George Szamuely
{{Short description|American journalist (born 1974)}}
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George Szamuely (born 1954) is a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} He is the co-founder and co-host, with Peter Lavelle, of the political commentary show, TheGaggle, on Locals. He was a frequent columnist for the Taki's Top Drawer pages of the New York Press. Szamuely has also written for Antiwar.com, Counterpunch, Commentary, The Observer and the Centre for Research on Globalization. He is a frequent contributor to the RT show CrossTalk.
Biography
He was born in Hungary to Tibor Szamuely (1925–1972), of a Hungarian Jewish merchant family, and Nina (née Orlova; 1923-1974), of Russian parentage.{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-31745|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/31745|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}} His great-uncle was the Communist revolutionary Tibor Szamuely (1890–1919). His sister Helen Szamuely, was a prominent figure in the founding of the UK Independence Party.{{cite web | title=Helen Szamuely - Register | website=The Times | date=April 20, 2017 | url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/helen-szamuely-qlskd9qwp | access-date=January 6, 2022}} He was educated in England at University College London and at the London School of Economics. He received a PhD from London Metropolitan University.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
He worked for some years as an editor at the Times Literary Supplement and at The National Law Journal. He was also a weekly columnist at the New York Press.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
Political views{{anchor|Political Views}}
Szamuely has been an ardent critic of United States foreign policy, arguing that the reality is the diametric opposite of the lofty rhetoric. The professed humanitarian aspirations invariably lead to extremely non-humanitarian outcomes.{{YouTube|ofF3UFBNC6M|Exceptional Empire}}{{Primary source inline|date=January 2022}} His opposition to the state of Israel has allied him with paleoconservatism and libertarianism.{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}
He has been highly critical of the workings of the United Nations tribunals, in particular the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He argues that the tribunal and human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch foster conflict rather than reconciliation and serve the interests of Western powers and those of their allies by targeting their opponents, while ignoring or minimizing their, often far more serious, crimes.{{cite web |author1=Edward Herman |author2=David Peterson |author3=George Szamuely | title=Human Rights Watch in Service to the War Party: Inc… | website=ZCommunications via archive.ph | date=February 25, 2007 | url=http://www.zcommunications.org/human-rights-watch-in-service-to-the-war-party-including-a-review-of-weighing-the-evidence-lessons-from-the-slobodan-milosevic-trial-human-rights-watch-december-2006-by-edward-herman | access-date=January 6, 2022 | archive-date=April 16, 2013 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416082237/http://www.zcommunications.org/human-rights-watch-in-service-to-the-war-party-including-a-review-of-weighing-the-evidence-lessons-from-the-slobodan-milosevic-trial-human-rights-watch-december-2006-by-edward-herman | url-status=live }}{{better source needed|co-authored blogpost, primary and not noteworthy|date=January 2022}} He has expressed doubts as to whether the International Criminal Court would ever be willing or able to administer impartial justice.{{YouTube|iUrVIs5hEv4|CrossTalk: Selective Justice}} He has argued that Serbia's actions in Yugoslavia have been unfairly misinterpreted.[http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/62/069.html George Szamuely, The Yugoslavian Fairy Tale]
Szamuely's history of NATO's intervention in the Balkans, Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia,[https://www.amazon.com/Bombs-Peace-NATOs-Humanitarian-Yugoslavia/dp/9089645632/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3BHIQOQX8NLAH&keywords=george+szamuely&qid=1654817390&sprefix=george+sza%2Caps%2C195&sr=8-2 George Szamuely, Bombs for Peace: NATO's Humanitarian War on Yugoslavia] is published by Amsterdam University Press.
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External links
- [https://georgeszamuely.substack.com George Szamuely on Substack]
- [https://thegaggle.locals.com/ The Gaggle]
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