[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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
[…] 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]: […] has even been accused of being ‘an undercover espionage agent with partner, Beyonce Knowles’, protecting the real Tupac Shakur, who is not dead but working for Vladimir Putin. Most hilariously, she has been accused of being the leader of various cults – including the Blue Oyster Cult, actually an 80s rock band – which […]
[…] are weighing the possibility that the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a botched attempt by extremists in the Ukrainian government to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin whose aircraft was returning from South America the same day, according to a source briefed on the U.S. investigation.’ 26 We shall see; but, given his […]
[PDF file]: […] are weighing the possibility that the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was a botched attempt by extremists in the Ukrainian government to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin whose aircraft was returning from South America the same day, according to a source briefed on the U.S. investigation.’ 27 We shall see; but, given his […]
[…] 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]: […] Projects at the Finance Committee of the City of St Petersburg – in which role it seems reasonable to assume she would have known and met Vladimir Putin, then beginning his rise to global significance in that city. Calvert 22 is sponsored (the exact wording used is ‘strategic partner’) by VTB Capital, an investment […]
