William Bowles – Essays
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Dr David Kelly, the real deal: preserving the integrity of the state By William Bowles
17 August 2003 It is instructive as well as fascinating to follow the convoluted trail of disinformation and hyperbole in the government and the media’s attempts to transfer the blame from one individual to another in the agenda of diverting attention from the central issue, namely why we went to war. Continue reading
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Duck and Drakes By William Bowles
This week’s lead article in the Economist entitled “Manifest Destiny Warmed Up?” reveals the disquiet being felt by at least some sections of the European ruling elite over the US’s assumed role as the ‘new imperialist empire’ and whether or not, they’re going about it in the right way. Continue reading
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Dr David Kelly, loyal foot soldier of the state By William Bowles
Far from being troubled about the impending invasion, Dr David Kelly could just as easily have been troubled by the use of ‘evidence’ that “takes away from the case for war.” In other words, Kelly’s statements can be interpreted as continued support for the war but that he objected to the way it was being… Continue reading
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WDD: Weapons of Deliberate Disinformation By William Bowles
The events of the past few days reveals just how much the media and the state work hand in glove in projecting a view of the world that maintains the fiction of the ‘terrorist threat’ and what the objectives of the West really are. Continue reading
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Discovered! Shoal of Giant Red Herrings By William Bowles
The government’s propaganda campaign to scare the populace into accepting an unacceptable war, has, with the grovelling complicity of the media, including the so-called liberal arm of the press, entered a new but depressingly familiar phase. Continue reading
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USG Incorporated By William Bowles
The parallels between the Mafia and the US government are not surprising if one considers that both organisations have to operate outside the law in order to carry on their respective ‘business’. Continue reading
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Let history be our teacher By William Bowles
8 August 2003 In the context of the events that are unfolding in Liberia, it’s important that we do not forget how these conditions came to pass, and the role of the West in making it so. This is especially important given the kind of media coverage and ‘analysis’ we are being subjected to, now… Continue reading
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Divide and Rule By William Bowles
All too predictably, the debate on the US/Israeli relationship has unleashed all too familiar themes. On the one hand, there are those who roll out the ‘Zionist conspiracy’ rubbish about how Jews control the world banking system, the media etc. On the other, the predictable slurs which come from those who cry ‘anti-Semite’ at anyone… Continue reading
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Is the tail wagging the dog? By William Bowles
An essay by Stephen J. Sniegoski ‘The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel,’ poses the idea that US foreign policy is controlled by a ‘cabal’ of right-wing Zionists, who have effectively hijacked the White House in pursuit of a ‘Greater Israel.’ Continue reading
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Book Review: UK-the real outlaw state By William Bowles
The central planks of New Labour’s foreign policy have, we are told, been based on human rights, international development, just treatment for the poor of this planet including access to Western markets and the removal of debt, the rule of law and the maintenance of international order. In short, they have professed a progressive policy… Continue reading
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The continent from another planet By William Bowles
Have you noticed that events in Africa are reported in a contextual vacuum? And predictably, coverage in the press has been nothing short of scandalous. Either, it’s ‘warlords,’ ‘corruption,’ ‘tribalism,’ ‘humanitarian crisis,’ ‘failed state,’ or some combination of the above. As far as Western media coverage is concerned, Africa has no history that’s of any… Continue reading
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Under siege? By William Bowles
Look, I know that the revolution is not around the corner, but it is true to say that the ‘New Imperium,’ barely a dozen years old, is already under siege, and experiencing a serious crisis in credibility and its subsequent ability to carry out its mission of re-colonising the planet. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Archive – June 2003 Part 2
July 2003 — Information Clearing House Archive For the Month of July 2003 – Part 2 Venezuela Refuses To Sign Agreement With US Over ICC: The United States suspended more than 47 million dollars in military aid to 35 countries on Tuesday for their failure or refusal to give US citizens immunity from the ICC.… Continue reading
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Ignorance is a (conditioned) state of mind By William Bowles
In an essay, ‘How hatred was born’ (sub-titled ‘Ignorance is not bliss’), in the Independent Review (29/07/03) the black American writer Walter Mosley, makes the comparison between the rage that black Americans feel towards a system, run by whites, that has oppressed and exploited them for generations, and the rage felt by people in the… Continue reading
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The Death of Dr David Kelly: Dark actors – dark forces? By William Bowles
Given Dr Kelly’s central role in the September document, he surely must have known well before its release in September 2002, that it contained false information to boost the case for war. So why wait until May of this year before voicing his concerns? Continue reading
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The bizarre mind of the white liberal By William Bowles
I’ve no doubt that Robert Fisk is a decent fellow with compassion for his fellow man and woman and deplores the invasion and occupation of Iraq, yet this quote, which opens the statement splashed over an enormous photo (with a red tint) of the two corpses of the Hussein brothers (ironically, the image has echoes… Continue reading
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The Death of Dr David Kelly: Murkier and Murkier By William Bowles
Did Dr Kelly commit suicide because he could no longer tolerate the fact that the government he worked for had lied in order to justify going to war? Or was he murdered because he was about to expose the lies? Continue reading
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Liberia: rewriting history By William Bowles
“Another day, another atrocity in Liberia’s blood-soaked capital Monrovia” is how the Independent tells it to us (26/07/03). And of course, the predictable pleas for ‘intervention’ by the “world’s superpower” from liberal commentators. The entire history of how Liberia got to be where it is today, and especially the role of the US, the IMF… Continue reading
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Mind your language! Part Three By William Bowles
Isn’t it amazing. All this time, since the ‘sexed up’ story first appeared, Gilligan, we were told, was the sole source of the story, hence his ‘unreliability’. Then, yesterday, the press carried reports about at least thee other UK journalists who had also been contacted by Dr Kelly and now, it seems there’s even a… Continue reading
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The Death of Dr David Kelly: Opening a can of worms By William Bowles
It is being suggested that he went through some kind of ‘sea change’ last year during his frequent visits to Iraq as part of the Unmovic inspection team and that he was convinced that Iraq had indeed, destroyed its CBW weapons. According to an unnamed analyst quoted by the Independent, he became disillusioned with the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 