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21 January 2012 — williambowles.info
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January 2012
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19/1/12 A captive nation |
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2011
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December 2011
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| 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? |
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November 2011
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| 10/11/11 OWS: Leading from behind? |
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October 2011
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| 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! |
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September 2011
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| 29/9/11 In the belly of the beast |
30/9/11 Labouring under an illusion |
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August 2011
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| 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 |
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July 2011
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| 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 |
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June 2011
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| 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? |
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May 2011
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20/5/11 Pirates of the Mediterranean
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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 |
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April 2011
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| 4/4/11 The Empire conducts a war fest |
6/4/11 Distractions and diversions |
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March 2011
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| 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 |
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3/3/11 I smell a rat
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4/3/11 Civil war in Libya, intervention by the West already a reality |
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February 2011
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| 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 |
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2/1/11 As things fall apart
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2010
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December 2010
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| 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 |
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2/12/10 Out of the diplomatic bag
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6/12/10 Rebellion in the High Street? |
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November 2010
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| 27/11/10 Reprint: Review: Gangster Capitalism – The United States and the Global rise of Organized Crime by Michael Woodiwiss |
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October 2010
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| 18/10/10 France shows the way |
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September 2010
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| 29/9/10 Economism rules ok! |
30/9/10 ‘Not Red Ed’ – reinventing Labour, again and again… |
| 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 – the crime of our time’ |
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6/9/10 Music Review: Paul Hanmer’s ‘Accused No 1 – Nelson Mandela’
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8/9/10 Book review of ‘Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir’ by Joe Bageant – So different yet so familiar |
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August 2010
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5/8/10 MIMO – A socio-economic model for the 21st century? By William Bowles & Michael Jensen
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5/8/10 How to build a real Web Economy – a socialist one |
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July 2010
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| 7/7/10 A Tribute to David Coetzee (1943-2010) |
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June 2010
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2/6/10 Caught between a ‘liberal’ and a hard man: How the BBC spends your licence money
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4/6/10 Israel, Nazi propaganda chief Göebbels would have been proud of you |
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May 2010
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| 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 |
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1/5/10 Parliamentary ‘democracy’ – a triumph of Victorian engineering
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8/5/10 And the winner is? The Media |
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April 2010
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| 15/4/10 Beautiful mind, fucked up planet |
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March 2010
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| 15/3/10 Capitalism cut adrift – Part 2: Looking Sideways |
18/3/10 Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime |
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February 2010
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| 12/2/10 All the (un)usual suspects. What is RT.com up to? |
16/2/10 Capitalism cut adrift
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| 3/2/10 Cutting Clare Short |
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January 2010
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25/1/10 Why is the BBC’s Haiti coverage so appalling?
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31/1/10 Inside the mind of a psychopath and the Chilcot ‘Inquiry’ |
| 19/1/10 Haiti: And on the Eighth Day… |
21/1/10 Disasters are Big Business |
| 14/1/10 Bilderbergs of the world unite! |
18/1/10 Haiti: A lootin’ an’ a burnin’? |
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2009
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December 2009
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| 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 |
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November 2009
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| 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 |
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October 2009
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| 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 |
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September 2009
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| 1/9/09 Are we getting good Marx? I think not |
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August 2009
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| 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? |
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July 2009
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| 1/7/09 Covering (up) the coup in Honduras – the BBC does its bit for the Empire |
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June 2009
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| 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 |
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February 2009
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| 5/2/09 My Dad, Nature and me |
10/2/09 Reform or Revolution? |
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January 2009
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| 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) |
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2008
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December 2008
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| 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 |
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November 2008
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| 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 |
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October 2008
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| 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 |
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September 2008
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| 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’ |
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August 2008
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| 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 |
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July 2008
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| 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 |
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June 2008
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| 20/6/08 Conflating Inflation — When is a crisis not a crisis? When the BBC says it’s a “slowdown” |
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 |
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April 2008
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| 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 |
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March 2008
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| 21/3/08 Rumours of War |
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February 2008
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| 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 |
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January 2008
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| 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’ |
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2007
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December 2007
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| 3/12/07 Which way is up? |
15/12/07 Trying to Square the Climate Circle |
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November 2007
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| 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 |
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October 2007
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| 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’ |
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September 2007
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| 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? |
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August 2007
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| 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! |
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July 2007
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| 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’ |
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June 2007
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| 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 |
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May 2007
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| 15/5/07 Democracy inaction |
30/5/07 So what’s changed? |
| 17/5/07 From ‘al-Qu’eda’ to ‘Abductions’-the deceptions continue |
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April 2007
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17/4/07 Flogging the Bloggers, Hobbling the Hip-Hoppers |
| 03/4/07 I was nobody |
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March 2007
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| 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? |
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February 2007
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| 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 |
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January 2007
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| 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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