The View from the Bridge

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[…] market chickens coming home to roost. The Net was allowed to grow or < https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/ 2017/11/deception-russia-election-meddling-technology-national-security/546644/> 16 See Glen Greenwald on this at or . 17 ‘What Putin really wants’ at . 18 See, for example, . 19 Bill Blum is extremely sceptical about Russiagate in his Anti-Empire Bulletin 153. as are many of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] every minute; and notice how the article uses the weasel words ‘may’ or < https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/ 2017/11/deception-russia-election-meddling-technology-national-security/546644/> 17 See Glen Greenwald on this at or . 18 ‘What Putin really wants’ at . 19 See, for example, . 20 6 inter alia, USAID. And USAID has a long documented role as a cover for the […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] have been enough to tip the scale and swing those states, giving Trump his Electoral College majority despite his losing the popular vote by nearly 3 million. Putin certainly never believed that Trump would actually win but wanted to weaken the US in any way he could. Once Trump was installed he got a […]

The Great Awakening vs The Great Reset, by Alexander Dugin

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[PDF file]: […] exerting undue influence on the course of Russian affairs. But no such Putin-Dugin relationship is known to exist, and whatever other charges can be levelled against him, Putin is no simple-minded bumpkin anyway. It seems likelier, therefore, that the supposed covert One is an interview with Dugin, reprinted from a far-right German magazine, and […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] jails) or London-based. As a result, Lord Bell was able to build on an existing Russian community story and merge it with that of the London-based anti- Putin dissident campaign 3 See Lobster 52, Winter 2006/7, page 33: China’s Harmony PR bankrolled by his client, the late Boris Berezofksy.4 No matter how much Moscow […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] question is: why would they do this? For a possible answer to this, we have to look at events on the other side of the planet. Vladimir Putin – who is not under the same protective veil of respect in the eyes of Western media – has apparently 9 10 A demonstration of this […]

The View from the Bridge (updated 20 Sep 2022)

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] still relevant and valid . . . .19 Mr Laurence and the editorial staff at both Covert Action and Consortium News should read the long speech Mr Putin gave in February 2022 in which he made it quite clear that his aim was to reincorporate Ukraine into what he described as ‘the historical Russia […]

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

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[PDF file]: […] ‘the whole euro-Atlantic space from Vancouver to Vladivostok’, and move on from this to ‘conclude a legally binding European Security Treaty’.4 A similar initiative came from Vladimir Putin in November 2010, again in Berlin; and as late as January 2014, at a Russia-EU summit in Brussels, the Russian President advocated a free trade area […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] ‘the whole euro-Atlantic space from Vancouver to Vladivostok’, and move on from this to ‘conclude a legally binding European Security Treaty’.4 A similar initiative came from Vladimir Putin in November 2010, again in Berlin; and as late as January 2014, at a Russia-EU summit in Brussels, the Russian President advocated a free trade area […]

The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[PDF file]: […] there can be no doubt that by pursuing its own agenda for a new order, and dismissing the diplomatic initiatives launched by Russian leaders from Yeltsin to Putin in an attempt to revive Gorbachev’s wider Europe, the political West passed up a historic opportunity to create lasting peace in Europe. These offers, and their […]

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