The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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 […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[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

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

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