How Much Contempt the U.S.-UK-Israel Empire’s Rulers Have For Their Public
2 June 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
“Labour begins plot to remove Keir Starmer”
June 2, 2025
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CHRISTOFOROU: All right, Alexander, let's uh talk about
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what is going on in the UK and what is
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happening with uh Sir Keir Starmer.
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Looks like he's
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moved past the whole
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arson stuff. Is that over now? Can
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Keir focus on what he, what he loves
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best, which is Project Ukraine now, or is
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he still dealing with with all of that
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stuff. Where is, where are, things with
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Kier Starmer heading? MERCOURIS: Keir Starmer is still
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dealing with project Ukraine, it remains
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his underlying obsession and fixation, I
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mean he's never going to stop talking
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and thinking and discussing that, even
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though, um, his own parliamentary party is
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now in open rebellion about this, I mean
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they're saying that he's spending far
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too much time on this issue and is
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neglecting questions closer to home, and,
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to answer your question about this, the fire
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business, the the arson attacks on
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properties linked with him, as the media
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elegantly describes them, um, that
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story has not gone away and in fact um
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we had, for about a 24-hour
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period, the lead article in the Financial
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Times was all about this [the arson story], and it was a
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desperate attempt, based on no evidence
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at all, as the article itself admitted, to
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make out that it was the Russians who
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were behind these arson attacks. There
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was no evidence at all offered in the
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article, there were admissions in the
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article that there is actually no
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evidence to support those claims, they
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admitted that one of the arsonists has
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been publishing admiring photos of
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Ukrainian soldiers, but nonetheless uh
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they also admitted that the arsonists
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themselves might not be aware that the
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the hand of Moscow was involved, and the
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article also admitted that the Kremlin
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itself might not know that the hand of
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Moscow was involved, but nonetheless in
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spite of all of that, the hand of Moscow
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is suspected and we're told that the
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counterterrorist police are now involved
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in the investigation [so as to keep the false allegation in front of the public for as long as time as possible]. Remember, these,
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these are arson attacks, these are, this
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is criminal behavior, but you know, you
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bring in the counterterrorist police to
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investigate arson attacks. So, I mean, you
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you you could see where all this is
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going, and I mean it's not difficult to
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work it out. So, there's no evidence to
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support this, but clearly someone is
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briefing the media, especially the
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Financial Times, to to put a particular
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spin on this story in order to
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ultimately blame you know who. It's a very
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bizarre story altogether, but no, to, to
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answering your question again, he's not
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given up on Project Ukraine, and the
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arson business is far from ended, and I
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suspect it will be revived and it will
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be revived in all kinds of ways, probably
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intended to deflect attention from more
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embarrassing things including about
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these arson attacks, and also perhaps to
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make it appear that, uh, Sir is this
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heroic figure who the Kremlin is out to
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destroy, and that's why they’re, um um you
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know, arranging for these young men to, uh,
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law, you know, to plant fires in these
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buildings linked to Keir Starmer.
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CHRISTOFOROU: What’s Keir's position is, like is is he is in
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trouble? MERCOURIS: Yeah, right, the economy is
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dreadful, hope is basically draining
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away, and I I am not in London at the
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moment i've been outside London and I
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see the same signs of economic distress
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everywhere I go outside London uh to the
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to an equal degree as in London itself. I
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was recently in Bath, a
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famous resort city, beautiful 18th
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century architecture, famously
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described by Jane Austin, who actually
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lived there, you know the English writer,
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um a very very prosperous place, and I
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mean, parts of it look very rundown to me
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in ways that I hadn't imagined before,
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and again you see shop windows boarded,
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you see cafes closed, you see all of the
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same problems of distress that you see
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in London, so the economic situation is
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very bad. [Starmer] himself I believe is now
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officially the most unpopular British
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prime minister since polling records
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began
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What's going on in the UK, the
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McDonald kind of timeline, yeah well
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that's weeks or months I would say,
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Macdonald is a is a major figure because
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um obviously he is part of the previous
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Labor leadership, I mean Corbyn's
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leadership, and um he there is very
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little support for him I suspect now
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within the Labor parliamentary party who
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are very well to the right of Macdonald,
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uh, but the very fact though that
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McDonald is saying that the left should
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organize to bring down Starmer suggests
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that McDonald, who is a Labor MP uh who's
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still an MP um in the House of Commons
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even though he's had his whip withdrawn,
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in other words he's not able he's not
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part of the Labor parliamentary group
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but he's still a member of the party, I
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suspect that he's um picking up all
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sorts of gossip and talk within the
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Labor Party the parliamentary
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party even from people who are not on
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the left who might once been called on
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the right who are in other words Starmer's
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key allies, that the dissatisfaction
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with Starmer is simply boiling over, so I I
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I would regard this article by Macdonald
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which has received almost no attention
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in the media here, I mean it's as if it
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was never written, which is in in itself
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an interesting sign, um, I I would suggest
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that this is a clear uh indicator that
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Starmer's leadership is in is in is
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quite a lot of trouble now. I think he's
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going to get through the summer, I mean
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you know very difficult to organize
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plots in the summer, but then they'll all
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come back in the autumn the economy will
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be in an even worse condition than it is
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today, um it's absolutely clear that the
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government has no real plan they've just
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had to reverse their policy on cutting
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um pension benefits or sorry benefits to
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pensioners for um um you know cold
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weather in winter, so they've had to
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reinstate all of that. There's talk that
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they might therefore have to put up
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taxes, I mean tax levels are already the
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highest in the UK that they've been at
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any time since the end of the Second
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World War.
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In the UK., as in the U.S., and in Israel, we have elected (actually s‘elected’) leaders, who have very low job-approval ratings from their public. But that’s okay to them, because the only people whom they really need to satisfy is their Party’s megadonors.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.