The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11

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[…] scholarly analyses have seen the bombings and war as part of a stratagem to boost the popularity of the Kremlin, and particularly the little-known new Prime Minister Putin, for the coming presidential elections in November 1999. The most thorough study, by John Dunlop of the Hoover Institution, blames the plotting on three protégés of […]

Brands and Britannia: Some aspects of national image and identity

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[…] 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 […]

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President Putin and Sochi 2014 PR

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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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin by Larry Hancock

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[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 […]

After Iraq: some FCO/SIS issues

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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 […]

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PR, espionage and language

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[…] 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 […]

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Beyond The Da Vinci Code

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[…] 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 […]

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Trust no one: the secret world of Sidney Reilly

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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 […]

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