William Bowles – Essays
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THE BUSH FAMILY SAGA: FRAUDS ‘R’ US By William Bowles
It’s as well to remember that the Web never forgets, at least the US pres should take note of this fact and be careful of his utterances and how they can come back to haunt him. In fact four generations of Bush family history and too many skeletons in too many closets to count are… Continue reading
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Normal By William Bowles
This morning, Garner’s #2 man in Iraq, Major General Tim Cross, told BBC listeners (Today programme) that the people of Iraq are ‘better off now’ than they’d ever been and that ‘80%’ of them were happy that the USUK had invaded. They are, amongst other things, ‘free to demonstrate’. He didn’t mention of course, that… Continue reading
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The personal versus the political By William Bowles
We are shaped by history and in turn, history shapes us, at least that’s the theory. This morning on the radio (BBC Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme) the pundits were commenting on Tony Blair’s ‘messianic’ belief that what he was doing in invading Iraq was right and that he’d ‘squared’ his conscience ‘with his maker’, so… Continue reading
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Paul Bremer, new boy in town By William Bowles
George Bush has appointed Paul Bremer as the ‘civil administrator’ of Iraq in what the Independent calls ‘a victory for Colin Powell…in the running skirmishes with Mr Rumsfeld’s Pentagon…’. Continue reading
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THE PLOT THICKENS By William Bowles
A European Defence Force is something Tony calls ‘unhelpful’. Unhelpful to who? In any case, as the US realigns its global military ‘posture’, it’s clear that a large US military presence in Western Europe is no longer necessary. And in any case, there’s all those ‘newly freed’ Eastern European countries dying to become satellites of… Continue reading
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Damn Lies! By William Bowles
For months we’ve been bombarded with a never-ending stream of state propaganda utilising a vast array of techniques: satellite images, computer simulations, faked documents, ‘revelations’,‘pulpit pounding’ and pleading verging on the evangelical, dossiers, ‘expert analysis’ of one kind or another, exhultations to one’s patriotism, and threats of dire events if we, the people, don’t go… Continue reading
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The Real Terror Network By William Bowles
27 April 2003 Paul Bremer, the new ‘Gauleiter’ of Iraq George Bush has appointed Paul Bremer as the ‘civil administrator’ of Iraq in what the Independent calls ‘a victory for Colin Powell…in the running skirmishes with Mr Rumsfeld’s Pentagon…’. Continue reading
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How Long do Empires Last? By William Bowles
A good friend of mine in the US, not long after 911 wrote me and said, ‘It’s either socialism or barbarism’. Now I’m not sure what her timescale was but she was spot on, about the barbarism bit anyway. Methinks the socialism part is some way off however. Continue reading
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How New is the New Imperialism? By William Bowles
24 April 2003 Reagan-Thatcher, Bush-Blair, can you spot the difference? I hope you can still recall the days of Ronald Reagan and the ‘Evil Empire’, ‘Star Wars’ and all that other Hollywood-inspired propaganda crap. Well in any case, it’s around twenty years ago that we were subjected to the formative stirrings of the ‘neo-con revival’… Continue reading
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More About Conspiracies and Oil By William Bowles
I’m getting really fed up with being marginalised by the so-called media professionals who would decry all who oppose their spin on the facts regarding oil and its centrality to USUK foreign policy, so I thought it would be instructive to spend a couple of hours doing a little research of my own on the… Continue reading
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What’s Going On? By William Bowles
Of course Marvin Gaye’s memorable and ground breaking album ‘What’s Going On?’ about the Vietnam war, civil rights and the future of the planet, made in 1971 could never be made in the America of 2003, never mind that it was a massive hit record as well. You only have to ask the Dixie Chicks… Continue reading
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Ahmed Chalabi – Oil Man in Baghdad By William Bowles
As ever, the Western media whether pro- or ‘anti-war’, when push comes to shove, knows where it stands and is prepared to ignore the obvious as it dishes up pathetic excuses for western imperialism in the name of ‘objective’ journalism and its attempts to relegate opponents of the war as ‘loony conspiracists’. Continue reading
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A ‘Greater’ US and a ‘Greater’ Israel By William Bowles
At first sight, an alliance between right-wing Christian fundamentalists and right-wing Zionist fundamentalists might appear too bizarre to be true. But not if their long-term aims coincide as they do with the Bush and Sharon governments. How the two strands of neo-imperialist thinking connect is instructive and helps explain a lot of the events of… Continue reading
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WHOSE NEXT AND WHY? By William Bowles
I predicate this essay on the fact that there is no basis whatsoever for the reasons given by the Bush/Blair Axis as to why they invaded the sovereign state of Iraq. As with virtually all the dictators of the 20th century, Saddam Hussein was wholly ‘our’ man from the very beginning of his reign to… Continue reading
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The New Imperialism or the Iron Heel By William Bowles
16 March 2003 Welcome to the World of Double Standards “The challenge to the post-modern world is to get used to the idea of double standards. Among ourselves, we operate on the basis of laws and open cooperative security. But when dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of states outside the post-modern continent of Europe, we… Continue reading
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Iraq – The War, the Real Reasons By William Bowles
One thing is clear, this awful war has absolutely nothing to do with Saddam Hussein’s tyranny nor with ‘weapons of mass destruction’ as I will show in this essay. Indeed, Hussein’s regime owes its very existence as far back as the 1970s when Hussein’s military coup was supported by USUK against the left-wing, anti-western government… Continue reading
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It’s a Proxy World -Reporting the War in Angola By William Bowles
A deep-rooted cold war bias has skewed US media coverage of the war in Angola and, more recently, the Southern Africa peace talks. The Angolan conflict is typically seen as an expression of the Soviet Union’s “failed proxy revolution abroad” (Bill Keller, New York Times Week in Review 10-9-88). The US, by contrast, is presented… Continue reading
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The Macintosh Computer – Archetypal Capitalist Machine? By William Bowles
October 1987 — InvestigatingImperialism Pre-amble: This essay was written in 1987 before the domination of Microsoft, at a time when I thought that the people running Apple computer had their act together. How wrong can you be! In other respects however, many of the ideas and concepts advanced in this essay have come to pass… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 