last month RT launched a new opinion
show called Sputnik hosted by the
respect party Member of Parliament
George Galloway now if you're not
familiar with Galloway you should be
whether it's taking on the UN over its
oil for food program or blasting the
Western Empire in the halls of
parliament Galloway has done it all over
the course of his decad long political
career and earlier this year Galloway
launched a Kickstarter to create and
promote a film called the killing of
Tony Blair although he only asked for
£50,000 to make it he received well
over1 6,000 with a project to date
Galloway joined me earlier from London
and I first asked him what he's hoping
to achieve with the
film our first objective is to have Mr
Blair removed as the so-called peace
Envoy uh which is the most inappropriate
appointment since Caligula appointed his
horse as a pro Consul of Rome secondly
to make him so toxic that decent people
and decent corporations if they
exist will no longer wish to hire him
and our highest aspiration is to have
him on trial at the ha on charges of
crimes against humanity and war crimes
uh now that's a very ambitious movie uh
but uh it's not as farfetched a set of
objectives as it once would have looked
and so we have now more than 6,000
donors to this movie uh growing every
day and I I think that this film is
going to be one of the films of 2014 I
hope so and it has a a raft of executive
producers of note including Max Kaiser
and uh Abby Martin of RT uh proud
producer uh George I'm really excited
about how well the film's doing I cannot
wait to see it um other than doctoring
up evidence for the Iraq War briefly
touch upon the other crimes that you
think Tony Blair is responsible for that
we might not know about here in the US
well the titled the killing of Tony
Blair is a triple on Tundra the first
killing was his killing of the labor
party as we knew it and I was a member
of it for 36 years before he expelled me
in 2004 and abolished my parliamentary
constituency uh hoping that one way or
another he'd be rid of me the killing of
the labor party was a crime against the
working people of Britain because every
country needs a labor party including
your own country I may say a party that
will stand up for working people whose
interests are entire and separate from
the interests of other classes in the
society the second killing is obvious
it's the killing of a million people in
Iraq and in Afghanistan and by extension
uh in Lebanon and in Palestine and many
other places and the third killing is
the financial killing that Mr Blair is
making out of of the previous two
killings by destroying the labor party
he made Britain safer for the
corporations he made their tax bills
shrink he made their regulatory burden
disappear and now they're rewarding him
for all of that financially by paying
him sums of money that are simply eyeing
he now entered the Sunday Times rich
list he is officially one of the richest
people in Britain let's hope that when
Tony Blair is brought to the he because
of your film he'll not plead affluenza
too wealthy to have a moral conscience
which is what we just saw here in the US
shocking president set there let's move
on to Parliament though recently the
editor and chief of the Guardian along
with journalist Glenn Greenwald were
called to testify under Britain's
terrorism law Greenwald said that the UK
government's trying to equate journalism
with terrorism as a member of parliament
yourself do you what do you see is the
real purpose of these hearings well it's
a a rain of intellectual Terror really
and edging into physical Terror the
British Security Services actually
entered the editorial rooms and
editorial floor of the Guardian
newspaper and broke hard diss on a
newspapers computers smashed them into
pieces uh this is uh even by the
standards of the British State uh a step
uh not only too far but one that has
never been taken before at least not in
peace time although I suppose we're
perpetually at War now so that's what
they might say in uh in just ification
but of course the guardian was only
telling us what our rulers are doing and
doing with our money and in our name and
the idea that they should be allowed not
only to keep these things secret but
when these secrets are revealed take
such Draconian punitive piratical
measures as invading newspaper offices
and breaking up their hard diss is truly
extraordinary and the more shocking
still is that the rest of the British
media has completely ignored this story
as indeed they have more or less
completely ignored the Snowden Affair in
any detail uh right from the beginning I
wanted to move on to Syria because
there's a huge story that just came out
of course relating to you directly Dr
abas Khan the British man held by
Assad's forces was scheduled to be
handed over to you and instead found
tragically dead George according to
security officials he committed suicide
I mean can you tell us any more
information about this case it was to be
a Christmas gesture and uh then 4 days
before my departure uh he was found dead
in his cell now there are two things
that must be obvious here first of all
Bashar alassad did not order the killing
of this man that would be simply absurd
because if he was going to do so why did
he make such extensive arrangements for
me of all people someone who stood by
Syria through all of this terrible 3
years uh to go to Damascus to pick up
the prisoner if he was going to execute
him he definitely would not have done
that equally obviously though I'm sorry
to say uh it's pretty inexplicable
pretty implausible that Dr Khan
committed suicide because he knew that I
was coming in 4 days to take him home he
was elated at that news he said so to
his mother and in letters home to his
sister and brother and so the idea that
Dr KH committed suicide just before
getting his freedom is equally
implausible that I'm afraid leads to a
very very dark third option and that is
that somebody inside the apparatus of
the Syrian state is not under the
control of the president and in fact set
out to wreck a gesture being made by the
president of syri that does not augure
well unfortunately there's so many state
actors involved with all their vested
interests it's really hard to tell who's
telling the truth without being awn in
this Global chess game George I'm really
happy you're keeping it the pressure
hopefully we get answers soon but I
wanted to move on to this accidental
drone bombing of a wedding in Yemen by
the US what do you think would happen if
a wedding was accidentally bombed here
in America or in Britain by Yemen the
even more Despicable part of this story
is that I promise you this has not even
made the news neither the BBC nor Mr
Murdock Sky News have yet reported that
perhaps dozens of guests in a wedding
Convoy in Yemen were destroyed torn into
pieces from a sofa somewhere in
Washington presumably or elsewhere in
the United States someone pressing a
button and wiping out a wedding Convoy
and the Paradox is unbelievable able
they are prepared to destroy innocent
wedding guests in Yemen in their war
against Al-Qaeda and yet they are arming
and funding al-Qaeda in Syria that's the
point I've been trying to make about the
Dr abas Khan story Britain is up to its
neck as is the United States in blood
and gore in Syria but they're on the
side of al-Qaeda in Syria whilst they're
wiping out wedding guests in Yemen
supposedly in a war against Al-Qaeda and
of course they're getting away with it
because the so-called mainstream media
simply averts its eyes passes by on the
other side of the road and the question
you asked me um of course doesn't even
need an answer imagine if Iran had
bombed a wedding party in the United
States or bombed a wedding party in
Britain imagine if the Chinese Navy was
in the Florida Straits in the way that
the United States Navy is in the South
China Sea imagine if President Putin was
on the streets of Mexico agitating
anti-American
upheaval in the way that John McCain is
on the streets of Kiev agitating
anti-russian feeling if you begin to put
these Paradox is line them up I mean you
don't know whether to laugh or cry so
farfetched are they and yet it's really
happening oh man well I'm laughing right
now because it is just so absurd the
contradiction is staggering I would
imagine that we would be in World War
III right now George if that happen uh
and speaking of the scenario Yemen
definitely we would yeah definitely I
mean look at their uh look at their
reaction when President Putin paid for a
age advert in the Wall Street Journal or
the New York Times or wherever it was
imagine if he showed up on anti-American
demonstrations in Canada can you imagine
it well that's what European and
American leading politicians are doing
it's the reverse Iron Curtain George uh
speaking of the scenario Yemen now
banned drones in their country but the
UK government has already made a
statement that it's not ruling out drone
bombing them in the future I mean why is
is the government already ignoring
Yemen's Sovereign decision here Pakistan
made the same Sovereign decision but it
hasn't stopped Britain and America
firing drone missiles at uh at Pakistan
and they don't give a damn about the
national sovereignty of Pakistan and
more fool Pakistan for continuing to
describe itself as an ally of the very
people who are bombing them and in the
case of Yemen the political situations a
bit less clear uh but nonetheless uh the
Yemen government's sovereignty doesn't
add up to a row of beans uh these
countries will be bombed as and when
white men in Britain and uh black
president in the United States have
their kill meetings on Tuesdays or
Thursdays and decide that they're going
to fire rockets at these people you
remember President Obama made a joke
about it he said that uh boyfriends
sniffing around his daughters uh you
don't see them coming just like drone
missiles it's true you don't see them
coming until your wife is minus her head
sitting next to you until your daughter
is lying in pieces in front of your eyes
you don't see them coming but the hatred
and bitterness that they leave behind is
sewing Dragon's Teeth for a terrible
Harvest further down the line cuz I'll
tell you this if my family was wiped out
by a drone I would devote the rest of my
life and I'd encourage my sons to devote
the rest of their lives to getting
revenge on the people who had destroyed
us and one thing we can see coming is
the wave of anti-American sentiment and
the wake of all these drone massacres
George Let's wrap this up you've got a
show on this network now it's called SP
Nick talk about what the show is how
people can find it we have about a
minute left Sputnik orbiting the world
with me George Gall and my wife gatri
and we are located in London and I hope
that people will check it out on the
website of RT and follow us at
rtor Sputnik follow us on YouTube so I'm
very glad on this and on many other
things to be a comrade of yours Abby
Martin same to you George much respect
UK Parliament member respect party
amazing to have you
on