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[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the very first issue of Lobster. We […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the very first issue of Lobster. We […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian president ordered hit on Sergei Skripal ‘because he feared he would expose how he stole his vast fortune’.6 The opening sentence of the text begins: Vladimir Putin may have ordered the bungled . . . (Emphasis added.) *new* Kincora Steve Dorril wrote about Kincora in the first issue of Lobster and the subject […]

Everybody Knows: Corruption in America by Sarah Chayes

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

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[…] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]

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[…] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]

Garrick part one trial

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[…] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]

GArrick part one trial

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[…] that when you support Zelensky, you are supporting actual neo-Nazis. Actual fascists. Actual torturers. Murderers. Thieves. Thugs. And don’t give me this stuff, that ‘Oh, you’re a Putin apologist, then!’ – ‘Oh, you’re against Zelensky so you must be a Putin apologist!’– Fuck you.69 Some western observers have used Right Sector’s meagre parliamentary showing […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE
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[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 […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 […]

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