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Completely Carbonated by William Bowles
5 July 2007 — InvestigatingImperialism Well it’s started, in fact it’s more than started and it’s driving me mad. You know what I’m talking about, my fucking ‘carbon footprint’! Every time I hear the phrase, which is every damn day, it really pisses me off. ‘Carbon footprint’ is the new Osama, the new bogie man… Continue reading
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From Burgers to Baghdad By William Bowles
For over fifty years , the West has carried on a campaign that pushes the idea that the superiority of the ‘Western way of life’ based upon unlimited ‘choice’ and the ‘free market’ as opposed to the drab and conformist communist world, is the best of all possible worlds. They sold us the idea, that… Continue reading
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Haiti – Regime Change By William Bowles
Whilst the US tells the world of its desire to see freedom and democracy in Iraq, it’s busy starving Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere into submission by enforcing a complete embargo on economic aid through its control of the IMF, World Bank and the International Development Fund, unless the Aristide government bows… Continue reading
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The Macintosh Computer – Archetypal Capitalist Machine? By William Bowles
October 1987 — InvestigatingImperialism Pre-amble: This essay was written in 1987 before the domination of Microsoft, at a time when I thought that the people running Apple computer had their act together. How wrong can you be! In other respects however, many of the ideas and concepts advanced in this essay have come to pass… Continue reading