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US-Israeli false flag gas attack unravels By William Bowles
Commit a war crime to cover up a war crime? This is where it all started: The Israeli intelligence front the Debkafile, which is the source of the story that implicated the Assad government and/or its military in the gas attack on East Ghouta and now forms the basis for the war on Syria. Continue reading
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Responsibility to Protect or Justifying the Right to Project Power? By William Bowles
Whether we like it or not, the issue is not the Assad regime no matter what we think of it, but of course this is entirely the point of the massive propaganda campaign that has been unleashed on the Western public. As long as we are led to focus on a “medieval” Syria and its… Continue reading
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Lest we forget? By William Bowles
9 October, 2009 There is something ironic—if not downright obscene—about the fact that in the UK the Poppy is used as the symbol of remembrance for all those who have died in the UK’s countless imperial wars, a symbol that is being used to punt the latest ‘adventure’, Afghanistan, home of the opium poppy. The Continue reading
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Exaggeration By William Bowles
The farce of an ‘investigation’ into the ‘rush to war’ continues in the UK as does the media’s complicity in presenting the reasons entirely divorced from the context and history of the trajectory of Western imperialism. The main argument being advanced by ‘critics’ of the war in Parliament, is that the government ‘exaggerated’ the threat… Continue reading
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It’s a Proxy World -Reporting the War in Angola By William Bowles
A deep-rooted cold war bias has skewed US media coverage of the war in Angola and, more recently, the Southern Africa peace talks. The Angolan conflict is typically seen as an expression of the Soviet Union’s “failed proxy revolution abroad” (Bill Keller, New York Times Week in Review 10-9-88). The US, by contrast, is presented… Continue reading
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