The New Dark Age

'Socialism or Barbarism'

March 2007

  • Us and Them By William Bowles

    29 March 2007 We are so used to the ruling political class making decisions ‘for us’ that we forget that they exist and act only because we allow them to. We allow it because we think that once elected, our representatives will act in our best interests. And because ‘we elect’ them every so often—itself Continue reading

  • Beware the Ides of March By William Bowles

    25 March 2007 “Inspired” “Engineered” “Involvement” “Intelligence” “Circumstantial” “Link” — The BBC hedging its bets on alleged Iranian involvement in the ‘insurgency’ in Iraq “There is intelligence about this [Iranian involvement], but no hard proof” BBC 6pm News, 23/3/07 Well we all know what ‘intelligence’ means but this didn’t stop the same ‘news’ broadcast leading Continue reading

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  • Madness and Capitalism By William Bowles

    21 March 2007 “The body had to die so that labor-power could live.” — Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, p. 141. Anybody who has read Michel Foucault’s ‘Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason’, and who agrees with him, will probably have a very different take on the entire Continue reading

  • Clarifying climate change By William Bowles

    17-18 March 2007 I hope that my piece ‘Don’t bother breathing out’ (see below) didn’t lead readers to assume that I don’t think that global warming is not the result of human actions. If so, I wish to clarify that all the available evidence points to the fact that global warming is the result of Continue reading

  • So what gives? By William Bowles

    12 March 2007 ‘[We come not as] conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.’ — Lieutenant General Sir Stanley Maude, Commander in Chief of British forces in Iraq, after entering Baghdad in March 1917. According to the best estimates, the dozen years of sanctions following Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait led to something like one million deaths Continue reading

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