View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Ivan Katchanovski’s ‘The far Right in Ukraine During the Euromaidan and then war in Donbas’.7 This essay shows that it was members of far right and neo- Nazi Ukrainian groups which did the Maidan massacre, leading to the resignation of the then pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which kick the present crisis into gear. (Conventional accounts […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 58 59 See or . 60 Discussed below under subhead ‘Integrity, the City and “leave”’. 61 Simkin closes his essay with a quote from Hannah Arendt about Nazi Germany which is chillingly apt for today’s world in which shysters like Trump and Johnson have ascended the greasy pole. ‘In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the […]

Climate hysterics: useful idiots or just idiots

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to accelerate the rebuilding of the West with surplus resources from the undamaged USA to demonstrate that the Soviet Union could not deliver (after having single-handedly defeated Nazi Germany) the quality of life that the US would offer.13 The Marshall Plan was also economic promotion for US capital which made money, selling to Western […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: Garrick Alder His name is Olaf Neitsch, and he was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] . or 58 59 See or . 60 into the mainstream media until Hammond’s striking intervention.61 Simkin closes his essay with a quote from Hannah Arendt about Nazi Germany which is chillingly apt for today’s world in which shysters like Trump and Johnson have ascended the greasy pole. ‘In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the […]

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