Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] his company jets. The inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, took place in Kyiv four days later.136 US Ambassador William Taylor, chargé d’affaires at the Kyiv Embassy, spoke repeatedly to President Zelensky about Kolomoisky’s influence, which obviously reflected unease within the US Department of State. Taylor later recalled: The influence of one particular […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

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[PDF file]: […] meantime, preparations commenced. Additional telephone lines were installed for press use in Dublin, and the White House helpfully confirmed the identities of the persons ‘attached to the Embassy’ for the President’s visit and even of his personal security detail.7 A frantic search commenced to find Kennedy’s remaining Irish relatives. Distant cousins were unearthed and […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Ms. Ratner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Ratner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks. Ms. Ratner said […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

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[PDF file]: […] to 1979 and who handled the money from Moscow — up to £100,000 a year — from 1958 to 1979. Falber met the man from the Soviet Embassy and got bags of money which he hid in the loft of his house until the money was laundered through the party’s accounts. This was the […]

WEAPONISING ANTI-SEMITISM: How The Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn

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[PDF file]: […] Looked at another way, the author has written an unprecedented exposé of a successful political operation in Britain. For an operation it was, directed by the Israeli embassy in London. The British political system and its attendant media have allowed the Israeli state to restructure one of its two main political parties. On the […]

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] she employs is to make a joke of it. When Tony Blair visited the country in May 2007, she was invited to meet him at the British Embassy. The Embassy was ‘rocketed….minutes before Blair arrived – he was running ten minutes late. Two vehicles were destroyed’. She was introduced to him by US General […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] US sought the extradition of al-Liby and al-Fawwaz, as well as Abdel Bary and Ibrahim Eidarous on terrorism charges: at least three were in connection with the Embassy bombings. The Blair Government protected them all – the previous John Major Government granted al-Liby asylum in 1995. In that year, al-Liby’s LIFG joined forces with […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Not even true lies O ne of the Wiki releases from the US State Department is a 2006 briefing paper (06MANAGUA1002, NICARAGUA’S MOST WANTED) from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] returned. Not even true lies One of the Wiki releases from the US State Department is a 2006 briefing paper (06MANAGUA1002, NICARAGUA’S MOST WANTED) from the US embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, which details the life and high crimes of Daniel Ortega. How much of this is true? Given the level of disinformation produced against […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

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[PDF file]: […] Deane Hinton says, ‘I’m personally convinced Endara is an honest man.’ . . . But even Hinton’s own staff is incredulous, creating a deep rift inside the embassy. ‘Just how long can Endara play dumb’? asks a dissident U.S. official. ‘Evidence is sufficiently strong so that a broad sector 63 El Siglo, August 23, […]

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