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Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.

Israel Grants Oil Rights in Syria to Murdoch and Rothschild

 Israel has granted oil exploration rights inside Syria, in the occupied Golan Heights, to Genie Energy. Major shareholders of Genie Energy – which also has interests in shale gas in…

Shame, Lies and Secrecy on Diego Garcia

Diego Garcia and the Chagos Islands remains a deep shame to the United Kingdom. In the 1960′s we forcibly deported an entire population a thousand miles, very much against their…

“The Project” in Kazakhstan

A week ago Google released the transcript of a meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt, together with a number of other liberal establishment figures from the USA.…

The Official Tsarnaev Story Makes No Sense

There are gaping holes in the official story of the Boston bombings. We are asked to believe that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was identified by the Russian government as an extremist Dagestani…

India and Women

India and Women

Since the horrific bus rape case, the problems of rape in India have been firmly on the western media agenda. Today BBC World is carrying two different and horrific stories…

Margaret Thatcher

By chance I knew Margaret Thatcher rather better than a junior civil servant might have been expected to, not least from giving her some maritime briefings during the First Gulf…

Arrested Development

The great horse-meat scandal appears the result of fraud perpetrated in the European meat processing industry, and it worked because the supermarkets really care very little about food quality: care…

Now is the Winter of our Disinterment

The researchers had a hunch he was there. ATOS pass Richard III’s skeleton as fit to work. Joking aside, the discovery of Richard III’s body is fascinating and wonderful. Aside…

Palestine and the Assange Test

Palestine and the Assange Test

Many congratulations to Palestine on being recognised as a non-member state at the United Nations. There is a distinct irony that, apart from the unreconstructed climate change deniers in the…

Why is Sunny Hundal a Neo-Con Lickspittle?

Why is Sunny Hundal a Neo-Con Lickspittle?

Sunny Hundal is pulling the Nick Cohen trick of claiming that “Lefties” who fail to applaud every action of Bush, Blair, Netanyahu and Obomber are actually supporting Osama Bin Laden’s…

Establishment Darkness

I am a guest speaker on 04/09 at the NUJ Conference in Newcastle, on the subject of blogging. Never one to appease an audience, I shall give them it straight…

A Bunch of Tits

The BBC believes that Kate Middleton’s tits are a more important story than western diplomats in danger of their lives all over the Middle East. Says it all about today’s…

Why I am Convinced that Anna Ardin is a Liar

Why I am Convinced that Anna Ardin is a Liar

There are so many inconsistencies in Anna Ardin’s accusation of sexual assault against Julian Assange. But the key question which leaps out at me – and which strangely I have…

Anna Ardin’s Police Statement

If Assange is ever extradited to Sweden, the danger is that the evidence against him will be held entirely in secret. ALthough published in Sweden, the evidence so far has…

The Assange case

The Assange case

Many thanks indeed to “Me in Us” for this transcript. Thanks, Jon, I really would rather do it here. I am truly low to no tech. Here’s the blob, I…

On Being Angry and Dangerous

I learn the interesting news that David Aaronovitch tweeted to Joan Smith and Jenny Jones that I am: an angry and dangerous man who could as easily be on the…

Rusbridger’s Lies are Sacred and Neo-Con Comment is Free

Rusbridger’s Lies are Sacred and Neo-Con Comment is Free

Monday’s Guardian editorial quotes directly from my speech at the Ecuadorean Embassy, in a sneering way: their remarks concerned western Europe’s “neocon juntas” The Guardian editorial makes the direct claim…

America’s Vassal Acts Decisively and Illegally

America’s Vassal Acts Decisively and Illegally

100,000 HITS IN 100 MINUTES CRASHED THE SITE. WE DON’T KNOW YET IF GENUINE INTEREST OR DENIAL OF SERVICE ATTACK. OUR BRILLIANT WEBHOSTS HAVE QUADRUPLED THE RESOURCE, BUT IF YOU…

Martial Law Britain

Martial Law Britain

Those coming from Central Asia, Bahrain, Qatar or Saudi Arabia to the Olympics, interested to see what life in a democracy feels like, will find it seems exactly like life…

Declining Democracy

Declining Democracy

Total membership of political parties in the UK has declined, very steadily and inexorably, from about 3.3 million in 1968 to about 500,000 in 2010. That is even worse than…

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