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Anti-Empire Report #49, September 11, 2007 by William Blum
11 September 2007 — Anti-Empire Report The world is very weary of all this and wants to laugh again Okay, Bush ain’t gonna get out of Iraq no matter what anyone says or does short of a) impeachment, b) a lobotomy, or c) one of his daughters setting herself afire in the Oval Office as Continue reading
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The Anti-Empire Report #48: Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life by William Blum
August 10, 2007 Source: http://members.aol.com/bblum6/aer48.htm Separation of oil and state On several occasions I’ve been presented with the argument that contrary to widespread opinion in the anti-war movement and on the left, oil was not really a factor in the the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq. The argument’s key, perhaps sole, point is Continue reading
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Media Lens: The Value of Blood – Sovereignty Shattered By Brute Force
It is astonishing to reflect, for example, that our mass media system is not in fact state-controlled. Who could guess from the unvarying support of our media corporations for mass violence committed by our government and its allies? From their eager demonisation of leaders and countries labelled ‘enemies’ of the state? From their consistent indifference… Continue reading
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Iraq=Vietnam: Misinterpreting the Metaphor By William Bowles
Of course Iraq is not Vietnam and it’s not 1965 either and neither is Iraq a nation of tropical rain forests. If one were to make comparisons based purely on geography, then Algeria would be a better one. But geography only determines the form of the struggle, not what drives it. Continue reading
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History Repeating Itself? Not Exactly By William Bowles
This time around, in spite of (or perhaps because of) a massive propaganda campaign preceding the war (whereas the Vietnam debacle was effectively hidden from the public), the imperium has been forced to try and justify its actions every step of the way. For those of us engaged in actively opposing the imperium, there are… Continue reading
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Out of Control By William Bowles
If there was ever time since the worst period of the Cold War (the early 1950s) for the creation of a global movement to try and halt this insanity, this is it! Methinks we only have one chance, a narrow window of oportunity to try and halt the slide and it’s right now. Can we… Continue reading
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Remembering Vietnam William Bowles
As with the ‘war on terror’, the ‘war on (godless) communism’ (or, if you prefer, fanatical Islamic fundamentalists) relied on a vast disinformation campaign based on fear and paranoia using the conception of the ‘other’ to put the fear of God into the population. So for example, many of the sci-fi movies that were made… Continue reading
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While the US crows, Iraq resists By William Bowles
As with all the other US military adventures across the world over the past decades, the US operates on the premise that people fight US invasions because they’re forced to. Yet time and again, this view has proved to be self-delusionary and follows from the imperialist elite confusing their own largely domestically targeted propaganda with… Continue reading
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Unglued, unstuck, pear-shaped, wobbly…and sick By William Bowles
The more Blair’s government rolls out one mouth after the other, to utter the words, ‘just you wait, have patience’, ‘we’ve got the evidence’, ‘you’ll see, we didn’t actually say that’, ‘read what we really said’, the more the media and critically, the public, look on in disbelief and increasingly, disgust. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 