May 2003
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Information Clearing House Archives: May 2003 – Part 3
May 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] Chris Hedges, Talks With Democracy Now!About His Experience at Rockford College and tells Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archives: May 2003 – Part 2
May 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] STRONG MUST RULE THE WEAK, SAID NEO-CONS’ MUSE: Is U.S. foreign policy being Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archives: May 2003 – Part 1
May 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] DID THE US GAS ITS OWN PEOPLE? YES: A short clip from Investigative Continue reading
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The Great Pretender By William Bowles
As per usual, the corporate press are up to their old tricks of divorcing ‘facts’ from causes. So now, failing ‘smoking guns’, bland dismissals that the ‘it’s all about oil’ arguments as ‘nonsense’, imperialist strategies, possibly, et al, we arrive at the final ‘destination’ of the corporate media whereby, through some process known only to… Continue reading
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There’s News, News and then there’s damn lies! By William Bowles
As Blair and co scramble to cover their tracks over just one of the more obvious fabrications created to justify the (illegal) invasion, the real issues still seem to escape examination by the media even when it runs them over. Continue reading
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Is a military junta ruling Iraq? By William Bowles
Why is it so difficult find out who the people are who are running Iraq? What does the Bush administration have to hide? We read the odd story in the press about these characters but you have to dig deep to find out much about their backgrounds. Continue reading
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Advertising private enterprise By William Bowles
At last, the truth is out. Bremer’s ‘state of the dis-union’ address this past weekend spelled out the real reason for the invasion of Iraq; the protection of private ownership as the best guarantee of political freedom. This was on BBC Radio 4 news but when I came to find this quote in the Guardian,… Continue reading
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Act Two: Victim enters stage right By William Bowles
Having successfully dehumanised them through turning them into victims, the media no longer has the problem of looking to causes, the ‘victims’ are the cause all by themselves. And particularly tear-jerking ones at that. Photographs of suitably sullen-looking, bandaged and resentful Iraqi ‘victims’ populate the pages of the Independent. Continue reading
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Scary Times By William Bowles
Ultimately, the only ‘solution’ may be the collapse of the US economy but this brings with it its own dangers. The vast disparity in military power between the US and the rest of the world could lead desperate measures on the part of the US, leading to an increasing likelihood of war on a general… Continue reading
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War Inc. – A $300 Billion Dollar Business By William Bowles
Up until the late 19th century, almost all wars were fought with mercenary armies but WWI changed all that. Once war became industrialised and seriously large-scale, relying on relatively small armies, hired from countries far and wide, was no longer practical, nor was it politically acceptable given the appeals to ‘patriotism’ emanating from the ruling… Continue reading
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Apologies – Remember to Remind Me By William Bowles
15 May 2003 ‘If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own…. For if they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night.’ — James Baldwin ‘First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak Continue reading
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In bed with Bush – The Bechtel story By William Bowles
The ‘enemy’ is everywhere and nowhere. It could be you, it could be me. The upshot is, that it opens up the field for a major offensive by the state against virtually the entire US population, who are, at the end of day, the real ‘enemy of the state’ and of big business. Continue reading
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Knock-Knock! By William Bowles
11 May 2003 Land of the free and home of those who keep their mouths shut? “First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communists Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and Continue reading
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The coup de grace By William Bowles
Whatever pronouncements USUK have made over the past months, all are exposed for what they are, utter shams. Shams moreover, that they have been forced to make under public pressure, though it’s of little comfort and makes little difference. Continue reading
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THE BUSH FAMILY SAGA: FRAUDS ‘R’ US By William Bowles
It’s as well to remember that the Web never forgets, at least the US pres should take note of this fact and be careful of his utterances and how they can come back to haunt him. In fact four generations of Bush family history and too many skeletons in too many closets to count are… Continue reading
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Normal By William Bowles
This morning, Garner’s #2 man in Iraq, Major General Tim Cross, told BBC listeners (Today programme) that the people of Iraq are ‘better off now’ than they’d ever been and that ‘80%’ of them were happy that the USUK had invaded. They are, amongst other things, ‘free to demonstrate’. He didn’t mention of course, that… Continue reading
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The personal versus the political By William Bowles
We are shaped by history and in turn, history shapes us, at least that’s the theory. This morning on the radio (BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme) the pundits were commenting on Tony Blair’s ‘messianic’ belief that what he was doing in invading Iraq was right and that he’d ‘squared’ his conscience ‘with his maker’, so… Continue reading
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Paul Bremer, new boy in town By William Bowles
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
The New Dark Age 