Archive for December 2010
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Tuesday 28th December 2010
Rep. Hoekstra Wins CIA Torture Medal of Honor
3:14 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Central Intelligence Agency | Congress | Democracy | Torture | Comments: 3
from the Future of Freedom Foundation sent out this op-ed today -
[also posted on Counterpunch here]
Hoekstra Receives CIA’s Bootlicking Award
by James Bovard, December 28, 2010
On December 21, the Central Intelligence Agency gave its Agency Seal Medal to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. Hoekstra has labored almost ceaselessly to assure [...]
Wednesday 22nd December 2010
How Washington Protects Your Privacy & Liberty
5:10 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Congress | Democracy | Freedom | Justice Department | Obama | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Wiretapping | dictatorship | Comments: 3
from the January issue of The Freeman -
James Bovard
How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
January/February 2011 • Volume: 61 • Issue: 1
Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better illustrate [...]
Obama’s Dead Excuses for Afghan Carnage
11:38 am | Afghanistan | Obama | Comments: 5
from the Ottawa Citizen
Sunday 19th December 2010
Help Somali Children Fighters This Xmas - from Tom Blanton
10:03 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 5
More fine art from Tom Blanton, the mastermind of the Project for a New American Revolution.
This is from Tom’s Flickr page here.
Friday 17th December 2010
My WikiLeaks Interview with Brian Wilson of WSPD
4:29 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
I finally managed to get the MP3 of the recent interview with Brian Wilson on WikiLeaks loaded to this blog.
Click on the bold text below to hear us raising hell over Washington’s reaction to WikiLeaks:
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Thursday 16th December 2010
Washington Times: Punishing Anti-Freedom Politics
1:33 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
The Washington Times published my Bill of Rights Day piece today. They included some excellent artwork:
BOVARD: Liberty comes alive once a year
Bill of Rights Day marks an opportunity to punish anti-freedom politicsBy James Bovard
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The Washington Times
December 16, 2010
Wednesday was the 219th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights - the first [...]
Tuesday 14th December 2010
MP3s of Today’s Interview with WBAL’s Ron Smith on Assassin Nation
1:55 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Democracy | Obama | Uncategorized | War crimes | Wiretapping | dictatorship | Comments: 1
Ron Smith and I had a rollicking chat on “Assassin Nation” on WBAL this morning.
Ron is much savier than most hosts - and he has paid attention for decades to how government power has accumulated and become far more dangerous.
We also took some whacks at WikiLeaks critics. I commented that many Americans [...]
Make Bill of Rights Day America’s Anti-Politician Day
12:19 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Obama | Rule of Law | War crimes | Wiretapping | dictatorship | Comments: 8
Here’s an op-ed being distributed today by the good folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation -
Make Bill of Rights Day America’s Anti-Politician Day
by James Bovard
Wednesday, December 15, is the 219th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights — the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Bill of Rights Day should [...]
Monday 13th December 2010
On WBAL’s Ron Smith Show Tuesday (12/14) at 10:35 AM
11:19 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
I will be on the Ron Smith Show on Tuesday (12/14) at 10:35 am. We will be talking about “Assassin Nation,” the Obama administration entitlement to kill Americans without judicial restraint.
Ron is a very well-informed, fire-and-brimstone kind of host, and being on his show is always lots of fun. He was one [...]
Full Size “Assassin Nation” Logo from American Conservative
3:32 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
Lewis McCrary of the American Conservative did great work on this logo for the “Assassin Nation“ article.
Click on the photo for a slightly larger version.
Sunday 12th December 2010
“Assassin Nation” Logo
9:21 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | War crimes | dictatorship | Comments: 1
This is the logo the American Conservative is using for the online version of the “Assassin Nation” article.
This is the some of the best art work I have some with one of my articles since the Playboy artwork for my 2002 article bashing the Patriot Art.
Friday 10th December 2010
Interpol WikiLeaks Condom PSA - from Tom Blanton
1:17 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
“When More than the Wiki Leaks”
This artwork is from Tom Blanton, the mastermind of The Project for a New American Revolution.
Tom has other top notch libertarian-themed political art work at his Flickr page here.
Thursday 9th December 2010
My Antiwar.com Radio Interview on “Assassin Nation”
12:32 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Obama | Rule of Law | Transportation Security Admin. | Uncategorized | War crimes | dictatorship | Comments: 0
Antiwar.com’s Scott Horton and I had a rollicking good chat regarding “Assassin Nation” - the Obama administration’s right to kill Americans.
You can listen to the MP3 by clicking on this 10_12_06_bovard
“Assassin Nation” - Obama’s Right to Kill Americans
9:17 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Lying | Obama | Rule of Law | Uncategorized | War crimes | Comments: 9
online today from the January issue of American Conservative -
Assassin Nation
Obama’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” test for killing Americans.
By James Bovard
How much evidence should the U.S. government be obliged to show before it kills you?
None, according to the Obama administration.
And how much evidence of your wrongdoing should the government be obliged to possess [...]
Tuesday 7th December 2010
The WikiLeaks Pledge - by Tom Blanton
9:10 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
This great artwork is from Tom Blanton, the mastermind of The Project for a New American Revolution.
Tom has other top notch libertarian-themed political art work at his Flickr page here.
Murder Poster for WikiLeaks’ Julien Assange from the Washington Times
4:28 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Uncategorized | War crimes | Comments: 13
This poster accompanied an article by Washington Times columnist Jeffrey Kuhner calling for the killing of Assange. (Kuhner is a talk show host from Canada).
Have other folks seem similar artwork out there?
It is amazing how dark American politics has become.
Monday 6th December 2010
On Antiwar.com Radio Today (12/6) at 2:30 pm Eastern
12:45 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
Antiwar.com & KPFK Pacifica radio host Scott Horton invited me to come on his show today (Monday) at 2:30 pm Eastern to discuss the “Assassin Nation” article.
Scott is always good for hardline riffs, so it should be a zesty show.
You can listen live by clicking here. (The “Listen Live” button is in [...]
“Assassin Nation” in new American Conservative
10:16 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Obama | Rule of Law | Secrecy | War crimes | wool | Comments: 7
The January issue of American Conservative contains my piece, “Assassin Nation” - on Obama’s new policy for killing Americans.
That issue is not yet generally available online; it is available at newstands and for subscriber viewing at their website. Here is a brief outtake from the article:
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Saturday 4th December 2010
Interpol: No Statute of Limitation on Broken Condoms?
1:45 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
My first reaction to the details of the alleged crimes for which Interpol is chasing Julien Assange ( CALL INTERPOL! A Condom Broke! (WikiLeaks Farce)_) was to laugh. OK, actually, first I snorted, then I guffawed.
But now I’m wondering. Many of the crimes for which Interpol pursues [...]