Craig Murray

CIA Attacked French Civilians with LSD

Fri, 12/03/2010 - 10:56am

For all those nutters who cry "Conspiracy theory" whenever it is stated that the CIA have ever done anything wrong, here is a story from that impeccably conservative source, the Daily ...

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Camberley Mosque

Thu, 11/03/2010 - 9:38am

As someone who devotes much energy to battling Islamophobia, it is important equally to oppose false cries of Islamophobia whenever any Muslim group is thwarted. Otherwise "Islamophobic" will ...

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Guardian on Manningham Buller

Wed, 10/03/2010 - 6:46pm

There is a good article in the Guardian by Vikram Dodd on Eliza Manningham Buller's professed ignorance. Some kind people in the comments thread have pointed out that my testimony and documentary ...

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E-liar Manningham Buller

Wed, 10/03/2010 - 8:39am

Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5, is engaged in an outrageous attempt to rewrite history, by claiming we were unaware that the CIA was getting intelligence from torture. ...

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The Election - What's The Point?

Mon, 08/03/2010 - 10:42am

Now that politics have focused down on the election, I find myself thoroughly demotivated. There is a substantial percentage of the population who wish to see a very early withdrawal from the ...

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Brown at Chilcot

Fri, 05/03/2010 - 10:46am

I can't be bothered watching Brown at Chilcot any more. Mildly interesting but unsurprising that Blair kept him out of the loop on dealings with Bush, Brown's primary concern is to deny that ...

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African Corruption: Tony Baldry MP Unleashes the Libel Lawyers

Thu, 04/03/2010 - 10:12am

Tony Baldry MP has set libel lawyers Olswang on British bloggers who have had the temerity to refer to this extremely interesting article from Sahara ...

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Michael Foot - An Appreciation

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 1:25pm

I wrote this appreciation of Michael Foot last year. The media ridicule of this good man was a key waymark in this nation's journey to despising integrity and honesty in politicians, and instead ...

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Rare TV Appearance

Wed, 03/03/2010 - 11:11am

Even the coincidence of the broadcast of Murder in Samarkand with renewed national debate on our collusion with torture, did not break through the UK media's blacklisting of me and my eye witness ...

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Fast Tracked To Death?

Tue, 02/03/2010 - 11:25am

At 2pm today Alisher Khakimjanov faces a fast track asylum hearing and possible immediate deportation to Uzbekistan. Alisher's father was arrested by police following the Andijan massacre by ...

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Billions of Dollars in Cash Leave Afghanistan

Tue, 02/03/2010 - 9:05am

Plainly our occupation of Afghanistan is so succesful in promoting the country's economy that there is too much money around. As the Washington Post reports, in a two month period 180 million ...

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Muslims Found In Mosque Shock

Mon, 01/03/2010 - 10:33pm

Channel 4 Dispatches used to be a haven of serious documentary, but has degenerated into a stream of Islamophobia. It touched rock bottom today with a truly pathetic effort by Andrew Gilligan ...

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Or I Might Have a Huge Penis, Persephone

Mon, 01/03/2010 - 5:19pm

Or be a hypnotist. Or be able to "talk away my face" like the great John Wilkes. I was much amused by the comments on this entry in the always interesting einekleinenachtmusik blog. ...

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The Cancer of Corruption: What $150million Gets You In Ghana.

Mon, 01/03/2010 - 2:37pm

This is the Zakhem power station site at Kpone. The particularly distincitive feature is the lack of any power station. I am grateful to CitiFM in Accra. Having been misled into publishing ...

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Control Orders

Mon, 01/03/2010 - 9:58am

Control Orders remain a cruel act of degradation of people who have never been convicted of anything, utterly incompatible with human rights. Parliament will today vote to renew them again - ...

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Child Slavery In Uzbekistan

Fri, 26/02/2010 - 4:20pm

More invaluable work from the Environmental Justice Foundation, in collaboration with Anti-Slavery International. Their latest thoroughly researched report estimates that one million children ...

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Refreshed

Wed, 24/02/2010 - 11:42am

Sorry didn't blog yeaterday as you'll understand it had been a particularly exhausting time, I haven't referenced this brilliant review in the Guardian: But in Hare's taut lines, and especially ...

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Disappearing Murder

Mon, 22/02/2010 - 2:04pm

I sometimes have to seriously query the competence of my publisher. They had a couple of months notice of the radio play of Murder in Samarkand, but Amazon were out of stock before the broadcast ...

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Gladstone Was Right

Mon, 22/02/2010 - 9:39am

My MA thesis was entitled "Midlothian and Gladstone". Here is an extract from one of Gladstone's Midlothian campaign speeches, in Dalkeith, while the Second Afghan War was raging. Those hill ...

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NATO Bomb Kills 21 Civilians In Afghanistan

Mon, 22/02/2010 - 9:16am

Afghan civilians are being killed all the time by Nato; it only gets reported when they kill a lot at once, and even then it doesn't exactly hit the front pages. In the latest incident 21 people ...

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