William Bowles – Essays
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The lull before the storm By William Bowles
Piper persuaded me to accompany him on a trip on a deep-sea trawler out of Hull, ostensibly to produce the illustrations for a book he’d written on his life as a deep-sea trawlerman. Not an experience I’m ever likely to forget and one which at times filled me with sheer terror, not to mention three… Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive Part 1 1-5 September 2005
5 September 2018 — Information Clearing House [I’ve been archiving ICH digests since early 2003. Unfortunately, an unknown number of the links are now dead, so I can’t guarantee that the link will take you where you want to go. WB] Information Clearing House Digest 1-5 September 2005 Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 Charge Him or… Continue reading
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Some after thoughts on Hurricane Bush and a possible ‘end of days’ scenario By William Bowles
2 September 2005 Had a long conversation with a pal of mine last night about why exactly, the US seems unconcerned about global warming and what, in all likelihood is the imminent climate catastrophe, which I think is worth sharing with readers. Now I’m not saying I necessarily agree with his conclusions but I have… Continue reading
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Hurricane Bush hits America By William Bowles
Nothing, I think illustrates the insanity of the ‘war on terror’ than the aftermath of the hurricane that hit the Gulf states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Continue reading
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Je sans frontieres? By William Bowles
I am an archetypal ‘red diaper’ baby, raised in the radical political culture produced by the struggles of the first half of the 20th century, that of socialism and the battle against the rise of Fascism. Of course it had its downside as being raised in what was effectively a ‘Bohemian’ environment set me apart… Continue reading
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(Don’t) Mention the J** word By William Bowles
26 August 2005 Speaking at a memorial for the victims of a Palestinian attack that took place 26 years ago, [Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ze’ev] Boim said: “What is it about Islam as a whole and the Palestinians in particular? Is it some form of cultural deprivation? Is it some genetic defect? There is something… Continue reading
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An awful sense of déjà vu By William Bowles
If my folks were still alive I am sure this is exactly what they’d be feeling today. And, as the capitalist system inches ever closer to Armageddon, the question about the causes of war are still not part of the public discourse in a world where following the end of the Cold War, we were… Continue reading
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The cry now is “treason” or the Star Chamber revisited By William Bowles
Under the Lords Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey and Archbishop Cranmer (1515-1529), the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon for bringing actions against opponents to the policies of Henry VIII, his Ministers and his Parliament. Then, under James the 1st and Charles the 1st, the Star Chamber Court sessions were held in secret, with no… Continue reading
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Officer, there’s a hole in your bit bucket By William Bowles
On July 30 I wrote a piece on the murder of Mr De Menezes by an undercover assassination squad on the Northern Line train that as the ‘leaks’ that came into the possession of TV News shows, was a pretty accurate summation of the events on that Friday morning. Continue reading
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Book Review: ‘War Made Easy – How presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death’ By William Bowles
16 August 2005 ‘War Made Easy – How presidents and pundits keep spinning us to death’ by Norman Solomon. John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Think of Iraq as a military base with a very large oil reserve underneath – Fadel Gheit, oil industry expert In the autumn of 2001, the Bush administration hired Charlotte Beers… Continue reading
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Many a strange bedfellow By William Bowles
The purpose of this essay is not to try and prove a definitive link between the July 7 (or July 21) attacks and the state but that an historical (and on-going) relationship exists between state-sponsored terror via covert operations of all kinds and the vehicles they use as cover – drug smuggling, money laundering, extremist… Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 