William Bowles – Essays
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The $5,000,000,000,000,000 Question? By William Bowles
Apparently, if we add up all the ‘values’ that make up Planet Earth, we arrive at the figure of $5 quadrillion [1]! We’ve reduced the irreducible to the level of an accountant’s spreadsheet. Yet, it’s exactly this kind of thinking that’s created the disaster that, forget 10 years, it’s already with us and it’s been… Continue reading
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Back in town
24 June 2019 How could I keep away? Let me catch up with things here, mail to read, articles to source and as I’ve been writing once more as things here in this messed up world seem to be reaching some kind of terminal watershed, I think it’s time to start putting out some ideas… Continue reading
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An update
18 June 2019 — The New Dark Age I won’t be updating the site between the 20th and the 24th June as I will be out of town. As a point of interest, the site now has 20,770 stories posted since 2010 when I moved over to WordPress. The work posted between 2003, when it… Continue reading
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‘K’ Metamorphoses into ‘G’ By William Bowles
19 February 2019 — Investigating Imperialism [I think it’s time to republish a piece I wrote 15 years ago, in 2004, though clearly very few took notice of it then, will it be any different this time? I doubt it, it’s probably already too late to do anything about it. What the Labour government initiated… Continue reading
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The ‘lost’ Archives
17 February 2019 — The New Dark Age This version of my online life kicked off in March 2003, coincident with the invasion of Iraq by the barbarians. WordPress didn’t exist then, most ‘blogs’ were handcrafted as was mine. I wrote every page in HTML using a piece of software called Cyber Studio, every page… Continue reading
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Why I defend Jeremy Corbyn but don’t support him By William Bowles
The despicable hatred shown by the state/corporate media toward Corbyn has nothing to do with the man but with the state’s abject fear of Corbyn’s (remote) connection to socialism, made all the worse by airbrushing him out of what passes for a public debate on Corbyn’s politics. What are they afraid of? Clearly not Corbyn’s… Continue reading
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The Institute for Statecraft Exposed
There are now a number of articles on the Institute for Statecraft and its propaganda machine, ‘Integrity Initiative’ [sic]. Here are the pertinent documents exposed by ‘Anonymous’ (whoever they are) that reveal the objectives and the scale of this sophisticated enterprise. But already I read that some individuals are questioning the validity of these documents,… Continue reading
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William Blum Needs Your Help!
26 October 2018 — Anti-Empire Report I just got a very distressing email from Bill Blum’s former wife detailing an awful fall he sustained at home that left him immobolised for perhaps 2 days before being discovered by a friend! I wish him a speedy recovery but he needs your help with his medical expenses!… Continue reading
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Crap’s Last Crap or How we Crapped Out By William Bowles
21 October 2018 — Investigating Imperialism With crappy apologies to Samuel Beckett It was just a question of time before the crap spilled over the edge of the bowl. The basement was the first to fill up of course but who looks in the basement; out-of-sight, out-of-mind. Continue reading
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Welcome to the new home of the old InI
7 September 2018 — William Bowles I suppose I should have had an official announcement about the move — from the hosting company I’ve been using since 2003 — and the move to this WordPress-hosted site, so this will have to be it. But the site went ‘live’ today with the rerouting of the domain,… Continue reading
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Fried fish, collard greens and brown rice with lots of black pepper By William Bowles
26 July 2018 I ‘lost’ this essay, that is to say, it vanished into the morass of my hard disk until, quite by chance, I ‘rediscovered’ it. Written for Carol’s funeral celebration by her friends in NYC, it needs no further explanation. WB A memory of Carol By William Bowles 20 October 2013 It’s a… Continue reading
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Corbyn or Bust? By William Bowles
24 May 2018 — Investigatingimperialism I need to continue my previous essay, it remains woefully incomplete. I kinda hinted at it in the last para but never completed the thought. Then I got an email from a comrade and friend in NYC after I’d published it: Thanks, but the question left unanswered is: does the… Continue reading
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The Corbyn Effect By William Bowles
Why should it be that in a climate that’s shifted so far to the right, that out of the morass that is contemporary Britain, there should emerge a politician who was shaped by and effectively still lives, in a world that no longer exists? It’s bizarre to say the least but how to explain it? Continue reading
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Industrializing Class War By William Bowles
Have you noticed that it’s no longer PC Dixon of Dock Green who mediates the relationship between the state and its citizens as he goes about his beat in your neighbourhood? Instead, it’s a Kevlar-armoured, video-monitored, taser-equipped, drone-surveilled, spit-masked supplied soldier, straight out of Star Wars, who now staggers along under the weight of an… Continue reading
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Faking it By William Bowles
It’s time I did a piece on this Fake News nonsense being put about by the Western propagandists, the originators of fake news and what better place to start than the BBC, the fountainhead of impartial and objective journalism, not. Continue reading
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This is for the Guardian, NYT and the BBC: 1939 to 2018 By William Bowles
I don’t think you need a crystal ball to figure out that capitalism is headed down the major war path, it’s displaying all the same pathological signs as it has done in past decades; economic crisis, economic collapse, repression abroad and repression at home. Increasing intolerance; increasing censorship of any opposition to the maniacs allegedly… Continue reading
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There was a time…
10 January, 2018 When all I needed to do to connect to someone I know was to email them but obviously this is just too simple and obvious. Now, if I don’t have Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Linkedin, Tinder, and who knows what, I can’t do the simple, direct thing anymore, send him or her… Continue reading
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Trashing the Planet for Profit By William Bowles
For the most part, us lefties are optimists. We believe in the future, in progress, that things will get better, eventually. That the ludicrous idea that capitalism is the ‘end of history’, that in spite of its relentless propaganda, and notwithstanding the defeat of the first socialist experiments, that there is a future beyond capitalism,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 