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Wednesday 30th August 2006

Bush & Killing in the Name of Democracy

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my June 2006 Freedom Daily article on “Killing in the Name of Democracy.” Doing the research for this article was hell on my idealism.
KILLING IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY Freedom Daily, June 2006
by James Bovard
President George W. Bush perpetually invokes the goal of spreading democracy to sanctify his foreign policy. [...]

Sunday 27th August 2006

How to Pry the Truth out of Congressmen

The Los Angeles Times ran a piece of mine today on fair play for our elected representatives. Online here (registration required?) and following:
Modest Proposal: Waterboard Congress
Maybe White House-favored interrogation techniques would coax lawmakers to tell the truth about U.S. anti-terror policies.
By James Bovard
JAMES BOVARD is the author, most recently, of “Attention Deficit Democracy” (2006).
August 27, [...]

Thursday 17th August 2006

Justice Dept. Appeals Ruling on “No Hereditary Kings”

Federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor declared in a ruling today: “We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution. So all ‘inherent power’ must derive from that Constitution.”
The Justice Department [...]

Wednesday 16th August 2006

Bush: Betrayed by Iraqi Ingrates

Today’s New York Times reveals that George W. Bush is deeply disappointed that the Iraqi people have “not shown greater support for the American mission.”
One person who attended a meeting of Bush’s “war cabinet” on Monday commented on Bush’s reaction: “I sensed a frustration with the lack of progress on the bigger picture of Iraq [...]

Tuesday 15th August 2006

Bush Out-Drivels Himself

7:19 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Lying | Comments: 48

So Bush made the supreme sacrifice, returning from his vacation in Texas to Washington to inform Americans of his latest victories in the Middle East.
His comments at the State Department yesterday came close to breaking his previous personal best in both the delusions and drivel categories.
Bush began by declaring that Hezbollah was fully liable for [...]

Sunday 13th August 2006

Paving the Way to War with Iran

Israel’s war on Lebanon is a warm-up for the U.S. war on Iran.
That is the message of Seymour Hersh’s latest superb article in the New Yorker. Hersh reveals that the Bush administration was “closely involved” in planning Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. A former senior intelligence official informed Hersh that, beginning this Spring, “planners from the [...]

Tuesday 8th August 2006

A Bootlicker Bites the Dust

… at least temporarily.
The defeat of Joe Lieberman in the Democratic senate primary in Connecticut is good news for anyone who dislikes pious warmongers. Lieberman deserved to lose for many reasons - not the least of which was his assertion that Democrats are obliged to swallow Bush’s lies in the name of national security. In [...]

Quality Paperback Book Club to offer ATTENTION DEFICIT DEMOCRACY

10:28 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | Comments: 3

I have been informed by Palgrave that the Quality Paperback Book Club is planning to do a softcover edition of Attention Deficit Democracy.
I wonder if A.D.D. will be among the books offered in promos (3 books for $3) along with sensual massage guides and Dilbert cartoon collections. I suspect there is a potential jest near here.

Monday 7th August 2006

The Folly of Democratic Inevitability

9:37 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | wool | Comments: 0

The good folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation posted my article today on one of the great democratic delusions of our time. The piece is online here - and below:
Freedom Daily May 2006 (posted August 7, 2006)
Nonsense on the Inevitability of Democracy
by James Bovard
Many Americans are being lulled into assuming that democracy is inevitable. [...]

Wednesday 2nd August 2006

Freedom Via Military Dictatorship

George W. Bush has apparently given up any aspiration of receiving an honorary award from the American Civil Liberties Union.
His administration is responding to the Supreme Court ruling striking down his military tribunals with a legislative proposal that would place far more Americans in peril of having their rights nullified.
The Washington Post reports today:
A draft [...]

Tuesday 1st August 2006

The IDF’s “Human Shield” Defense Blows Up

12:47 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 0

From Haaretz today:
As the Israel Air Force continues to investigate the air strike [at Qana], questions have been raised over military accounts of the incident.
It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time.
The Israel Defense Forces had [...]

The War Goal that Led to Qana

9:45 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 13

Nehemia Shtrasler, a columnist in Haaretz, Israel’s most respected newspaper, today explains the goal of the Israeli invasion:
“The Olmert-Peretz plan was to shell and demolish south Lebanon and south Beirut until the Lebanese public demanded that its government vomit Hezbollah out from its midst.”
With a goal of demolishing much of the part of a neighboring country, it [...]

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