William Bowles – Essays
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Out of Control By William Bowles
If there was ever time since the worst period of the Cold War (the early 1950s) for the creation of a global movement to try and halt this insanity, this is it! Methinks we only have one chance, a narrow window of oportunity to try and halt the slide and it’s right now. Can we… Continue reading
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This is how it goes… By William Bowles
The BBC is directly complicit in absolving the occupying forces from responsibility for the current state of affairs in Iraq. It’s this kind of ‘distancing’ between the media and the state that is so difficult to deal with as a kind of ‘osmosis of attitudes’ is taking place. Articulate these small lies often enough, and… Continue reading
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180 days of Empire By William Bowles
Presenting us with some kind of ‘checklist’ of a calamity that somehow is meant to inform us, is disingenuous reporting at its worst with its mixture of fact, fiction, supposition and just plain omission of critical information about the reality of six months of imperialist occupation. Continue reading
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Noticeable by its absence By William Bowles
As to what’s actually happening in the press is a reflection of the unspoken alliance between the media and the state over what constitutes ‘news’ these days. The turnaround came about six weeks ago when the media announced that it was ‘time’ to focus on domestic issues, too long overshadowed by the Iraqi ‘sideshow’. And… Continue reading
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Let the reader be aware By William Bowles
Oh what an irony that the ‘responsible’ press is so prone to quoting Goebbels’ famous line as if by saying it somehow cancels out the lies they tell us. It’s as if they’re telling us, ‘If, by some chance you should be on to us, this is our caveat emptor that lets us off the… Continue reading
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Israel’s Proxy War By William Bowles
Israel’s attack on Syria this past weekend revives an aspect of the Cold War period that most thought a thing of the past, namely utilising a third party to do your fighting for you – war by proxy – a tactic used so effectively by the US in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Angola and elsewhere… Continue reading
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David Kay and the CIA By William Bowles
As I suggested in a previous piece (“Bush spells it out”), the Iraq Survey Group’s interim report infers that Saddam pulled a ‘fast one’ on the USUK by ‘conning’ them into thinking Iraq had WMDs whereas in fact they didn’t and that this led to Iraq being invaded. Continue reading
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Blair builds the corporate state William Bowles
Blair is playing the leadership ‘take me or leave me’ shtick borrowed, lock, stock and barrel from Thatcher. In a pitch aimed directly at Labour Party members who are extremely unhappy with the direction that the government is going, Blair harked back to previous Labour governments, that, much as the Democracts in the US did,… Continue reading
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Two into one won’t go By William Bowles
The whys and wherefores of the massive con job that the rulers of Israel have done on the people of this planet will no doubt be the subject of innumerable books at some time in the future. A future that’s not afraid to speak out on the issue of Israeli racism and imperialism and the… Continue reading
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Bush spells it out: The politics of desperation By William Bowles
Bush the smaller’s speech at the UN on 23/09/03 finally spells out the conditions the imperialists want in exchange for recognising the UN’s role in the world, namely for the UN to alter its charter to recognise the right of the US to invade whoever the hell it feels like and under whatever pretext. Continue reading
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Iraq Fire Sale! $100 billion for one, war-damaged country By William Bowles
Underpinning all the propaganda, the bluster and the bullshit about bringing ‘democracy and freedom’ to Iraq and other points East and South, lies the real truth, that the reality is about capitalism and the triumph of the ‘free market’. That’s what the entire invasion has always been about, everything else is but a smokescreen. Continue reading
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9/11: “That’s some bad pilot” By William Bowles
Winning the war against Communism, contrary to all our expectations (the ‘peace dividend’ etc) were not to be realised. Instead, the way was open for the West to conquer those parts of the world and its resources that had been denied to it. But in order to rationalise its reinvigorated imperialist objectives a new ‘enemy’… Continue reading
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Iraq: The Big Lie Gets Even Bigger By William Bowles
With the willing complicity of the mass media, including the craven BBC, the real story, occasionally alluded to but never pursued, is that the decision to invade Iraq was made at least a year ago if not immediately after 9/11. And the government’s ‘attack’ on the BBC following the Kelly ‘revelation’ was an attempt to… Continue reading
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The Energy ‘Crisis’: Futurology without a future? By William Bowles
According to an interview conducted by Mike Ruppert and available on the Guerrilla News Network, and which first appeared on Ruppert’s From the Wilderness website, we have already passed the point of no return when it comes to new sources of oil and gas and we’re headed for a disaster, if not next year then… Continue reading
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All the ‘news’ that’s fit to invent By William Bowles
So I figured by at least Tuesday (today) I’d read something of substance on the WTO meeting in Cancun in the major media, but aside from the Independent’s (16/09/03) short editorial that smugly informed me that it collapsed in “acrimony” and that it was “American and French unwillingness to face down powerful farm lobbies”, that… Continue reading
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What Global Economy? By William Bowles
The collapse of the WTO meeting in Cancun has, by and large, been met with a deafening silence in the British media. My ‘paper of ‘choice’, the Independent, chose not to mention Cancun at all in its Monday edition! Yet given the parlous state of the capitalist world’s economy and how much is at stake,… Continue reading
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Iraq: Flawed, selective, distorted and mistaken? Selling the big lie By William Bowles
About the only thing the media won’t entertain is the idea that invading Iraq was always the basis of Blair’s policy and that all the squirming and changes of justification flow from this basic premise. How else does one describe the way the media worms its way through the mire and deliberately avoids the lies… Continue reading
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Can Cancun? By William Bowles
As things stand, it looks increasingly likely that either the WTO meeting will end with no decision being reached or the rich world will have to bite the bullet and make deep compromises over subsidies and open up its markets to the products of the poor countries of the world. This is a decisive moment… Continue reading
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Buddy can you spare $87 billion? By William Bowles
Economics is not something that the ‘average’ citizen wants to get involved in especially as it’s mostly mumbo-jumbo, based more on fancy than fact. Generally speaking, when there is no rational explanation to hand, it’s down to some ‘act of nature’ over which we have no control. Very convenient if you want to maintain the… Continue reading
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The lights are on but is anyone home? By William Bowles
Bush the smaller made his pitch to the nation over the weekend to “save civilisation” from terrorism and told us that the “frontline” was now Iraq. So Saddam disappears not only literally but also figuratively to be replaced by the generic ‘threat’ that has been the real core of the propaganda since 9/11. And in… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 