David Cameron
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Moral capitalism? What an insult to our intelligence! By William Bowles
PM Cameron’s call for a “moral capitalism” would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic and hypocritical. After all, hasn’t it been capitalism’s alleged occupation of the ‘moral high ground’ what they now choose to call ‘humanitarian intervention’ that has been used as a justification for mass murder and genocide? But plainly the millions killed… Continue reading
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Euro Crisis: Britain’s Financial Arsonist Returns to the Scene of the Crime By Finian Cunningham
The spectacle of bankrupt David Cameron swaggering over to Europe to ask equally bankrupt European governments for more deregulatory concessions for the City of London is about as stupefying as an arsonist returning to the scene of the crime – and asking for more gasoline. Continue reading
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War on Iran has already begun By Seumas Milne
They don’t give up. After a decade of blood-drenched failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, violent destabilisation of Pakistan and Yemen, the devastation of Lebanon and slaughter in Libya, you might hope the US and its friends had had their fill of invasion and intervention in the Muslim world. Continue reading
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Syria Newslinks 22-23 November 2011
23 November 2011 — williambowles.info 23 November 2011Plan for No Fly Zone Over Syria By Israeli National News European sources in Washington confirm that there are plans for a no fly zone to be imposed on Syria by Arab and Turkish warplanes, with the US coordinating the logistics. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29796.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Killing Gaddafi
Gaddafi and his son were not the only victims of the mob. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that between six and ten people appeared to have been executed at the scene of the Libyan leader’s capture. Around 95 bodies were found in the immediate vicinity, many of them victims of Nato airstrikes. In fact, it… Continue reading
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The march of the neoliberals By Stuart Hall
We are living through an extraordinary political situation: the end of the debt-fuelled boom, the banking crisis of 2007-10, the defeat of New Labour and the rise to power of a Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition. What sort of crisis is this? Is it a serious wobble in the trickle-down, win-win, end-of-boom-and-bust economic model that has dominated… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 5 September 2011: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War
5 September 2011 — williambowles.info Libya: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War Mathaba News Briefing (Alerts) Yesterday at 23:01 Some more updates in spite of the news censorship and communications black out by NATO on Libya Continue reading
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Tanks shell rebels in Gaddafi compound assault — RT
Early on Monday morning, tanks rolled out of Muammar Gaddafi’s Tripoli residence and began shelling the rebels who had gathered near the compound as sustained heavy gunfire was heard in the Libyan capital. Continue reading
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UK: Bullets won’t solve anything
For all the sense that David Cameron spoke following the Cobra emergency committee meeting, he might as well have stayed in his luxury Tuscan villa. Continue reading
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The NewsCorp inquiry: an exercise in mass deceit By Robert Stevens
For the British ruling elite, Prime Minister David Cameron’s speech to a specially convened session of parliament was a critical moment. The decision to hold the special session was dictated by demands that Cameron respond to Tuesday’s appearance of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, his son James and former News of the World editor Rebekah… Continue reading
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Bets on for PM to be washed away by phone hack tsunami — RT
The London-based team investigating phone-hacking by journalists at News Corp has been expanded from 45 to 60 police officers and staff. The scandal now haunts not only the Murdochs, but also PM David Cameron, with chances of his resignation rising. Continue reading
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Bets on for PM to be washed away by phone hack tsunami — RT
The London-based team investigating phone-hacking by journalists at News Corp has been expanded from 45 to 60 police officers and staff. The scandal now haunts not only the Murdochs, but also PM David Cameron, with chances of his resignation rising. Continue reading
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Phone-hacking scandal gets closer to Cameron — RT
British Prime Minister David Cameron has had to defend himself over his close connections to the embattled Rupert Murdoch media empire before MPs, as he answered tough questions during Wednesday’s session in the House of Commons. Continue reading
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Phone-hacking scandal gets closer to Cameron — RT
British Prime Minister David Cameron has had to defend himself over his close connections to the embattled Rupert Murdoch media empire before MPs, as he answered tough questions during Wednesday’s session in the House of Commons. Continue reading
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Rupert ‘Dirty Digger’ Murdoch Newslinks 19-20 July 2011
20 July 2011 Updated: 21:05:34 — williambowles.info 20 July 2011 Murdoch Empire Sinking Beneath The Sands By George GallowaySince becoming prime minister just fifteen months ago, Cameron has had 26 meetings with Murdoch’s executives. Cameron’s wife was likely the only person to get more meetings with the PM than Murdoch’s executives. Continue reading
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Democracy Now! Daily News Digest: Murdoch’s Denials Are Tough to Believe
British Prime Minister David Cameron is facing questions from lawmakers today on his handling of the widening News International phone-hacking scandal implicating the British police and top government officials. Continue reading
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What did he know and when did he know it? Cameron, Coulson and those pesky emails By William Bowles
The political/corporate class must be ruing the day email arrived, it is proving to be the undoing of many a powerful individual and perhaps even the downfall of the government? But only if the media do the job they claim to be doing, investigating malfeasance at every level. Continue reading
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Murdoch drops BSkyB bid as PM flounders in House By Roger Bagley
News Corporation announced abandonment of the bid just minutes after Mr Cameron’s sheepish Commons announcement of an inquiry into phone-hacking plus links between politicians, the media and the police. Continue reading
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The Fourth Estate is bankrupt By William Bowles
How can such a press be considered free or independent in any real sense of the word? Controlled either by the state or three large corporations, the MSM plays an intrinsic role in maintaining the status quo and it does it quite openly. Until now that is… Continue reading
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Libya: Arms, Duplicity and Front Line Foetuses By Felicity Arbuthnot
On 29th March, freshly back from a good will tour of the Middle East, with a bunch of arms salesmen in tow, as bombs rained down on Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron, welcomed Foreign Ministers from more than forty countries to a London Conference: ‘To help the Libyan people in their hour of need.’ Continue reading
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