William Bowles – Essays
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The Promised Land
Tuesday, 18 March 2025 — The New Dark Age Continue reading
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Thank you to thousands who supported me: we won
After spending five days imprisoned, I was released without restriction on my ability to discuss the charges brought against me for criticizing Israel. It’s a small win for free expression and Palestine campaigning. Continue reading
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Thames Water ‘rewarded for years of mismanagement’ with £3bn emergency loan
THAMES WATER’S £3 billion bailout was approved by the High Court today, triggering outrage as campaigners warned of higher bills from sky-high interest payments. Continue reading
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Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink?
Are Big Tech’s plans to build hundreds of massive new data centres around the UK going to cause water shortages for the rest of us? Foxglove has conducted new research which reveals the staggering amount of water used by data centres to keep their computers cool. We’ve found a worrying lack of plans to ensure… Continue reading
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Evidence of US-Al-Qaeda* Alliance; The Global War on Terror (GWOT) has Exponentially Strengthened Al-Qaeda* Terrorists
The 2024 Global Terrorism Index revealed that the vice has been expanding despite the GWOT (Global War on Terror) being over 20 years old. Meanwhile, Muhammad Al-Jolani, a rebranded member of ISIS and Al-Qaeda*, led terrorists to overthrow a state, which was impossible before the GWOT, in 2001. Is GWOT fighting against or for terrorists? Continue reading
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Make White People accountable again
Daniel Penny, the white Marine veteran who was acquitted of negligent homicide in the death of Black subway-performer Jordan Neely earlier this week, will attend today’s nationally televised Army-Navy football game as a personal guest of Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and other leading MAGA figures. It will be another milestone in Penny’s journey from cold-blooded… Continue reading
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GM Watch 15 December, 2024 – Lobby Watch
Sundauy, 15 December 2024 — GM Watch Welcome to our latest LobbyWatch Review, with some stunning examples of the corporate capture of lawmakers (see FREEDOM TO HARM), regulators and experts. And we have all the latest on POISON PR – how the industry’s PR people are tracking and vilifying those with concerns about GMOs and… Continue reading
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Three Principles of Working-Class Liberation
Do you dream of a world where everyone has what they need? Where work is creative and meaningful? Where people care for each other? Where we all protect the environment? Continue reading
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Statewatch News 28 November 2024
Thursday, 28 November 2024 —statewatch.org X / Mastodon / BlueSky / LinkedIn / Facebook / RSS Issue 24/21 Also available as a PDF. In this issue: Border externalisation: deportation, reintegration, documentation Tunisia: Criminalisation of solidarity continues Italy abolishes transparency over border policies EU “operationalises” police data access plans New material from across Europe and beyond Continue reading
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US government paid PR firm to track and vilify critics of GMOs and pesticides
Saturday, 2 November 2024 — GM Watch US government paid PR firm to track and vilify critics of GMOs and pesticides PR firm v-Fluence is run by former Monsanto communications chief Jay Byrne. By Jonathan Matthews and Claire Robinson [excerpt only] Covert PR operations involving the secret profiling of over 3,000 people and organisations considered… Continue reading
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UK Snubs Council of Europe Over Assange Inquiry
Britain’s Home Office is making a “grave mistake” by ignoring a call from the Council of Europe to review its treatment of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder’s wife has warned. The council’s parliamentary assembly, of which the U.K. is a member, passed a resolution earlier this month designating Assange as a “political prisoner”. Continue reading
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Spycops political policing: Starmer, sexual assault and serious crimes
The Undercover Policing Inquiry is back this week, to hear much delayed evidence about some of the most controversial events in the history of the highly criticised spycops unit, the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). Live hearings begin this Monday, 21 October, at 2pm, and will look at deployments from 1983-1992. Continue reading
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The most precarious place in the world to be a child: Israel’s year of war on children
Israel’s onslaught against the Palestinian people has systematically targeted children in both Gaza and the West Bank. The result is a war against an entire generation. Continue reading
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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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