April 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 7 April 27-30 2005
30 April 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 April 27-30 2005 Date: Tues, 30 Apr 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Media Lens: Manufactured Consensus – The Sun and Saddam Hussein
Just over one year ago, British journalists and politicians were fulminating over photographs published in the Daily Mirror that appeared to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers. The British military, it was claimed, now possessed incontrovertible proof that the pictures were fake. Mirror editor, Piers Morgan – a fierce opponent of the war… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 6 April 24-26 2005
26 April 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 April 24-26 2005 Date: Tues, 26 Apr 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 April 20-23 2005
23 April 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 April 20-23 2005 Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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The Lesser of Two Evils By William Bowles
Much play has been made of ‘tactical voting’, especially by the ‘left’ pundits, the argument being as ever, that we have to keep the Tories out. But the ‘good old days’ of a ‘real’ Labour government are long gone (were they ever there in the first place?). In any case, the chances of a Tory… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 15-19 April 2005
19 April 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 April 15-19 2005 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Media Lens: Iraq and Zimbabwe – A Tale of Two Elections
In January, we showed how the British print and broadcast media were all but unanimous in celebrating the January 30 elections in Iraq as the country’s “first democratic elections in fifty years”. As we noted, this was an excellent example of how the corporate mass media function as a de facto propaganda system for state-corporate… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Doubt Cast on BBC Claims Regarding Fallujah
The BBC has again failed to address the many specific allegations we forwarded to them of atrocities committed by US forces in their assault on Fallujah last November. We return to this point below. Continue reading
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Get with the programme! By William Bowles
Some (maybe many) people may regard me as a bit of hangover from the previous century, what with all my talk of Socialism, when it appears as if, at best, we are fighting a rearguard action against the forces of reaction. Yet I continue to trundle out my cries of outrage against the current order.… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 April 11-14 2005
14 April 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 April 11-14 2005 Date: Thurs, 14 Apr 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 14 April 2005 (14/05)
14 April 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. Statewatch announces an International project to stop “Policy Laundering” 2. EU: Twenty NGOs write to JHA Council about Libya measures 3. Spain: Highest ever number of dinghy deaths in 2004 4. EU: Access to documents – first win in court 5. EU: Justice and Home Continue reading
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The Pope as Spectacle By William Bowles
So the Pope is dead (just in case you haven’t noticed). Listening to the BBC, one would think that it has transformed itself into Vatican Radio. Eulogies to the Pope have been never-ending ever since the geriatric reactionary finally shuffled off this mortal coil. The BBC for one, seems already to have elevated him to… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 April 6-10 2005
10 April 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 April 6-10 2005 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 April 1-5 2005
5 April 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 April 1-5 2005 Date: Tues, 5 Apr 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Caliban and the Witch Triggered By William Bowles
Caliban and the Witch triggered a lot of thoughts in my mind but especially why, in spite of our fundamental understanding of the nature of the capitalist system, it’s proving so difficult to produce a viable and acceptable alternative. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 