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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 […]

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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[…] 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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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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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

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[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 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

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