Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] 2019. In March that year, the Poroshenko-aligned People’s Deputy Volodymyr Ariev published a statement asserting that Zelensky and his colleagues had a total of 41 million USD hidden in tax havens. Some of this money had originated from accounts held by Ukraine’s PrivatBank, the financial institution that had almost collapsed in 2016 due to […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] lure their intended readers into a maze of dead-ends and false connections. And what on earth would have been the reason for jumbling all this information together, hidden in the text of a popular novel, rather than relaying it via normal espionage routes? Unless Lewis’s intelligence contact was playing some obscure game for his […]

The Russian Laundromat and Blackpool Football Club

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is a 20 billion dollar offshore money laundering racket exposed last month by the Sarajevo-based Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). Its deepest secrets are still hidden in the British Virgin Islands, where fewer than 25,000 residents of fifteen tropical islands host the registered offices of 800,000 offshore companies. Researchers in the multinational […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch D istinguished guests it is a great honour to give this keynote speech. I will use the 600,000 Foreign Office hidden files as a launching pad to examine the history of secrecy in Britain, why it is so persistent and pervasive, attempts to change it and what […]

Impossible Knowledge: Conspiracy Theories, Power, and Truth by Todor Hristov and The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s “A Plot to Make us Look Foolish”by Katharina Thalmann

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]

Spinfluence: the Hardcore Propaganda Manual for Controlling the Masses by Nicholas McFarlane

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] thesis is about social control, corporations, the mass media and the techniques used by political and commercial PR to keep ‘the sheeple’ quiet on behalf of ‘the hidden elite minority’. Did I say agitprop? Within that, however, there is a decent guide to the techniques deployed. But that thesis is no more important, it […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] 293 See Bower, The Perfect English Spy, chapter 4 294 Wyatt fronting for IRD. 295 The Peril In Our Midst, (London: Phoenix House, 1956) Aidan Crawley, ‘The Hidden Face of British Communism’, Sunday Times, 28 October 1962, reprinted as a pamphlet. Crawley fronting for whom? IRD seems the most likely answer. 296 65 saw […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] the campaign against the left in 1974 included publication of three pamphlets: • Not To Be Trusted: left-wing extremism in the Labour and Liberal parties. • The Hidden Face of the Labour Party • The Hidden Face of the Liberal Party We’ve read the first of these, and from press accounts of the second […]

Impossible Knowledge, and, The Stigmatization of Conspiracy Theory since the 1950s

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[…] I struggled through to page 12 where I was stopped by these paragraphs. ‘Conspiracy theorists solve or dissolve the paradox of belonging without inclusion by representing the hidden order as a totality (Jameson 2009, 603, 1992, 3, 1991, 38). Indeed, the totality of a multiplicity of elements belongs to the multiplicity without being included […]

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