Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Projects at the Finance Committee of the City of St Petersburg – in which role it seems reasonable to assume she would have known and met Vladimir Putin, then beginning his rise to global significance in that city. Calvert 22 is sponsored (the exact wording used is ‘strategic partner’) by VTB Capital, an investment […]

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[…] a ‘reputation laundering’ process. In brief, Russian influence in the UK is ‘the new normal’, and there are a lot of Russians with very close links to Putin who are well integrated into the UK business and social scene, and accepted because of their wealth. This level of integration – in ‘Londongrad’ in particular […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] I was brought up on briefly went BNP. While he was an MEP he, along with much of the international Far Right, declared their admiration for Vladimir Putin as an enemy of liberalism and the saviour of Christianity. At the same time, he was also supporting the Asad regime in Syria, invited to praise […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] no longer demonic. National leaders use it to talk to their people, offering in the process a snapshot of their society’s different levels of development: Prime Minister Putin showing off his biceps; intelligence chief Sawers photographed by his wife in his speedos. 125 Winter 2010 its annual conference included Alexander Lebedev, the Russian proprietor […]

Why Bellingcat’s founder promoted a Ukrainian hoax

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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 Super-Rich Shall Inherit the Earth: The New Global Oligarchs and How They’re Taking Over Our World by Stephen Armstrong

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] concerns a US banker who in a meeting with one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought […]

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[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

Lobster Issue 88 (Winter 2024) FREE
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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 […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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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 […]

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