Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] are weighing the possibility that the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a botched attempt by extremists in the Ukrainian government to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin whose aircraft was returning from South America the same day, according to a source briefed on the U.S. investigation.’ 27 We shall see; but, given his […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
[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 […]