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you know it just wouldn't be a week

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complete on the mainstream media without

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a war criminal being given a plat from

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to sell their new book although dubia is

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now focused on fingerpainting world

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leaders another orchestrator of the

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invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan made

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the rounds on the corporate media last

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week yes none other than Bush's partner

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in war crime from across the pond former

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair here

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he is blaming the West's failure in Iraq

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on Islam as an undefeatable political

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ideology this ideology is not going to

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be defeated by an engagement in

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Afghanistan in Iraq or even in these

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individual Arenas it's going to be

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defeated over a long period of time

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we're talking in the end about one

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struggle it's got many different aspects

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to it there are lots of local factors

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but in the end it is about out this

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toxic mixture of religion and politics

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and the reason why Iraq was difficult

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Afghanistan was difficult is precisely

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because of that well one UK politician

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is working to expose Tony Blair in an

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upcoming documentary called The Killing

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Tony Blair his name is George Galloway

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he's a member of UK's respect party

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Galloway joined me earlier from London

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and I started out by asking him to

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respond to Blair's comments about

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Islam well I I think uh uh difficult uh

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the word he used uh is uh well chosen

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it's difficult when a million people

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have died as a result of the lies that

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you told it's difficult when you've got

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to effectively gridlock the state

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inquiry into the events uh around the

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Iraq War it's difficult when you're so

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hated in your own country that you need

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a falance of machine gun toting police

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officers paid for by the taxpayer in

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every one of your seven homes seven SE

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ven seven homes and four machine gun

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police on every one of them it's

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difficult when you can't have a public

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engagement except in a place like

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Bloomberg and where they bring the city

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of London to a halt in order to

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quarantine you from the public that's

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what he meant by difficult that day at

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Bloomberg's might be the day when we

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finally conclude that Tony Blair went

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beir George Orwell in his novel and it

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was a novel not a blueprint not a manual

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1984 uh of course memorably set the

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novel at a time when urzia was always at

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war with

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eastasia and it's Mr Blair's manakan

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view of the world that the West will

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always be at war with the East and the

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grotesque uh parody uh of democracy that

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he was talking about is shown by the

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fact that he's a backing the military

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Juna in Egypt that overthrew the elected

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government and calling for all of us to

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get behind Saudi Arabia the least free

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and least Democratic uh country on the

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earth and his elastic definition of

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extremism is demonstrated by the fact

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that he wants us all to get behind

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alqaeda in Syria whilst being a

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permanent war with the al-Qaeda mindset

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everywhere else or almost everywhere

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else in the world this was the Edge of

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Insanity from Tony Blair but it

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dominated the British news agenda and

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even reached Jew in the United States

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for fully 48 Hours as if the orac

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had descended amongst us with tablets of

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stone to distribute around us to discuss

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but most people in this country feel

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only disgust for this man and the recipe

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of endless war Carnage and suffering

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that he prescribes and lastly if I may

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he's not intending fighting himself in

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this NeverEnding War neither is he

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intending sending his own Sons to to go

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and fight in this NeverEnding War he's

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ready to fight to the last drop of

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everybody else's blood somebody else's

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son's blood that's what's disgusting

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about him and it's no surprise George

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that so many American channels are

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giving Blair a platform to espouse his

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pro- interventionist views which makes

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me thankful that I'm given a platform

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here to speak against all military

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intervention to counter that narrative

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at least but unfortunately I've come

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under a lot of criticism because of the

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corporate media's Cold War Resurrection

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George I recently did an interview on

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BBC that was completely pulled before it

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was even aired after I criticized the UK

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government what does that say about the

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state of media in the UK well we call

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ourselves uh democracy but in fact we're

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an organized hypocrisy we're speaking

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now on RT uh which is routinely

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described by the BBC as Russian State

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media but BBC is British State media

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what you did over the Ukraine no BBC

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correspondent would ever dream of doing

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viav V British policy that they

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disagreed with if indeed they did

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disagree with it there is no way that

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this cold war rhetoric can be anything

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but damaging and debilitating for

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everyone in the world and uh the battle

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lines are being drawn John Kerry uh more

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or less called for RT to be struck off

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of the air uh in the liberal Guardian

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newspaper God save us from liberals I

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always say uh they last week were

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drawing attention to the need for a

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state investigation into RT because its

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political line is not to the liking of

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these liberals presumably Fox News uh

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which goes

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uncomplaining they can live with fox

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news freely broadcasting on the British

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with rt and uh this tells you all you

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need to know about their skin deep

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facade of liberalism and uh and

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commitment to freedom of speech and

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freedom of assembly I just returned this

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hour from Paris where I was interviewing

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a man who spent six years on the Gaddafi

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torture tables he was illegally rendered

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which as we both know means he was

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kidnapped and sent to those torture

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Tables by those Paragons of liberalism

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the United States and Great Britain so

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when they tell you how much they believe

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in Western values the faster you should

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count your spoons as Oscar wild would

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it well well said uh let's move on to

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the UK elections are on the horizon of

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course we know what a dog and pony show

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American elections are where Obama and

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Romney both spent a billion dollars last

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campaign cycle now Jim MSA and David

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Axelrod check this out two of Obama's

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former campaign managers will be working

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for both Britain's conservative and

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labor parties George how do you feel

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about American political strategy being

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exported to Britain actually all three

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of the mainstream parties and if a

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backside could have three cheeks they

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would be the three cheeks of the same

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backside uh they're all their election

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campaigns are all being run by

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foreigners one Australian and to

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Americans and so uh Heaven Help Us we're

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in for an election as banal as the ones

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that you have to tolerate where

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multi-millionaire Tweedle D contests

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multi-millionaire Tweedle Dum and they

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tell us that only an inch uh is the inch

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that's worth debating the prevailing

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English man of letters described as the

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grimmest dictatorship of them all the

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dictatorship of the prevailing Orthodoxy

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some of us are struggling to break free

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of that on the left and on the right uh

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having more success it's easy to sell

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nationalism to the simple-minded it's a

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little more difficult selling socialism

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to an informed electorate but ukip the

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United Kingdom independence party which

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is a far right eurobic party is set to

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win the European Parliament elections

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here in Britain and indeed parties like

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them are set to win almost a third of

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the vote one in three of all the votes

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that will be cast in the European Union

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parliamentary elections uh later uh

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about five 4 weeks from now uh that

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Stranglehold that the prevailing

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dissipating and that's manifested in

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voting patterns in people not voting at

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all in people searching out other

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television stations other than the lam

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stream ones it's all falling apart which

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is why I'm actually relatively Che

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cheerful because I absolutely am

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convinced that that prevailing Orthodoxy

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that dictatorship of the prevailing

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at the seams uh speaking of nationalism

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another major political issue in the

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crosshairs of the voting public in the

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UK is Scottish independence now I wanted

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to get your opinion on this because I'm

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getting constantly hit up by people

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wanting me to cover it Nome Chomsky

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recently came out and supported the

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movement but you've said no and I wanted

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to get your opinion why because I

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believe that class is the primary uh

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division amongst people not uh

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nationality which is uh here today and

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uh and gone tomorrow once upon a time

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Scotland might well have joined France

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wanted to join France and I'd be talking

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to you now in a quite different language

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if we had there are many states that

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have broken up over the last decades and

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frankly uh it's very rar a success story

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and uh so be careful what you wish for I

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say to the Scottish people though the

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fact that we're even in danger of

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Britain breaking up a small island of

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English-speaking people and incidentally

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where a country where everyone speaks

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the same language has ever broken up

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before unless one were to pray and Aid

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Yugoslavia and I think that would be a

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very bad example to choose but the fact

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that we're even in danger of seeing

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Britain breaking up is part of this

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previous conversation we've just been

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having the prevailing Orthodoxy creaking

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and falling apart at the seams people

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hate the British state in Scotland they

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hate its role in the world war after war

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after War they hate the neoliberal

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economics the corrupt politics at

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Westminster behind me and they think

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wrongly in my view that this can be

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solved by severing the country uh along

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a border uh which will make foreigners

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of working people in the north of

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England the Midlands of England or in

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the poor parts of London it's part of

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the retoric of Scottish nationalism that

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London is the problem that the Streets

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of London are paved with gold but of

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course that's not true of London anymore

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than it's true of New York the streets

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of a small part of London are paved with

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gold but there's more poverty within 6

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mil radius of where I'm sitting right

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now in London than there is in the

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entirety of Scotland or any other part

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uh of the United Kingdom some of the

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poorest people in the country live uh

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within a few miles of the city of London

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in fact within a few hundred yards of

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the city of London in the traditional

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East End of the country so I I don't

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want working people to be divided I want

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working people to unite against those

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with whom they are objectively divided

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income inequality is rising faster here

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in America than anywhere else um we're

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definitely right there with you these

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problems are shared worldwide thank you

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so much for fighting on the ground

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George Galloway member of the UK respect

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party amazing to have you on