Tony Blair names Henry Kissinger as his role model. Honestly, not kidding. It is of course literally true, as they were both responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands through neo-colonial war. What a pity he forgot to mention it when he stood for leadership of the Labour Party. On the other hand, it is the sort of thing Jim Murphy of the Henry Jackson Society is quite open about, and it doesn’t seem to hurt his career prospects either.
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“In the 18th century, Edmund Burke described the role of the press as a Fourth Estate checking the powerful. Was that ever true? It certainly doesn’t wash any more. What we need is a Fifth Estate: a journalism that monitors, deconstructs and counters propaganda and teaches the young to be agents of people, not power. We need what the Russians called perestroika – an insurrection of subjugated knowledge. I would call it real journalism.”
We need real journos and real elected representatives, Phil
Need in one hand and shit in the other. See which fills first.
Here’s an article, worth discussing here:
A short history of British torture.
RepublicofScotland
I have been involved with the Dundee March from the early planning. Annoyingly I will not now be speaking there because just this afternoon I was called to the SNP candidate assessment panel tomorrow in Stirling.
Craig; Symbolic…
The Battle of Stirling Bridge was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew de Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth.
It’s taken some time for sure.
Ben The Inquisitor
“That’s your take? Agreeing with a poster who admits he doesn’t read anything? I salute your tumescence.”
Trying to put your words into my mouth? I am not surprised. Not at all. If by anything you mean RT and other Vlad Kremlingod’s crap then yes, I would rather be ignorant.
@Ben: we can never have a free press again whilst the security services can tap with impunity into their every digitised word. Apparently a judge has now declared that such Stasi 2.0 behaviour is not a contravention of the Convention on Human Rights. Almost a bad a judgement as the one across the ocean regarding #Icantbreathe. Citizens of the US are at least still outraged at “political” judgements… in the UK we all became supine back in 2004 after Lord Hutton produced his summing up, and the best we can muster is a Dance in the Streets after the death of the Queen of Corporatism.
Ah, the ‘repeats’ shift has arrived for the night.
Should have got a job with the beeb, they love repeats, its such good money earner for them, license fees go up, and so are the repeats, bless.
lets hear that guilt thing again, it was so, yawn, interesting first, second and third time round, like a favourite joke.
slightly changed to make sense
‘Funny enough Pilger has published a piece today which mentions the sanctions on Iraq’:…..?
There’s nothing funny about Pilger’s writing at all, he does not do repeats, its only you who think its funny enough.
now you just keep on keeping on, uncle Sam’s actions will soon fry all our arses.
Time to share that pillow.
Nevermind
At the same time old Henry has largely ignored soviet anti-Semitism for the sake of his grand strategy. Funny you said it because well known Zionists called him the greatest traitor.
Peacewisher
Free media is only one that is in Russia. Live long RT.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2014/12/you-couldnt-make-it-up/
Uzbek; Did I insert words that weren’t available? Please clarify your apparent deliberate ignorance.
Republicofscotland
“Leningrad, Stalingrad, the mass bombing of Dresden, all unfortunate all a product of war.”
This could be said virtually about every mass killings that have occurred since humans were smart enough to kill each others. I “salute” your thinking. One of chilling indifference.
Republicofscotland
“Uncle Joe is back on the agenda because the west, ie USA NATO EU UN want to enforce their will on Russia, I’m not saying Putin is an angel he’s not, but the west in my opinion are trying to impose “World Order”
What a hell. I have heard it somewhere already. He (Vlad the Kremlingiza) is son of the bitch but he is our son of the bitch. Chilling indifference indeed.
@Uzbek: Without RT, we’d really be in the dark!
Republicofscotland
“Yes we know all this, and he also installed his brother as king of Spain, but whats your point? is there one?”
It was just s response to your earlier statement (below) about World Order which did not exist back than (before old Henry came out of his mothers womb). And if you are smart enough you will get what I said by bringing Napoleon onto this discussion.
“You contradict your own statement, why? well, wars happen when World Order, no longer suits the peoples opinion, the more you impose “Order” the more likely you are to have conflict.
Some organisations have become to big the UN NATO EU,with their combined,influence on “World Order” even now threatens to overwhelm its citizens with its laws and wars it justifies, to itself.
As for doing a little reading, on history, their was no “World Order” in days of old, only empires, who ruled the known world.”
Peacewisher
“Without RT, we’d really be in the dark!”
Yes, just like poor uneducated peasants in medieval europe before Bible came out and taught them wisdom of Lord.
@Uzbek: If you wish to use that analogy, I’d say the current spoutings of our mainstream media are much closer to the preachings of the medieval church i.e. an authoritarian view of the universe. Why do you think all those distinguished US journalists from previous more enlightened eras are queuing up to appear on RT?
Peacewisher
Well, see it as you want to. Your business or your problem. One thing to add.
Vlad the Kremlinman’s Chechen henchmen well known gangmaster Ramzan Kadirov vowed to kick out families of 11 so called terrorists that have been killed in Grozniy yesterday. He also promised to destroy their houses. Now even bloody Uncle Joe once said that son is not paying for his father’s sins but it seems Vlad the Almighty and his henchmen are prepared to go much further on this matter.
I bid you have not and will never hear this on RT? Will you?
OK, Uzbek. Let’s go to what you might consider to be a more independent source, Wikipedia. Take a look at the first two figures, and then tell me our mainstream media represent them faithfully:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt
I think that was reported on RT…
OK, Uzbek. Let’s take what you’d regard as a more independent source, Wikipedia. Look at the figures at the top of this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt
and then tell me our mainstream media report them faithfully.
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I think that was reported on RT, Uzbek…
OK. Let’s take what you’d regard as a more independent source, Wikipedia. Look at the figures at the top of this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt
and then tell me our mainstream media report them faithfully.
I think that was reported on RT…
OK, Uzbek. Let’s take what you’d regard as a more independent source, Wikipedia. Look at the figures at the top of the Wikipedia list of “countries by external debt” (providing exact URL seems to filter out my message)
and then tell me our mainstream media report them faithfully.
Craig: I see you’ve changed your host to “in the cloud”. Slightly perturbing, if this is the cause of filtering out of messages with references to Wikipedia pages…
Aside from the absurdity of Blair, a pea-brained word spinner and PR consultant, aspiring to emulate Kissinger a man who, however great his faults, is possessed of a remarkable intellect and literary talent, is the fact that Blair is in total disagreement with Kissinger on the means of attaining a relatively peaceful world order.
Kissinger believes that history has not ended and that the best hope for mankind is the acceptance of civilizational differences and the willingness of nations to live with one another’s differences, i.e., the Westphalian model of World order (H. Kissinger, World Order, 2014).
Blair in total opposition to this view is a globalist shill who believes in the destruction of the nation state, the mongrelization of humanity and the universal acceptance/imposition of Western values. On the approach to world order, I take it from his enthusiasm for mass migration and multi-culturalism, that Craig Murray is a Blairite, entirely opposed to Kissinger’s thesis.
@KOWN: “To be fair to Tony Blair–and I realise that’s a revolutionary statement round here–but if you read the quote in context it’s clear he was admiring Kissinger, not for the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, but for the fact that he still plays golf at 91. Not quite the same.”
Is one likely, when reaching for an example – say – of how to wear a nice, straight tie, to think immediately of Robert Mugabe? Or for a General Practitioner, Harold Shipman springs to mind? Let’s not get started about making trains run on time.
Let’s face it – we don’t like any traits in people we rightly despise. Blair voiced his admiration for some particular aspect of that filthy old war criminal, with the blood of millions on his hands, because Blair admires the man.
Another YCNMIU
The UK is setting up a permanent base in Bahrain, home to despots.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30355953
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The other day a Bahraini woman was jailed for three years for tearing up a photo of the ‘king’.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-30338226
Putin Gobsmacks Obama and Euro-Leaders with Surprise Gas Deal
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40391.htm
By Mike Whitney
December 05, 2014 “ICH” – “Counterpunch” – On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin clinched a groundbreaking deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that will strengthen economic ties between the two nations and make Turkey the major hub for Russian gas in the region. Under the terms of the agreement, Russia will pump additional natural gas to locations in central Turkey and to a “hub at the Turkish-Greek border” which will eventually provide Putin with backdoor access to the lucrative EU market, although Turkey will serve as the critical intermediary. The move creates a de facto Russo-Turkey alliance that could shift the regional balance of power decisively in Moscow’s favor, thus creating another formidable hurtle for Washington’s “pivot to Asia” strategy. While the media is characterizing the change in plans (Putin has abandoned the South Stream pipeline project that would have transported gas to southern Europe) as a “diplomatic defeat” for Russia, the opposite appears to be the case. Putin has once again outmaneuvered the US on both the energy and geopolitical fronts adding to his long list of policy triumphs.
He could have chosen Jimmy Carter as an example of continued activism. To choose Kissinger for admiration for anything shows a very worrying mindset.
But he is a good example of a well integrated immigrant…
As you haven’t responded, Craig, I can confirm that you are no longer hosted in the Netherlands, but in the US. The hostname is Websitewelcome.com and the location is Houston, Texas. Why not get it hosted in Scotland?