November 6, 2004
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On the Road to Fallujah By William Bowles
6 November 2004 Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ar’n’t no Ten Commandments an’ a man can raise a thirst. Mandalay. Rudyard Kipling In days of ‘yore’ when the Brits had an empire they used to justify their colonial ‘adventures’ with talk of a ‘civilising mission’ Continue reading
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“Fixing Fallujah”: BBC Radio Orwell Reporting for Duty By William Bowles
Thus “fixing the problem” is the tried and tested method of colonial occupation, destroying everything that stands in the way of installing ‘democracy’ in Iraq. Bombs are now merely “flashes in the night sky” (well it was Guy Fawkes night this past Saturday), the reality has been utterly expunged by the BBC story. The article… Continue reading