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Aprés la deluge — wracking up the fear quotient By William Bowles
20 August 2008 Russia is following a course “horrifyingly similar to that taken by Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s former national security adviser The other night I went to a meeting on the situation in Georgia organized by the Stop the War Coalition at which one of the Continue reading
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Meeting on GEORGIA, NATO & THE SPREAD OF WAR
Stop the War Coalition T: 020 7278 6694 www.stopwar.org.uk Friends Meeting House (Small Hall) 6.30 pm, Thursday 14 August, 2008 with MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus KATE HUDSON, Chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament BORIS KAGARLITSKI, former director Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow and author of, ‘Empire of Continue reading
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Meeting on GEORGIA, NATO & THE SPREAD OF WAR
Stop the War Coalition T: 020 7278 6694 www.stopwar.org.uk Friends Meeting House (Small Hall) 6.30 pm, Thursday 14 August, 2008 with MARK ALMOND, lecturer in History, Oxford University and expert on the Caucasus KATE HUDSON, Chair of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament BORIS KAGARLITSKI, former director Institute of Globalisation Studies, Moscow and author of, ‘Empire of Continue reading
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Been there – done that, so it’s time to do it all over again By William Bowles
If Queen Victoria was on the throne today I’m sure she would find the current situation comfortingly familiar and no doubt would be issuing proclamations about ‘our brave boys over there’ and the usual crop of medals would be flying out of her very royal hands along with all the usual platitudes about defending ‘civilisation’… Continue reading
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Imperial Manoeuvres By William Bowles
History is a powerful weapon, perhaps that’s why they don’t teach it at school in the UK (except for the UK’s bizarre obsession with WWII, but then again it makes sense if you want to impart a sense of Britain’s former ‘greatness’ and what better propaganda weapon than our victorious struggle against the evil ‘Hun’). Continue reading
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Creature Comforts By William Bowles
Growing up in the ‘mother of empires’, it’s difficult to comprehend how most of the world perceives us, even if, like me, you’ve lived in other cultures, it’s still difficult to ‘break the chains that bind’ us to a view of the world defined by privilege, a world of assumptions reinforced by an unrelenting barrage… Continue reading
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Book Review: The New Imperialism By William Bowles
For most, mention the word economics and eyes glaze over and turn elsewhere, but without some basic understanding of economics, making sense of our world is all but impossible. The corporate media rarely, if ever, mentions economics as intrinsic to politics in its coverage of events unless it’s about interest rates, taxes or employment. Delving… Continue reading
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Let the reader be aware By William Bowles
Oh what an irony that the ‘responsible’ press is so prone to quoting Goebbels’ famous line as if by saying it somehow cancels out the lies they tell us. It’s as if they’re telling us, ‘If, by some chance you should be on to us, this is our caveat emptor that lets us off the… Continue reading
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Duck and Drakes By William Bowles
This week’s lead article in the Economist entitled “Manifest Destiny Warmed Up?” reveals the disquiet being felt by at least some sections of the European ruling elite over the US’s assumed role as the ‘new imperialist empire’ and whether or not, they’re going about it in the right way. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 