View from the bridge

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[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.31 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 […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the world as social networks. 15 Photographs have always been one of the easiest ways to judge a nation’s development. For example, those released of Prime Minister Putin are always a ‘look at me’ command, never interactive. He changes his accessories – most recently a lion cub – but the technique has not been […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the very first issue of Lobster. We […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the very first issue of Lobster. We […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster and the subject […]

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Monbiot have a solution? He does. This is his second last paragraph and his answer is the last word in it. ‘One of the answers to Trump, Putin, Orbán, Erdogan, Salvini, Duterte, Le Pen, Farage and the politics they represent is to rescue democracy from transnational corporations. It is to defend the crucial political […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘beholden to Russia’. Frum describes Trump’s election as ‘the most successful foreign espionage attempt against the United States in the nation’s history’ (p. 134). His ‘deference to Putin reverberated through the western alliance’ (p. 155) and more generally, he has ‘empowered dictators worldwide’ (p. 154). The damage has so far been mitigated, in his […]

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