# Peter Pomerantsev

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Janine di Giovanni's reckoning with war criminals

Janine di Giovanni has been a war correspondent for more than thirty years. She's been  shot at, kidnapped and held at gunpoint. She’s written about massacres at Srebrenica, atrocities in Kosovo, the mass killings in Rwanda, and of course Palestine. “I thought I’d seen the worst of humanity,” she w…

1106. We're in the End Stage of the Russian Imperial Project - How Messy Might it Get?!

Anna Danylchuk has been creating a war diary since the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022. Anna Danylchuk aims to tell the truth about Ukraine and Russia’s war and cut through the noise and propaganda. Anna is passionate about the beauty and independence of her count…

Russian-American Confessions: Jamison Firestone on Putin’s Russia and a Criminal American Dad

“My brothers always think: what would Jesus do? And they do that. I think: what would dad do? And I do the opposite.” — Jamison Firestone   What do you do if your dad was a multimillionaire conman, crack addict, and owner of New York’s most expensive brothel? If you’re Jamison Firestone, you transf…

How Authoritarianism Spreads and a Soviet Era Expert Says America Is Already Using It

Peter Pomerantsev is one of the world's leading experts on propaganda, authoritarianism and information warfare. Born in Soviet Ukraine, his father was arrested for sharing banned books and exiled. Peter grew up studying how authoritarian governments control information and now researches political…

Episode 105 – A Faith Revisited

Show Notes Ben and Josh explore the efficacy of public demonstrations (specifically: picketing), Josh gives his eldest child their first cell phone, Ben introduces “The Foundling Quiz”, and they revisit Ben’s missionary service, but this time with the shields down.  Intro & Follow-up (0-32:50) …

S5 – Episode 009 – The Sony Hack: When Hollywood went to Cyberwar

What happens when a film studio becomes the target of a cyberattack with geopolitical consequences? In this episode of the Cyber Distortion Podcast, we examine the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack—an incident that blurred the line between criminal extortion, destructive sabotage, and state-lin…

Propaganda As A War Crime: The Reckoning Project Pt 2

Janine di Giovanni explores the pursuit of justice for victims of war crimes in a special mini-series created by The Reckoning Project, with Byline Times. This time - Propaganda as a War Crime with Peter Pomerantsev. For TRP: Produced by Charles Bell Media with Aliide Naylor. For Byline Times P…

On Autocracy with Anne Applebaum

Questions, suggestions, or feedback? Send us a message! Welcome to the Where Shall We Meet podcast. Our guest this week is Anne Applebaum, who is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She is a historian of the Soviet Union and Eas…