Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] Stepan Bandera until his assassination by the KGB in 1959, which embraced the politics of the Far Right, racism and xenophobia. Anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalists fought with the Nazi Germans on the Russian front in 1941-45 and to this day some continue to profess National Socialist ideas. The pluralist tradition, on the other hand, is […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] CARR) captured my attention because, with more than a passing interest in post-war British fascism (my PhD subject the National Front 1986-90 and I have analysed Neo- Nazi group Combat 18), I was perturbed at the variable quality of his expert academic testimony in the now concluded trials involving both members/alleged members of the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] in Ukraine prior to recent events. Such information is available elsewhere.18 How not to write about the Ukraine is illustrated by F. William Engdahl’s ‘Ukraine: Secretive Neo- Nazi Military Organization Involved in Euromaidan Sniper Shootings’.1 9 Engdahl discusses the snipers who opened fire on the crowd in Independence Square on 22 February, scuppering the […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] the custodian of their officially published history. One segment of that Timewatch had a voice analyst compare the recorded voice of Hess from a speech at a Nazi rally with the recorded voice of ‘Hess’ from the Nuremberg trials. The Timewatch claim was that the two voices matched perfectly because the two voices shared […]

Divining Desire: Focus Groups and the Culture of Consultation by Liz Featherstone

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] rely on subterfuge to be successful. In the same way that spin-doctors don’t wish to become the focus of the news, or, in an earlier age, the Nazi propaganda machine sought to camouflage itself, this form of political messaging seeks to avoid public cynicism about politics by trying to conceal itself as ‘normal chatter’. […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] US constitutional democracy that Trump was carrying out while in office is going to continue regardless. Inevitably comparisons with Weimar Germany come to mind. There are neo- Nazi militias (thankfully few in number at the moment) openly parading in the US; the Republican Party seems wholeheartedly committed to a racist voter suppression campaign across […]

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