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15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Clusters of Hypocrisy · 0 replies · +1 points

http://www.counterpunch.org/
Interesting piece on Libya and much else by Alex Cockburn.
http://www.counterpunch.org/lee04152011.html
And an analysis of the Syrian situation.
http://www.zcommunications.org/stephen-shalom-and...
And a detailed overview. The comments below the article are actually excellent as well and well worth a read.

It's very clear that imperial interests increasingly now dictate the agenda.

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Clusters of Hypocrisy · 0 replies · +5 points

Tony Blair as 'Middle East Peace Envoy' is about as Orwellian a job title as I've ever heard! Blair is himself a human cluster-bomb: wherever he goes, the tools of war will accompany him. With his increasingly skeletal visage, he reminds one of the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.

Hypocrisy is the byword, it seems. I note that Al Jazeera also is foregrounding the cluster bombs story with none of the extremely relevant information which Craig has provided here. As predicted and feared, the Libyan 'campaign' has now explicitly exceeded any mandate originally bestowed. Bad, bad, bad. Nothing new.

It seems that some of the uprisings have been hijacked, instrumentalised, controlled or stymied. And of course, entirely predictably, many of the rulers are incapable of flexibility. Let's see what happens in Syria.

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Without Nepotism, Domi... · 0 replies · +1 points

Craig Murray's 'Kilt' article: superb - informative, engaging, witty yet not condescending... now I know why Craig sports that enigmatic, Mona Lisa smile! I have a couple of tartan ties and now will think of Craig's article every time I wear them!

Dominic Lawson's piece: A reflection of the tiny world in which these cossetted columnists seem to move. Of course, his alleged spook connections/activity makes him more directly malevolent than most of the other the authors of the pampered fluff that poses for 'Comment' in too many of our 'quality' rags today, but the entire phenomenon debases discourse and serves the purposes of the rich and powerful.

Germanicus: Never fear!! There are sets of 'Nigella' dvds around, I'm sure, books galore and you may wish to check out Youtube, the BBC website or similar, for unending doses of Nigella's ample presence. "Let us eat cake!" (as Marie Antoinette might have said, had been a 'talking head' on her own TV show).

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Tragedy in Mazar · 0 replies · +1 points

Ha! Sounds like an interesting book, angrysoba - Nadir Shah, the mid-C18th potentate of Persia, I presume? Yes, Ahmed Shah Durrani (or Abdali) and his men were Afghans in the employ of Nadir Shah. Swashbuckling - and very bloody - history. My family were (are) the Sadozais. Zahir Shah, the ex-king who recently died, was a Mohammedzai, a related, and rival, family within the Durrani 'clan'. He bore a strong resemblance to my grandfather. History sits very close at times...

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Whistleblowers Not Wel... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes, indeed, sir, you're definitely not allowed to 'go native'. Oh no, perish the thought! The New Statesman has a 'house style', you know! Have to keep up appearances, after all - for the good of the natives, you know...

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Whistleblowers Not Wel... · 2 replies · +3 points

I'm sure that if each of the people who regularly or sporadically post here and agree with what you do, Craig, would at every pertinent opportunity allude or give a link to one of your posts in a sort of 'virally' on the web, including on social networking sites, etc., the 'establishment' (and I include such 'platforms' as the one you have described within that somewhat hackneyed yet still useful umbrella term) will not be successful in 'blacklisting' knowledge of your views, experience and activities and most importantly of the issues you raise. But it will require a concerted, sustained and almost obsessional (in the positive sense) effort. Do you have Facebook and Twitter pages - not personal ones, I mean 'political' ones, open to the public?

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Whistleblowers Not Wel... · 0 replies · +2 points

Yeah, that's it, Ruth.

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - For Cengiz Songur · 0 replies · +1 points

http://www.jeremiahhaber.com/2011/04/judge-goldst...

This is interesting. Goldstone has spoken and it seems that what he says does not concur with Netanyahu et al's spin.

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Whistleblowers Not Wel... · 2 replies · +8 points

Oh, it's their little phony in-crowd. Yes, it seems odd to invite someone so wholeheartedly and then to dis-invite them - and you've had identical experiences to this one so often that I cannot believe it is simply coincidence or some kind of misplaced snobbery. I think it's possible that they've been warned off. The intelligence services will not forgive and have memories longer than that of an elephant. They will hold grudges just because they hold grudges; their behaviour often moves an irrational orbits. But of course, it is entirely rational to deny you a public platform. Douglas Murray and Mehdi Hassan - a good 'face' double-act, and that's it. Neither is 'real' in the sense that you are real, Craig. These forums do not want real people, they aim render the illusion of reality. They are worse than straightforward censorship because they systemically disempower. The New Statesman is almost archetypal in this regard.

15 years ago @ Craig Murray - Tragedy in Mazar · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks, technicolour - and welcome back, btw!

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