William Bowles – Essays
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Aprés la Deluge By William Bowles
25 June 2016 It’s not nice being called a Nazi, racist, xenophobe but that’s what has been and no doubt, still is, happening to me and others who think like me. It’s the direct result of the propaganda campaign the state and the corporate media have run with since the beginning in making immigration the Continue reading
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The Tory chickens come home to roost By William Bowles
Ask yourself this: Why has immigration been made the pole around which, this entire referendum ‘debate’, has revolved? Why has the closet Nazi Nigel Farage of UKIP been given so much airtime? Could it be the masses, hammering at the doors of Fortress Europe after we, that is the US-EU-NATO axis of pure barbarism, destroyed… Continue reading
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Exiting the EU By William Bowles
I haven’t written a single word about this non-event, precisely because it is a non event. It’s an artificially created argument, with the mainstream reasoning used on both sides, being equally fallacious. It’s a gigantic deception played out with all the pomp and circumstance of a Royal Wedding. Continue reading
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A further update
22 April 2016 My previous note was a little premature. Yes, I have added and gone through all the essays but I’ve not checked everyone for links and so forth and searching through each essay and checking links and typos (not that they’re bad necessarily but they may send you to the wrong Website!) is Continue reading
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A new beginning By William Bowles
30 January 2016 Well not exactly, initially it’s a consolidation of my writing into one location and, in one format, a time-consuming operation to conduct on the five hundred or so files that I’ve yet to process and add to the site’s database. Since returning to the UK in 2002, my online work has gone Continue reading
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Corbyn’s jobs for the boys By William Bowles
So socialist Jeremy Corbyn, after pressure from the trade union boys who bankroll him, agreed not to make Trident an issue. After all, making nuclear missiles and the submarines that carry them, are jobs for the boys. Continue reading
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“The Bride of death?” By William Bowles
Purporting to be an explanation of why a young Palestinian woman (sister to the two young men murdered by the Israelis) should become a ‘martyr’ – itself a word loaded with significance for the Western ear, as opposed even to your common or garden ‘terrorist’, or God forbid, soldier or guerrilla – the piece presents… Continue reading
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The Last Poets pay us a visit
21 July 2015 I had the pleasure of hanging out with The Last Poets yesterday, who are visiting these shores to shoot a documentary about them, made by my companéros Vagabond Beaumont and Tonxti Vasquez, as well tour the country performing. Continue reading
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Passing the Buk By William Bowles
I’ve spent most of the time reading just about everything I could on the subject of the downing of Malaysian Airlines #MH17 and I think it’s pretty obvious that the Russians have been fitted up for this horrendous crime by the Kiev authorities (and possibly others) and, it must be said, they did a pretty… Continue reading
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In memorium – Jack Agueros
6 May 2014 Update 25 April 2016: Three of Jack’s plays are currently running in New York City! There are only two shows left: Wednesday 4/20 at 8pm Thursday 4/21 at 8pm Info/Reservations: (212) 262-4216; TICKETS ONLINE @ Brown Paper Tickets Medicine Show Theatre Ensemble | 549 W. 52nd St, 3rd Floor General Admission $20, Continue reading
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The Bush Family Saga – Airbrushed out of history By William Bowles
That a family with so many skeletons in its collective closet could have produced two presidents of the world’s most powerful nation should have every last one of us wondering whether the world has gone completely mad, and perhaps it has. Perhaps this is the lesson we need to learn from the Bush Family Saga,… Continue reading
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What a sorry state of affairs By William Bowles
So Stop the War have organised (yet another) conference and Mother Agnes got invited (and as it turns out, the only person speaking who had actually experienced Syria first-hand!) and a couple of rogues, Jeremy Scahill activist journalist and Owen Jones of the Independent newspaper, refused to attend if Mother Agnes was on the platform,… Continue reading
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Politics as spectacle By William Bowles
Failing a real left in this country, it seems that political activity has devolved into little more than spectacle, something implausibly akin to the Olympics or the Queen’s birthday (but without the exposure or corporate support or even the commitment that money buys). The BurnAusterity one day campaign typifies this corporatized and extremely fragmented approach… Continue reading
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Are we being served? By William Bowles
Central to us on the left is the dilemma of a seemingly indifferent working class to the changes that impact directly not only on our material well-being but on the corporatisation of our cultural lives. Some argue that it’s down to the prevailing sense of powerlessness as the gulf between those who govern and the… Continue reading
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Listen to Your Ancestors By William Bowles
I am a big fan of history. Ever since I was a kid, history fascinated me and perhaps in another life I might well have become a historian. And, in an age where history gets rewritten by the corporate media hour by hour, day by day, understanding where we come from and how we got… Continue reading
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More on Nigeria’s Hidden History By William Bowles
This particular history haunts Africa to this day and one that the British Establishment have yet to pay for, for it resulted in the deaths of millions and almost led to the break-up of Nigeria. The results determined the nature of the Nigeria of today including all the talk about post-colonial ‘corruption’. And, it should… Continue reading
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Yes I know I’ve not been very prolific…
10 October 2013 Yes, I know, I’ve not been very prolific of late, either with articles or my own work (in spite of brief burst of activity over Syria, Sarin and the BBC) but then I’ve been doing this pretty much non-stop for over ten years and I’m just burned out. Worse still, I feel Continue reading
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Chemical hallucinations By William Bowles
I think it’s true to say that the days of creating ‘dodgy dossiers’ are now over, at least if the latest ‘dodgy report’ is anything to go by. Put out by the UK’s Joint Intelligence Committee, it purports to offer proof that Assad gassed his own people. But aside from the fact that it offers… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 