William Bowles – Essays
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Zelensky’s Victory Plan is his survival kit
Strana, one of the top online newspapers in Ukraine, which is banned in Russia since 2022, reported on Friday that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is planning to dismiss Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and the powerful military intelligence chief Gen. Kirill Budanov from their posts as part of his continuing purge of the military establishment in… Continue reading
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British Labour’s raw deal for working people
Already the electioneering can be seen as a sham. This week, the Labour government won a majority vote in the House of Commons to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners. Around 10 million senior citizens will no longer receive a financial grant to help them pay soaring energy bills and keep their houses warm this winter. Continue reading
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Organised abandonment: From Grenfell to border deaths
Seven years after the Grenfell fire that took the lives of 72 people and destroyed 151 homes, the inquiry into the disaster has published its report, exposing ‘systematic dishonesty’ by cladding manufacturers, missed opportunities by successive governments, safety issues being ‘ignored, delayed or disregarded’ by a coalition government focussed on cutting regulation; ‘persistent indifference to… Continue reading
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Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military
Dr. Khaled Alser, a highly respected Palestinian surgeon, is the lead author of The Lancet’s first medical paper to detail cases of trauma among Gazan patients and medical professionals. But he has had little opportunity to mark the occasion: On March 25, the Israel Defense Forces abducted him during a raid on his hospital and… Continue reading
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Lumpen Politics of Starmer
In a Labour Party Election Broadcast on April 16th, 2024, Sir Keir Starmer highlighted how his working-class background influences his approach to politics. In a BBC interview on May 27th, 2024, Sir Starmer reinforced his working-class roots and promised to serve the interests of the working people in Britain. He even described himself as a… Continue reading
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New York State of Mind
In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York — and what they can teach a new generation of socialists. Continue reading
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From Fight the Power to Work for It: Chuck D, Public Enemy and How the CIA Neutralized Rap
Surprising many, legendary rapper and activist Chuck D appeared at the White House earlier this summer, announcing that he was joining forces with YouTube and Antony Blinken’s State Department to become one of Washington’s “global music ambassadors” – a role directly modeled on Washington’s Cold War-era efforts to use the arts to inspire U.S.-backed regime… Continue reading
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Iran will hit Israel, ball is in US-Israeli court
There is a Zen proverb — ‘If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.’ All the show of contrived enthusiasm by the US President Joe Biden and CIA Director William Burns over a Israel-Hamas deal on Gaza war cannot obfuscate the grim reality that unless and until Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu greenlights… Continue reading
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Revisionist Zionists dare the U.S. to pull the plug on their Nakba agenda
Israelis have been deeply divided these last years, unable to coalesce around a government. After five general elections, they decided to dismiss the Lapid/Gantz team and to put a new coalition – formed around Netanyahu and small Jewish supremacist parties – into power. Continue reading
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Venezuela: Over 30 Million Cyber Attacks Per Minute Since July 28
Venezuelan platforms have experienced over 30 million cyberattacks per minute without a break since July 28. This was reported by Venezuelan Minister of Science and Technology Gabriela Jiménez this Monday, August 12, at the National and State Security Council held by President Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading
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Israel’s PR Scramble Following Tabeen SchooI Massacre: Hamas Fighters Killed Twice, “No Women and Children Present”
After committing a massacre at a school in Gaza City, the Israeli military claimed that the facility, which housed over 6,000 displaced civilians, was being used as a Hamas command center. The military released the names of alleged fighters killed in the attack. However, some of those identified as militants were killed months earlier, and… Continue reading
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Back up and running (I hope)
Sunday, 11 August 2024 — The New Dark Age Well, the site is running under a new theme! I’ve just started tweaking it, so it’ll be awhile before it’s fully functional. Basically a WordPress ‘Happiness Engineer’ rebuilt the whole site, at least I think so, at least installed a new, functioning theme, instead a mess Continue reading
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WordPress has ruined my site!
Wednesday, 7 August 2024 — The New Dark Age The theme that I’ve been using here for about 10 years, simple and easy to maintain was broken by changes WordPress made to its software and no longer worked, thus I was forced to use a new theme. However, because WordPress has radically transformed the way Continue reading
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WordPress Sucks!
Thursday, 1 August 2024 — The New Dark Age Well, I capitulated and installed a new theme as WordPress broke the one I’ve been using for years, which was the main reason I gave up on using WordPress and frankly, it’s changed so much I’m clueless, it’s turned into an alien landscape, I have neither Continue reading
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Everything we know is a lie
Thursday, 9 May 2024 — Dot Commie William Bowles How can I put this? We live in a gaudy, sometimes, bubble, insulated from the world, fed an illusion that strokes our vanity, our egos, our presumptions but especially our fears. A world, so complete, so walled off from the real world and for so long Continue reading
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Inclusive economics and the IMF
The great and the good have just finished attending a special World Economic Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The theme of the conference for the over 1000 delegates from corporations, governments and international agencies was global cooperation and inclusive growth. In other words, how to reverse the growing international trade wars and rising inequality of… Continue reading
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AI chatbots: Hype meets reality
Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere. Companies use powerful AI chatbots on their web pages or phone systems to handle customer questions. Newsrooms and magazines use them to write stories. Film studios use them to produce films. Tech companies use them to program. Students use them to write papers. It seems like magic. And with… Continue reading
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4 April 2024 — The Tricontinental
By November 2023, it was already clear that the Israeli government had begun to deny Palestinians in Gaza access to water. ‘Every hour that passes with Israel preventing the provision of safe drinking water in the Gaza strip, in brazen breach of international law, puts Gazans at risk of dying of thirst and diseases related… Continue reading
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History will record that Israel committed a holocaust
It’s 8 pm in Gaza, Palestine right now, the end of my fourth day in Rafah and the first moment I’ve had to sit in a quiet place to reflect. I’ve tried to take notes, photos, mental images, but this moment is too big for a notepad or my struggling memory. Nothing prepared me for… Continue reading
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An update
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 — The New Dark Age I’m afraid I’ve been rather tardy of late in updating the site and I suppose I should apologise to regular visitors but I’m kinda burned out and preoccupied with other concerns and frankly, feeling rather lazy, I have after all, been doing this for 40 years, Continue reading
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