Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[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 […]