Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] person, Osama Bin Laden die, the brand succession is now secured. Russia The inconsistency of the British and American brands is something former KGB officer, now President Putin of Russia, has played for all it is worth.(19) In his bid to remain at the top of Russia’s political machine – but also as an […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR Corinne Souza I was torn between not watching the opening ceremony of Sochi 2014 because of Russia’s deplorable gay and civil rights record and watching because all international relations PRs monitor big set piece national statements – particularly those of important nations such as Russia. An opening ceremony […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] the fiction that it is a ‘private organisation’ despite receiving an ‘annual congressional appropriation’ – its chosen euphemism for US tax dollars. The death of diplomacy Vladimir Putin is now making a habit of speaking bluntly to the West. He did so in spectacular fashion in at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: Creating Chaos Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin Larry Hancock London and New York: OR Books, 2018, £13.00, p/b 1 Robin Ramsay Hancock is an interesting figure. To me he is one of the very good JFK researchers. His Someone Would Have Talked 2 would be be on my list of serious JFK […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: House of Trump House of Putin The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia Craig Unger London: Bantam Press, 2018, £20 Colin Challen There’s something odd about a 337 page book with 52 pages of footnotes but no index. It suggests to me that it had to be rushed into print before […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
When falsehoods are bared, we have to be alert to those that will take their place as well as the ones that remain concealed.(1) At the time of writing (October 2004), the deluge of media coverage on the false justifications for the Iraq war – now understandably giving way to greater anxieties about the well-being […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] an adequate pension. Another example was the tragedy of the school in Beslan which presented a many-layered picture of a local society. This, presumably, is why President Putin has banned media coverage of any similar event should this unfortunately happen again. The Guardian, 9 February 2005. Presumably seeking to demonstrate that he has a […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] with redistribution or defending the interests of the very poor or disadvantaged. This is the ‘creative destruction’ of enthusiastic supporters of modernisation and the reason why Vladimir Putin is President of the Russian Federation after several years of brutal kleptocratic oligarchical capitalism. The people had had enough of shock treatment. The aim is always […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] an advocate of the Hindu mystic Gurdjieff; and Vladimir Styrne, a Bolshevik who had his own parents shot as reactionaries, who has just been rehabilitated by President Putin and is now duly celebrated with his own postage stamp. The ability of these figures to live on, via the Internet, is one of the technical […]