[…] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] I was reading a recent piece on Consortiumnews by Patrick Lawrence, ‘Russia’s Turn From the West’, in which he discusses the growing Russia-China Axis.4 The 5,000–word charter Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping made public two years ago next month, the ‘Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on […]
[…] I was reading a recent piece on Consortiumnews by Patrick Lawrence, ‘Russia’s Turn From the West’, in which he discusses the growing Russia-China Axis.4 The 5,000–word charter Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping made public two years ago next month, the ‘Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on […]
[…] ties with publisher amid Russian spying allegations’ at . 21 Formal response from Andrew at . oligarch; and as is well known, they are all agents of Putin, right? Another beautiful game I’m not a fan of the novel as roman à clef. Unless you already know the material which is being used, or […]
[PDF file]: […] Off-guardian.org, the site which monitors the Guardian, has a splendid piece on the Guardian’s initial handling of the Panama offshore accounts story, pointing out its absurd anti- Putin bias.12 I’ve said before in these columns and it is worth restating: given what we know of the way the American state 8 9 Goddard inquiry […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
