William Bowles – Essays
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Poisonous Perle By William Bowles
Today’s quiz: What connects Richard Perle to Douglas Feith, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, ELF Oil, Lord Black, Iraq, Israel, Iran, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Bush Snr and Bush Jnr, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, China, Adnan Kashoggi, Saudi Arabia, Global Crossings, Boeing, Halliburton, and the DoD? Continue reading
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Surprise-Surprise By William Bowles
Not surprisingly, this week the Blair government has announced the second highest ‘terrorism alert’ since 9/11 as a prelude to the visit by Bush the smaller. And like all the ‘terrorist alerts’ its vagueness verging on the mystical, allows the security state to cast its net very wide indeed. So much so that visitors to… Continue reading
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The Media’s Double Standard By William Bowles
I’ve often referred to the strategy that is the core of the ‘new’ imperialist agenda, the so-called ‘double standard’ articulated by Robert Cooper, now Blair’s pro-consul in Afghanistan. And although cloaked in ‘post-modernist’ phraseology, effectively, it’s a rollback to an earlier, imperialist epoch, a time when the Western world went unchallenged, aside from the occasional… Continue reading
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Terminal Capitalism Two: It’s a Male Thing By William Bowles
So here we go again, round two of the preparation for Armageddon and no doubt, the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, Indians et al, read Secrecy News as well they should. And should anyone have any doubts that the leaders of the ‘free world’ are indeed completely balmy, check out the language of the technocrats… Continue reading
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Terminal Capitalism By William Bowles
Then conveniently, we get 9/11, an event that couldn’t have occurred a ‘better’ time as far the US government was concerned. The peacetime equivilent of Pearl Harbour, that gave the greenlight for the psychopaths to really get going on the ‘war on terror’. The dogs of war are unleashed and the scourge of racism used… Continue reading
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Oil, Guns & Drugs – The Money Triangle By William Bowles
When dealing with politics, the personalities of the people involved are supposedly less important than the context, the power relations, money, class and so forth. But when it comes to the cabal of individuals grouped around the Bush presidency, many of whom have a history of involvement with assassinations, terrorism, drugs, money laundering and other… Continue reading
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Iraq: Rhetoric Versus Reality By William Bowles
Bush and Blah have made much of the ‘fact’ that they invaded Iraq to bring democracy to the Iraqi people after thirty-five years of Saddam’s dictatorship. But what are the realities on the ground? Continue reading
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Big Brother? No, it’s Biometric Big Blunkett By William Bowles
So Blunkett has finally gotten his way and persuaded his cabinet cohorts that the good citizens of the ‘mother of democracy’ must have a ‘biometric’ ID card. The card, that by the way, loyal citizens will have to pay forty quid for the privilege of owning, will contain your photo, finger and thumbprint and for… Continue reading
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The case for a global political party continued… By William Bowles
On reflection, I fear I didn’t do the idea of the Global Working Peoples’ Association sufficient justice in the essay in the sense that I only touched on what I believe to be the underlying rationale for the (eventual) emergence of some kind of global political ‘party’. And frankly, I can’t see any other alternative… Continue reading
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History Repeating Itself? Not Exactly By William Bowles
This time around, in spite of (or perhaps because of) a massive propaganda campaign preceding the war (whereas the Vietnam debacle was effectively hidden from the public), the imperium has been forced to try and justify its actions every step of the way. For those of us engaged in actively opposing the imperium, there are… Continue reading
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Risen from the grave By William Bowles
As predicted, the Tories have dumped the wimp and chosen Dracula, whose attitudes and policies when in power rivalled the position of the British National Party. Press coverage of Howard’s ascendency has been a wall-to-wall whitewash of this reactionary and racist individual, with acres of coverage of how Michael Howard is now a ‘reformed’ right-wing… Continue reading
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By Any Means Necessary By William Bowles
When the law gets in the way of policy, for example the illegal export and sale of weapons, breaking the law creates the necessity to keep the operation secret. Enter the conspiracy. And in order to pursue its objectives outside the law, it has to form alliances with criminal organisations, create institutions for laundering the… Continue reading
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Snared on the Web By William Bowles
The latest attack on freedom of speech might not bother non-Americans but the State Department’s move to add Websites to its list of “Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Specially Designated Global Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers” should. Continue reading
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Will he, wont he? Go, that is By William Bowles
The Ides of March have come a little earlier than usual. The notorious and racist right-wing Tory cabal, otherwise known as the 1922 Committee, fed up with Ian Duncan Smith’s wimpy ‘liberal’ programme have finally managed to whip up enough hysteria to challenge IDS for the leadership of the Tory Party. So barring a miracle,… Continue reading
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Bovines of Mass Destruction By William Bowles
Of course the drug of choice for the great majority of the American public is beef and it surely was only a matter of time before BMDs finally found their mark, smuggled into every American home in the shape of the innocuous hamburger, in a terrorist campaign that truly dwarfs the efforts of Osama and… Continue reading
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And here’s another thought… By William Bowles
Although the Labour government denies that the takeover of the privatised rail maintenance contracts by the government-owned Network Rail is re-nationalisation, it admits that the reason is the vast savings that will be realised as a result, something like 25% of the current cost. It’s also got to do with the complete balls-up the various… Continue reading
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Jim Crow UK-style By William Bowles
Ten years after the Lawrence inquiry into the death of a young black man and the failure of the police and the prosecuting authorities to bring anyone to book, concluded that the police was “institutionally racist”, a description that can be extended to every aspect of the British state and its institutions. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 