Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[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 […]

The Trump threat or the rule of the Don

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[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 […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: ‘Crazytown’ John Newsinger Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 The Shadow President: The Truth about Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] season Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972) Chapter 7. 28 Efforts by Vladimir Putin to play on Trump’s weakness for glamorous women were somewhat more subtle. In her book (see note 22), Ms Grisham says that a female translator at […]

lob86South of the Border

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[…] season Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972) Chapter 7. 28 Efforts by Vladimir Putin to play on Trump’s weakness for glamorous women were somewhat more subtle. In her book (see note 22), Ms Grisham says that a female translator at […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’ Dr. T. P. Wilkinson A century ago, a Southern academic and racist emerged in Europe and the United States as a crusader to ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before Europe’s […]

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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 […]

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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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