December 2004
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 December 22-31 2004
December 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 December 22-31 2004 Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 Iraqi National Guardsman Killed Continue reading
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Book Review: A Century of War – Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order by William Engdahl By William Bowles
By the 1870s the Empire had reached its high point and England began the longest economic depression in its history, one that it was not to recover from until the 1890s. And in the meantime its European competitors, chiefly Germany, now outstripping Britain in industrial production and technological innovation, by the 1890s also had a… Continue reading
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Where were you when the lights went out? By William Bowles
23 December 2004 It’s estimated that within the first couple of decades after the Europeans ‘discovered’ the Americas, they exterminated around fifteen million people in a frenzy of bloodletting that has no precedent in history. Of course it’s not called a Holocaust, in fact it’s not even mentioned in the white man’s history books, but Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 December 17-21 2004
December 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 December 17-21 2004 Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 Bush Approved Torture Techniques Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 December 12-16 2004
December 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 December 12-16 2004 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2004 Evildoers, here we come Continue reading
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Media Lens: Naked Empire– Part 2: Mainstream Reviews of Books by Andrew Marr, Jon Snow and John Pilger
Readers of our Media Alerts will be well aware of John Pilger’s view of the media and establishment power more generally. He reserves a special place in his articles for the deceptions of the ‘liberal’ press. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Naked Empire Part 1 – Mainstream Reviews of Books by Andrew Marr, Jon Snow and John Pilger
In this two-part Media Alert we will test a simple claim: that elite journalists promote a fraudulent version of the world shaped by the powerful interests of which they are a part. Continue reading
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Well Oiled By William Bowles
13 December 2004 — InvestigatingImperialism I had another piece ready for publication but I got a lot of feedback (50/50 in support and against) on the ‘Peak Oil’ piece that I thought needed to be addressed first. I’ll try and summarise the various views as briefly as possible. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 December 6-11 2004
December 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 December 6-11 2004 Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 Moral Victory Religious Exploitation, Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Power of Nightmares – Adam Curtis Responds
On 18 and 19 November, we sent out a two-part media alert about the recent BBC2 series, ‘The Power of Nightmares’. Adam Curtis, who wrote and directed the series, located key goals of modern US foreign policy in the beliefs of a group of myth-making neo-conservative “idealists”. Continue reading
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The truth about ‘Peak Oil’ – The future revisited from a past that never happened By William Bowles
6 December 2004 ‘Control energy and you control nations’ – Henry Kissinger Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 December 1-5 2004
December 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 December 1-5 2004 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 Naomi Klein: In Iraq, Continue reading
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Media Lens: Protest the BBC on Thursday, December 2 – This is Why. Part 2
Like the rest of the mainstream media, the BBC did next to nothing to expose the devastating effects of US-UK war and sanctions on the civilian population of Iraq from 1990 onwards. Ahead of last year’s war, the BBC endlessly echoed and channelled UK government propaganda claims, almost never subjecting those claims to serious challenge. Continue reading
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