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 […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
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 […]
