Why Bellingcat’s founder promoted a Ukrainian hoax

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[PDF file]: […] the emerging information.2 Soon after that, the bombing of the theatre became international news. Within hours of the incident, US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘a war criminal’ for the first time.3 Ukraine has consistently blamed the destruction on a Russian airstrike,4 while Russia has consistently accused Ukrainian forces of destroying […]

The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence

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[PDF file]: […] . 14 In 2021 the Channel 4 Dispatches programme secretly recorded his business partner, the Marquess of Reading, offering to use the Prince’s supposed relationship with Vladimir Putin to benefit a fictitious South Korean company, for a fee of $200,000. Nikolai Kirillovich Romanov (AKA Prince Kark Emich of Leingen) is recognised by the Russian […]

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business, and the Corruption of American Democracy From Truman to Trump by Jonathan Marshall

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[PDF file]: […] the U.S. as ‘the 11 Marshall’s note at the end of that paragraph is this: 18. Barrett, Trump, 131, 195–201; Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (New York: Dutton, 2018), 24–25; Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Trump Swam in Mob-infested Waters in Early Years […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

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[PDF file]: […] Russia is a model for the type of pure nation that White Christian Nationalists want. (p. 125) The enthusiasm with which the Christian Right came to regard Putin fed into their support for Trump. They wanted an autocratic strongman to restore white Christian America with democracy very much destined for the bin. Viktor Orban […]

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[…] Russia is a model for the type of pure nation that White Christian Nationalists want. (p. 125) The enthusiasm with which the Christian Right came to regard Putin fed into their support for Trump. They wanted an autocratic strongman to restore white Christian America with democracy very much destined for the bin. Viktor Orban […]

Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail by Abby Innes

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[PDF file]: […] between the USA and China is becoming less and less as years go by, with Trump an open admirer of the top-down management skills of Xi and Putin. Which brings us to a discussion of managerialism. Martin Parker, a Reader in Social and Organizational Theory, in his 2002 book, Against Management,14 10 See . […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] not the murderous, totalitarian ‘Russia-Ukraine war: How the US paved the way to Moscow’s invasion’ 44 15 kleptocracy that Russia is today.45 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,46 what kind of […]

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[…] Canada and Mexico doesn’t work because the USA, for all its faults, is not the murderous, totalitarian kleptocracy that Russia is today.27 In any case, as President Putin believes that Ukraine has no right to exist, is a part of Russia, and its existence as an independent entity is an affront,28 what kind of […]

The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the nomination, they became ‘the purest strain of Never Trumpism’. (p. 35) Saldin and Teles enumerate their objections to a Trump Presidency: ‘He praised dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. He expressed admiration for brutal authoritarian crackdowns in North Korea and Tiananmen Square. He accused George W Bush of the treasonous offense of […]

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