William Bowles – Essays
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Death of a Brazilian or how to massage the facts to fit the crime By William Bowles
As more information has come to light on the circumstances surrounding the assassination of the unfortunate Brazilian, it is abundantly clear that from the moment he stepped out of his apartment building in Tulse Hill to go to his job as an electrician, Menezes was a dead man. Continue reading
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A collective shitting in the pants By William Bowles
27 July 2005 What kind of a mess have our erstwhile leaders got us into? It’s not too late you know, to do something about this gang of murdering politicos who have their cold, hard hands around our throats. It struck me that the common message I have been getting of late is not only… Continue reading
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Ramping up the fear quotient By William Bowles
A sure fire way of keeping the spotlight off a murderous government that is neither believed nor trusted by the majority of the population, is to have a diversion of enormous magnitude caused by an enemy, preferably of an elemental kind (anarchists, communists, fanatics, fundamentalists, terrorists, take your pick). Continue reading
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Six decades on the third rock from the sun By William Bowles
24 July 2005 Day 4 of Open Season on those who are “darker than blue” First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they… Continue reading
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Evil ideology + young Muslims + DIY Bombs = Terror By William Bowles with Edward Teague
Talking of which, my pal Edward Teague who is, as they say from ‘oop North’, has been making extensive inquiries, talking to Asians (or at least British of Asian extraction) trying to find out what they make of it all, especially what they think of the idea of how four young and apparently quite normal… Continue reading
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Ordinary Fascism By William Bowles
Conveniently, along comes 9/11, a ‘Pearl Harbour’ re-run, a convenient hitching post for a new Horse of the Apocalypse that in turn is used to ride rough-shod over our hard-won rights and liberties and to justify the assault on the planet. But any assault by the rich and powerful must first win the backing of… Continue reading
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Forcing the facts to fit the theory By William Bowles
17 July 2005 A story in the Daily Mirror, 16/7/05 titled ‘Exclusive: Was it suicide?’, attempts to use essentially the same facts presented here but still make them out to be bombers. There are a lot of problems with this approach, especially in the light of the latest information to emerge. Continue reading
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Dead men tell no tales: Were the London bombings a set up? By William Bowles and Edward Teague
I’m leery of conspiracy theories, especially when they involve convoluted plots. Occam’s Razor is my guide, however, ever since the events of July 7 something has been nagging at me about the nature of the latest terrorist attack, and not merely the timing but the methods. Call it a gut reaction if you like but… Continue reading
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Bush and Blair’s ‘Prime Evil’ By William Bowles
In the light of the increasingly orchestrated hysteria surrounding the slaughter in London last week, it’s worth taking a deep breath and a step back and look at the history of the ‘war on terror’ and how the concept came to be and its inevitable and horrific consequences, consequences that rarely, if ever target the… Continue reading
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Virtual Fascism or the State of Terror By William Bowles
10 July 2005 A letter from a reader: For a good period of time I had gone along, starting my practice in neuropsychology (I worked in hospitals for a long time and the venture into private practice consumed me) and paying little attention to the neocon threat. I hated Bush et. al. but had little… Continue reading
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‘If Osama bin Laden didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent him’ By William Bowles
I am reminded of a statement made some time back that ‘if Osama bin Laden didn’t exist it would have been necessary to invent him’ for if, as I contend that to justify the ‘war on terror’ it was necessary to invent the terrorist threat first, then come hell or high water, acts such as… Continue reading
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Jive8: Bob Geldof does damage control for international war criminal By William Bowles
The last few weeks have seen a gigantic propaganda onslaught by the state and corporate interests to confuse, misdirect and finally channel peoples’ concerns anywhere except where they truly belong, that is, directed at big business and the political class that represents them, that has for hundreds of years raped Africa and the rest of… Continue reading
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Unpacking the Imperium: The Washington Post reveals all By William Bowles
Well, there you have it, we are ruled by capital, nay seduced by its siren song to produce in an endless stream its productions and in turn to consume said production. A drug more addictive than heroin that has ruled us for five hundred years. But there are real signs that it’s all going pear-shaped… Continue reading
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The State under siege or is it the people? By William Bowles
Not since the 1920s has the capitalist state been so threatened but ironically not by revolution but by its own complete lack of creditability. On every front its actions are being questioned as never before, whether its actions in far-off lands or its domestic policies. Continue reading
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Crunch time in ‘old’ Europe By William Bowles
The only option for the Blair government is to try and force its agenda onto the EU or pull out of the EU which is simply not a practical solution, economic integration is just too far developed. It would mean dumping a slew of legislation passed over the past thirty-plus years! A gargantuan and immensely… Continue reading
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Premature Burial By William Bowles
22 June 2005 No matter, the BBC and the rest of the state’s media/propaganda arsenal have effectively buried the Downing Street Minutes here in the UK, preferring to ignore the story rather than mount a counter offensive, no doubt operating on the principle of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. In the US however, the… Continue reading
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Downing Street Memos – the silence is deafening by William Bowles
As the memos pour forth from who knows where (somebody on the inside is obviously very pissed off with the actions of the Blair government), aside from the two articles in the Sunday Times, as far as I’ve been able to ascertain not a single mainstream media outlet in the UK has picked up on… Continue reading
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War preparations or how the media ‘disappeared’ the secret memo by William Bowles
The memo contains absolutely damning evidence that virtually the entire leadership of the British government lied and lied consistently over the issue of just about everything concerning the alleged threat posed by Iraq and, as the memo states, including lying about there being any kind of legal basis for an invasion. Continue reading
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Africa Bound By William Bowles
Dowden and co would have us believe that the fundamental problem lies with African governments, that removing corruption would, in some way, remove a fundamental obstacle to African development when nothing could be further from the truth. For the truth resides in hundreds of years of economic exploitation that has un-developed Africa to the benefit… Continue reading
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Big, Bad Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: The creation of a myth By William Bowles
A piece in the Washington Post dated June 1 2005, is pretty typical in that it contains 800 words of, well nothing except total speculation. The article bylined Katherine Shrader contains not one single fact about Zarqawi, it’s a total waste of space and illustrates the desperate nature of managing a propaganda campaign that depends… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 