"In the Salisbury case, as Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan has shown, the government initially relied on a phrase that they thought could be defended as true but which was intended to cultivate a deception. This is that the nerve agent involved in the case is of "a type developed by Russia" ... The deception was spectacularly successful. The entire mainstream media went along with it. Embarrassingly, many mainstream journalists deluged Craig Murray with abuse and ridicule for raising modest questions about the government narrative."
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The "Salisbury case" refers to the Poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the victims being a Russian-born (former) double agent and his daughter, poisoned in Salibury on 4 March 2018. The official British government findings identifying Russia as responsible was shared by 28 other countries. Craig Murray had suggested in a blog entry (cited by The Times) that Israel had a stronger motive for poisoning the Skripal's than Russia.
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David Miller (sociologist)
2004 – 2011
David Miller (born 1964) is a British former academic and broadcaster for the Iranian Press TV network. Miller was Professor of Political Sociology at Bristol University from 2018, and was sacked from his post in October 2021 for professional misconduct. Earlier in his career, Miller was Professor of Sociology at Strathclyde University (2004–2011) and Bath University (2011–2018). Since his sacking, Miller has worked as a commentator for Press TV on Palestine Declassified, a programme which Mille
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