[…] I was reading a recent piece on Consortiumnews by Patrick Lawrence, ‘Russia’s Turn From the West’, in which he discusses the growing Russia-China Axis.4 The 5,000–word charter Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping made public two years ago next month, the ‘Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on […]
[…] ties with publisher amid Russian spying allegations’ at . 21 Formal response from Andrew at . oligarch; and as is well known, they are all agents of Putin, right? Another beautiful game I’m not a fan of the novel as roman à clef. Unless you already know the material which is being used, or […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: ‘Crazytown’ John Newsinger Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House Omarosa Manigault Newman New York: Simon and Schuster, 2018 The Shadow President: The Truth about Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob […]
[PDF file]: […] season Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972) Chapter 7. 28 Efforts by Vladimir Putin to play on Trump’s weakness for glamorous women were somewhat more subtle. In her book (see note 22), Ms Grisham says that a female translator at […]
[…] season Richard Harris Smith, OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972) Chapter 7. 28 Efforts by Vladimir Putin to play on Trump’s weakness for glamorous women were somewhat more subtle. In her book (see note 22), Ms Grisham says that a female translator at […]
[PDF file]: To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’ Dr. T. P. Wilkinson A century ago, a Southern academic and racist emerged in Europe and the United States as a crusader to ‘make the world safe for democracy’.1 Woodrow Wilson had been elected president in 1913, a year before Europe’s […]
