William Bowles – Essays
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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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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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