[PDF file]: […] the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Christian Right legal operation which has offices in many cities, including London. And then there is the Christian Right’s admiration for Vladimir Putin. Franklin Graham (see below) actually had a 45 minute meeting with the man who had bought Russia back to Christianity in December 2015; while during the […]
[PDF file]: […] big investigations by Reuters into aspects of Russia’s economy4 7 and the second is a long review of a new 46 47 book on the rise of Putin and his associates.4 8 The two articles are complimentary in many ways. Both show, for example, that the current Russian kleptocracy has been created with and […]
[PDF file]: […] and comrade Trumpski So here’s one side. This is David Corn, a left-leaning writer, in the left-leaning Mother Jones: ‘Here are the indisputable basics. Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered a covert assault, employing information warfare, on the 2016 US election. A 2017 report of the intelligence community, the 2019 report of Special Counsel Robert […]
[…] and comrade Trumpski So here’s one side. This is David Corn, a left-leaning writer, in the left-leaning Mother Jones: ‘Here are the indisputable basics. Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered a covert assault, employing information warfare, on the 2016 US election. A 77 ‘The rise of the “intelligence agency for the people”’ The Times, 6 […]
[PDF file]: […] be riddled with errors.’ 25 Kyle Cunliffe, ‘Donald Trump spying allegations: more likely useful idiot than Putin’s agent’ at or . 21 House of Trump, House of Putin (New York: Dutton, 2018) and American Kompromat (New York: Dutton, 2021) 22 23 See . 24 London: Simon & Schuster, 1994 See or . 25 7 […]
[PDF file]: […] the world as social networks. 15 Photographs have always been one of the easiest ways to judge a nation’s development. For example, those released of Prime Minister Putin are always a ‘look at me’ command, never interactive. He changes his accessories – most recently a lion cub – but the technique has not been […]
[PDF file]: […] they arrived. This saved Rusal a significant amount of time and money. Among those who invested in Rusal was Leonid Blavatnik, a multibillionaire with close ties to Putin. Since 2015, Blavatnik has donated $7 million to ‘campaign funds controlled by Mitch McConnell’. (pp. 152-155). Blavatnik, one of the richest men in the world, has […]
[PDF file]: […] all the redactions to properly fact check this information? There is then some truly odd obfuscation at Paragraph 57, which says that ‘a number of critics of Putin and the Russian government have sought sanctuary in the UK, fearing politically motivated criminal charges and harassment’ and the ensuing footnote says ‘These include such high-profile […]
[PDF file]: […] ‘beholden to Russia’. Frum describes Trump’s election as ‘the most successful foreign espionage attempt against the United States in the nation’s history’ (p. 134). His ‘deference to Putin reverberated through the western alliance’ (p. 155) and more generally, he has ‘empowered dictators worldwide’ (p. 154). The damage has so far been mitigated, in his […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
