April 2003
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Information Clearing House April 2003 – Part 5
April 2003 — Information Clearing House [From the Archives. I’ve been archiving ICH digests since 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that a link will take you where you want to go. WB] The Month of April 2003 – Part 5 WONDER-WORKING POWER: Rather than considering himself Continue reading
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Information Clearing House For the Month of April 2003 – Part 4
April 2003 — Information Clearing House [From the Archives. I’ve been archiving ICH digests since 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] EXPERTS SAY U.S. `DISCOVERY’ OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS IN IRAQ WAS BREACH OF U.N.-MONITORED Continue reading
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THE PLOT THICKENS By William Bowles
A European Defence Force is something Tony calls ‘unhelpful’. Unhelpful to who? In any case, as the US realigns its global military ‘posture’, it’s clear that a large US military presence in Western Europe is no longer necessary. And in any case, there’s all those ‘newly freed’ Eastern European countries dying to become satellites of… Continue reading
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Damn Lies! By William Bowles
For months we’ve been bombarded with a never-ending stream of state propaganda utilising a vast array of techniques: satellite images, computer simulations, faked documents, ‘revelations’,‘pulpit pounding’ and pleading verging on the evangelical, dossiers, ‘expert analysis’ of one kind or another, exhultations to one’s patriotism, and threats of dire events if we, the people, don’t go… Continue reading
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The Real Terror Network By William Bowles
27 April 2003 Paul Bremer, the new ‘Gauleiter’ of Iraq George Bush has appointed Paul Bremer as the ‘civil administrator’ of Iraq in what the Independent calls ‘a victory for Colin Powell…in the running skirmishes with Mr Rumsfeld’s Pentagon…’. Continue reading
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How Long do Empires Last? By William Bowles
A good friend of mine in the US, not long after 911 wrote me and said, ‘It’s either socialism or barbarism’. Now I’m not sure what her timescale was but she was spot on, about the barbarism bit anyway. Methinks the socialism part is some way off however. Continue reading
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How New is the New Imperialism? By William Bowles
24 April 2003 Reagan-Thatcher, Bush-Blair, can you spot the difference? I hope you can still recall the days of Ronald Reagan and the ‘Evil Empire’, ‘Star Wars’ and all that other Hollywood-inspired propaganda crap. Well in any case, it’s around twenty years ago that we were subjected to the formative stirrings of the ‘neo-con revival’ Continue reading
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More About Conspiracies and Oil By William Bowles
I’m getting really fed up with being marginalised by the so-called media professionals who would decry all who oppose their spin on the facts regarding oil and its centrality to USUK foreign policy, so I thought it would be instructive to spend a couple of hours doing a little research of my own on the… Continue reading
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What’s Going On? By William Bowles
Of course Marvin Gaye’s memorable and ground breaking album ‘What’s Going On?’ about the Vietnam war, civil rights and the future of the planet, made in 1971 could never be made in the America of 2003, never mind that it was a massive hit record as well. You only have to ask the Dixie Chicks… Continue reading
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Ahmed Chalabi – Oil Man in Baghdad By William Bowles
As ever, the Western media whether pro- or ‘anti-war’, when push comes to shove, knows where it stands and is prepared to ignore the obvious as it dishes up pathetic excuses for western imperialism in the name of ‘objective’ journalism and its attempts to relegate opponents of the war as ‘loony conspiracists’. Continue reading
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A ‘Greater’ US and a ‘Greater’ Israel By William Bowles
At first sight, an alliance between right-wing Christian fundamentalists and right-wing Zionist fundamentalists might appear too bizarre to be true. But not if their long-term aims coincide as they do with the Bush and Sharon governments. How the two strands of neo-imperialist thinking connect is instructive and helps explain a lot of the events of… Continue reading
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WHOSE NEXT AND WHY? By William Bowles
I predicate this essay on the fact that there is no basis whatsoever for the reasons given by the Bush/Blair Axis as to why they invaded the sovereign state of Iraq. As with virtually all the dictators of the 20th century, Saddam Hussein was wholly ‘our’ man from the very beginning of his reign to… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 