William Bowles – Essays
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A New Year’s Message
23 December 2022 — The New Dark Age Wow, what a year eh! 2023 promises to be a watershed year for the planet and for all kinds of reasons. I think it may well be the year that decides whether our species has a future or not. Will the Evil Empire triumph or will it Continue reading
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Living In the Age of Ironies By William Bowles
Monday, 3 October 2022 — Investigating Imperialism Irony #1 What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal Continue reading
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Taking a break…
Saturday, 17 September 2022 — The New Dark Age Updates below… Sunday, 18 September, 2022 – Sunset From my hospital Window I’m kinda ‘under the weather’ right now, in fact I’m feeling rather shitty, some kind of chest infection which, hopefully will respond to antibiotics (when I can get hold of them with our trashed Continue reading
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Useless Eaters or Fascism’s New Face?
Saturday, 20 August 2022 — The New Dark Age Continue reading
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Google is censoring this – and many other independent news sites
Friday, 17 June 2022 — The New Dark Age The Message is: Don’t Use Google to search for anything ‘Contraversial’ as You won’t Find It! I wondered why readership, according to my WordPress stats, has plummeted since March of this year and it’s because the Google ‘search’ engine is filtering out searches that include ‘williambowles.info’ Continue reading
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Malak Mattar: Last Scene Before Flying with the Dove to Paradise
Thursday, 19 May 2022 — The Tricontinental This image, from the latest Tricontinental Newsletter is so beautiful as well as so sad that it deserves a page all to itself, lest we forget. Malak Mattar (Palestine), Last Scene Before Flying with the Dove to Paradise, 2019. This is an extract from an essay by Nada Continue reading
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Then & Now
Monday, 18 April 2022 — The New Dark Age April 1933. Germany: The Nazis began a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses. Stormtroopers positioned themselves in front of Jewish shops, with yellow stars painted on the houses and “Don’t buy from Jews” posters. The SA storm troopers (Hitler took over the SA in 1930) attack shops owned Continue reading
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Odessa Provocation?
Friday, 15 April 2022 — The New Dark Age Continue reading
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A short note…
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 — The New Dark Age I’m kinda busy, catching up with news on events in Ukraine, and putting together an expanded piece on the Google intercepts issue. I’ll try and update later today if I can. Continue reading
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I need to step back
Thursday, 17 March 2022 — The New Dark Age I need to amend this; It’s virtually impossible for me to ‘switch off’, I’ve already broken my own ‘rule’ twice! But I will endeavour to chill out, I have to. I’m going to have to take a step back from editing/publishing for awhile but I hope Continue reading
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Nostalgia?
Friday, 11 March 2022 — Investigating Imperialism By William Bowles The power of symbols Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (note the Flags of NATO and the Azov Battalion and of course, the Swastika) No, I don’t think it’s nostalgia and it’s not Andrei Tarkovsky’s stunning movie, ‘Nostalghia‘ either, it’s the image below, one of the 100s of Russian Continue reading
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The censorship is starting to bite!
Thursday, 10 March 2022 — The New Dark Age Update: South Front is back online as is Indian Punchline! South Front has gone and now Indian Punchline has disappeared, so no one, not even a retired Indian diplomat is safe from the long arm of the ‘fake news checkers’. I’ll keep this page at the Continue reading
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Off for a few days
23 August 2021 — The New Dark Age No really, this time I really am taking a few days off, so no updates for a few days. B Continue reading
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One Twit Quits Twitter (again)
10 November 2020 — The New Dark Age Yet again I’ve shut down my Twitter account (the last time was several years ago), then I was foolishly persuaded to rejoin the evil propaganda outlet of the Gangsters. Actually, I really MUST BE MAD to use Twitter and not only line the pockets of the bastards that Continue reading
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The Great Scampede or The Iron Heel Revisited
It would appear that the major capitalist classes of the world have waged total war on the planet’s people without firing a shot and at the same time set up the infrastructure needed to enslave us, and all in order to preserve the rule of a bankrupt Capitalism. Continue reading
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Dark Ages (Empty Stages)
29 June 2020 — Investigating Imperialism Dark Ages (Empty Stages) Copyright William Bowles & Cheryl Byron August 1977 This is the first song I ever wrote, actually co-wrote with my dear friend and musical colleague, Cheryl Byron, (1947-2003) in August 1977 following the Blackout in New York City, in my little ‘railroad’ apartment on Madison Continue reading
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Taking a break (not)
22 June 2020 — The New Dark Age I need to take a break from this, I am totally burned out. I’ve been running this blog for far too many years. This version started in 2003 but earlier versions first started in 1983 and ran until 1992. This is not to say that I won’t add Continue reading