June 2008
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Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate By William Bowles
And as long as Mugabe left Britain’s ‘kith and kin’ alone (the settler farmers), it was quite happy to let Zanu-PF spout all kinds of socialist rhetoric, as long as he didn’t actually implement any of it. Thus all the statements out of the West about the ‘miracle’ of Zimbabwe, the ‘bread basket’ of Southern… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: SELLING THE FIREBALL – GEORGE BUSH AND IRAN June 25, 2008
MEDIA ALERT: SELLING THE FIREBALL – GEORGE BUSH AND IRAN June 25, 2008 MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media When George Bush arrived in Britain last week as part of his “farewell tour”, the real reasons for the visit were buried well out of sight. The tour was not, as Continue reading
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Conflating inflation – when is a crisis not a crisis? When the BBC says it’s a ‘slowdown’ By William Bowles
20 June 2008 — Investigating Imperialism Commenting on the pay deal struck between Shell’s tanker drivers totaling 14% over two years, a BBC ‘reporter’ during an interview with UK government minister John Hutton (BBC World News, 18 June 2008) made the following statement (not exactly verbatim but accurate as to content): BBC: “But when other workers Continue reading
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Book Review: Why the Left doesn’t get it By William Bowles
15 June 2008 Book Review: ‘Deer Hunting With Jesus – Dispatches from America’s Class War’ By Joe Bageant “Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.” This is the hardest review I have ever had to write. Who am I writing it for seems to be at the heart of my Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘Complicit Enablers’ – UK Media Ignore US Whistleblowers
11 June, 2008 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media In April 2006, George Bush bade farewell to his outgoing White House press secretary, Scott McClellan: “One day he and I are going to be rocking on chairs in Texas talking about the good old days and his time as Continue reading
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On being different and why it’s important By William Bowles
Being ‘different’ is not something tolerated in our society. Of course there are outlets for those who don’t ‘fit’ but always within strictly defined circumstances. The arts come to mind and especially the theatre but in the mainstream of society, being ‘different’ takes on an ideological significance and especially if, like myself you came from… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, June 6, 2008 By William Blum
6 June 2006 — Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life The Empire — A Status Report There are a number of expressions and slogans associated with the Nazi regime in Germany which have become commonly known in English. ‘Sieg Heil!’ — Victory Hail! ‘Arbeit macht Continue reading
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I’m overwhelmed by the horror of it all By William Bowles
4 June 2008 I’ll be honest, the reason I haven’t been at all productive of late is because I felt so utterly depressed about the state of the world that I simply felt inadequate and overwhelmed by the task of writing. The fact that the world is controlled by a gang of psychopaths so utterly Continue reading
The New Dark Age 