you know it just wouldn't be a week
complete on the mainstream media without
a war criminal being given a plat from
to sell their new book although dubia is
now focused on fingerpainting world
leaders another orchestrator of the
invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan made
the rounds on the corporate media last
week yes none other than Bush's partner
in war crime from across the pond former
British Prime Minister Tony Blair here
he is blaming the West's failure in Iraq
on Islam as an undefeatable political
ideology this ideology is not going to
be defeated by an engagement in
Afghanistan in Iraq or even in these
individual Arenas it's going to be
defeated over a long period of time
we're talking in the end about one
struggle it's got many different aspects
to it there are lots of local factors
but in the end it is about out this
toxic mixture of religion and politics
and the reason why Iraq was difficult
Afghanistan was difficult is precisely
because of that well one UK politician
is working to expose Tony Blair in an
upcoming documentary called The Killing
Tony Blair his name is George Galloway
he's a member of UK's respect party
Galloway joined me earlier from London
and I started out by asking him to
respond to Blair's comments about
Islam well I I think uh uh difficult uh
the word he used uh is uh well chosen
it's difficult when a million people
have died as a result of the lies that
you told it's difficult when you've got
to effectively gridlock the state
inquiry into the events uh around the
Iraq War it's difficult when you're so
hated in your own country that you need
a falance of machine gun toting police
officers paid for by the taxpayer in
every one of your seven homes seven SE
ven seven homes and four machine gun
police on every one of them it's
difficult when you can't have a public
engagement except in a place like
Bloomberg and where they bring the city
of London to a halt in order to
quarantine you from the public that's
what he meant by difficult that day at
Bloomberg's might be the day when we
finally conclude that Tony Blair went
beir George Orwell in his novel and it
was a novel not a blueprint not a manual
uh
1984 uh of course memorably set the
novel at a time when urzia was always at
war with
eastasia and it's Mr Blair's manakan
view of the world that the West will
always be at war with the East and the
grotesque uh parody uh of democracy that
he was talking about is shown by the
fact that he's a backing the military
Juna in Egypt that overthrew the elected
government and calling for all of us to
get behind Saudi Arabia the least free
and least Democratic uh country on the
earth and his elastic definition of
extremism is demonstrated by the fact
that he wants us all to get behind
alqaeda in Syria whilst being a
permanent war with the al-Qaeda mindset
everywhere else or almost everywhere
else in the world this was the Edge of
Insanity from Tony Blair but it
dominated the British news agenda and
even reached Jew in the United States
for fully 48 Hours as if the orac
had descended amongst us with tablets of
stone to distribute around us to discuss
but most people in this country feel
only disgust for this man and the recipe
of endless war Carnage and suffering
that he prescribes and lastly if I may
he's not intending fighting himself in
this NeverEnding War neither is he
intending sending his own Sons to to go
and fight in this NeverEnding War he's
ready to fight to the last drop of
everybody else's blood somebody else's
son's blood that's what's disgusting
about him and it's no surprise George
that so many American channels are
giving Blair a platform to espouse his
pro- interventionist views which makes
me thankful that I'm given a platform
here to speak against all military
intervention to counter that narrative
at least but unfortunately I've come
under a lot of criticism because of the
corporate media's Cold War Resurrection
George I recently did an interview on
BBC that was completely pulled before it
was even aired after I criticized the UK
government what does that say about the
state of media in the UK well we call
ourselves uh democracy but in fact we're
an organized hypocrisy we're speaking
now on RT uh which is routinely
described by the BBC as Russian State
media but BBC is British State media
what you did over the Ukraine no BBC
correspondent would ever dream of doing
viav V British policy that they
disagreed with if indeed they did
disagree with it there is no way that
this cold war rhetoric can be anything
but damaging and debilitating for
everyone in the world and uh the battle
lines are being drawn John Kerry uh more
or less called for RT to be struck off
of the air uh in the liberal Guardian
newspaper God save us from liberals I
always say uh they last week were
drawing attention to the need for a
state investigation into RT because its
political line is not to the liking of
these liberals presumably Fox News uh
which goes
uncomplaining they can live with fox
news freely broadcasting on the British
Airwaves but they can't it seems uh live
with rt and uh this tells you all you
need to know about their skin deep
facade of liberalism and uh and
commitment to freedom of speech and
freedom of assembly I just returned this
hour from Paris where I was interviewing
a man who spent six years on the Gaddafi
torture tables he was illegally rendered
which as we both know means he was
kidnapped and sent to those torture
Tables by those Paragons of liberalism
the United States and Great Britain so
when they tell you how much they believe
in Western values the faster you should
count your spoons as Oscar wild would
put
it well well said uh let's move on to
the UK elections are on the horizon of
course we know what a dog and pony show
American elections are where Obama and
Romney both spent a billion dollars last
campaign cycle now Jim MSA and David
Axelrod check this out two of Obama's
former campaign managers will be working
for both Britain's conservative and
labor parties George how do you feel
about American political strategy being
exported to Britain actually all three
of the mainstream parties and if a
backside could have three cheeks they
would be the three cheeks of the same
backside uh they're all their election
campaigns are all being run by
foreigners one Australian and to
Americans and so uh Heaven Help Us we're
in for an election as banal as the ones
that you have to tolerate where
multi-millionaire Tweedle D contests
multi-millionaire Tweedle Dum and they
tell us that only an inch uh is the inch
that's worth debating the prevailing
Orthodoxy which Dr Johnson the great
English man of letters described as the
grimmest dictatorship of them all the
dictatorship of the prevailing Orthodoxy
some of us are struggling to break free
of that on the left and on the right uh
the right probably I'd have to concede
having more success it's easy to sell
nationalism to the simple-minded it's a
little more difficult selling socialism
to an informed electorate but ukip the
United Kingdom independence party which
is a far right eurobic party is set to
win the European Parliament elections
here in Britain and indeed parties like
them are set to win almost a third of
the vote one in three of all the votes
that will be cast in the European Union
parliamentary elections uh later uh
about five 4 weeks from now uh that
tells you that the
Stranglehold that the prevailing
Orthodoxy has on the public is very fast
dissipating and that's manifested in
voting patterns in people not voting at
all in people searching out other
television stations other than the lam
stream ones it's all falling apart which
is why I'm actually relatively Che
cheerful because I absolutely am
convinced that that prevailing Orthodoxy
that dictatorship of the prevailing
Orthodoxy is creaking and falling apart
at the seams uh speaking of nationalism
another major political issue in the
crosshairs of the voting public in the
UK is Scottish independence now I wanted
to get your opinion on this because I'm
getting constantly hit up by people
wanting me to cover it Nome Chomsky
recently came out and supported the
movement but you've said no and I wanted
to get your opinion why because I
believe that class is the primary uh
division amongst people not uh
nationality which is uh here today and
uh and gone tomorrow once upon a time
Scotland might well have joined France
wanted to join France and I'd be talking
to you now in a quite different language
if we had there are many states that
have broken up over the last decades and
frankly uh it's very rar a success story
and uh so be careful what you wish for I
say to the Scottish people though the
fact that we're even in danger of
Britain breaking up a small island of
English-speaking people and incidentally
I'm not sure there's ever been a case
where a country where everyone speaks
the same language has ever broken up
before unless one were to pray and Aid
Yugoslavia and I think that would be a
very bad example to choose but the fact
that we're even in danger of seeing
Britain breaking up is part of this
previous conversation we've just been
having the prevailing Orthodoxy creaking
and falling apart at the seams people
hate the British state in Scotland they
hate its role in the world war after war
after War they hate the neoliberal
economics the corrupt politics at
Westminster behind me and they think
wrongly in my view that this can be
solved by severing the country uh along
a border uh which will make foreigners
of working people in the north of
England the Midlands of England or in
the poor parts of London it's part of
the retoric of Scottish nationalism that
London is the problem that the Streets
of London are paved with gold but of
course that's not true of London anymore
than it's true of New York the streets
of a small part of London are paved with
gold but there's more poverty within 6
mil radius of where I'm sitting right
now in London than there is in the
entirety of Scotland or any other part
uh of the United Kingdom some of the
poorest people in the country live uh
within a few miles of the city of London
in fact within a few hundred yards of
the city of London in the traditional
East End of the country so I I don't
want working people to be divided I want
working people to unite against those
with whom they are objectively divided
income inequality is rising faster here
in America than anywhere else um we're
definitely right there with you these
problems are shared worldwide thank you
so much for fighting on the ground
George Galloway member of the UK respect
party amazing to have you on