February 2008
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: ‘CREATIVE DESTRUCTION’ – THE MADNESS OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media February 5, 2008 Watching the corporate media report the ‘financial crisis’ is instructive. From the perspective of power, it is important that a steadying hand is applied to the tiller of news and commentary on the crisis, and the global economy itself. And so Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: SUHARTO – COVERING UP WESTERN COMPLICITY
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media February 12, 2008 The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American support for one of the 20th century’s worst mass murderers. Instead, the media continued the cover up that has Continue reading
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Are we there yet Pa? By Joe Bageant
John Raymond Castillo, age 81. Sunrise, January 14, 1917. Sunset, February 11, 2008. He leaves 21 children, 140 grandchildren and 302 great-grandchildren… — Obituary announcement on Belize’s LOVE Radio station â€The population of Belize? Officially it’s about 300,000. But if you include all the kids, it’s probably three million.†— Greg, longtime expatriate American in Continue reading
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Can the Clintons Clinch it? Who cares By William Bowles
It’s pretty obvious, at least to me anyway, that the ‘democratic process’ has run its course, at least as it’s presently constituted in the so-called developed countries. Not that I’m advocating a dictatorship, in any case we already have a de facto dictatorship by default by virtue of the total non participation by the ‘people’… Continue reading
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There’s a kind of madness in the air By William Bowles
16 February, 2008 Note: sorry about the story being out of sequence but all attempts at posting it failed. Had to wait until my return. February 2, 2008 — For the first time in a long time I’m taking a trip to NYC, my old ‘home town’. The airport (I use this term advisedly) I’m Continue reading
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Observations from the Front Line: The US State of Denial By William Bowles
16 February, 2008 Observations from the Front Line Manhattan, 13 February, 2008 — For the first time, almost exactly thirty years ago, I sat where I’m sitting now, writing this, in the Broome Street Bar, corner of Broome and West Broadway. I was building the Cayman Gallery a couple of hundred yards away further up Continue reading
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The Alien Amongst Us By William Bowles
The use of fear as an instrument of the state’s control of the population is probably as old as the central state itself, whether of invasion, internal ‘subversion’ or the ‘alien’ and records show that in Europe, it’s been used as and when convenient, for at least the past one thousand years. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 