The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]
[PDF file]: […] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]
[PDF file]: […] an early book – Shadow Warfare – wondering if something so obvious and so ‘retro’ could possibly work. As it turns out the answer is ‘yes’ and Putin is playing that track far better than the U.S. did when it drove the Soviet Union bankrupt. Basically the strategy is to spend so much on […]
[…] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]
[PDF file]: […] I was reading a recent piece on Consortiumnews by Patrick Lawrence, ‘Russia’s Turn From the West’, in which he discusses the growing Russia-China Axis.16 The 5,000–word charter Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping made public two years ago next month, the ‘Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on […]
[…] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: Floating around The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange Nick Must At one of the recent hearings related to Julian Assange’s possible extradition to the U.S., the lead barrister for the defence made the ‘extraordinary claim’ that, in August of 2017, President Donald Trump had offered an amnesty to the Wikileaks founder.1 This offer […]
[PDF file]: […] provoke opposition on the streets that will also provide a justification for suspending elections if necessary. Trump wants to rule the USA in the same way that Putin rules Russia. He is openly envious of Putin who has the Russian media completely under his control, singing his praises; has a largely cowed and intimidated […]
[PDF file]: […] also involved in trying to secure alternative funding for Marine Le Pen’s Front National. He proposed they replace their Russian backers – ‘Russian gangsters likely fronting for Putin’, who had loaned the party $13 million – with ‘right-wing Jews and supporters of Israel’. (pp. 162-163) The Russian involvement with the European Far Right is […]
