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Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, filmmaker, best-selling author https://www.bettedangerous.com Bette Dangerous Substack Byline Supplement RADICALIZED https://ko-fi.com/heidicuda https://ko-fi.com/heidicuda/shop

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'Clickbait Fascism: When War Becomes a Show' -- My Interview on Radio Free America An interview I did with Radio Free America, Prague, on the day the Trump regime invaded Venezuela just dropped yesterday, the day the Trump regime invaded Iran

'Clickbait Fascism: When War Becomes a Show' -- My Interview on Radio Free America

An interview I did with Radio Free America, Prague, on the day the Trump regime invaded Venezuela just dropped yesterday, the day the Trump regime invaded Iran

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01.03.2026 13:19 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Silence of the Grave Republishing my tribute to Russia’s last best hope — Boris Nemtsov — on the 11th anniversary of his assassination

Silence of the Grave

Republishing my tribute to Russia’s last best hope — Boris Nemtsov — on the 11th anniversary of his assassination

27.02.2026 15:13 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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'So What Am I Guilty Of? Nothing But the Truth' Twenty years after the murder of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow on Putin's birthday, I am posting a letter published after her death that warns of the threat of journalist-clowns

'So What Am I Guilty Of? Nothing But the Truth'

Twenty years after the murder of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow on Putin's birthday, I am posting a letter published after her death that warns of the threat of journalist-clowns

www.bettedangerous.com/p/so-what-am...

25.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0
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Visualize The Hague As Duterte's hearing gets underway on the fourth anniversary of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, I want you to visualize accountability for Putin and Trump

Visualize The Hague

As Duterte's hearing gets underway on the fourth anniversary of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, I want you to visualize accountability for Putin and Trump

www.bettedangerous.com/p/visualize-...

24.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 14    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Spot the Op: Controlled Opposition Third in a series exposing Russian hybrid warfare operations

Spot the Op: Controlled Opposition

Third in a series exposing Russian hybrid warfare operations

23.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
Hot Type: How Russia Weaponises Scandal So You Forget to Defend Democracy Political columnist Heidi Siegmund Cuda investigates how scandals are weaponised to destroy trust in democracies, paving the way for further autocratic capture

Hot Type: How Russia Weaponises Scandal So You Forget to Defend Democracy
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22.02.2026 14:03 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
TRUMP’S MENTOR: ROY COHN — American Monster As Trump works multiple prebuttal references to handsome kissing men into his act, I’m re-releasing my Roy Cohn report—third in a series about US criminals who accelerated global authoritarianism

TRUMP’S MENTOR: ROY COHN — American Monster

As Trump works multiple prebuttal references to handsome kissing men into his act, I’m re-releasing my Roy Cohn report—third in a series about US criminals who accelerated global authoritarianism

22.02.2026 14:00 — 👍 9    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

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18.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
From Rybolovlev with Love: How Trump's DHS Funnels Cash to Russian Oligarchs As DHS overpays for concentration camp shells, it's worth revisiting the failures of US intelligence agencies who were supposed to protect us from organized crime, and why we need to push on

From Rybolovlev with Love: How Trump's DHS Funnels Cash to Russian Oligarchs

As DHS overpays for concentration camp shells, it's worth revisiting the failures of US intelligence agencies who were supposed to protect us from organized crime, and why we need to push on

17.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 8    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
UPDATE: The Epstein Ties to Execs and Profiteers of the 2008 Financial Crisis An update to my report on the execs behind the 2008 financial crisis, which crushed the American dream for millions, and how they're thriving in Trump's America, to include their ties to Epstein

UPDATE: The Epstein Ties to Execs and Profiteers of the 2008 Financial Crisis

An update to my report on the execs behind the 2008 financial crisis, which crushed the American dream for millions, and how they're thriving in Trump's America -- updated now to include their ties to Jeffrey Epstein

15.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 18    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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If you would like to join Bette Dangerous community events, please use the enclosed coupon for a discount on your first-year membership.

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15.02.2026 09:10 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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REMINDER: Bette's Speakeasy with Slavenka Drakulić on War Criminals on Trial in The Hague Bette members—please register for our Sunday Speakeasy with author Slavenka Drakulić, who documented the trials of Yugoslavian war criminals in her book They Would Never Hurt a Fly

REMINDER: Bette's Speakeasy with Slavenka Drakulić on War Criminals on Trial in The Hague

Bette members—please register for our Sunday Speakeasy with author Slavenka Drakulić, who documented the trials of Yugoslavian war criminals in her book They Would Never Hurt a Fly

13.02.2026 12:19 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil America is being ruled by people who took money from gangsters and while the truth might not set them free, it could save the world

Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil

America is being ruled by people who took money from gangsters and while the truth might not set them free, it could save the world

12.02.2026 22:07 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 3
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Sleazy Glitz Delirium It's tempting to go down the rabbit hole of scandal and stay mired there, but we know enough about the organized crime ring of deviant freaks to know our main focus should be getting them out of power

Sleazy Glitz Delirium

It's tempting to go down the rabbit hole of scandal and stay mired there, but we know enough about the organized crime ring of deviant freaks to know our main focus should be getting them out of power

12.02.2026 05:38 — 👍 17    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 3

Thank you kindly

10.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Don't Worry - the Men Who Stole the American Dream Are Doing Just Fine I decided to take a look at executives involved in the 2008 financial crisis, which crushed the American dream for millions of families, only to find out, most of them are thriving in Trump's America

Don't Worry - the Men Who Stole the American Dream Are Doing Just Fine

I decided to take a look at executives involved in the 2008 financial crisis, which crushed the American dream for millions of families, only to find out, most of them are thriving in Trump's America

09.02.2026 21:04 — 👍 25    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 7
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Bette In the News: Growing the Pro-Democracy Intelligentsia My new intervu on Thom Hartmann; the film I executive produced—Kherson: Human Safari—directed by Zarina Zabrisky, screens at Munich Security Conference 2/12; Zarina joins us Tues; plus Unger on RadPod

Bette In the News: Growing the Pro-Democracy Intelligentsia

My new intervu on Thom Hartmann; the film I executive produced—Kherson: Human Safari—directed by Zarina Zabrisky, screens at Munich Security Conference 2/12; Zarina joins us Tues; plus Unger on RadPod
www.bettedangerous.com/p/bette-in-t...

06.02.2026 13:04 — 👍 22    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0
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Spot the Op: Othering Part 2 in the new Bette Dangerous series ‘Spot the Op’ — identifying autocrat operations

Spot the Op: Othering

Part 2 in the new Bette Dangerous series ‘Spot the Op’ — identifying autocrat operations

www.bettedangerous.com/p/spot-the-o...

06.02.2026 12:53 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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‘We’re In the Arresting Journalists Phase of Fascism’ Key quotes from Prof. Jason Stanley’s recent interview with Ali Velshi, where he has the guts to point out that citing judges isn’t going to save America, but maybe the growing scale of protests will

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04.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 27    🔁 15    💬 4    📌 1

High praise from a talent such as yourself xo

02.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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All That Matters Is Removing Putin and Trump from Power Don’t let the newsporn cycle distract from the mission

All That Matters Is Removing Putin and Trump from Power

Don’t let the newsporn cycle distract from the mission

www.bettedangerous.com/p/all-that-m...

02.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 33    🔁 25    💬 2    📌 1
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SPOT THE OP: ‘Separatist’ Zombie Armies — A New Bette Dangerous Series In the first of my new ‘Spot the Op’ series, I focus on ‘separatist’ movements as part of Russian-funded active measures to weaken and overthrow democracies, giving cover for imperialist invasions

SPOT THE OP: ‘Separatist’ Zombie Armies — A New Bette Dangerous Series

In the first of my new ‘Spot the Op’ series, I focus on ‘separatist’ movements as part of Russian-funded active measures to weaken and overthrow democracies, giving cover for imperialist invasions

29.01.2026 23:12 — 👍 37    🔁 23    💬 4    📌 34
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America Was There for Europe Now we need help

America Was There for Europe

Now we need help

27.01.2026 08:14 — 👍 25    🔁 10    💬 4    📌 3
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Bette in the News: Going Viral with Thom My latest appearance on The Thom Hartmann Program is going viral on YouTube — please share with your networks as awareness of Russia’s hand in the rise of Trump and his US/Canada/EU/NATO attacks grows

Bette in the News: Going Viral with Thom

My latest appearance on The @hartmannreport.com is going viral on YouTube — please share with your networks as awareness of Russia’s hand in the rise of Trump and his US/Canada/EU/NATO attacks grows

26.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 22    🔁 14    💬 3    📌 1
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White House Troll Farm Russia’s St. Petersburg troll operation moved to Washington DC, as Trump’s trolls use memetic warfare to establish a post-truth, post-fact information space, fulfilling one of Putin’s key objectives

White House Troll Farm

Russia’s St. Petersburg troll operation moved to Washington DC, as Trump’s trolls use memetic warfare to establish a post-truth, post-fact information space, fulfilling one of Putin’s key objectives

24.01.2026 22:59 — 👍 26    🔁 19    💬 1    📌 3
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REALITY DISTORTION ALERT: ‘Peace’ As an Anti-Western Operation A gang of thieves walks into a bar

REALITY DISTORTION ALERT: ‘Peace’ As an Anti-Western Operation

A gang of thieves walks into a bar

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22.01.2026 21:46 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 4

Thank u for watching!

22.01.2026 17:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We’re recording again this week!

21.01.2026 20:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Leader We Need Mark Carney’ entire speech in Davos

The Leader We Need

Mark Carney’ entire speech in Davos

www.bettedangerous.com/p/the-leader...

20.01.2026 22:53 — 👍 47    🔁 21    💬 6    📌 4
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Dead Dictators Unhappy endings

Dead Dictators

Unhappy endings
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20.01.2026 21:41 — 👍 29    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1