William Bowles – Essays
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The Two-Faced Book By William Bowles
The World Wide Web is very difficult to control without overt, and very public, central, i.e. state control. But control had to be reasserted. It was a dilemma for the elite. How to do it without blowing away the illusion of a free and democratic media? Enter ‘fake news’. Continue reading
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Gangster Capitalism By William Bowles
London has become “a desert of wealth”. Comment by a former planning officer for London heard on TV yesterday in a movie made by the BBC that managed to spend an hour on the destruction of London without mentioning capitalism once! Continue reading
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Grenfell Tower: This is what Austerity looks like By William Bowles
If there’s anything that illustrates the murderous endgame of neoliberalism and what it means and does people, this is it! But this is also Baghdad and it’s Damascus and a dozen other places around the globe getting a dose of democracy. Here it’s simple neglect powered by greed but it’s committed by the same governments,… Continue reading
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To the Barricades Comrades? By William Bowles
Millions of people put their faith in Jeremy Corbyn. But whether you want it or not, when you get Jeremy Corbyn, you get the Labour Party, the two are joined at the hip. So the question all Labour supporters need to ask is; will a Labour government deliver anything close to Corbyn’s Manifesto, even the… Continue reading
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Tasting the Bitter Pill of History By William Bowles
8 June 2017 — investigating imperialism I have to admit I took my eye off the ball. My desire to see the back of this awful government overwhelmed my powers of reasoning but hopefully it’s only temporary. That’s the problem: We want Corbyn to be real. Continue reading
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Should I vote for Corbyn? I mean Labour? By William Bowles
And after all the bad things I’ve said about Corbyn (here, here and here) you would think asking the question was redundant, but is it? Should I vote for Corbyn/Labour Party or perhaps abstain? What is at stake here, aside from Corbyn’s political future (and perhaps the future of the Labour Party itself)? Continue reading
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What did I say! By William Bowles
1 December 2016 Further Update: It gets even more interesting. It’s clear that the morons in government are totally clueless about what to do about Brexit (I have sneaking suspicion that they hope it’ll just go away, somewhere). So I read that now, David Davies the ‘Brexit Minister’ is advocating paying to stay in the… Continue reading
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Sign the petition – Blair must be held to account
A new petition has been launched to bolster the campaign to hold Tony Blair to account by obtaining a House of Commons’ vote holding him in contempt of Parliament. Get 10,000 then Parliament has to respond (no response so far). Get 100,000 signatures and they have to debate it in Parliament. Continue reading
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Seven days in June By William Bowles
It’s very rare that you see the ruling elite totally at a loss for words: but they were. Gobsmacked and stunned would be accurate descriptions of the look on the political class’s collective face on the morning of June 24, 2016. Continue reading
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The fallacy, and the failure of reformism By William Bowles
This is really a great opportunity for Corbyn to redirect and refocus the Labour Party from the grassroots up (if he hasn’t blown it with his ‘lacklustre’ campaign to Remain). But his first and major battle has to be with the PLP and of course, with the British Establishment but on both counts he is… Continue reading
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The blame game By William Bowles
26 June 2016 Now I know Jeremy Corbyn is a bit of a wimp when it comes to the cut and thrust of politics but blaming him for Brexit is surely a step too far? But that’s just what the BBC has been doing all day. Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 