William Bowles – Essays
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Independent Media & the New McCarthyism
Thursday, 27 August 2026 — Defending Rights & Dissent Defending Rights & Dissent convenes a panel of experts to discuss recent attacks on journalists amid the Trump admin’s wider crackdown on dissent in the United States. Continue reading
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The salad monopoly behind the parasite
By Aug. 21, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms had sickened 10,930 people in 17 states, hospitalized 454 and killed two. The illnesses began June 14 and continued through Aug. 11. Continue reading
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Boiled in the bag by William Bowles
Now what, exactly, do the ruling class expect will eventually happen as each summer the temperature creeps up a couple more degrees, the rainfall decreases even further and wild fires spread? This year Europe is expecting 100,000 deaths due to the heat, mostly the old, the sick and the very young and of course, living… Continue reading
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How to raise concerns about Palantir with your GP
NHS patients have made it very clear that we do not want our private and personal health data to be managed by US spy tech company Palantir. Over 80,000 patients have already raised concerns about Palantir with their local NHS Trusts. Now, we want to apply pressure at a GP level too. Continue reading
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Rubio’s enemies list revives the McCarthy witch-hunt
The House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed The People’s Forum on July 21, ordering the New York organizing center to turn over its internal communications, membership records and finances by Aug. 7. Two other anti-imperialist groups, BreakThrough News and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, were served the same day. Continue reading
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Ministers promised you’d control your data. The Health Bill and NHS England say otherwise
NHS England is in denial. Story after story after story of NHS staff creeping on patients and victims, the Chief Exec of NHS England has decided the problem is only in hospitals and national systems have no ability or responsibility on access. Continue reading
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The Coming NHS They Didn’t Campaign On
A new Prime Minister is coming. He will have views on what he wants to do. Good intentions always meet unforeseeable events, and some events entirely foreseen from the decisions made by his predecessor’s health secretary. Continue reading
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Cuba will not surrender! Cuba persists and resists! And that persistence is intolerable to the empire!
Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic, at the commemoration of the 95th birthday of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz and the 65th anniversary of the creation of the Ministry of the Interior, at the Karl Marx Theater,… Continue reading
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Mr. Araghchi goes to Russia
From now on, it’s clear that no settlement will be possible – and realistic – without Russian influence. Continue reading
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Culture of Disbelief
It shakes my humanity to witness what people go through in the asylum system. Over the years we’ve seen a relentless cycle of scare tactics from politicians and media outlets designed to intimidate and harm migrant communities. Continue reading
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What Netanyahu is Threatening is Not Nuclear — It May Well Be Worse
10 March 2026 — Avigail Abarbanel’s Fully Human Essays Avigail Abarbanel Itamar Ben-Gvir X Account On 10 March 2026, retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson — former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell — gave an interview to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Wilkerson spent decades inside the machinery of American military… Continue reading
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The Capitalist END of the West: Iran Destroys US Plans | Dr. Radhika Desai
The illegal attack on Iran—as many illegal wars before—is not a bug but a system feature. One, however, that is doomed to self-destruct its host. It is the inevitable outcome of the rent-seeking and society corrupting logic of the capitalist system the West is built around. The expansionary and often genocidal logic embedded in the… Continue reading
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💥💥💥 Palantir’s blueprints for autonomous war
In early 2026, Palantir released a batch of new patents, revealing that the company isn’t just patenting individual programs. Instead, they are building a unified system, brick by brick, that covers the entire cycle of warfare—from data collection to strike, Geopolitics Prime has discovered. Continue reading
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Empire of Chaos, Plunder and Strikes in panic of being evicted from Eurasia
The article discusses the ongoing tensions between the “Empire” and Iran, highlighting the failure of multiple regime change attempts. It outlines the neo-Caligula administration’s continued efforts, including threats to bomb Iran and the failed efforts to sway the Iranian population with propaganda. Despite economic sanctions, Iran has maintained strong international ties and a growing economy.… Continue reading
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🚨 Join me LIVE Nov 14th tonight w/ special guest PrJiang Xueqin @ 8:30pm eastern 5:30am pacific and 1:30am London!of.
Prof. Jiang will connect the dots of the recent Epstein email dump and the coming death of the American empire, and gives his geopolitical predictions and how they relate to the bombshells unveiled. Continue reading
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A site Update
Thursday, 23 October 2025 — The New Dark Age I celebrated my 80th birthday in July and great fun was had by all. However, maintaining this site to the level I prefer has become a major headache for me, due largely to ongoing and extremely frustrating health issues. I have kept this site going, pretty… Continue reading
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Single Patient Record (and ID cards…)
The Health Secretary has told his friends that the first part of his “Single Patient Record” will be rolled out by the end of the year. We expect this rollout will be a “pilot” of the now-merged Department of Health in England (i.e. DH and the “abolished” NHS England) using government powers to impose decisions… Continue reading
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Your Party, Party like there’s no tomorrow
Blimey, what a rollercoaster! I’ve never been a fan of Corbyn, even less, Corbynism (whatever that is) and I have never viewed him as a socialist, more of a liberal-lefty type, with his heart no doubt in all the ‘right places’ but above all, Corbyn is a Party Man, the Labour Party being his entire… Continue reading
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The Salisbury “Novichok” False Flag
Here are Tim Norman, Patrick Henningsen and myself discussing the Skripal charade, at the Beautiful Days Festival near Exeter. At the start 90% of the audience said they believed the official narrative. At the end 80% had changed their mind. Continue reading
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The Frontman of Empire: How Bono’s “Activism” Serves the Powerful
DUBLIN – Bono is again in the news for his political activism. At the behest of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Irish rockstar and frontman of U2 traveled to Kiev, where he performed a few songs with Ukrainian soldiers inside the Khreshchatyk metro station to a crowd of around 100 people – most of whom… Continue reading
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