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About Craig Murray

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.
  • Craig Murray in rubble in Baalbek, Lebanon, Nov. 22, 2024. (Niels Ladefoged via craigmurray.org.uk)

    Twisting the terrorism narrative

    Originally published: Consortium News on January 8, 2025 (more by Consortium News)  |

    Just as soon as Western powers installed terrorists to power in Damascus, examples of terrorist blowback immediately followed in the U.S., with some very strange details.

  • Evil

    The presence of evil

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on July 25, 2024 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    I have frequently explained that when I sat in the International Court of Justice and heard Israel’s lawyers tell lie after lie to justify or excuse the Gaza genocide, I could feel I was palpably in the presence of evil.

  • Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta

    Shameless

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on May 13, 2024 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    Incredibly the Israeli genocide in Gaza is now reaching new heights of violence.

  • UK-wide political parties

    The panic of the ruling class

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on March 12, 2024 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    Briefly, the chance of the kind of democratic triumph of the working people of which George Galloway dreams, became real with the popular uprising that led to Jeremy Corbyn being placed as Labour leader.

  • President Herzog / Ursula von der Leyen / Roberta Metsola

    Has International Law survived, or has the Western political class killed it?

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on January 28., 2024 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    In finding there is a plausible case against Israel, the International Court of Justice treated with contempt the argument from Israel that the case should be dismissed as it is exercising its right of self-defence.

  • Cold Blooded Killers and their Cheerleaders

    Cold blooded killers and their cheerleaders

    Originally published: Craig Murray's Blog on October 28, 2023 (more by Craig Murray's Blog)

    The Guardian’s main headline today is the Israeli propaganda framing of last night’s huge massacre.

  • Julian Assange: Press Shows Little Interest in Media ‘Trial of Century’

    Assange: An unholy masquerade of tyranny disguised as justice

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on June 15, 2023 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    Julian’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.

  • The British government on Friday, June 17, 2022 ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges.

    The twilight of freedom

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on May 31, 2023 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    Craig Murray: “Three British journalists I know personally–Johanna Ross, Vanessa Beeley and Kit Klarenberg–have each in the last two years been detained at immigration for hours on re-entering their own country, and questioned by police under anti-terrorist legislation.”

  • Snowden and Texeira

    Snowden and Texeira: Ten years of disaster

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on April 16, 2023 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    Jack Texeira is at the centre of this puzzle but remains the missing piece. We have heard nothing from him. A rather unconvincing interview with a suspiciously fluent, pixeled out acquaintance grassing him up to the Washington Post stated that he was a right wing patriot.

  • Crude contaminates the Aguarico 4 oil pit, an open pool abandoned by Texaco after 6 years of production and never remediated.

    Donziger: A tale for our times

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on April 28, 2022 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    Texaco operations in Ecuador from 1962 to 1994 dumped 70 billion litres of “wastewater”, heavily contaminated with oil and other chemicals, into the Amazon rainforest, plus over 650,000 barrels of crude oil. They polluted over 800,000 hectares.

  • Julian Assange Reaches End Of Prison Sentence, Judge Refuses To Release Him - Truth Revolution

    Assange Extradition: On to the next hurdle

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on https://www.craigmurray.org.uk by March 15, 2022 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    With Julian still, for no rational reason, held in maximum security, the legal process around his extradition continues to meander its way through the overgrown bridlepaths of the UK’s legal system.

  • Julian Assange Reaches End Of Prison Sentence, Judge Refuses To Release Him - Truth Revolution

    How the Establishment functions

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on February 3, 2022 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    The functioning of the Establishment, the way it forms a collective view and how that view is transmitted, is a mystery to many.

  • Neonazis

    Protecting the Nazis: The extraordinary vote of Ukraine and the USA

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on December 21, 2021 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    The Ukrainian vote against the U.N. resolution against Nazism was motivated by sympathy for the ideology of historic, genocidal active Nazis. It is as simple as that, writes Craig Murray.

  • boris-johnson-farage-pissing-dog

    The dogs in the street know

    Originally published: Craig Murray Blog on September 12, 2019 (more by Craig Murray Blog)

    There are some very obvious facts in British politics which nobody seems to be saying.

  • The Peace Palace, seat of the International Court of Justice, at The Hague, Netherlands

    Chagos and the dark soul of the British Labour Party

    Originally published: Craig Murray's Blog on March 26, 2019 (more by Craig Murray's Blog)

    This analysis shows there could be no more startling illustration of the operation of the brutal and ruthless British Establishment in an undisguisedly Imperialist cause.

  • Craig Murray- Detente Bad – Cold War Good

    Craig Murray: Detente bad–Cold War good

    Originally published: True Publica on July 17, 2018 (more by True Publica)  |

    Political memories are short, but just 15 years after Iraq was destroyed and the chain reaction sent most of the Arab world back to the dark ages, it is now “treason” to question the word of the Western intelligence agencies, which deliberately and knowingly produced a fabric of lies on Iraqi WMD to justify that destruction.

  • The Legal Position on the Israeli Attack

    Craig Murray

    Craig Murray at a rally in London, 31 May 2010 A word on the legal position, which is very plain.  To attack a foreign flagged vessel in international waters is illegal.  It is not piracy, as the Israeli vessels carried a military commission.  It is rather an act of illegal warfare. Because the incident took […]

  • Iran and Iraq: Fake Maritime Boundaries

    Craig Murray

    Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, is also a former head of the Foreign Office’s maritime section, who was personally involved in negotiations on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.  His 27 and 28 March 2007 blog entries disputing the British claim that its sailors, seized by Iran, were in Iraqi […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (Univision)

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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