William Bowles – Essays
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Law ‘n’ Order By William Bowles
Marx saw the state as ‘whithering away’ with the building of communism (as opposed to the state under socialism, which is a kind of ‘interim stage’ between capitalism and communism). Moreover, Marx was quite specific about it. Under communism, the state becomes a government of ‘things’ as opposed to a government of people. Continue reading
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Weapons, Media and Politics – an evil ‘axis of interests’ By William Bowles
Carlyle is a who’s who of the right-wing elite both here in the UK and over the pond in the US, with former Prime Minister John Major as a director, George Bush Snr and his Secretary of State, James Baker, as advisers, and it’s headed by Frank Carlucci, Ronald Reagan’s Defence Secretary. Continue reading
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Intel – al-Qu’eda – The War on Terror: Destroying the Myths By William Bowles
24 November 2003 Several related issues on my mind on this grey, London morning as I contemplate the latest ‘news’, scan the headlines and peruse my (overflowing) mailbox and all are, in some way, related (except the weather). Continue reading
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The Police State is Here By William Bowles
As predicted here, the government is introducing its own version of the Patriot Act. Innocuously entitled the “Civil Contingencies Bill” if passed it abolishes civil rights of all kinds under the cover of the ‘war on terror’ and an “emergency”. And was Cooper’s ‘innocent’ remark made in the light of the fact that he knew… Continue reading
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Book Review: Getting to the meat of Skull & Bones By William Bowles
What constitutes a conspiracy? Well first off by definition it should be a secret. According to the chapter by Ralph Bunch, ‘Secrecy and our constitution: Whom do they serve?’ conspiracies are factions, minority factions that see all non-members of the conspiracy as opponents and their secrecy is to prevent all opponents from even knowing of… Continue reading
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Report from Propaganda Central By William Bowles
22 November 2003 “The West wakes up to the extent of Al-Qu’eda’s reach – franchised by Al-Qu’eda” That was how Channel 4 News opened up last night’s broadcast (21/11/03). But I must say I’m impressed as it pretty well sums up the relationship between the imperium and Osama’s global ‘franchise’. Osama is the New World… Continue reading
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Provocations By William Bowles
Was the bombing in Istambul a provocation? Before you accuse me of joining ‘conspiracy central’ consider that the CIA were tied directly to the terrorist group that bombed the US barracks in Beirut in 1982 through funding their operations and the use of provocations to destabilise and/or as a reason for intervention has a long… Continue reading
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More on the Bush-Nazi connection By William Bowles
Awhile back I touched on the connection between the Nazis and the Bush family fortune as part of the review of the book “The People as Enemy”. And I also referred extensively to it in “Frauds ‘R’ US” as well. Then a big piece was published in the New Hampshire Gazette a couple of weeks… Continue reading
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Numbers By William Bowles
Do marches change anything? Well aside from charging one’s batteries by being part of a culture that belongs to you, probably not, but I don’t think that’s the point. The state most definitely notices, that’s why they constantly underplay the numbers. Continue reading
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“Coercive Democratisation” By William Bowles
“Coercive Democratisation”. Wonderful description isn’t it. It’s from the mouth of a former White House advisor now fucking up students’ heads at Oxford University, as heard on the BBC’s 10pm news (19/11/03) on Radio 4. It must be a first, where invading a sovereign state and occupying it, and then going on to kill around… Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 