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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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

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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

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 […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: A BALLAD OF DRUGS AND 9/11 The truth shall make you free — CIA Slogan At the First Emperor’s Tomb the Chinese People’s Republic shows you a preliminary movie in which this monument of empire is seen through the eyes of peasants who rose up in revolt and smashed the terra cotta statues we have […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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

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 […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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

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 […]

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