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Netanyahu Plays Chicken

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/netanyahu-plays-chicken/

Published: September 21, 2024 07:07

Netanyahu is desperate to keep war simmering along and to draw the USA closer and closer to him. At the same time he cannot send ground forces into South Lebanon where they will take massive casualties. Israel can assassinate, it can employ indiscriminate…

A New Left Wing Party in the UK?

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/a-new-left-wing-party-in-the-uk/

Published: September 18, 2024 20:24

Keir Starmer has left about 70% of the landscape of historic western political and economic thought vacant to his left. It is unsurprising that a new party will arrive to claim the unoccupied ground. A meeting at the weekend discussed a new party…

Some Truth Bombs At the UN

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/some-truth-bombs-at-the-un/

Published: September 16, 2024 18:08

Alongside Richard Medhurst I had the chance to state rather more truth than is generally heard inside the United Nations in Geneva: “Not only is the West complicit in the Genocide in Palestine, the ruling class of the West is so scared of its own citizens…

That Harris/Trump Debate

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/that-harris-trump-debate/

Published: September 11, 2024 10:16

I just sat through a recording of the Trump/Harris debate. Ignoring the merits of their political stances, I agree with the general consensus that Kamala Harris “won” in performance terms, but only because Trump was awful. Both were of course terrible on…

Scotland and The Devolution Trap

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/scotland-and-the-devolution-trap/

Published: September 9, 2024 15:06

As Starmer and Reeves subject the UK economy to yet more austerity and deregulation, the Scottish Government takes the blame for cutbacks caused by an economic policy in which they have zero say. That has always been the problem with devolution: it is…

The End of Western Pluralist Democracy

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/09/the-end-of-western-pluralist-democracy/

Published: September 1, 2024 13:23

No major western leader is ever again going to be able to speak about human rights or ethical values, without attracting howls of derision. They are turning on their own people in order to prevent protest at a genocide they actively support. It is hard to…

Pavel Durov and the Abuse of Law

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/08/pavel-durov-and-the-abuse-of-law/

Published: August 27, 2024 16:43

The detention of Pavel Durov is being portrayed as a result of the EU Digital Services Act. But having spent my day reading the EU Services Act (a task I would not wish upon my worst enemy), it does not appear to me to say what it is being portrayed as…

The Attack on Truth: Julian Assange and Richard Medhurst

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/08/the-attack-on-truth-julian-assange-and-richard-medhurst/

Published: August 22, 2024 14:25

Julian Assange was released in the midst of the election campaign and the event was not really given the attention it deserves. Alex Salmond invited me to take a look back with him on what this persecution means and where we are now. I do recommend that…

Richard Medhurst and the Right to Armed Resistance

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/08/richard-medhurst-and-the-right-to-armed-resistance/

Published: August 20, 2024 19:03

We were waiting for Richard Medhurst to arrive and join our panel at the Beautiful Days festival, when he was arrested and imprisoned for 23.5 hours. Obviously we were all worried sick about him. I was arrested at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act,…

The Purpose of Scottish Independence

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/08/the-purpose-of-scottish-independence/

Published: August 18, 2024 08:13

The purpose of Scottish Independence is not to replicate the UK state on a smaller scale with a prettier flag. The purpose is to eschew the imperialist past, stop invading other countries, and build a fairer and more equal society both domestically and…