Maracas,

Galloway got just over 50 % of the vote in his by-election ?

Aung San Suu Kyi won a bit over 80 % of the vote in her electorate in Sunday's elections in Burma.

So, if he has time, what does Galloway say in support of Aung San Suu Kyi, and in support for democracy and justice in Burma ? What has he said in the past about her winning the 1990 elections, and then being jailed and put under house arrest for more than twenty years ?

I'm not saying that Galloway, or anybody else, should devote themselves to every single issue of justice and human rights night and day, but it would be nice to see some support from such people - when they can tear their lips away from the backsides of dictators, such as Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam and Bashir, that is.

"Every century but this, and every country but his own .... "

Joe

So sad that so many on this forum have little understanding of the difference between ideology and reality. The likes of George Galloway knows this, his advocates don’t. They just follow blindly.

He is a great salesman, but so was Stalin, well, at least until he had to start slaughtering the masses because they created a movement that did not agree with him.

George will never be in this position, nor will Bob Brown. In the meantime they will both attract the truly dysfunctional ideologues. Why? Who knows? The main thing we in reality land still have going for us is reality. Fortunately, the only thing that is ultimately sustainable is truth. “Garbage in” will always equate with “garbage out”, this is the salvation of humanity

I am not a Zionist; what a stupid thing to say.

It is true the Americans, at the behest of Britain, overthrew Mossadegh but it is not true they made the Mullahs what they are. The same phony argument is used by Pilger to claim the Americans created Pol Pot, as if that can mitigate the culpability of that regime.

The point I make is that you work to rectify the bastardry which still occurs in the Western system; you don't, as the likes of Galloway do, work to break the system and rejoice in the much worse alternative.

There is no doubt the Mullahs were much more despotic than the Shah and similarly the "Arab Spring" will be a delusion. But is this the fault of the West?

Chalmers Johnson and others have written about the hegemonic intentions of the West, particularly the US, which creates antipathy, particularly Islamist extremism and the various forms of 'blowback' before and since 9/11.

This is simplistic nonsense. Islam is not as it is because of Western oppression. It is extant because it is an atavistic theology. To blame the stupid overthrow of Mossandegh as the reason why Islamic extremism now threatens the world is on the same rat cunning but delusional level of Galloway.

I didn't know that there were so many Zionist war mongers on this site.Galloway speaks the truth and now even Zibigniew Brezezinski is telling Israel to back off Iran.Zibig is his statement about a "Global Political Awakening" has also told the West to back off China and Russia.

Even MOSSAD say that Iran has no nuke program.It is all about stealing oil and resources and keeping poor countries in contrived debt so they become slaves of this international counterfeiting system called fractional reserve banking.

Bankers now control Italy and Greece.Our RBA drop rates and our bankers thumb their noses at them and increase rates.