June 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 6 June 27-30 2005
30 June 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 June 27-30 2005 Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Media Lens: Conspiracy – The Downing Street Memo – Part 2
Imagine our surprise, then, when we finally got round to reading Smith’s original May 1 article, including the memo itself, and found that the real story was the revelation that Straw and Blair had conspired to use inspections to lure Saddam into obstructing the UN, so providing an excuse for war. By implication, the leaks… Continue reading
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Unpacking the Imperium: The Washington Post reveals all By William Bowles
Well, there you have it, we are ruled by capital, nay seduced by its siren song to produce in an endless stream its productions and in turn to consume said production. A drug more addictive than heroin that has ruled us for five hundred years. But there are real signs that it’s all going pear-shaped… Continue reading
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The State under siege or is it the people? By William Bowles
Not since the 1920s has the capitalist state been so threatened but ironically not by revolution but by its own complete lack of creditability. On every front its actions are being questioned as never before, whether its actions in far-off lands or its domestic policies. Continue reading
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Media Lens: Conspiracy – The Downing Street Memo – Part 1
It is remarkable, but now indisputable, that the current leaders of Britain and the United States are responsible for just such a conspiracy…Carne Ross, a key Foreign Office diplomat responsible for liaising with UN inspectors in Iraq, said last week that British government claims about Iraq’s weapons programme had been “totally implausible”. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 June 22-25 2005
25 June 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 June 22-25 2005 Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Crunch time in ‘old’ Europe By William Bowles
The only option for the Blair government is to try and force its agenda onto the EU or pull out of the EU which is simply not a practical solution, economic integration is just too far developed. It would mean dumping a slew of legislation passed over the past thirty-plus years! A gargantuan and immensely… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 23 June 2005 (24/05)
23 June 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Legislative proposals on SIS II 2. UK: Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Bill 3. EU: Visa Information System confusion 4. Spain: Court dismisses terrorist charges in Basque youth association trial 5. Spain: Court report on the Gabriele Kanze case 6. USA: General Accountability Office (GAO) Continue reading
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Premature Burial By William Bowles
22 June 2005 No matter, the BBC and the rest of the state’s media/propaganda arsenal have effectively buried the Downing Street Minutes here in the UK, preferring to ignore the story rather than mount a counter offensive, no doubt operating on the principle of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. In the US however, the Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 June 17-21 2005
21 June 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 June 17-21 2005 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Media Lens: Kicking the People Who Write the Cheques
It is commonly thought that media businesses like the Guardian tailor their “brand” to target particular readers. This is true, of course, but more importantly they target readers who appeal to big business advertisers. The Guardian‘s primary business, in fact, is selling wealthy audiences to these advertisers. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 June 12-16 2005
16 June 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 June 12-16 2005 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 15 June 2005 (23/05)
15 June 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Updated documents on EU Terrorism Action Plans 2. EU-UK: European Union Committee, House of Lords: Evidence by Commissioner Frattini 3. UK: Violent Crime Reduction Bill 4. Italy/Spain: Big Brother Awards 5. Denmark: Greenpeace verdict introduces collective punishment into law 6. CoE: Report by CPT Continue reading
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Downing Street Memos – the silence is deafening by William Bowles
As the memos pour forth from who knows where (somebody on the inside is obviously very pissed off with the actions of the Blair government), aside from the two articles in the Sunday Times, as far as I’ve been able to ascertain not a single mainstream media outlet in the UK has picked up on… Continue reading
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War preparations or how the media ‘disappeared’ the secret memo by William Bowles
The memo contains absolutely damning evidence that virtually the entire leadership of the British government lied and lied consistently over the issue of just about everything concerning the alleged threat posed by Iraq and, as the memo states, including lying about there being any kind of legal basis for an invasion. Continue reading
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Hariri Investigators Seen Reversing to Underground-Bomb Theory
A U.N. mission investigating ex-Premier Hariri’s assassination in Beirut may conclude that his motorcade was devastated Feb. 14 by a massive underground bomb rather than an above the ground terrorist bombing operation, Hariri’s Al Mustaqbal newspaper said on Tuesday. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 June 2005
9 June 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. Council of Europe report on human rights in UK 2. Statewatch analysis: Revising EU border control rules 3. EU: Impact of the Amsterdam Treaty on justice and home affairs 4. Ethnic Profiling by Police in Europe 5. UK: Union call to end tagging of workers Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 June 7-10 2005
7 June 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 June 7-10 2005 Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Africa Bound By William Bowles
Dowden and co would have us believe that the fundamental problem lies with African governments, that removing corruption would, in some way, remove a fundamental obstacle to African development when nothing could be further from the truth. For the truth resides in hundreds of years of economic exploitation that has un-developed Africa to the benefit… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 June 2-6 2005
6 June 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 June 2-6 2005 Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
The New Dark Age 