[…] 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 […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] 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 […]
[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]: […] 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]: […] as long as people adhere to these false notions the ideological conflict continues. The Cold War has not yet come to a final conclusion. It will finally end only when we all learn the lesson of linkage that Andrei Sakharov taught. (pp. 185/6 and 197) I don’t think Mr Putin is listening, do you? 3
