Archive for July 2010
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Saturday 31st July 2010
MP3 of My Interview with Scott Horton on the FBI, WikiLeaks, Etc.
9:35 am | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bob Barr | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Lying | Obama | Surveillance | Comments: 0
Scott Horton of Antiwar.com Radio and I had fun tarring-and-feathering the usual federal outrages on Thursday. The MP3 is here.
Scott balked at the chance to reveal his deepest thoughts on Chelsea’s wedding. It could have been a great “Bill Hicks moment.”
Here’s Scott’s thumbnail of the interview:
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, [...]
Thursday 29th July 2010
Excellent Interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange by Antiwar’s Scott Horton
11:14 am | Afghanistan | Bush | Lying | Obama | Comments: 14
Antiwar’s Scott Horton did a superb radio interview with WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange yesterday. Transcript and the MP3 are here.
I have been amused to see the tut-tutting of some of the Washington press corps because the Afghan document disclosure was not as earth-shaking as the Pentagon Papers.
Folks, this game is only beginning. Assange confirmed [...]
Tuesday 27th July 2010
Modern Communication At Its Best - or - Guaranteed Spam Cure
10:23 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
from this week’s New Yorker
Monday 26th July 2010
Three More Cheers for WikiLeaks!
11:37 am | Afghanistan | Bush | Lying | Obama | War crimes | Comments: 6
The latest deluge of truth from WikiLeaks is a welcome novelty in American politics.
The New York Times, UK Guardian, and Germany’s Der Spiegel are simultaneously releasing articles today on more than 90,000 Pentagon documents that WikiLeaks posted on the web regarding the Afghan war.
These documents reveal the lies that have permeated U.S. Afghan [...]
Friday 23rd July 2010
The Fraud of “Big Picture” Thinking
11:48 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 3
From the April 2010 issue of Freedom Daily -
The Fraud of “Big Picture” Thinking
by James Bovard
Politicians, pundits, and others perennially invoke the
Thursday 22nd July 2010
The Pentagon No Longer Awards This Medal
10:17 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 2
Amazing how much has been forgotten since this 1988 New Yorker cartoon…
Wednesday 21st July 2010
The Media’s Attitude Towards Government Surveillance
10:03 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | FBI | Obama | Surveillance | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
This 1990 New Yorker cartoon perfectly captures the usual media attitude towards government surveillance in the post-9/11 world.
Happily, today’s Washington Post blockbuster does not show the same complacency.
Monday 19th July 2010
Best Comical Response to Wash. Post “Top Secret America” Series?
9:02 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Congress | Obama | Surveillance | Comments: 5
The Washington Post series on “Top Secret America” by Dana Priest and Bill Arkin is off to a great start.
I am shocked to learn that the federal government has little or no idea what the hell it is doing.
I expect some conservatives will want to indict the Post reporters and editors for treason….
What are [...]
Thursday 15th July 2010
What the FBI Does Best
2:33 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | FBI | Terrorism | cartoon | Comments: 2
It is unfortunate that few of the nation’s editorial writers have ever understood the FBI as well as Handelsman did within weeks after 9/11…..
Wednesday 14th July 2010
The New American Credo
9:45 pm | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Obama | Terrorism | cartoon | Comments: 4
Weren’t things supposed to be different after Obama was elected?
[cartoon from the New Yorker, 2002]
Monday 12th July 2010
Davi Barker: A Libertarian Rebuttal - 24 Types of Authoritarian
2:18 pm | cartoon | Comments: 13
Davi Barker has put together a very amusing retort and parody to the 24 Types of Libertarian cartoon by Barry Deutsch.
Davi Barker’s blog is here.
Friday 9th July 2010
“Freedom & the War on Terrorism” - my Pennslyvania speech…
2:24 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bailout | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Obama | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Torture | Transportation Security Admin. | War crimes | Wiretapping | Comments: 2
Now online here: the video of my “Freedom and the War on Terrorism” speech last month in Bernville, Pennsylvania. I want to thank Bob Bowers, who organized this libertarian supper club, for inviting Jacob Hornberger and I to talk there. The audience was excellent - lots of hardliners full of fire-and-brimstone. [...]
Friday 2nd July 2010
POLITICAL SHOCKER! A Whiff of Truth on Afghanistan!
4:01 pm | Afghanistan | Comments: 3
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele blasted Obama’s Afghan troop surge last night at a Connecticut fundraiser.
Steele asked: “If [Obama's] such a student of history, has he not understood that you know that’s the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan? Because everyone who has tried, over a thousand [...]
Thursday 1st July 2010
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan and Torture
3:14 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Torture | Comments: 1
Phil Giraldi makes an excellent observation on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan in his Antiwar.com column today:
New Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has described retired Israeli Judge Aharon Barak as her “judicial hero.” Barak is sometimes described as a liberal, but a review of his decisions reveals that he has always sided with [...]
Cartoon: 24 Types of Libertarian
2:26 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 15
Biased but very funny….
from cartoonist Barry Deutsch:
[h/t Lew Rockwell blog]