June 2004
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 24-30 June 2004
June 2004 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 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] Information Clearing House Digest June 24-30 2004 Date: 30 Jun 2004 1 YEAR & 82 DAYS Continue reading
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A Conspiracy of Capital By William Bowles
29 June 2004 A series of events have occurred over the past months/years that surely should have even those amongst us most reluctant to question US and UK policies, wondering about the real nature of the USUK, their objectives and the means they use to achieve them. Continue reading
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Left of What? Toward a Platform for Change By William Bowles
This is the 250th essay (give or take a few) that I’ve written since initiating I‘n’I in August 2003 and I’ve written well over a quarter of a million words. Buckminster Fuller said the he believed that the human race was a success as long as it continued to exist and although something of a… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 18-23 June 2004
June 2004 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 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] Information Clearing House Digest June 18-23 2004 Date: 23 Jun 2004 1 YEAR & 75 DAYS Continue reading
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PRESS RELEASE: 9/11 CitizensWatch: Families Respond to Last Hearings
9/11 CitizensWatch, a public group working to monitor the national 9/11 Commission and demand transparency, accountability and a thorough investigation will hold will hold a press conference to allow victims, family members and other independent researchers and concerned citizens to voice their response to the hearings and their options if the Commission report does not… Continue reading
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Coup D’etats and all that stuff By William Bowles
Is it conceivable that a core group of people within the US Establishment led by the CIA could, over a period of years, engineer what amounts to a coup d’etat to remove the Bush Gang from the White House? The motivation being that the Bush administration’s policies were threatening the very basis of US capitalism… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 12-16 June 2004
June 2004 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 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] Information Clearing House Digest June 12-16 2004 Date: 16 Jun 2004 1 YEAR & 68 DAYS Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 7-11 June 2004
June 2004 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 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] Information Clearing House Digest June 07-11 2004 Date: 11 Jun 2004 1 YEAR & 63 DAYS Continue reading
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21st Century Time Machine By William Bowles
To continue my sojourn into the Victorian era it’s also worth looking at the raft of regurgitated Victorian ‘scientific solutions’ that have accompanied the right wing agenda pursued by both the US and UK governments for a decade or more Continue reading
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The new imperialism or picking up where they left off? By William Bowles
9 June 2004 My previous essay (‘Queen Victoria in Drag‘) prompted some further thoughts on our present predicament and foremost was the reality that the 20th century consisted almost entirely of a war between two ideologies – capitalism and socialism. And although the examples, the Soviet Union, China and so forth were not exactly what Continue reading
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Queen Victoria in Drag? By William Bowles
So 24-hour drinking will be with us shortly which means that people will be able to forget how unhappy they are 24/7. Predictably, the killjoys amongst us are whinging about binging but like everything else under overdue capitalism, rather than deal with causes, it’s easier to dump on the effects. Taken collectively, with every passing… Continue reading
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CSI Baghdad By William Bowles
The George Tenet affair illustrates the ‘wheels within wheels’ strategy of the propaganda war being waged over the abject failure that is the invasion and occupation of Iraq. And it’s a failure on two fronts: the failure of the invasion itself to establish a secure beachhead in the Middle East and the imperium’s failure to… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 1-6 June 2004
June 2004 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 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] Information Clearing House Digest June 01-06 2004 Date: 6 Jun 2004 === 1 YEAR & 58 Continue reading
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Englan’ is a bitch By William Bowles
Perhaps it’s because England’s slaves were in the colonies or maybe it’s just the sheer length of time (centuries) but whatever the reason, the nature of racism in the UK has its own peculiarities that sets it apart. One could go into an extensive analysis of the history of the ideology of racism in English… Continue reading