Essays by William Bowles 1988 to the Present

19 January 2013 — williambowles.info

bill-portugal.jpgThe links on this page–from the middle of November 2007 onwards–are in WordPress format so they can also be accessed using the category option. But most of the earlier articles, back to 2003 are plain HTML pages and can be accessed via the links below and on the other pages. I’ve converted some of them over to WordPress but it’s a mammoth task. BTW, here’s a link to an archive by month of almost every article on the site from September 2004 to February 2010. By ‘aggregating the aggregators’ there has to be something like 25,000 pages in total plus tens of thousands of links by subject including extensive archives of Information Clearing House (almost from Day 1), VTJP Palestine Newslinks, Military Resistance, URUK Net, CounterCurrents, IPS and so forth. An invaluable research resource for investigative journalists or just the plain nosy. Use the Google link in the sidebar to search the complete site.

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2007-2012
2013
April
1/4/13 Depleted Uranium: The BBC’s John Simpson does a hatchet job on Fallujah’s genetically damaged children  
January 2013
 
 
 2012
August 2012
 
June 2012
 
April 2012
 
March 2012
16/3/12 Audio Interview: The Massive Propaganda on Syria  
7/3/12 Responsibility to Protect or justifying the Right to Project Power? 7/3/12 Zionism loves colonialism, Zionism is colonialism
3/3/12 Syria: One country, two stories 5/3/12 The October Surprise File December 22, 1988
February 2012
29/2/12 – Impotence in the face of Impunity?  
17/2/12 Syria and the media: “Activists say…” 23/2/12 The Sheep look down
15/2/12 Tariq Ali says Assad has to go: I’m depressed Ð no, I’m outraged 16/2/12 Syria: Feeding off the carcase
January 2012
18/04/03 Re-run: AHMED CHALABI – OIL MAN IN BAGHDAD 27/1/12 Moral capitalism? What an insult to our intelligence!
2/1/12 Sleepwalking into fascism 19/1/12 A captive nation
2011
December 2011
25/12/11 A history lesson 28/12/11 A fool’s paradise revisited
21/12/11 Are we living in a fool’s paradise?  
November 2011
10/11/11 OWS: Leading from behind?  
October 2011
25/10/11 The BBC: NATO’s media partner-in-crime 29/10/11 OWS in a bind: Doesn’t want to mention the S-word
19/10/11 Occupy The World! To the barricades comrades? 20/10/11 Reprint from May 2003: THE BUSH FAMILY SAGA: FRAUDS ‘R’ US
18/10/11 Capitalism: what a load of rubbish!  
September 2011
29/9/11In the belly of the beast 30/9/11 Labouring under an illusion
August 2011
20/8/11 An update on InI and other ramblings 24-26/8/11 What is going on in Libya?
12/8/11 Ten Reasons to Riot 17/8/11 The state unleashes the Dogs of Media
10/8/11 Things fall apart 11/8/11 Who is the sick one here?
4/8/11 Welcome to the world of terrorist television 8/8/11 Back to the future
3/8/11 Covering the Somali famine- of news  
July 2011
23/7/11 Outsourcing power (and its consequences) 26/7/11 The Left has lost its way over Libya
20/7/11 Gobsmacked by the media 20/7/11 What did he know and when did he know it? Cameron, Coulson and those pesky emails
2/7/11 Russia Today: A new kind of media? 12/7/11 The Fourth Estate is bankrupt
June 2011
19/6/11 This is what empires do 22/6/11 Syria/Libya versus Bahrain: A BBC factoid
12/6/11 Empire Games – but who writes the rules? 16/6/11 William Hague: Following in Churchill’s footsteps
9/6/11 Wiki wha?  
May 2011

20/5/11 Pirates of the Mediterranean

 26/5/11 In your Face!
12/5/11 Disposable and Expendable 17/5/11 The truth about ‘civilized transitions’
4/5/11 Some ruminations on current events 7/5/11 The file on Osama bin Laden’s assassination
April 2011
4/4/11 The Empire conducts a war fest 6/4/11 Distractions and diversions
March 2011
22/3/11 Kosovo revisited (kind of) 28/3/11 A sheep in wolf’s clothing
7/3/11 Bewitched, bothered and bewildered 20/3/11 Keeping up appearances

3/3/11 I smell a rat

4/3/11 Civil war in Libya, intervention by the West already a reality
February 2011
12/2/11 Is this a ‘Young Turks’ moment all over again? 27/2/11 Libya: The Empire strikes back
10/2/11 The New York Times backs the Egyptian army 6/1/11 His Master’s Voice

2/1/11 As things fall apart

  
2010
December 2010
23/12/10 The Media is the Message 29/12/10 Wikileaks: The Book of Revelations? Not if you read the MSM
11/12/10 A conspiracy to silence 14/12/10 Wikileaks: Prelude to a new wave of ‘legal’ repression?
8/12/10 The Empire Strikes Back 10/12/10 It really is us against them

2/12/10 Out of the diplomatic bag

 6/12/10 Rebellion in the High Street?
November 2010
27/11/10 Reprint: Review: Gangster Capitalism – The United States and the Global rise of Organized Crime by Michael Woodiwiss  
October 2010
18/10/10 France shows the way  
September 2010
29/9/10 Economism rules ok! 30/9/10 ‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and againÉ
25/9/10 Why does the pernicious BS about ‘peak oil’ persist on the left? 27/9/10 New? ‘old’-new? Labour, the election of Ed Miliband and the left
14/9/10 Immersed in Empire 24/9/10 Video review of ‘Plunder Ð the crime of our time’

6/9/10 Music Review: Paul Hanmer’s ‘Accused No 1 Ð Nelson Mandela’

 8/9/10 Book review of ‘Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir’ by Joe Bageant – So different yet so familiar
August 2010

5/8/10 MIMO – A socio-economic model for the 21st century? By William Bowles & Michael Jensen

 5/8/10 How to build a real Web Economy Ð a socialist one
July 2010
7/7/10 A Tribute to David Coetzee (1943-2010)  
June 2010

2/6/10 Caught between a ‘liberal’ and a hard man: How the BBC spends your licence money

 4/6/10 Israel, Nazi propaganda chief Goebbels would have been proud of you
May 2010
30/5/10 From International Brigade to Freedom Flotilla: Remembering the ancestors of our struggle 31/5/10 Welcome to BBC Israel
19/5/10 Shelling out or just a Shell game? 26/5/10 Coalition of the unwilling? I don’t think so
14/5/10 Criticizing Venezuela from the outside By William Bowles 15/5/10 Alice in Videoland
10/5/10 The carve-up in ‘the national interest’ begins 13/5/10 Israel: The not-so-new Fascism Palestinians, the not-so-new Unter-Menschen

1/5/10 Parliamentary ‘democracy’ – a triumph of Victorian engineering

 8/5/10 And the winner is? The Media
April 2010
15/4/10 Beautiful mind, fucked up planet  
March 2010
15/3/10 Capitalism cut adrift Ð Part 2: Looking Sideways 18/3/10 Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime
February 2010
12/2/10 All the (un)usual suspects. What is RT.com up to?

16/2/10 Capitalism cut adrift
3/2/10 Cutting Clare Short  
January 2010

25/1/10 Why is the BBC’s Haiti coverage so appalling?

 31/1/10 Inside the mind of a psychopath and the Chilcot ‘Inquiry’
19/1/10 Haiti: And on the Eighth DayÉ 21/1/10 Disasters are Big Business
14/1/10 Bilderbergs of the world unite! 18/1/10 Haiti: A lootin’ an’ a burnin’?
2009
December 2009
21/12/09 COPOUT15: It’s the poor wot gets the blame 29/12/09 The Chilcot ‘Inquiry’: a theatre of the absurd
2/12/09 Climategate and Climate Change: Blowing hot and cold 19/12/09 An unholy alliance: The Media, the State and Big Business
November 2009
18/11/09 The BNP and bridging the gulf of disbelief 27/11/09 ‘Yes We Can’. ‘No We Won’t!’
6/11/09 Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires or just a graveyard with a pipeline running through it? 17/11/09 About Patria, Pageants and Poppies
October 2009
27/10/09 Lest we forget? 28/10/09 It’s official, they not only forgot, they don’t give a damn
19/10/09 Reform or Revolution? 23/10/09 Reform or Revolution contd…
18/10/09 Question Time: The B(NP)BC Show  
September 2009
1/9/09 Are we getting good Marx? I think not  
August 2009
6/8/09 North Korea & Iran : So what does the West want? 15/8/09 The file on Blackwater, 2004-2007
4/8/09 Is the Western Left afraid of revolution? 4/8/09 Bush Lite or just Dark?
July 2009
1/7/09 Covering (up) the coup in Honduras Ð the BBC does its bit for the Empire  
June 2009
17/6/09 Marx, the first real globalist 27/6/09 Iran, the arrogance of Empire and the death of Michael Jackson
12/6/09 From the personal to the political-and back again 15/6/09 Scary movie
12/6/09 In Memorium: Lord Patel  
February 2009
5/2/09 My Dad, Nature and me 10/2/09 Reform or Revolution?
January 2009
30/1/09 Higher Ground 31/1/09 Living (and dying) in the age of barbarism
16/1/09 A burnt offering 25/1/09 And now for something completely different
4/1/09 The obscenity that is the state of Israel 22/1/09 British Capitalism – the Worm Ouroboros
6/1/09 Israel’s own Holocaust (and the US’s, and ours)  
2008
December 2008
26/12/08 Time travelling or does Obama have any kind of deal let alone a new ‘New Deal’? 31/12/08 Agent of a foreign power?
6/12/08 You bastard, you burst my bubble! No not really 29/12/08 No place to run, no place to hide
3/12/08 Sucker bait or the politics of smoke and mirrors 23/12/08 End of the year or end of the world (as we know it)?
1/12/08 Strangers in a (not so) strange land 4/12/08 Climate Change: World War III by another name?
2/12/08 Africa Bound  
November 2008
25/11/08 Bewitched, Baffled and Bewildered 28/11/08 The Obama Dilemma: A Mission Impossible?
20/11/08 Vanished – How the BBC disappears the news 24/11/08 Hidden Histories Revealed: So much for the ‘Mother of Parliaments’
10/11/08 Keynes with a neo-liberal twist? 16/11/08 Finding the words to say it
7/11/08 Does a leopard change its spots? 13/11/08 Barack Obama – a wolf in sheep’s clothing or just the shepherd?
4/11/08 Obama and the Left’s Dilemma  
October 2008
24/10/08 Economics 101 – Interesting times 28/10/08 Let us speculate
12/10/08 The Capitalist Shakedown 15/10/08 How about socialism for the rest of us
September 2008
17/9/08 The end of (capitalist) history? 22/9/08 The media’s moola madness
6/9/08 Is it the 1930s all over again? 9/9/08 Climate Change – World War III by Another Name?
1/9/08 Lies, nothing but damn lies and then there’s the mass media 4/9/08 US invade Pakistan – but no complaints from the ‘international community’
August 2008
26/8/08 Revolution in the high street 28/8/08 Back to the future: “Chaos and instability Washington’s officlal policy line”
14/8/08 How’d they do that? 20/8/08 Aprés la deluge – wracking up the fear quotient
1/8/08 The ‘Empire of Chaos’ or living in the age of impunity  
July 2008
18/7/08 Deep in the capitalist doo-doo 24/7/08 Does a leopard change its spots?
7/7/08 Five Years On 14/7/08 War, war, war or jaw, jaw, jaw?
11/7/08 High Culture – Low Values  
June 2008
20/6/08 Conflating Inflation – When is a crisis not a crisis? When the BBC says it’s a Òslowdown” 29/6/08 Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate
6/6/08 On being different and why it’s important 15/6/08 Why the Left doesn’t get it: Book Review: ‘Deer Hunting With Jesus – Dispatches from America’s Class War’ By Joe Bageant
4/6/08 Overwhelmed by the horror of it all  
April 2008
25/4/08 Not fit for purpose 30/4/08 The world is run by sleazy creeps with a license to print money
17/4/08 Food – the ultimate weapon of the ruling elite 9/4/08 Sink or swim in the capitalist ocean?
4/4/08 Trapped on Planet Bail-out – Bad Science Fiction  
March 2008
21/3/08 Rumours of War  
February 2008
16/2/08 Observations from the front line: The US State of Denial 18/2/08 Observations from the Frontline: Can the Clintons Clinch it? Who cares
2/2/08 Prelude: There’s a kind of madness in the air 12/2/08 Observations from the front line: O-Bummer – the man without a past for a country without a future
January 2008
25/1/08 ‘Chinese Torture’ or what goes around comes around 30/1/08 Caught in the glare of history’s headlights
22/1/08 Palestine: Collectively Punished by Israel and Collectively Punished by the media 23/1/08 Recession? It’s the ‘business cycle’ stupid
7/1/08 It’s all-out war on the planet. Chaos (capitalism) rules okay! 8/1/08 The Obama Phenom or revolving door ‘democracy’
2007
December 2007
3/12/07 Which way is up? 15/12/07 Trying to Square the Climate Circle
November 2007
15/11/07 See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil 22/11/07 The nature of the beast
3/11/07 Bush’s Tower of Babble 9/11/07 ‘The Geography of Blame’ – Haiti, AIDS and Racism in the Mainstream Media
October 2007
4/10/07 The Red and the Green: Part Two – What kind of development? 29/10/07 The BBC back-peddles big time or how to completely rewrite history before the ink’s even dried
2/10/07 Iran: The ‘Great Game’ continues only now it’s called ‘The War on Terror’  
September 2007
25/9/07 I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your centrifuges down 29/9/07 The Red and the Green: Part One – Economic Democracy
17/9/07 Global Cashastrophe 24/9/07 Blackwaters run deep
10/9/07 Iraq and Oil – Why the mainstream media won’t talk about it 14/9/07 Communicating with the ancestors
7/9/07 (Yet More) Rumours of War and other tales from Psy-Ops Central 12/9/07 Economics 10000001 or the revenge of the Ninjas
2/9/07 Who said Marx wasn’t Green?  
August 2007
14/8/07 No need to panic, let the market decide 26/8/07 The BBC’s hall of mirrors
7/8/07 Failing to make the right connections 16/8/07 Haiti: Barbie bites back
3/8/07 Blogopopsicles of the world unite!  
July 2007
26/7/07 An all-consuming greed 31/7/07 Letter from a far-off galaxy, a tale of two worlds
15/7/07 Completely Carbonated 17/7/07 Total power drives you totally mad
1/7/07 All Aboard! 13/7/07 The Media on ‘Global Terror’
June 2007
12/6/07 Red into Green-will it go? 28/6/07 Whose culture is it anyway?
4/6/07 In His Master’s Voice-The BBC’s Mark Urban does a hatchet job on Media Lens 8/6/07 One square metre and a stool
May 2007
15/5/07 Democracy inaction 30/5/07 So what’s changed?
17/5/07 From ‘al-Qu’eda’ to ‘Abductions’-the deceptions continue  
April 2007
17/4/07 Flogging the Bloggers, Hobbling the Hip-Hoppers
03/4/07 I was nobody  
March 2007
25/3/07 Beware the Ides of March 29/3/07 Us and Them
17/3/07 Don’t bother breathing out 21/3/07 Madness and Capitalism
2/3/07 To Nuke or not to Nuke? That is the question 12/3/07 So what gives?
9/3/07 On the outside looking in or on the inside looking out?  
February 2007
22/2/07 Ties that bind 26/07 The economics of 7/7 and other mysteries of capitalism explained
18/2/07 Yours Truly, ‘Disgusted’ of London  
January 2007
17/1/07 This Here an’ Dat Dere 20/1/07 Gaea’s Revenge?
5/1/07 Of Marxism and Magic 9/1/7 WWW or Whining, Waxing and Waning

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