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  • Indonesias Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto has a reputation that is raising fears in some sectors in Indonesia and in Australia Photo Indonesian Ministry of Defense MR Online

    A master of terror

    Originally published: Declassified Australia on December 8, 2023 by Pat Walsh (more by Declassified Australia) (Posted Dec 18, 2023)

    The murky background of the likely next President of Indonesia may come to haunt Indonesia, and Australia.

  • Bot armies are on the march in the Ukraine Russia war with automated bot accounts sending up to 80 of tweets in the study sample size of over 5 million tweets with anti Russia accounts comprising 902 of all accounts Here shelves of confiscated GSM gateways containing hundreds of sim cards using the mobile network to create thousands of fake bot accounts to distribute millions of fake tweets Photo Ukraine Security Service SBU MR Online

    Massive anti-Russian ‘Bot army’ exposed by Australian researchers

    Originally published: Declassified Australia on November 3, 2022 by Peter Cronau (more by Declassified Australia) (Posted Nov 07, 2022)

    An Australian university has unearthed millions of Tweets by fake ‘bot’ accounts pushing disinformation on the Ukraine war.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Nikolai Gogol’s Department of Government Efficiency
    Andy Merrifield A 1926 Soviet illustration of a production of Gogols play The Government Inspector showing audience members in the foreground and actors on stage in the background MR Online

    Almost two centuries after its opening night, Gogol’s five-act satirical play The Government Inspector continues to create a stir with every performance, seemingly no matter where. Maybe because corruption and self-serving double-talk aren’t just familiar features of 19th-century Russia, but have become ingrained facets of all systems of government and officialdom, making them recognizable to […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez Mural of Chávez in Caracas Univision MR Online

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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