neoliberalism
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Book Review: Friends, Washingtonians and Countrymen… By William Bowles
What an irony. For decades the left has been talking of the US as an empire, identifying the ring of military bases that surrounded the former Soviet Union and China, its destabilisation and overthrow of countries that defied US power; the Cold War and the nuclear arms race, also instigated by the US; its control… Continue reading
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Whose culture is it anyhow? By William Bowles
26 March 2004 Despite a background and involvement in the arts for most of my life, I rarely, if ever write about such things here on I’n’I (although for another side of me, check out the now defunct MusicSA). Well that’s about to change not only because the arts and especially music, are a part Continue reading
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Upping the anté & wishy-washy liberalism By William Bowles
Richard Perle’s latest book “An end to evil: What’s next in the war on terrorism?” might well be described as the handbook for the imperium’s agenda for 2004 with its call for an invasion of Syria and Iran and a Cuba-style blockade of North Korea. The question to be asked of this quasi-fascist’s quest for… Continue reading
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Buddy can you spare $87 billion? By William Bowles
Economics is not something that the ‘average’ citizen wants to get involved in especially as it’s mostly mumbo-jumbo, based more on fancy than fact. Generally speaking, when there is no rational explanation to hand, it’s down to some ‘act of nature’ over which we have no control. Very convenient if you want to maintain the… Continue reading
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A ‘Greater’ US and a ‘Greater’ Israel By William Bowles
At first sight, an alliance between right-wing Christian fundamentalists and right-wing Zionist fundamentalists might appear too bizarre to be true. But not if their long-term aims coincide as they do with the Bush and Sharon governments. How the two strands of neo-imperialist thinking connect is instructive and helps explain a lot of the events of… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 