Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] every minute; and notice how the article uses the weasel words ‘may’ or < https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/ 2017/11/deception-russia-election-meddling-technology-national-security/546644/> 17 See Glen Greenwald on this at or . 18 ‘What Putin really wants’ at . 19 See, for example, . 20 6 inter alia, USAID. And USAID has a long documented role as a cover for the […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] have been enough to tip the scale and swing those states, giving Trump his Electoral College majority despite his losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million. Putin certainly never believed that Trump would actually win but wanted to weaken the US in any way he could. Once Trump was installed he got a […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] exerting undue influence on the course of Russian affairs. But no such Putin-Dugin relationship is known to exist, and whatever other charges can be levelled against him, Putin is no simple-minded bumpkin anyway. It seems likelier, therefore, that the supposed covert One is an interview with Dugin, reprinted from a far-right German magazine, and […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] jails) or London-based. As a result, Lord Bell was able to build on an existing Russian community story and merge it with that of the London-based anti- Putin dissident campaign 3 See Lobster 52, Winter 2006/7, page 33: China’s Harmony PR bankrolled by his client, the late Boris Berezofksy.4 No matter how much Moscow […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] question is: why would they do this? For a possible answer to this, we have to look at events on the other side of the planet. Vladimir Putin – who is not under the same protective veil of respect in the eyes of Western media – has apparently 9 10 A demonstration of this […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] ‘the whole euro-Atlantic space from Vancouver to Vladivostok’, and move on from this to ‘conclude a legally binding European Security Treaty’.4 A similar initiative came from Vladimir Putin in November 2010, again in Berlin; and as late as January 2014, at a Russia-EU summit in Brussels, the Russian President advocated a free trade area […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] United States. He has also condemned Putin’s Russia for supporting and encouraging this jihad. On the other hand, Trump himself has repeatedly made clear his admiration for Putin and expressed his willingness to accommodate Russian ambitions in the Middle East, the Ukraine and elsewhere; indeed, to such an extent that he has been described […]