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Haiti's Lingering Agony By Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Haiti’s lingering agony should be acknowledged as also our agony. The USA has never allowed Haiti to develop itself on an independent basis. From the time of Haitian independence in 1804 through the coup against President Aristide in 2004 on through today, the US government has been regularly interfering in the internal affairs of the… Continue reading
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Robert Mugabe, yet another man the West loves to hate By William Bowles
And as long as Mugabe left Britain’s ‘kith and kin’ alone (the settler farmers), it was quite happy to let Zanu-PF spout all kinds of socialist rhetoric, as long as he didn’t actually implement any of it. Thus all the statements out of the West about the ‘miracle’ of Zimbabwe, the ‘bread basket’ of Southern… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, March 3, 2008 Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life www.killinghope.org How could they have known? It wasn’t on Oprah or Fox News. Hillary Clinton and many other members of Congress claim that their support of the invasion of Iraq was based on faulty intelligence reports. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: SUHARTO – COVERING UP WESTERN COMPLICITY
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media February 12, 2008 The death of the former Indonesian dictator, Suharto, on January 27 could have unleashed a flood of revelations detailing British and American support for one of the 20th century’s worst mass murderers. Instead, the media continued the cover up that has Continue reading
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There’s a kind of madness in the air By William Bowles
16 February, 2008 Note: sorry about the story being out of sequence but all attempts at posting it failed. Had to wait until my return. February 2, 2008 — For the first time in a long time I’m taking a trip to NYC, my old ‘home town’. The airport (I use this term advisedly) I’m Continue reading
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Observations from the Front Line: The US State of Denial By William Bowles
16 February, 2008 Observations from the Front Line Manhattan, 13 February, 2008 — For the first time, almost exactly thirty years ago, I sat where I’m sitting now, writing this, in the Broome Street Bar, corner of Broome and West Broadway. I was building the Cayman Gallery a couple of hundred yards away further up Continue reading
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‘Chinese Torture’ or what goes around comes around By William Bowles
25 January, 2008 Dumping on China by the usual horde of Western pundits seems to be de riguer these days. Hardly a day goes by without some scary headline that either warns of the dangers of billions of Chinese getting a car, refridgerator, microwave or whatever and hastening on Climate Change and/or ‘swamping’ Western markets Continue reading
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RAWA.ORG: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan (Dec.10, 2007)
RAWA.ORG: The US and Her Fundamentalist Stooges are the Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan (Dec.10, 2007) The US and her allies tried to legitimize their military occupation of Afghanistan under the banner of ‘bringing freedom and democracy for Afghan people’. But as we have experienced in the past three decades, in regard to the Continue reading
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A beginner’s guide to creating a ‘crisis’ By William Bowles
Poor old North Korea, the latest bogeyman, its leader variously described as a tyrant, psychopath etc, etc. is once more the focus of Western ire. Now in all likelyhood the reason is because things ain’t going too well in Iraq or Afghanistan and the Iranians have told the West to shove it, so isn’t it… Continue reading
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Woof-Woof! The bite is far worse than the bark By William Bowles
Consider if you will that the US has, for the past 100 years pursued a policy that would enable it to ensure global dominance through the ownership and control of vital energy supplies and as a result enable it to dominate the world’s economy to the benefit of its own capitalist class. This policy has… Continue reading
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Israel: Blackmailing the world By William Bowles
3 August 2006 Israel’s deliberate and continued destruction of Lebanon is intended to force the Western powers to occupy the country on US/Israel’s behalf I’ve spent the last couple of days doing (almost) nothing but reading, trying to get a handle on events. Firstly, it’s obvious to anyone who knows anything about Lebanon and the Continue reading
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Is Lebanon the Great Unravelling? By William Bowles
I think it’s now clear that the gamble the US took with its proxy force, Israel, is a military-political disaster. Soon, there won’t be much left to destroy in Lebanon, then what? There are several options open to Israel (US), none of them too inviting, yet sooner or later the real world will force the… Continue reading
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A US call to (more) arms By William Bowles
In Lebanon, the US, unable to carry it out on its own or with its so-called allies has instructed Israel to do the dirty work on its behalf, a mission it is only too willing to take up, having failed twice before. Continue reading
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Uzbekistan: They speak with forked tongue by William Bowles
The BBC, whose name should be changed perhaps to the Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation, has behaved absolutely despicably, censoring any opinion that contradicts that of the official British and US line on their dealings with the Karimov dictatorship. Continue reading
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The media’s complicity in suppressing the reality that is Haiti today By William Bowles
Whilst the world rushed to the aid of the victims of the Tsunami and the leaders of the ‘free world’ pontificated on how humanitarian they are, children, in all likelihood, hundreds of children are being exterminated by death squads, aided and abetted by US/UN occupation forces in Haiti. But if you wanted to find out… Continue reading
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The Imperium Unleashed By William Bowles
The piece by Greg Palast ‘Kerry Won’ seems to indicate that indeed the election was stolen. Whether this is true or not is difficult to ascertain, read the piece and come to your own conclusions. What is clear however, is that in the states where the Black turnout could have had a real impact on… Continue reading
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Terminal Capitalism Two: It’s a Male Thing By William Bowles
So here we go again, round two of the preparation for Armageddon and no doubt, the Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, Iranians, Indians et al, read Secrecy News as well they should. And should anyone have any doubts that the leaders of the ‘free world’ are indeed completely balmy, check out the language of the technocrats… Continue reading
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Between Iraq and a hard place By William Bowles
The latest bombing in Iraq of the UN headquarters has, understandably, put the frighteners on the USUK alliance. For not only does it up the anté, it puts the USUK on the spot. Continue reading
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Liberia: rewriting history By William Bowles
“Another day, another atrocity in Liberia’s blood-soaked capital Monrovia” is how the Independent tells it to us (26/07/03). And of course, the predictable pleas for ‘intervention’ by the “world’s superpower” from liberal commentators. The entire history of how Liberia got to be where it is today, and especially the role of the US, the IMF… Continue reading
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