To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

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[PDF file]: To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’ Dr. T. P. Wilkinson A century ago, a Southern academic and racist emerged in Europe and the United States as a crusader to ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before Europe’s […]

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[…] season Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972) Chapter 7. 28 Efforts by Vladimir Putin to play on Trump’s weakness for glamorous women were somewhat more subtle. In her book (see note 22), Ms Grisham says that a female translator at […]

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[…] for a day or two but has had no lasting impact.18 Landis didn’t make it into Mr Bird’s account. Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,19 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before I did […]

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[…] for a day or two, it has had no lasting impact.8 Landis didn’t make it into Mr Bird’s account. Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of My support for the strike ended when I read Ridley’s plan. 5 or 6 Jefferson Morley takes this nonsense apart in great […]

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[…] the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before I did […]

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[…] aware of. There are two obvious possibities here: Fraser threatened to reveal other paedophiles; Fraser was a spook. 7 offshore accounts story,8 pointing out its absurd anti- Putin bias. I’ve said before in these columns and it is worth restating: given what we know of the way the American state worked in the post-WW2 […]

Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] . . . independent of the limitations and bureaucratic failures of the present-day government’. 5 Many recognize the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence. A few, including Vladimir Putin, consider it may have advantages. In 2017 he said: 6 ‘Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with […]

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[…] the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before I did […]

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

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[PDF file]: […] attack on Russia. Nonetheless the German mass media has been entirely on the side of NATO, condemning everyone who dissents as a ‘ PutinVersteher’ (someone who ‘understands’ Putin). After some ten years of virtually silent deployment of German armed forces in Afghanistan to provide support to the CIA’s war there, it now appears as […]

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