August 2003
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Information Clearing House Archive August 2003 Part 4
August 2003 — Information Clearing House Archive For the Month of August 2003 – Part 4 [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] U.S. military may be Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive August 2003 — Part 3
August 2003 — Information Clearing House Archive For the Month of August 2003 – Part 3 [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] Blair’s 45-minute claim Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive August 2003 Part 2
August 2003 — Information Clearing House Archive For the Month of August 2003 – Part 2 [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] Christmas shopping? Don’t forget Continue reading
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Information Clearing House August 2003 – Part1
August 2003 — Information Clearing House Archive For the Month of August 2003 – Part 1 Al Qaida wins a battle: Although Islamic terrorists may eventually lose the War on Terrorism, they have clearly won the most recent battle: Operation Iraqi Freedom. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4320.htm Continue reading
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Off the Hook? By William Bowles
Well predictably the media here in the UK has, by and large, given Blah a clean bill of health, not because he didn’t lie but because he did such a good job of lying. Apparently, the more articulate you are at the business of dissembling, the more kudos you acquire. This is the ‘post-modern’ world… Continue reading
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Trust- Belief – Exaggeration By William Bowles
As the state is increasingly exposed as fraudulent, so the media has created a barrier that absorbs direct attack by deflecting criticism into the ‘nooks and crannies’ of the management of the state machine. How it does this is revealed by the nature of the relationship between the state and the media and the use… Continue reading
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Virus of violence unleashed on the world By William Bowles
Everyday I scan the news heads from the various sources I receive (I can never keep up with it all obviously) and it’s clear that the US has unleashed a virus of violence on the planet. Just a short selection from the last few days paints the picture: Continue reading
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An Accumulation of Capital(s) By William Bowles
(This is intended as the first of a series I have long planned on writing, indeed I’ve been exploring the ideas I lay out below since the early 1980s, after I got my first computer, a Commodore 64.) Continue reading
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A marriage made in hell By William Bowles
The media’s response to the ‘revelations’ of the Hutton inquiry reveals more about the nature of corporate journalism than it does about the role of the government’s propagandists. And especially, the back-peddling being performed in an attempt to justify the complicity of the media in not seeing what was patently obvious to anyone who cared… Continue reading
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Mission Impossible By William Bowles
Never has the meaning of the global village struck home in quite the way as in the present circumstances. Past empires have been able to hide behind distance and disinformation, but the current imperial project is, in spite of all the efforts to hide it, being built inside a goldfish bowl, where every move, every… Continue reading
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End Game? By William Bowles
What’s an empire to do when it’s barely started on its ‘mission’ (ordained by a God no less) and the damn thing starts falling apart? Blame the ‘international terror network’ of course. And of course, that’s what the Imperium is doing as it casts about for suitable suspects. And there’s no shortage on which to… Continue reading
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Between Iraq and a hard place By William Bowles
The latest bombing in Iraq of the UN headquarters has, understandably, put the frighteners on the USUK alliance. For not only does it up the anté, it puts the USUK on the spot. Continue reading
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The Media’s killing fields…and so it goes By William Bowles
Channel 4 TV broadcast a ‘documentary’ “Congo’s Killing Fields” (17/08/03) that purported to be a report on the current situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The hour-long doccie had me hopping mad from the very beginning to its very end and cursing the box sitting in the corner of the room. Continue reading
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The verdict? Guilty, sort of By William Bowles
One is tempted to hold off saying anything until the loathsome Alistair Campbell, chief propagandist for the Blair government does his pitch at the Hutton ‘enquiry’ today. However, of far more importance than what he does or doesn’t say (after all, the cat’s out of the bag anyway), is how will the Blair government deal… Continue reading
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Dr David Kelly, the real deal: preserving the integrity of the state By William Bowles
17 August 2003 It is instructive as well as fascinating to follow the convoluted trail of disinformation and hyperbole in the government and the media’s attempts to transfer the blame from one individual to another in the agenda of diverting attention from the central issue, namely why we went to war. Continue reading
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Duck and Drakes By William Bowles
This week’s lead article in the Economist entitled “Manifest Destiny Warmed Up?” reveals the disquiet being felt by at least some sections of the European ruling elite over the US’s assumed role as the ‘new imperialist empire’ and whether or not, they’re going about it in the right way. Continue reading
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Dr David Kelly, loyal foot soldier of the state By William Bowles
Far from being troubled about the impending invasion, Dr David Kelly could just as easily have been troubled by the use of ‘evidence’ that “takes away from the case for war.” In other words, Kelly’s statements can be interpreted as continued support for the war but that he objected to the way it was being… Continue reading
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WDD: Weapons of Deliberate Disinformation By William Bowles
The events of the past few days reveals just how much the media and the state work hand in glove in projecting a view of the world that maintains the fiction of the ‘terrorist threat’ and what the objectives of the West really are. Continue reading
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Discovered! Shoal of Giant Red Herrings By William Bowles
The government’s propaganda campaign to scare the populace into accepting an unacceptable war, has, with the grovelling complicity of the media, including the so-called liberal arm of the press, entered a new but depressingly familiar phase. Continue reading
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USG Incorporated By William Bowles
The parallels between the Mafia and the US government are not surprising if one considers that both organisations have to operate outside the law in order to carry on their respective ‘business’. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 