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Brian Wilson: Adult/Child
Read more: Brian Wilson: Adult/ChildIn tribute to Brian Wilson, who died today aged 82, here is my 2014 review of cult classic The Beach Boys Love You, via Robin Thicke’s Paula. THE ALBUM IS PAULA. Thrown together in the midst of divorce, it is by all rights a complete stinker and a total embarrassment. And not because its subject is…
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For Your Consideration: Did Annie Lennox Influence Jerskin Fendrix’s Score for Poor Things?
Read more: For Your Consideration: Did Annie Lennox Influence Jerskin Fendrix’s Score for Poor Things?LIKE DRACULA IN FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’s 1992 FILM, who is haunted by his own shadow, Poor Things can’t seem to escape its gothic predecessor. Director Yorgos Lanthimos’ whimsical dark comedy won four Oscars in March, including awards for costume and production design, for its surreal reimagining of Victorian Europe–drawing heavily on Coppola’s old-Hollywood aesthetic. But attentive viewers…
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Prigozhin’s Propagandists Scurry After His Plane — and His African ThinkTank — Go Up in Flames
Read more: Prigozhin’s Propagandists Scurry After His Plane — and His African ThinkTank — Go Up in FlamesMaria Butina told me last year that she worked for the Foundation for the Protection of National Values, a thinktank that the U.S. government sanctioned for aiding Yevgeny Prigozhin’s global propaganda efforts. The website is now defunct, like him. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the notorious Russian leader of the invasion of Ukraine and the failed coup against…
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Here is Indicted Russian Alexander Ionov’s Response to My Recent Lawfare Article
Read more: Here is Indicted Russian Alexander Ionov’s Response to My Recent Lawfare Article“[YOU] CALL ME FOREST GUMP hinting at amateurism on my part. Here I want to answer you, Forest, although he was a simple man […] conquered the hearts of Americans and became a hero.” Last month, freelance Aussie journalist Elise Thomas and I published an article for Lawfare about Russian businessman Alexander Ionov, who has…
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Russia’s Latest Troll Site is a Total Failure
Read more: Russia’s Latest Troll Site is a Total FailureTHE FOUNDATION TO BATTLE INJUSTICE claims to be a human rights organisation for victims of state violence in predominantly English-speaking countries. Dubbed the “Russian FBI” in its home country, the organisation is, in fact, the latest project of Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was recently added to the American FBI’s “Most Wanted” list for allegedly organising online…
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“Putin’s Cook” Behind New Russian Action Film
Read more: “Putin’s Cook” Behind New Russian Action FilmTHE FILM marks Yevgeny Prigozhin’s third foray into film-making — and the arrival of a reality-bending new species of Russian propaganda. On Wednesday, a trailer for upcoming Russian action film, ТУРИСТ (“Tourist”), dropped on YouTube. The film ostensibly tells the true story of Russia’s involvement in the Central African Republic (CAR), and, according to promotional…
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From the ICYMI Files: The Bizarre Campaign to Free a Notorious Russian Political Operative (Now With U.S. Sanctions!)
Read more: From the ICYMI Files: The Bizarre Campaign to Free a Notorious Russian Political Operative (Now With U.S. Sanctions!)ALEXANDER MALKEVICH has been sanctioned by Biden admin for spreading Kremlin propaganda. Here’s a round-up of my reporting from 2019/2020 about his global campaign to free a Russian operative from a Libyan prison. Alexander Malkevich will likely be familiar to readers of this blog. Throughout 2018, I gleefully documented his misadventures as editor of Russian…
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Here is the (Now-Suspended) Twitter Account of the FBI’s “Most Wanted” Russian Troll
Read more: Here is the (Now-Suspended) Twitter Account of the FBI’s “Most Wanted” Russian TrollHe’s wanted by the FBI, but you won’t find him on Twitter. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian catering oligarch widely believed to be behind St. Petersburg’s infamous troll farm, was booted off Twitter late-January — one month after joining the site — for a series of trollish tweets that veered drunkenly into self-parody. Here are some…
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The Atlantic Stole My Work
Read more: The Atlantic Stole My WorkThe publication refuses to credit me after copying whole sentences and paragraphs from a freelance pitch I sent to reporter Natasha Bertrand. (This item was edited by Atlanta, GA investigative blogger Peter M. Heimlich.) Here’s an excerpt from Bertrand’s article, “The Enigmatic Russian Paying Maria Butina’s Legal Bills,” published March 20, 2019 on the Atlantic’s…
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Duped Hollywood Celebrities Back in the News After Russian Disinformation Report
Read more: Duped Hollywood Celebrities Back in the News After Russian Disinformation ReportA Russian propaganda campaign that recruited famous actors through pay-for-videos site Cameo is the subject of a new article by Business Insider. The article follows on the heels of a joint report published last week by Graphika and Stanford Internet Observatory. Both pieces cited an article I co-bylined, “How Russia Tried to Weaponize Charlie Sheen,”…
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