March 2005
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Media Lens: “No Great Way to Die” – But the Generals Love Napalm
Traditionally, Western journalists give massive emphasis to acts of violence committed by official enemies of the West, while lightly passing over Western responsibility for often far more extreme violence. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 26-30 March 2005
30 March 2005 — 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 March 26-30 2005 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 Let’s lecture the Continue reading
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Welcome to Perception Central By William Bowles
Frankly, I think England is, as they say, fucked. The question is, why? There are, I contend very fundamental issues involved here that have to do with the nature of British capitalism. I further contend that the current Labour government, far from being a break with its past, is actually right in tune with its… Continue reading
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A life out of balance By William Bowles
A reader turned me onto two movies this past week, ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ (or on Amazon.com) the Hopi word for a ‘Life out of balance’ and, ‘Powaqqatsi’, ‘Life in Transformation’ both of which I recommend not only for the way they reveal the staggering beauty of Planet Earth but of how they compare our natural Home to… Continue reading
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Media Lens: No Politics – Only Elections
Issues like the environment, foreign policy, poverty and defence were “all but invisible”. (Golding, email to Media Lens, June 10, 2001) Defence, for example, comprised 0.6 percent of reporting. There was no mention of New Labour’s “ethical foreign policy” deception, of the non-existent “genocide” used as a pretext for Blair’s bombing of Serbia, of his… Continue reading
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The Wolf at the door by William Bowles
The Western media have, to put it mildly, been somewhat dismayed with the nomination of Paul Wolfowitz to be head of the World Bank. How to explain to the public that the architect of the invasion of Iraq, arch-Zionist and mass murderer, has been put in charge of the Bank that has been charged (in… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 March 17-21 2005
21 March 2005 — 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 March 17-21 2005 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 March 17-21 2005
21 March 2005 — Information Clearing House Information Clearing House Digest March 17-21 2005 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 === Charge Him or Release Him Jose Padilla : U.S. Citizen Imprisoned Without Trial or Charges for 2 Years and 288 Days === Information Clearing House Exclusive Interview with “Unembedded” Journalist Dahr Jamail “Without a doubt Continue reading
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Book Review: Can’t see the wood for the trees? by William Bowles
Within the pages of this book lie the reasons that explain why men and women now inhabit different worlds, for the reasons are not biologically determined but most definitely ideological in origin but because their roots are buried in the hidden history of the rise of capitalism some five hundred years ago, the reality of… Continue reading
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GM makes you sick by Edward Teague
18 March 2005 — The New Dark Age “Detroit catches a cold the US gets pneumonia”. GM common stock today trades at 35% of its Jan 1 2000 value, over at Dearborn, Ford suffer even more, their stock has sunk to 25% of it’s millenial value. Continue reading
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Media Lens: A Warning from Auschwitz
16 March 2005 — Media Lens How Do You Shoot Babies? Facing execution for his role in the murder of more than 1 million people, many of them children, Auschwitz commandant, Rudolf Hoess, reflected on his life and works: “Today, I deeply regret that I did not spend more time with my family.” (Hoess, ‘Auschwitz, Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 March 12-16 2005
16 March 2005 — 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 March 12-16 2005 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 A Warning From Continue reading
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400 Years of Blogging By William Bowles
If nothing else, the explosion of electronic ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ or the ‘Blog’ has at long last enabled us to challenge the long-held assumption that to be a journalist you need to have some special dispensation from some higher power that enables one to stand aside from the human race and cast an ‘objective’ eye over… Continue reading
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Who was Rafik Hariri, and who was behind his assassination? By Mohamed Hassan
If the regime in Syria is weakened, capitulates or is overthrown, it will be a defeat for the Arab nationalist movement. Hezbollah will be weakened or will disappear and that will support the emergence of a bourgeois comprador Palestinian leadership [which has already happened in the wake of the death of Arafat], ready to collaborate… Continue reading
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No Sleepy Times Down South By Edward Teague
14 March 2005 — The New Dark Age Roger (Rogelio) Pardo-Maurer IV is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and reports to Rumsfeld. Graduate in History from Yale and Economics from Cambridge (England), he contributed to 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States. Pardo-Maurer also served in combat with the 20th Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 13 March 2005 (10/05)
13 March 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. UK: Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 2. EU: After Madrid: the EU’s response to terrorism 3. Iraq: Global public health experts: failure to count Iraqi casualties irresponsible 4. EU: Data Protection Supervisor says exchange of criminal records proposal is not proportionate 5. UK: Intelligence and Continue reading
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Hazel Blears Tongue Lashed by Michael Howard By Edward Teague
13 March 2005 — The New Dark Age Charles Clarke’s über babe Hazel Blears, her dazzling smile benefiting from ample supplies from her Avon Lady, sits, with her bright, lustrously shining acrylic, tinted, bobbed and curled hair, attentive, like a Robin waiting for a worm. Her pallid, immobile face, with arched and painted brows, emphasised Continue reading
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Blair’s ‘Morality’ gone mad By William Bowles
One of the arguments used by the government in its attempt to justify preventive detention is that the sources cannot be revealed for fear of ‘compromising’ them. The truth however, is a lot grimmer as Straw’s defence of torture reveals. For what Straw’s comment exposes is a totally morally bankrupt ruling elite, getting more desperate… Continue reading
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Update on the terror ‘Debate’ – the BBC version By William Bowles
The fundamental idea namely that the state can imprison people for what they might do (or think) has conveniently vanished. Convenient because tackling the issue of preventive detention – because that’s what the law is all about – is entirely missing from the debate. Continue reading
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