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Survival of the Richest: escape fantasies of the tech billionaires, by Douglas Rushkoff

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

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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 […]

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[…] the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Ukraine Reading Craig Murray’s blog post ‘Rethinking Ukraine: Putin and the Mystery of National Identity’,1 I noticed this: It is not that any of the arguments are new. It is simply that before I did […]

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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[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 […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: A BALLAD OF DRUGS AND 9/11 The truth shall make you free — CIA Slogan At the First Emperor’s Tomb the Chinese People’s Republic shows you a preliminary movie in which this monument of empire is seen through the eyes of peasants who rose up in revolt and smashed the terra cotta statues we have […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

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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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

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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 […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

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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 […]