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Archive for July 2006

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Sunday 30th July 2006

Qana Last Time: “Just a bunch of [dead] Arabs.”

Israeli government public relations encountered a significant challenge today when the IDF killed dozens of children in the same location that they killed more than a hundred civilians a decade ago. The fact that both attacks occurred in Qana, Lebanon is the sort of thing that might make even a newspaper correspondent look into Israel’s prior history [...]

Friday 28th July 2006

Redefining War Crimes out of Existence

The Washington Post today details how the Bush administration is desperately scrambling to get Congress to pass a law to retroactively legalize torture.
OK, this is not exactly what the Post said — they would not be so ill-mannered towards the government.
But the Supreme Court’s decision last month declaring that the Bush order on enemy combatants [...]

Thursday 27th July 2006

Israeli Justice Minister: IDF entitled to Kill Everyone in South Lebanon

8:47 am | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 6

From the BBC today:
Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon “said that in order to prevent casualties among Israeli soldiers battling Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, villages should be flattened by the Israeli air force before ground troops moved in.
He added that Israel had given the civilians of southern Lebanon ample time to quit the area and [...]

Tuesday 25th July 2006

Excellent Israeli Column on the War in Lebanon

2:06 pm | Bovard | Comments: 3

Tel Aviv university professor Ze’ev Maoz has an excellent column today in Haaretz on the morality of Israel’s attacks in Lebanon. I have reposted it below.
I was in New York last weekend and came across several rallies on both sides of the conflict. I attended the “Jewish Unity Event in Support of Israel” service at the [...]

Friday 21st July 2006

Boston Globe: The ‘Terrorist’ Batting Average

The Boston Globe ran my piece today on how the Bush administration almost always strikes out when it accuses people of being terrorists. Here’s the text:
The ‘terrorist’ batting average
By James Bovard | July 21, 2006 Boston Globe
AFTER THE US Supreme Court’s recent decision limiting military tribunals, Congress is scrambling to pass a law regarding trials [...]

Thursday 20th July 2006

The Radio Interview on Israel-Lebanon is Now Online

10:33 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 5

My interview this morning with Charles Goyette is now online here.

Wednesday 19th July 2006

LISTEN LIVE ONLINE - Thursday (7/20) 10 am Eastern - I’m on Charles Goyette Show

I will be on the Charles Goyette show at 10 AM Eastern time Thursday (7/20). Charles is now on KFNX, 1100 AM - available via the dial all over AZ and surrounding turf, and via the Internet all over the world (except West Virginia). Listen live online here.
We will be discussing the history of Israeli action in Lebanon, keying [...]

Conservatives’ Treason on Free Speech

3:55 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Uncategorized | Comments: 3

The American Conservative placed my piece on ‘Conservatives’ Treason on Free Speech’ online today.
Here’s the lead and the close -
July 31, 2006

Our Dangerous Times
Today’s conservatives are eager to trade freedom for security.
by James Bovard
On June 23, the New York Times and other papers revealed that the Bush administration has been vacuuming up records passing through [...]

Speaking in Arlington, VA Thursday (7/20) night

1:26 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

I will be discussing Attention Deficit Democracy as part of a panel (along with Reason magazine managing editor Jesse Walker and Elizabethtown College professor Paul Gottfried) at a meeting of the Robert Taft Club on Thursday night, July 20.
The show starts at 7 pm at the offices (probably the roof) of the Leadership Institute, located next [...]

Monday 17th July 2006

Israel’s Forgotten Record in Lebanon, 1982+

LewRockwell.com posted a piece of mine today on the latest round of Mideast killings. Most of the piece is extracted from my 2003 book, Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Justice, Peace, and Freedom to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave).
Here’s the lead of today’s piece:
As the Israeli government continues bombing throughout Lebanon in response to Hezbollah’s [...]

Sunday 16th July 2006

Thanks to Andrew S. Rogers

5:15 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 3

Andrew S. Rogers, who has an excellent anarcho-capitalism website, wrote a review of Attention Deficit Democracy that appeared on Amazon on July 4. I appreciate all the thought & spirit Rogers, one of Amazon’s top reviewers, put into his comments on the book:
Outrageous. Over the line. Frustrating. Depressing. Essential., July 4, 2006
“Today is a good day I think [...]

Monday 10th July 2006

LISTEN LIVE - on New Hampshire/Vermont radio Wed. (7/12) Noon

9:21 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

I will be on the Gardner Goldsmith at Noon Eastern time on Wednesday. You can listen live here or listen on air on 1010 AM or 99.7 FM. I think this is available throughout New Hampshire & much of Vermont. Gardner may also be on some other stations in that area.
Gardner is full of fire [...]

LISTEN LIVE ‘NET - on the Brian Wilson talk show Tuesday (7/11) 5 pm

11:36 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 9

I’ll be on the Brian Wilson show on Toledo’s WSPD, 1370 AM, at 5 pm EASTERN time. You can listen live here.
Brian has been doing a heroic job of hellraising in Ohio. Though Brian hasn’t been in Toledo that long, his work has already made a profound impression on the mayor, who recently ordered all city [...]

The Fraudulent Meaning of Elections

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my Freedom Daily article on “The Fraudulent Meaning of Elections.”
Here’s the start & finish -
“Politicians strive to make Americans view elections as sacrosanct. Challenges to election results are portrayed as heresies that threaten to destroy the entire republic. After the 2004 presidential election, many Democrats went on [...]

Friday 7th July 2006

FBI Agents Suggest Blowing Up Government Buildings

9:43 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 19

The case of the Miami terrorists keeps getting more ludicrous. The local Miami CBS station had a write-up yesterday on the latest federal court proceedings:
Earlier in the day, the FBI admitted that two people working for the agency
planted the idea of blowing up government buildings, including and FBI office in
Miami, with members of an alleged [...]

Monday 3rd July 2006

1979 New York Times Satire on the All-Volunteer Congress

10:53 pm | Bovard | Congress | wool | Comments: 2

Twenty-seven years ago (or as they say in West Virginia, “years and years and years ago”), the New York Times printed my satire on the failure of the All-Volunteer Congress. This article was written at a time when criticism of the All-Volunteer military was at its height. Nixon had abolished conscription in 1973 and many [...]

Missed Software Opportunity?

10:01 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

The folks at Conspiracy Planet reposted my hit on Bush’s financial surveillance scheme.
While I’m always happy to see my pieces get circulated far and wide - I’m not sure that this particular re-posting will boost my chances of getting nominated this year to join the Council on Foreign Relations. (Their website explains that they are [...]

Saturday 1st July 2006

Response to Schizoid Rumors

11:15 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 7

It is always a tragic thing to see a good name tarnished.
But that is off of today’s subject.
David Brown of Laissez Faire Books, perhaps responding to a leak from the Bush White House, blogged on some comments I made at the LFB blog -
“Jim Bovard: The Schizoid Man; or, Abandon hope all ye who enter [...]

Scott Horton Homers

6:58 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

Scott Horton of Antiwar.com has an excellent column today on the fabrications of Leviathan’s friends. Amazing to see how a representative invents hokum whole cloth to defend the Bush administration.
The only downside to Scott’s zippety piece is that it might cause some people to lose faith in Congress.

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