August 2005
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 8 29-31 August 2005
31 August 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 29-31 August 2005 Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Release Continue reading
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Je sans frontieres? By William Bowles
I am an archetypal ‘red diaper’ baby, raised in the radical political culture produced by the struggles of the first half of the 20th century, that of socialism and the battle against the rise of Fascism. Of course it had its downside as being raised in what was effectively a ‘Bohemian’ environment set me apart… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 7 25-27 August 2005
27 August 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 25-27 August 2005 Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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(Don’t) Mention the J** word By William Bowles
26 August 2005 Speaking at a memorial for the victims of a Palestinian attack that took place 26 years ago, [Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev] Boim said: “What is it about Islam as a whole and the Palestinians in particular? Is it some form of cultural deprivation? Is it some genetic defect? There is something Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Dark Heart of Robin Cook’s ‘Ethical’ Foreign Policy – Part 2
Ethical foreign policy? Cook supplied Hawk fighter-bombers to the Suharto regime committing genocide in East Timor. He propagandised on behalf of US-UK sanctions that killed one million Iraqi civilians. He defended the cynical December 1998 bombing of Iraq and spread government lies about Iraq’s alleged failure to cooperate with inspectors. He repeated propaganda justifying Nato’s… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 6 20-24 August 2005
24 August 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 20-24 August 2005 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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An awful sense of déjà vu By William Bowles
If my folks were still alive I am sure this is exactly what they’d be feeling today. And, as the capitalist system inches ever closer to Armageddon, the question about the causes of war are still not part of the public discourse in a world where following the end of the Cold War, we were… Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Dark Heart of Robin Cook’s ‘Ethical’ Foreign Policy – Part 1
22 August 2005 — Media Lens August 6 And The Barbarians Of The Dark Ages Every death is a tragedy to be mourned. August 6 marked the 60th anniversary of the agonizing deaths of 140,000 Japanese people in the city of Hiroshima. In her article, ‘Eight Hundred Metres From The Hypocentre,’ Yamaoka Michiko described her Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 5 17-19 August 2005
19 August 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 17-19 August 2005 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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The cry now is “treason” or the Star Chamber revisited By William Bowles
Under the Lords Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey and Archbishop Cranmer (1515-1529), the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon for bringing actions against opponents to the policies of Henry VIII, his Ministers and his Parliament. Then, under James the 1st and Charles the 1st, the Star Chamber Court sessions were held in secret, with no… Continue reading
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Officer, there’s a hole in your bit bucket By William Bowles
On July 30 I wrote a piece on the murder of Mr De Menezes by an undercover assassination squad on the Northern Line train that as the ‘leaks’ that came into the possession of TV News shows, was a pretty accurate summation of the events on that Friday morning. Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 18 August 2005 (30/05)
18 August 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. EU: Justice and Home Affairs Council Declaration Follow-up 2. EU: Prum Convention (Schengen III) official English translation 3. UK: Press Statement from lawyers on the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes 4. Italy: Statewatch analysis: Tough new anti-terrorist laws adopted 5. Ireland-USA: Mutual Legal Assistance Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 4 August 13-16 2005
16 August 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 13-16 August 2005 Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Book Review: ‘War Made Easy – How presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death’ By William Bowles
16 August 2005 ‘War Made Easy – How presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death’ by Norman Solomon. John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath – Fadel Gheit, oil industry expert In the autumn of 2001, the Bush administration hired Charlotte Beers Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 3 9-12 August 2005
12 August 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 9-12 August 2005 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 9 August 2005 (30/05)
9 August 2005 — Statewatch Full contents see: www.statewatch.org/news 1. UK: Home Office call for sweeping grounds for exclusion or deportatation 2. UK: Reactions to the government’s new plans to tackle terrorism 3. UK: Prime Minister’s statement on new terrorists measures 4. EU: Report for 2004: EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights 5. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 2 5-8 August 2005
8 August 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 5-8 August 2005 Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
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Many a strange bedfellow By William Bowles
The purpose of this essay is not to try and prove a definitive link between the July 7 (or July 21) attacks and the state but that an historical (and on-going) relationship exists between state-sponsored terror via covert operations of all kinds and the vehicles they use as cover – drug smuggling, money laundering, extremist… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 August 1-4 2005
4 August 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 1-4 August 2005 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 Charge Him or Continue reading
The New Dark Age 