[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Off-guardian.org, the site which monitors the Guardian, has a splendid piece on the Guardian’s initial handling of the Panama offshore accounts story, pointing out its absurd anti- Putin bias.12 I’ve said before in these columns and it is worth restating: given what we know of the way the American state 8 9 Goddard inquiry […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] the emerging information.2 Soon after that, the bombing of the theatre became international news. Within hours of the incident, US President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘a war criminal’ for the first time.3 Ukraine has consistently blamed the destruction on a Russian airstrike,4 while Russia has consistently accused Ukrainian forces of destroying […]
[…] concerns a US banker who in a meeting with one of these gangsters unadvisedly used the phrase ‘You are going to have to bite the bullet’.) The Putin period is covered in some detail, including the murder of Alexander Litvinenko and the rise of Roman Abramovich. (A theory is briefly recounted that Abramovich bought […]
[PDF file]: […] . 14 In 2021 the Channel 4 Dispatches programme secretly recorded his business partner, the Marquess of Reading, offering to use the Prince’s supposed relationship with Vladimir Putin to benefit a fictitious South Korean company, for a fee of $200,000. Nikolai Kirillovich Romanov (AKA Prince Kark Emich of Leingen) is recognised by the Russian […]
[PDF file]: […] the U.S. as ‘the 11 Marshall’s note at the end of that paragraph is this: 18. Barrett, Trump, 131, 195–201; Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia (New York: Dutton, 2018), 24–25; Robert O’Harrow Jr., “Trump Swam in Mob-infested Waters in Early Years […]
[PDF file]: […] Russia is a model for the type of pure nation that White Christian Nationalists want. (p. 125) The enthusiasm with which the Christian Right came to regard Putin fed into their support for Trump. They wanted an autocratic strongman to restore white Christian America with democracy very much destined for the bin. Viktor Orban […]
[PDF file]: […] between the USA and China is becoming less and less as years go by, with Trump an open admirer of the top-down management skills of Xi and Putin. Which brings us to a discussion of managerialism. Martin Parker, a Reader in Social and Organizational Theory, in his 2002 book, Against Management,14 10 See . […]
