Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] they arrived. This saved Rusal a significant amount of time and money. Among those who invested in Rusal was Leonid Blavatnik, a multibillionaire with close ties to Putin. Since 2015, Blavatnik has donated $7 million to ‘campaign funds controlled by Mitch McConnell’. (pp. 152-155). Blavatnik, one of the richest men in the world, has […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] all the redactions to properly fact check this information? There is then some truly odd obfuscation at Paragraph 57, which says that ‘a number of critics of Putin and the Russian government have sought sanctuary in the UK, fearing politically motivated criminal charges and harassment’ and the ensuing footnote says ‘These include such high-profile […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] going to start focussing on making pro-Ukrainian videos in the new year of 2024. I will probably lose some followers but I don’t care. I am against Putin and I’m Facts Hunter published 21 videos between March and December 2023, and 20 of them were about Lira. The sole exception was on 6 June, […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* All our yesterdays At the root of all the government’s financial problems, Iain Martin reminded us recently, is the 2008 financial crisis.1 A complete melt-down was averted by the government buying the […]

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[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.63 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to […]

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[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.63 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to […]

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[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.63 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster. We continued to […]

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