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2007-2010
2010
July 2010
7/7/10 A Tribute to David Coetzee (1943-2010)
June 2010
4/6/10 Israel, Nazi propaganda chief Göebbels would have been proud of you
2/6/10 Caught between a ‘liberal’ and a hard man: How the BBC spends your licence money
May 2010
31/5/10 Welcome to BBC Israel
30/5/10 From International Brigade to Freedom Flotilla: Remembering the ancestors of our struggle
26/5/10 Coalition of the unwilling? I don’t think so
19/5/10 Shelling out or just a Shell game?
15/5/10 Alice in Videoland
13/5/10 Israel: The not-so-new Fascism – Palestinians, the not-so-new Unter-Menschen
14/5/10 Criticizing Venezuela from the outside By William Bowles
10/5/10 The carve-up in ‘the national interest’ begins
8/5/10 And the winner is? The Media
1/5/10 Parliamentary ‘democracy’ – a triumph of Victorian engineering
April 2010
Beautiful mind, fucked up planet
March 2010
Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime
Capitalism cut adrift – Part 2: Looking Sideways
February 2010
16/2/10 Capitalism cut adrift
3/2/10 Cutting Clare Short
12/2/10 All the (un)usual suspects. What is RT.com up to?
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 And on the Eighth Day…
21/1/10 Disasters are Big Business
14/1/10 Bilderbergs of the world unite!
18/1/10 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 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 Bush Lite or just Dark?
4/8/09 Is the Western Left afraid of revolution?
July 2009
1/7/09 Covering (up) the coup in Honduras – 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
March 2009
12/6/09 In Memorium: Lord Patel
February 2009
5/1/09 My Dad, me and Nature
10/2/09 Reform or Revolution?
January 2009
31/1/09 Living (and dying) in the age of barbarism
25/1/09 And now for something completely different
30/1/09 Higher Ground
16/1/09 A burnt offering
22/1/09 British Capitalism – the Worm Ouroboros
4/1/09 The obscenity that is the state of Israel
6/1/09 Israel’s own Holocaust (and the US’s, and ours)
December 2008
31/12/08 Agent of a foreign power?
26/12/08 Time travelling or does Obama have any kind of deal let alone a new ‘New Deal’?
29/12/08 No place to run, no place to hide
6/12/08 You bastard, you burst my bubble! No not really
23/12/08 End of the year or end of the world (as we know it)?
3/12/08 Sucker bait or the politics of smoke and mirrors
4/12/08 Climate Change: World War III by another name?
1/12/08 Strangers in a (not so) strange land
2/12/08 Africa Bound
November 2008
28/11/08 The Obama Dilemma: A Mission Impossible?
24/11/08 Hidden Histories Revealed: So much for the ‘Mother of Parliaments’
25/11/08 Bewitched, Baffled and Bewildered
16/11/08 Finding the words to say it
20/11/08 Vanished – How the BBC disappears the news
10/11/08 Keynes with a neo-liberal twist?
13/11/08 Barack Obama — a wolf in sheep’s clothing or just the shepherd?
4/11/08 Obama and the Left’s Dilemma
7/11/08 Does a leopard change its spots?
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
28/8/08 Back to the future: “Chaos and instability Washington’s officlal policy line”
20/8/08 Aprés la deluge — wracking up the fear quotient
26/8/08 Revolution in the high street
1/8/08 The ‘Empire of Chaos’ or living in the age of impunity
14/8/08 How’d they do that?
July 2008
24/7/08 Does a leopard change its spots?
18/7/08 Deep in the capitalist doo-doo
14/7/08 War, war, war or jaw, jaw, jaw?
7/7/08 Five Years On
11/7/08 High Culture – Low Values
June 2008
29/6/08 Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate
20/6/08 Conflating Inflation — When is a crisis not a crisis? When the BBC says it’s a “slowdown”
6/6/08 On being different and why it’s important
4/6/08 Overwhelmed by the horror of it all
April 2008
30/4/08 The world is run by sleazy creeps with a license to print money
25/4/08 Not fit for purpose
9/4/08 Sink or swim in the capitalist ocean?
17/4/08 Food – the ultimate weapon of the ruling elite
4/4/08 Trapped on Planet Bail-out — Bad Science Fiction
March 2008
21/3/08 Rumours of War
February 2008
18/2/08 Observations from the Frontline: Can the Clintons Clinch it? Who cares
16/2/08 Observations from the front line: The US State of Denial
12/2/08 Observations from the front line: O-Bummer – the man without a past for a country without a future
2/2/08 There’s a kind of madness in the air
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’
December 2007
3/12/07 Which way is up?
15/12/07 Trying to Square the Climate Circle William Bowles 15/12/07
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 3/11/07
9/11/07 ‘The Geography of Blame’ — Haiti, AIDS and Racism in the Mainstream Media
October 2007
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’
4/10/07 The Red and the Green: Part Two – What kind of development?
September 2007
29/9/07 The Red and the Green: Part One – Economic Democracy
24/9/07 Blackwaters run deep
25/9/07 I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your centrifuges down
14/9/07 Communicating with the ancestors
17/9/07 Global Cashastrophe
10/9/07 Iraq and Oil — Why the mainstream media won’t talk about it
12/9/07 Economics 10000001 or the revenge of the Ninjas
2/9/07 Who said Marx wasn’t Green?
7/9/07 (Yet More) Rumours of War and other tales from Psy-Ops Central
August 2007
26/8/07 The BBC’s hall of mirrors
14/8/07 No need to panic, let the market decide
16/8/07 Barbie bites back
3/8/07 Blogopopsicles of the world unite!
7/8/07 Failing to make the right connections
July 2007
31/7/07 Letter from a far-off galaxy, a tale of two worlds
17/7/07 Total power drives you totally mad
26/7/07 An all-consuming greed
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
30/5/07 So what’s changed?
15/5/07 Democracy inaction
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
05/4/07 Truth and Consequences
March 2007
29/3/07 Us and Them
21/3/07 Madness and Capitalism
25/3/07 Beware the Ides of March
12/3/07 So what gives?
17/3/07 Don’t bother breathing out
2/3/07 To Nuke or not to Nuke? That is the question
9/3/07 On the outside looking in or on the inside looking out?
February 2007
26/07 The economics of 7/7 and other mysteries of capitalism explained
18/2/07 Yours Truly, ‘Disgusted’ of London
22/2/07 Ties that bind
January 2007
17/1/07 This Here an’ Dat Dere
20/1/07 Gaea’s Revenge?
5/1/07 Of Marxism and Magic
