Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] . . . independent of the limitations and bureaucratic failures of the present-day government’. 5 Many recognize the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence. A few, including Vladimir Putin, consider it may have advantages. In 2017 he said: 6 ‘Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] attack on Russia. Nonetheless the German mass media has been entirely on the side of NATO, condemning everyone who dissents as a ‘ PutinVersteher’ (someone who ‘understands’ Putin). After some ten years of virtually silent deployment of German armed forces in Afghanistan to provide support to the CIA’s war there, it now appears as […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[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 […]