[…] 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 […]
[…] My offering in that category is a piece in the New Statesman, an interview with Sergey Karaganov, who is a member of the top echelon of the Putin regime. Karaganov said: ‘Russia cannot afford to lose, so we need a kind of a victory’.51 Ukraine disinfo Near the beginning of the previous issue’s View […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] an early book – Shadow Warfare – wondering if something so obvious and so ‘retro’ could possibly work. As it turns out the answer is ‘yes’ and Putin is playing that track far better than the U.S. did when it drove the Soviet Union bankrupt. Basically the strategy is to spend so much on […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]
[…] an early book – Shadow Warfare – wondering if something so obvious and so ‘retro’ could possibly work. As it turns out the answer is ‘yes’ and Putin is playing that track far better than the U.S. did when it drove the Soviet Union bankrupt. Basically the strategy is to spend so much on […]
[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the origins […]
[PDF file]: […] original Cold War – and any number of James Bond movies – this version has multiple villains each with their own destructive agendas. From the possibly psychotic Putin to the deep mind of Xi Jin Ping, to Kim Jong Un and now maybe even the genocidally– minded Netanyahu, this cold war has potential nuclear […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Russiagate (again) John Durham, assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut, was appointed by U.S. Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the […]
