse romand 2006-09 and again 2013-17
Depoortere, Johan, Journalist, Belgium
Dergunov, Yuriy, Senior lecturer in Sociology, Donetsk
Dionisi, Davide, Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Doherty, Niall, Project Officer, Ireland

E (3)
Eckert, Laura, Artist, USA
Elkhoury, Ann, Dr, Sydney, Australia
Ewald, Engelen, Professor of Financial Geography, University of Amsterdam

F (3)
Federl, Doris, Germany
Forsgren, Mattias, Stockholm, Sweden
Frijters, Paul, Emeritus Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

G (12)
Gamet, Frédéric, copy editor, Paris, France
Garcin, Javier, journalist, Mexico
Garman, Sebastian, Dr., retired Senior Lecturer, Brunel University, London School of Economics and Brunel University, United Kingdom
Geddes, Brian, Ph.D., Physics
Gigantino, Bryan, Lecturer, Georgian-American University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Gjefle, Karsten, International Development Professional, Oslo, Norway
Golinkin, Lev, author and journalist, USA
Golovan, Sergey, Senior Scientist, USA
Gerling, David-Ross, PhD, USA
Grable, Alexander, PhD Candidate, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Grenier, Paul R., President, Simone Weil Center for Political Philosophy
Grinshpun, Yelyzaveta, Germany

H (11)
Haack, Jonathan, Adjunct Faculty, Santa Fe Community College
Hahn, Gordon M., Expert, Corr Analytic
Hagen, Alexander, Founder, ISP, Montara, California
Håkan Julander, actor, poet and podcaster for Dissidentpodden, Sweden
Håkan, Danielsson, retired, Göteborg, Sweden
Hammond, Philip, Emeritus Professor of Media & Communications, London South Bank University, UK
Hanley, Brian, Clinical Asst. Professor, UTRGV School of Medicine, USA
Havryshko, Marta, Dr. Thomas Zand Visiting Assistant Professor in Holocaust Pedagogy and Antisemitism Studies, Clark University, USA
Herman, Daniel, Professor, Central Washington University, USA
Hill, Alexander, Professor in Military History, University of Calgary, Canada
Hough, H.P (Pierre), Chairman, SALM, South Africa

I (5)
Ilkowski, Filip, PhD habil., University of Warsaw
Ingledew, Francis, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Fairleigh Dickinson University, USA/Germany
Ioffe, Grigory, Professor Emeritus, Radford University, Radford, VA, USA
Ishchenko, Volodymyr, Dr., guest researcher, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Israel, Lena, former associate professor media science, Sweden

J (7)
Janssen, Antoinette, Blogging Pensioner, Norway
Johnová, Radka, PhD, Retired Assistant Professor at Czech Technical University and external lecturer in economics and marketing at Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Johnson, Charles, Worker, Organizing Director for a Peace Organization, Certificate in Unarmed Civilian Protection, Former Educator, United States
Johnson, Mary, private citizen, USA
Jones, Peter, Professor, Faculty of Design, OCAD U, Toronto
Juncker, David, Professor, McGill University, Canada
Jurema, Bernardo, Research Associate, Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ, Germany

K (11)
Kalb, Don, Professor of social anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway
Kalkanis, Gregory, school teacher, United States of America
Kallio, Timo, PhD (tech.), Helsinki, Finland
Kaplan, Marina E, Emerita Associate Professor, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
Karrasch, Ulrich, pensioner, Berlin, Germany
Kien, Tran Manh, Vietnam
Klein, Daniel, Professor Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Kotsaba, Ruslan, founder and head of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, anti-fascist and anti-militarist, prisoner of conscience according to Amnesty International, currently in New York as a political refugee
Kozlovsky, Gregory, Ph.D., Owner, Locust Software GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland
Kragsterman, Johan, retired, Stockholm, Sweden
Kuzmenko, Oleksiy, erstwhile researcher of the Ukrainian Far Right

L (23)
Laakso, Mertz, entrepreneur, Sweden
Lagercrantz, Lova, architect, Sweden
Lagos, Rodrigo, teacher, France
LaMotta, Greg, Retired Federal worker, United States
Lane, David, Fellow Academy of Social Sciences (UK), Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Lashmankin, Aleksandr, graduate student, sociologist, Samara University, Russia
Latva-Nevala, Marko, Key Account Manager, Stockholm, Sweden
Lauterbach-Lang, Anastassia, Dr., Professor of AI and Cybersecurity, Founder AI Edutainment GmbH, an AI Literacy company
Law, Simon, Retired, Australia
Lerchner, Johannes, PhD, Senior scientist, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Lévesque, Jean, Associate Professor of History, Université du Québec à Montréal, QC, Canada
Libby, Jacob Aaron, OTR-CHT
Lieven, Anatol, Dr., Andrew Bacevich Chair in US Diplomatic History. Director, Eurasia Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Lilja, Christer Carl, retired, Sweden
Lindquist, Björn, retired psychiatrist, Sweden
Lippy, Saskia Hostetler, MD, Portland, Oregon, USA
Lodynski, Andrzej, London, UK
Loewen, Helmut-Harry, Lecturer, Criminology and Sociology (retired), The University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Löfquist, Johan B, journalist/photographer, Oslo, Norway
Lorenzo, Stefano Di, Journalist, East And West, EU
Lorincz, Tamara, PhD, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Lottaz, Pascal, PhD. Associate Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
Lucas, Jeffrey, Retired, UK

M (19)
Malmsten, Hasse, Sweden
Mandel, David, Retired professor, Department of Political Science, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Marcetic, Branko, staff writer at Jacobin magazine, USA
Markwick, Roger, Dr. Honorary Professor of Modern European History, the University of Newcastle, Australia
McCormack, Tara, Dr., Lecturer in International Politics, University of Leicester, UK
McCracken, Ian, Retired, Norway
McFarlane, Peter, Writer, former Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada, Canada
Mécontent, Gueux, Secretary of the 3R association, Strasbourg, Alsace
Meder, Sigyn, teacher, Sweden
Mercouris, Alexander, YouTube Commentator, The Duran, United Kingdom
Minghelli, Giuliana, former Associate Professor in Italian Studies at McGill University and Harvard University (US)
Mkrtchian, Alexander, Research associate, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany/ Ukraine
Modlich, Hans, M.Eng, Toronto
Mølster, Magne, Theologian / pastor, Estonian Lutheran-Evangelical church, Estonia/Norway
Monte, Francesca, Retired business owner and investor, USA
Moscicki, Pawel, Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Muggler, Reto Andreas, Self-employed, Switzerland
Munley, Frank, Associate Professor (retired), Roanoke College, United States
Mutt, Maria, retired, Sweden

N (3)
Ng, Ryan, graduating student & Chick Fil A worker, College of Staten Island, USA
Nikitin, Vadim, Contributing writer to the London Review of Books and the Nation, United Kingdom
Nirody, Suresh, President, Naught Foundation, U.S.A.

O (3)
ÓhAiseadha, Coilín, Senior Medical Officer, Health Service Executive, Ireland
Öhlin, Mats, Retired Director of Education, Sweden
Olofsson, Erika, Librarian, Sweden

P (15)
Paikin, Zachary, PhD (University of Kent), Senior Fellow, Institute for Peace & Diplomacy, Canada
Pearce, James, Dr, history and languages lecturer, City College Peterborough, UK
Peck, Michael, PhD, Retired, Sydney, Australia
Petersen, Henrik, writer and translator, Stockholm, Sweden
Pettersson, Ulf, economist, Stockholm, Sweden
Petrov, Alexey, Hanover, Germany
Pfefferkorn, Roland, Professeur émérite de sociologie, Université de Strasbourg
Pflugbeil, Sebastian, Dr.rer.nat,Dipl.Phys., retired, cofounder of the NEUES FORUM, Minister after 1989, former Member of the Berlin House of Representatives, founder of “Children of Chernobyl”, former President/board of the German Society for Radiation Protection, Germany
Picker, Jean-luc, MD, FRCS (Ed), Retired director of International Centre for Therapeutic Research, France
Pochapsky, Jason, artist and craftsman
Poenaru, Florin, lecturer in sociology, University of Bucharest, Romania
Popova, Ruja, Historian, Assistant Professor, PhD, Institute of Balkan Studies with Centre of Thracology at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria, Sofia
Proskurnyak, Olga, Postgraduate student of political science, University of Sydney, Australia
Prudnikov, Vladimir, PhD Student, Department of History, Princeton University, USA (citizen of Latvia)

Q (1)
Quinn, Kevin J, BA, Owen Sound, Ontario

R (13)
Ragozin, Leonid, freelance journalist, Latvia/Russia
Raviot, Jean-Robert, Professor of Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, Université Paris Nanterre, France
Read, Christopher, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Warwick
Richards, Alan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Roberts, Geoffrey Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Emeritus Professor of History, University College Cork
Robinson, Piers, Dr, Co-director, Organisation for Propaganda Studies, Research Director, International Center for 9/11 Justice, Germany
Rodin, Andrei, associated researcher, Paris-Cité university
Rosenzweig, Mark Charles, Easton PA , USA, Former director of Reference Center for Marxist Studies, NYC
Roos, Carl-Erik, Retired, Sweden
Ross, Eric, PhD, MBA, Retired, USA
Rotlid, Steinar, Norway
Ruiz, Daniel, PHD, Researcher, UNED, Spain
Runo, Fredrik, Svetsare, Sverige

S (29)
Sakwa, Richard, Professor Emeritus of Politics, University of Kent, England
Sand, Bo, Retired nurse, Denmark
Sanduja, Utsav, Founder and Chairman, Hindus for America First, USA
Sanzo, Luis, Former Head of Statistics in Employment and Social Needs, Basque Government, now retired, Spain
Sapir, Jacques, Professor of Economics (retired) at EHESS-Paris, Professor at School of Economic Warfare – Paris
Sazib, Zahidul Islam, Freelance Translator and Photographer, Bangladesh
Schoendorff, Benjamin, Clinical Psychologist, Liberpsy, Montreal
Sedefian, Zachary, graduate student, Department of Political Science, Brooklyn College, USA
Senyk, Sophia, Historian, Professor Emeritus, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome
Seymour, Michel, professeur honoraire, Université de Montréal
Shakarian, Pietro A. Dr., Lecturer in History, American University of Armenia, Yerevan
Shannon, Paul, Executive Committee of Massachusetts Peace Action, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Simons, Greg, Professor, Department of Journalism, Media & Communication, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Sjölund, Per Olof, history graduate from Lund and Malmö university, Sweden
Skaperdas, Stergios, Professor of Economics, University of California, Irvine, USA
Skogholt, Karl, fisherman, Norway
Slanař, Zbyněk, Businessman-Director/amateur researcher, Pardubice, Czech Republic
Sloper, Miko, retired teacher, Leipzig international school, USA/Thailand
Smirnov, George, Professor of Physics, Retired, Switzerland
Smouter, Youri, journalist/host of 1+1 on Youtube
Söderström, Henry, economist and translator, Stockholm
Solar, Marc, MSc. Physics, Teacher in Bern and CEO Serenity Audio
Solomon, Jon, Professeur des universités, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 et Université Paris Nanterre, France
Soshnikov, Alexander, Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Davis, USA
Spinoso, Salvatore Fabrizio, Professore, Docente di Conservatorio, Italia
Spriewald, Götz, former photo lab technician and media designer, Germany
Stranne, Frida, Associated Professor Peace- and development Studies, Senior Lecturer Political Science, Sweden
Surovell, Jeffrey, Adjunct Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Szamuely, George, PhD, Author, broadcaster and podcast host

T (8)
Taras, Raymond, Professor Emeritus, Tulane University, New Orleans, United States
Tasić, Vladimir, Professor, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Terekhov, Ievgen, Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Ukraine
Thelin, Ace, historian, journalist, California, USA
Tikhonov, Vladimir (Pak Noja), professor, Oslo University, Norway
Tokarczuk, Wiesław, Master of Science in Forestry, retired, Poland
Trégouët, Gildas, retraité, Montréal, Canada
Turner, Hugo, independent historian, USA

U (1)
Utter, Paul, entrepreneur, Spain/Sweden

V (10)
Van de Beek, Eric, investigative journalist, Media Pro – Pro Media, The Netherlands
Van de Water, Rob, Former Special Adviser to the Group of Progressives and Democrats in the European Parliament, Germany
Van der Kelen, Thomas, Translator, Antwerp, Belgium
Van der Pijl, Kees (Prof Dr), retired from University of Sussex, UK, the Netherlands
Vidojević, Jelena, Research Fellow, New South Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
Vielmini, Fabrizio, MA, Analyst – Russia & Eurasia V&GT – International Institute for Global Analyses, translator of the Italian version of the Maidan Massacre book
Villaseñor, Dario, Mexico City, Mexico
Vollan, Tore, Cinematographer, Norway
Voronin, Anatoly, multilingual blogger, Ukraine
Vuorinen, Esa, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics, Luleå Univ. of Technology, Sweden

W (6)
Wahlby, Mercédès, Senior physician, in internal medicine and geriatrics, Sweden
Webster, John, Retired, UK
Weskamp, Axel, retired teacher, Germany
Williams, Rob Lyons, former member Province of Saskatchewan Legislature
Winzer, Beate, Dipl. Pol., free Researcher, Berlin
Wünschmann, Doris, Academic Student – master of governance, Fern Universität, Hagen, Germany

Y (2)
Yoshida, Hiroshi, Associate Professor of Okayama University, Japan
Youril, John, Artist, USA

Z (2)
Zaeh, Rudi, retired, Germany
Zaslavskii, Oleg, Senior Scientific Fellow, V N. Karazin Kharkiv University, Ukraine

The open letter can still be signed by sending to openletter2026@gmail.com the name, position/job title, institutional affiliation, country, and if prefer that the name is not published and only institutional affiliation and country are listed.

#50. Ivan Katchanovski Faces ‘Stalinist’ Smear Campaign To Silence His Work On Ukraine.

Ivan Katchanovski Faces ‘Stalinist’ Smear Campaign To Silence His Work On Ukraine.
— A Smear Campaign Is Attempting To Silence The Academic Who Exposed The Maidan Massacre False Flag And Western Role In The Ukraine Proxy War.
Published: May 1, 2026
By: The Dissident
On: Substack

Introduction

The first time I learned to know the name “Ivan Katchanovski”, was in April 2023, when reading the on February 28, 2023 on Jeffrey D. Sachs’ website published article: “The ninth anniversary of the Ukraine war”.

“[….] I also urge all people to read the powerful academic studies by Prof. Ivan Katchanovski of the University of Ottawa (for example, here and here), who has laboriously reviewed all of the evidence of the Maidan and found that most of the violence and killing originated not from Yanukovych’s security detail, as alleged, but from the coup leaders themselves, who fired into the crowds, killing both policemen and demonstrators. “

Who is Ivan Katchanovski?

Ivan Katchanovski teaches at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa. He does research in Democratization, Comparative Politics, Political Communication, and Conflicts, in particular, in Ukraine. He was Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Politics at the State University of New York at Potsdam, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Kluge Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. His academic publications include four books, 10 book chapters, and 17 articles in refereed journals. He received his Ph.D. from the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University in the US. Source: ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan-Katchanovski

Other profiles:

Substack: https://substack.com/@ivankatchanovski
Twitter: twitter.com/I_Katchanovski
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IvanKatchanovskiPhD
Academia: https://uottawa.academia.edu/IvanKatchanovski

“They” want to silence Ivan Katchanovski

The here following, by “The Dissident” published article, shows how important professor Katchanovski’s work is. “They” want to silence him, because he unveils “their” real face.

The article

Ivan Katchanovski Faces ‘Stalinist’ Smear Campaign To Silence His Work On Ukraine.
— A Smear Campaign Is Attempting To Silence The Academic Who Exposed The Maidan Massacre False Flag And Western Role In The Ukraine Proxy War.
Published: May 1, 2026
By: The Dissident
On: Substack

Ivan Katchanovski, the Ukrainian-Canadian professor of political science and conflict studies at the University of Ottawa, has done extensive research factually debunking the Western narrative around the proxy war in Ukraine and painting an objective, nuanced picture of the war. Among his most consequential works has been proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the Western-funded and supported coup against Ukraine’s elected president, Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 was based on a lie. Western leaders justified supporting the coup based on claims that Yanukovych’s forces were behind a massacre of protestors in Ukraine’s Maidan Square.

But Katchanovski has collected a significant body of evidence, including witness testimony, Ukranian ballistic examinations, and forensic medical examinations done by the Ukrainian government, which all show that the massacre was carried out by Western-backed militants opposed to Yanukovych, who were occupying a Hotel in the Maidan square.

The book “The Russia-Ukraine War: Its Nature, Origins, and Outcome”

More recently, Katchanovski has written the book “The Russia-Ukraine War: Its Nature, Origins, and Outcome,” which extensively documents the Western policies that provoked the war in Ukraine, including the Maidan coup, NATO expansion, and the Western blocking of the Istanbul peace accords in April of 2022.

For his factual work, Katchanovski now faces what he describes as a “Stalinist-like” smear campaign in the form of an open letter signed by a number of pro- Ukraine government and pro war academics, including Andreas Umland1 who, Katchanovski notes, “backed a call for total mobilization in Ukraine by a neo-Nazi admirer of Hitler” and “Anton Shekhovtsov2, who headed the Dugin’s organization in Crimea”.

He documented that Shekhovtsov has previously used openly genocidal rhetoric towards Russians, writing, “Anton Shekhovtsov compared the mass killing of people by a fire in the Trade Union building in Odesa to his killing of Colorado potato beetles by collecting them in a box and then burning them”.

The open letter

The open [Ukrainiska Pravda, Admin] letter does not challenge a single fact that Katchanovski has documented in any of his books and instead resorts to McCarthyite smears [reckless, unsubstantiated accusations and demagogic attacks that question a person’s loyalty, character, or patriotism. Named after U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, this tactic relies on guilt by association, innuendo, and coercion to intimidate opposition, destroy careers, and suppress legitimate debate. Admin] and guilt by association. These include:………….

  • 1. claims that Katchanovski’s book is somehow discredited based on the claim that tech billionaires Elon Musk and David Sacks donated money to the GoFundMe for the book to be published. Katchanovski clarified that

“Elon Musk did not fund my book but helped on Twitter/X to stop an attempt to block my GoFundMe. I publicly thanked Elon Musk and all contributors”.

  • 2. In an even more absurd guilt-by-association attack, the letter tried to connect Katchanovski to Russian state media because two contributors to RT, Tarik Cyril Amar and Lenka White, said positive things about the book.
  • 3. The letter also claims that “Katchanovski’s narrative about the causes and escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War is often congruent to the Kremlin’s propaganda” and that it could “lead to a reduction of Western help for Ukraine”

…….again, without a challenging a single fact in Katchanovski’s work.

As the Ukrainian academic Marta Havryshko3 put it, “In other words: certain arguments are not wrong because they are false, but because readers might find them (in)convenient and stop sponsor corrupt regime that sends its people to the kill zone against their will.”

Katchanovski’s response

Katchanovski in a response to the smear campaign, noted that its intention was “not only to censor my book but also to go after my university job and subject me to criminal persecution and sanctions by the Zelensky regime because they are incapable of challenging my evidence-based analysis”.

The Zelensky regime has previously sanctioned a long list of its domestic critics for criticizing the Ukraine proxy war, from the well-known Ukrainian political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko4 to the former advisor to the Zelensky government, Oleksiy Arestovych5.

He added that,

“Umland, Shekhovtsov, and their ilk try to force scholars to parrot the Zelensky government propaganda and propagate fake narratives that they propagate themselves, such as false flag Nord Stream bombing by Russia, genocide in Ukraine, Ukraine as democracy, and no neo-Nazis in Ukraine. They falsely claim that the blocking of the nearly finalized Istanbul peace deal by the Western governments is Russian propaganda and denounce my book for this even though this was stated or de facto admitted by the head and members of the Ukrainian delegation, ex-prime minister of Israel, president and foreign minister of Turkey, Victoria Nuland and several other such top officials … They falsely equate the Zelensky regime with Ukraine and Ukrainians and their support for the violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government, mutual killings of Ukrainians in civil war in Donbas, and the proxy war to the last Ukrainian with supporting Ukraine and Ukrainians. They choose to attack and defame one of a few Ukrainian political scientists in the Western academy specializing primarily in conflicts in Ukraine.”

Katchanovski, who had previously had his property seized by the Ukrainian regime, noted that the smear campaign was an attempt to get him to face further repression from the regime, writing:

“The denunciation of me and my scholarly book by Umland, Shekhovtsov, and their ilk is not only an open attack on academic freedom but also an attempt to censor my book and subject me to criminal prosecution or sanctions by the undemocratic Zelensky regime for my academic research. They falsely link my book to Russian propaganda, Russian media, and “apologetics” of the Russian invasion, which are all criminal offensives in Ukraine. There were many such cases of political persecution in Ukraine.”

“My house, land, and all other property in my native Western Ukraine were illegally seized in retaliation of my scholarly studies of the Maidan massacre in Ukraine. I was blacklisted on the Ukrainian government-linked Myrotvorets hit list for “crimes” of showing involvement of radical nationalists and neo-Nazis in this massacre of the Maidan protesters and the police and for exposing the SS Galicia division veteran, who was given standing ovations in the Canadian parliament by the Canadian government, parliament, Zelensky, and his delegation. The Ukrainian government agency, headed by the leader of the OUN, which collaborated with Nazi Germany and was involved in organizing the SS Galicia Division, threatened me with criminal prosecution for exposing involvement of neo-Nazis in the Maidan massacre.”

Supporters of the Ukraine proxy war have no answer to the facts documented by Katchanovski in his book, so they are now engaging in a smear campaign, in an attempt to get him fired, censored, and repressed as retribution for his inconvenient facts.

From “The Dissident“, Substack

Footnotes (added by Admin)

  1. Andreas Umland – https://www.ui.se/english/about/staff/andreas-umland/ ↩︎
  2. Anton Shekhovtsov – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Shekhovtsov / ↩︎
  3. C.V. – https://uris.ch/assets/downloads/CV-Marta-Havryshko.pdf ↩︎
  4. Konstantin Bondarenko – https://valdaiclub.com/about/experts/191/ ↩︎
  5. Oleksii Arestovych – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksii_Arestovych ↩︎

#34. Dr. Tögel: State Terrorism and Cognitive Warfare – Understanding Propaganda

Edited: October 31, 2025 (Instagram info was added)

This blog post concerns a video in which Dr. Tögel1 explains how mainstream media is used for propaganda and cognitive warfare2. He goes into great detail about what is being said, what is being claimed, and what is true or false. The video concerns the German ZDF broadcast, published on October 23rd, titled “Markus Lanz.”3 Markus Lanz4 moderates the interview with guests: Georg Mascolo5, Katja Kloger6, and Andrey Gurkov7.

Dr. Jonas Tögel:

When I watched the “Markus Lanz” program from October 23, 2025, and analyzed it for war propaganda, I was immediately struck by how one-sided the choice of guests was: Both Katja Gloger and her husband, Georg Mascolo, are members of the “Atlantikbrücke” – a transatlantic think tank that receives funding from, among others, banks and the German Foreign Office. Unfortunately, Markus Lanz did not introduce either of them as transatlantic lobbyists. The selection of guests thus plays a significant role: I myself have experienced firsthand that one is not invited to talk shows if one does not represent the desired positions. Source Instagram

The “Markus Lanz” show from October 23rd is a good example of how the same issues can be presented very differently: In the program, it’s perfectly acceptable to discuss state terrorism: terrorist attacks are carried out by one’s own intelligence services, for which an enemy is blamed, against whom war can now be waged under the pretext of “terrorism.” When it comes to the 1999 terrorist attacks in Moscow and the Russian KGB/FSB is the possible perpetrator, such considerations are not only permissible but even probable. However, when it comes to September 11, 2001, and American intelligence services as possible perpetrators, such considerations are not allowed and are dismissed as “conspiracy theories.” I find that astonishing. Source Instagram

Because the mainstream propaganda system, explained in detail in this video, is not only used in Germany, the video is published here, so that we all can learn how the crowds are mislead, brainwashed. The video is subtitled. Choose your language in the menu bar. The menu bar becomes visible after you have clicked the red YT start button.

Footnotes

  1. Dr. Tögel, website: https://www.jonastoegel.de ↩︎
  2. See earlier published blogposts:
    #31. War Games – Geostrategy in a Multipolar World
    #32. NATO’s Cognitive Warfare ↩︎
  3. ZDF: https://www.zdf.de/talk/markus-lanz-114 ↩︎
  4. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Lanz ↩︎
  5. International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – Georg Mascolo – https://www.icij.org/journalists/georg-mascolo
    “Georg Mascolo, Germany, is a bestselling author and journalist who worked for nearly 25 years for the Spiegel Group.
    From 2008 until 2013, he was editor-in-chief of Spiegel magazine. From 2014 until 2022, he was the head of the Joint Investigative Group of Süddeutsche Zeitung and the two German public broadcasters WDR and NDR.
    Mascolo has been an ICIJ member since 1998.
    He has been the dean of the Bucerius Summer School on Global Governance since 2017. In 2014, he was named Political Journalist of the Year by the influential professional journal Medium Magazin.”     ↩︎
  6. Journalismusfest Innsbruck – Katja Gloger – https://www.journalismusfest.org/en/katja-gloger-2
    “Katja Gloger studied Eastern European history, Political science and Slavic studies in Hamburg and Moscow. After graduating from the German School of Journalism in Munich, she became a TV-reporter for WDR Radio and Television in Cologne. From 1989 on she was based as  correspondent for the weekly Stern in Moscow.. Gloger interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, whom she accompanied for months as the first Western correspondent. She later headed the foreign desk of Stern and was posted as senior political correspondent to Washington, D.C.
    Honored with the Henri-Nannen-Award and named political “Journalist of the Year” she now works as a freelance journalist and book author focusing on Russia and Security Policy. Her books include Putin’s World: The New Russia, Ukraine and the West; Stranger Friends: Germans and Russians. The Story of a Fateful Relationship and the bestseller Outbreak: Insights into a Pandemic. 
    She is a regular guest on German radio and television, panelist and moderator of discussions on Russia and international affairs. In her honorary capacity, she is Spokesperson and Executive Member of the Board of RSF Reporters without Borders, Germany. She lives in Berlin.”     ↩︎
  7. Wikipedia – Andrey Gurkov – https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Gurkov ↩︎

#33. “They introduced the Nazifascist structures into the CIA”

The title is an edited quoted part of a by Dr. Ola Tunander spoken sentence [“They brought in the whole Nazifascist structures into the CIA”] from the video:

How The Deep Empire Eliminates Threats To Its Hegemony

– An in-depth discussion, a verbal documentary about political assassinations in the (far) past, world wide, coups, and more.
– Participating are: Ola Tunander, Dirk Pohlmann and Pascal Lottaz
– Published: October 15, 2025

  • Ola Tunander (image upper right) (born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948) is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, Norway)
  • Dirk Pohlmann (born August 11, 1959) is a German journalist, author, screenwriter, director and producer of about 25 historical documentaries for German public media Arte, ARD and ZDF
  • Pascal Lottaz (picture left, discussion leader) is an Assistant Professor for Neutrality Studies at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, in Tokyo. He received his MA and PhD from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan) and specializes on neutral actors in international relations, especially on neutrality during the two World Wars and during the Cold War. He recently published the books Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022), Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice (Lexington Books, 2020), and Notions of Neutralities (Lexington Books, 2019). He leads the research network neutralitystudies.com.

Pascal Lottaz: “Today I’m talking again to Dr. Ola Tunander and Dirk Pohlmann. I have talked to both of them separately before, but tonight we want to do a panel on the political murders in Europe throughout the Cold War and into the Unipolar Moment when people who worked for Peace and a political rapprochement with the East and the global South just died. Together, we trace the shadowy links between these deaths, uncovering a world of deep state networks, Nazi assassins repurposed by Western intelligence, and the brutal enforcement of an empire’s unwritten rules. We explore why challenging the colonial order or building economic bridges to the East became a death sentence.”

Additional information

Ola Tunander: The killing of PM Olof Palme

Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, 28 September 1984 (Photo: Source: Ministry of the Presidency. Government of Spain).
  1. Part I https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part
  2. Part II https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part-698
  3. Part III https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part-7ae
  4. Part IV https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part-661

Dirk Pohlmann

Pascal Lottaz

#32. NATO’s Cognitive Warfare

Lecture (2023) by Dr. Jonas Tögel, published on September 10, 2025 (subtitled)

Dr. Jonas Tögel is a German psychologist, American studies scholar, propaganda researcher, and bestselling author. He works as a research associate at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Regensburg. His motivation is to help people recognize, understand, and neutralize manipulation in everyday life and propaganda. In doing so, he is committed to strengthening his audience’s resilience so that one can remain peaceful, positive, and able to act even in difficult times. Website: Dr. Jonas Tögel

“When I gave my lecture on NATO’s cognitive warfare in spring 2023, it was not foreseeable how much the threat of war in Europe would increase.
Today it is clear that cognitive warfare has divided populations, weakened the peace movement, and that it is therefore possible to continue to push forward with rearmament and a new, major war in Europe.
What is needed now is an understanding of the mechanisms of war propaganda and a determined, shared, and loud desire for peace.” – Dr. Jonas Tögel

More:

Read online

Quote: “[…..] we first discuss how to define “misinformation”, and how it relates to various other commonly used terms such as “disinformation” and “fake news”. Next, we examine the psychology of correcting misinformation: what happens when someone is exposed to a fact check, and what are the benefits and drawbacks of correcting misinformation once the damage is already done? Finally, we discuss how to build psychological resilience against misinformation through psychological “vaccines” or “inoculation”: we look at the theoretical background of inoculation theory (dating back to the 1960s), its modern application within the context of online misinformation (in online games and educational videos), and future prospects and research avenues in the field.“

Attention: Both authors are professors at the university of Cambridge: check Jon Roozenbeek and Sander van der Linden. The biography on their Cambridge profile doesn’t mention any collaboration with NATO or writing for NATO. There’s no link to the NATO document “Inoculation Theory and Misinformation”. Why not? There must be a reason.
There’s no link to their Cambridge profile on the NATO profile. Check: Jon Roozenbeek and Sander van der Linden. Why not?
Conclusion: That, which cannot stand the light of day, is being concealed.
Both professors have prostituted their knowledge regarding the possibility of brain manipulation, and NATO is the pimp.

In case the page will be removed from the NATO website, and all denied, today, October 11, 2025 this PDF has been created. The from the NATO website downloaded file: PDF

Screenshot taken October 11, 2025, from the NATO website.

More in Blog Multerland: “Evidence based science or prostitution?“

#31. War Games – Geostrategy in a Multipolar World

LECTURE by DR. JONAS TÖGEL, German psychologist, American studies scholar, propaganda researcher, and bestselling author. He works as a research associate at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Regensburg. His motivation is to help people recognize, understand, and neutralize manipulation in everyday life and propaganda. In doing so, he is committed to strengthening his audience’s resilience so that one can remain peaceful, positive, and able to act even in difficult times. Website: Dr. Jonas Tögel

Part 1: NATO vs. Russia – Understanding Geostrategy (subtitles available)
Published: October 5, 2025

Part 2. Going to war with geostrategy?
Published: October 8, 2025

Additional:

NATO’s Cognitive Warfare

#30. What I Saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022

– Diary of an International Observer

Paperback – May 22, 2025
Author: Benoit Paré, born in Paris, in 1961, is living in Greece since 1986. He is a French army reserve officer and former defense ministry analyst. Most importantly, Mr. Paré worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as part of the seize-fire monitoring mission in Eastern Ukraine. 

Ukraine 2015-2022.

A unique account of its kind, precise, sensitive, and personal, seen from the inside of an international mission at the heart of the Donbass war.
The reality on the ground, from the front lines.
New revelations, notably concerning civilian casualties, human rights violations, conflict-related trials, and the manipulation of facts.
And then, how the US-sponsored Ukrainian ultra-nationalist project provoked Moscow’s reaction.
This book is primarily intended for those who prioritize facts over partisanship and who want to understand how the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II came about.

Video interview conducted by Pascal Lottaz, Neutrality Studies. Premiered on August 5, 2025: “Today I’m talking to Benoît Paré, a French army reserve officer and former defense ministry analyst. Most importantly, Mr. Paré worked for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), as part of the seize-fire monitoring mission in Eastern Ukraine. He also wrote a book about this experiences in the Donbas with the title “What I saw in Ukraine: 2015-2022, Diary of an international Observer”.”

#28. Russian propaganda?

  • Original post published: July 29, 2020, in: Multerland blog
  • Edited: July 30, 2020
  • Edited: July 06, 2025 – Note: In the meantime we passed the year 2022, in which, named like that: the Russian Special Project started. In the post below I write that Russian politics, like all politics world wide, are not reliable. That was in 2020, when I was not up to date about the developments in Kiev, Ukraine, the coup there in 2014, the provoked war, etc. etc. All what is related with that is to be found in my blog Sustainable Politics, that I started in 2023, after my LinkedIn posts/comments had been censored because of EU guidelines and my account had been suspended for a short time: I was even named a Russian Troll there. But there is more, and since the war in Ukraine, all what happened there, and in USA, Europe, my political knowledge about Russia has become real in-depth knowledge, fact checked, after having been informed about Putin, Lavrov, the provoking aggressive role of NATO, USA, EU, in the Ukraine war, etc., by the highest reliable of the west’s political scientists and investigative journalists. You can find a gallery, and a list of them here. My answer on the question, that I asked myself in 2020: into which direction I would run in case needed: I would still, now, 2025, run into the direction of Russia, but taking my Acousticom2 with me to find a green place to live, because also in Russia the radiation from man-made EMF is too high. RNCNIRP is an advisory commission. Not a governmental EMF safety guidelines decision makers commission. Read more about RNCNIRP here.

July 29, 2020

The publications in the media about the Russian decision to ban Wi-Fi and smartphones from schools, are obviously considered to be Russian propaganda, by “Telecom” [see tweet].

What is “Russian propaganda”?

“The propaganda of the Russian Federation is propaganda that promotes views, perceptions or agendas of the government of Russia. The media include state-run outlets and online technologies,[3][4] and may involve using “Soviet-style ‘active measures‘ as an element of modern Russian ‘political warfare‘””.[5]    Read more here. (Wikipedia)

The new guidelines for schools, and online learning at home, as presented by the ministry of health in Russia, are created by RusCNIRP, a group of independent scientists who have studied EMF and experienced electromagnetic radiation on volunteering humans, in Russia. RusCNIRP has found highly alarming research results concerning the health of all human beings, especially for the foetus, babies, children, and teenagers. Not only for Russians, not only for Russian foetuses, babies, children and teenagers, but for all human beings. Science is not politically interested, not owned by politics and governments.

“Russian propaganda” as it essentially is, is not related at all with what the Ministry of Health in Moscow has decided about schools and online learning at home, but the decision of the Russian Ministry of Health opens indeed a very nice crystal clear view on Russia and the care of Russians for their children.

The “Free West”?

“Russian propaganda” is an expression for those outside Russia who like to influence the opinion of the crowds who live in the so-called “free west”, where all can say what they like to say [but nobody listens]. The “free” west does not exist. In the free west the so-called free people have become the slaves of the industry that rules all the governments, via the votes of these slaves, via a fake democratic system. In the free west people really believe they are free.

Capitalism and Communism

Russia is not different from the “free west”, since also there political systems restrict the people’s freedom: the Tsar was thrown from the throne in 1917 and other types of “Tsars” took over the totalitarian power. The “free west”points to Russia as an unfree state, Russia points to the west for the same. The industry in both East and West has during the era of the industrialisation taken over the reigns of politics[see article]. Capitalism is now also blossoming where communism was and even IS dictated. Communism is essentially an utterly social “ism”, but the world was not ready for it and one cannot force human evolution by violence, as happened in Russia, as happens in China, and why communist countries are factually not communist at all. Capitalism rules also in China, North Korea, everywhere. Also EU is not different from what is happening in Russia, in USA. The industry is the absolute totalitarian power where all world politics are merchandisers for. The crisis we are in is a result of blind capitalism, and the inborn and stimulated by industry greed of human beings.

Painting: Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński, without a title. For me it is the blind monster industry that eats human beings. All walk in his wide opened mouth, something inside urges them to go in it (greed) and they do not see where they walk into. Their mind is sleeping. They are blind also. Not aware of what is happening: that they will be transformed into the faeces of the monster. Humans are the industry’s waste.

“If freedom is here, what does prison look like?”

“If freedom is here, what does prison look like?” Source

The so-called “free west” is scaremongering people for Russia, because the so-called “free west” people could lose their freedom, their free choice, their free will, when Russia is going to become too powerful. Which freedom?

“If freedom is here, what does prison look like?” Source

Well,

  • when reading the news about 5G, the way it is rolled out and the speed of the rollout
  • when discovering the total absence of any industrial scientific research of the biological effects of 5G
  • when learning about the support of the “free” west of corrupted safety guidelines decision makers groups like ICNIRP, FCC, ARPANSA, Safety Code 6 [See also: wikipedia]
  • when reading about the role of the corrupted WHO
  • when reading about Bill Gates, vaccines, the totally absurd, insane, unnecessary vaccine cocktail of till about 16 different vaccines, where parents of new born babies in USA are obliged to agree with. Read article Children’s Health Defense

…then I wonder in what kind of a freedom we live in. Then I do not wonder which side I should choose if it comes to choices:

I would choose for Russia.

My view on Russia

Choosing for Russia is not a synonym for agreeing with their politics, though I understand the Russian revolution, though I love their hymn, and though I understand the essence of communism. As a child I felt the enormous fear of both my parents, when the news came that Russia invaded Hungary [1956]. I was 8 years old. When there was ever something to be afraid of, later, I translated it automatically into “Russians”. My father hated Stalin, deeply, he hated communism, the communist leaders, and I did not understand it then, but later I did, and I agreed. I learned later that politics is not the same as culture. I learned from my mother the love for the Russian dances and music, but I also felt and feel love for for instance Spanish dances, Hungarian dances, all traditional dances and music. I dislike the music of the American cowboys however, their arrogant view on the American indigenous people, and their  “country and western” music. I can not listen to it.

I love nature. As Russians do. Love for nature is deeply rooted in the Russian soul. I feel the same. When it comes to choices, I choose for Russia. If I had to run for my life, I would run to Russia, not to the USA.

My view on the USA

America was a glorious country, for me, Americans were heroes: born some years after WWII out of parents who witnessed the war in the Netherlands, and who experienced Americans as liberators, I only heard positive words, and deep respect. America was glorified. My view on America changed during my life and on a certain moment I really did not understand why people would like to go there, to live there, or to go for a holiday there. The American glory of 1945 must have created an addiction in Americans to glory itself, to play the role of the liberator everywhere in the world, and to interfere finally in politics where they did not have the right to. The greed of their ancestors, who invaded America, was and is obviously in the DNA of the Americans: they never stopped to invade, and their out of the cowboy-guns derived advanced war industry helped them to win insane cruel wars. During the last decades the American glory faded out. Then there was Trump with: “We Make America Great Again!”

His politics have speeded up the rotting process of USA that started when Columbus arrived on that continent. He exposes the enormous numbers of far-right voters, Trump voters, the fake holiness of Christians in USA, who made it happen that Trump won. “It was meant to be, and a sign of God”. Most probably all this could happen because white-supremacy-America has no authentic culture, with roots far back in history, from the beginning of mankind: Americans of the present are the heirs of the fortune hunters from Europe. All what was authentic American has been stolen, killed, removed, ridiculed, humiliated, and this has not stopped yet: the indigenous people of America who are still alive still live in reservations and have no rights. The white supremacy overruled not only the indigenous people, but also the by white supremacists from Africa into America entered black people, the white man’s slaves, and all other human colours that appeared in USA, and are trying to enter right now the USA: “Go back where you came from!“. But the new Americans are awaking already a long time, and times and American society are finally really changing. The white supremacists feel backed into a corner, and act in the same way as those who invaded America, and killed all who were trying to defend their property and were opposing them. There is a revival of the cowboy mentality and it is supported by their self chosen pro-cowboy government. But much more intense: it is now a political movement.

That Americans [together with the British, Canadians, Polish and Russians] liberated Europe from Nazi Germany, stays a fact where we, Europeans, are eternally grateful for. The new fact is that Nazism is now experiencing a new dawn in the USA itself.

It is the world wide governing American, by politics funded and supported industries, and out of this American industry mentality born Russian, Chinese, Iranian, African, South American, Australian, Canadian, and European industries, which rule humanity, life on Earth. The shallow life-style in industrial countries is comparable with the shallow lifestyle as presented in the many Hollywood films, which have polluted the view of humans on sexuality and respect, world wide. The seed of the rottenness of the entire world started to grow in Hollywood, and infected via the Hollywood films all peoples of the world. Telecom industry is derived from America’s film industry, and America’s war industry, that found propaganda for it via the film industry and nowadays via the gaming industry, a side product of the film industry. Telecom uses psychological ways to hide its own propaganda by blaming Russia for what it is doing itself. Wake up, peoples of the world, stop to be sheeples [for those who think I wrote it wrong: sheeples is combination of sheep and peoples].

Conclusion

The claim of the telecommunications industry that the in Russia banned smartphones and Wi-Fi from schools should be considered as Russian propaganda, is a dirty lie, and propaganda itself, merchandising, manipulating the mind of the “free west” peoples, in order to achieve that the sheeples will say no to a sane, ethical decision of Russians. Sanity and ethics are missing in the telecom industry, in all industries, the multi nationals. Everywhere. Governments should disconnect from the industry and their catastrophic economic fetishism. The Russian Ministry of Health did. If there is a future, it must be in Russia. The signs are there that they can think.

Note: the mentioned tweet in the first sentence was published by Susan Foster. Susan Foster lives in Colorado, USA, writes articles for Children’s Health Defense, and is Honorary Firefighter of the San Diego Fire Department; US Adviser EM Radiation Research Trust (UK). See: Twitter. Her timeline on Twitter also shows how the situation in the USA is escalating.

One of Susan Foster’s tweets contains the following video. The YouTube channel shows more of the USA, where pro-American governments are willing to cooperate with, and not with Russia. Russian politics are, as all politics, indeed not reliable, but the Russian culture, art and science is still very strong and of a high quality. Russia is part of geological Europe.  So, EU, do not blame me for choosing for Russia. It is born out of your own totalitarian politics, by hiding details about 5G, by mandating 5G, your undemocratic politics about so-called safety guidelines for EMF by choosing for the ICNIRP monopoly, mandating unhealthy, unnecessary vaccines, denying the facts of pesticides, neonicotinoids, that kill life in soils, and by cooperating with a country that is reigned by “Gestapo Trump“. Washing hands in innocence, pretending to be leaders, our truthful leaders, walking like cowardly sheep behind Big “Brother” USA.

Additional:

#27. Clare Daly: “They called me a Russian propagandist – for telling the truth”

Video published: June 28, 2025

Clare Daly is an Irish politician and former Member of the European Parliament. She was a member of Independents 4 Change, affiliated with The Left group. Since 2024, she has been actively involved in Irish politics. Andrew Lowenthal is an independent writer, researcher, and digital-rights specialist focused on digital authoritarianism, misinformation, and civil liberties. He co‑founded and led the Asia‑Pacific nonprofit EngageMedia for nearly eighteen years, has been a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and currently heads liber‑net, a digital civil‑liberties initiative.

‘The two reasons why I’m a Russian propagandist is I said two things:
1: that the war in Ukraine was a NATO proxy war;
2: that the people of Europe were suffering more than the Russian economy from the sanctions that Europe had imposed on Russia’

Andrew Lowenthal (at 28:29) is an independent writer, researcher, and digital-rights specialist focused on digital authoritarianism, misinformation, and civil liberties. He co‑founded and led the Asia‑Pacific non-profit EngageMedia for nearly eighteen years, has been a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab, and currently heads liber‑net, a digital civil‑liberties initiative.

The video starts at 4:11 minutes with Clare Daly.

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