Archive for February 2012
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Sunday 26th February 2012
Damned Nuisance Fact for Iran Warmongers - from New York Times
10:09 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Central Intelligence Agency | Iran | Lying | wool | Comments: 2
The mainstream media has often been as craven regarding the warmongering against Iran as they were in 2002-03 on Iraq. But every now and then, a clear headline breaks through the claptrap.
New York Times February 25 2012
U.S. Agencies See No Move by Iran to Build a Bomb
By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI
WASHINGTON — [...]
MP3 of my interview on the Peace Corps with the Overseas Radio Network
9:07 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
Fergus Hodgson, the host of the “Stateless Man” show on the Overseas Radio Network, recently interviewed me regarding an article I’d written on the Peace Corps.
We had fun kicking the subject around, though I don’t expect it will generate any speaking invitations from the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer association.
You can download or listen to [...]
Tuesday 21st February 2012
Obama’s Bogus Economic “Boom”
1:08 pm | Elective Dictatorship | Obama | Torture | Wiretapping | wool | Comments: 4
As President Obama’s reelection machine begins whooping up the economic recovery, we need to recognize the paucity of his achievements.
From an interview this morning with Press TV:
American people have lost their faith in the U.S. government even after President Barack Obama took office in early 2009, says James Bovard, policy advisor for The Future [...]
Monday 13th February 2012
Great Antiwar Song & Video from Old Crow Medicine Show
4:15 pm | Iran | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
As so many politicians and pundits try to whip up enthusiasm for attacking Iran, we’d be wise to recall the ravages of war on those who actually have to fight and bleed.
I’ve long enjoyed the Old Crow Medicine Show song, “Big Time in the Jungle.” I came across this YouTube video that makes its [...]
Thursday 9th February 2012
MP3 of CPAC Radio Interview with Brian Wilson
10:03 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rollicking good chat today at the Conservative Political Action Conference. CPAC seemed fairly lame this year - about as dynamic as a two-day old wake.
You can listen or download it by clicking on the following - cpac2012-3-bovard_1328821812_19256
Liberals Love Obama’s “Liberty Drones”
9:35 pm | Assassinations | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Uncategorized | War crimes | Comments: 3
New Washington Post polling data reveal that liberals strongly approve of Obama’s drone assassination policy - even when it is used to kill American citizens. Overall, 83% of Americans approve of Obama’s drone killing policy.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is raising hell about the administration’s secrecy - demanding that they at least release the confidential [...]
Tuesday 7th February 2012
My Endorsement of WeWontFly.Com
11:06 am | Surveillance | Transportation Security Admin. | Uncategorized | wool | Comments: 0
Anti-TSA activist Ken Krawchuk caught me on film at last year’s Maryland Libertarian Party convention responding to his question about the great TSA boycott that he, Jim Babb, and others organized in late 2010. They did a superb job - that was probably the worst PR drubbing the TSA has yet received.
Here’s [...]
Friday 3rd February 2012
C-SPAN Booknotes: Terrorism & Tyranny (2003 transcript)
1:26 pm | Ron Paul | Terrorism | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
I came across this transcript this morning and figured it was worth sending around the track one more time. You can watch the video from this interview here - Brian Lamb’s views come through more clearly on tape than in the transcript. One of my favorite comments he made: “Well, your sense of [...]
Thursday 2nd February 2012
EEOC’s Forgotten Racial Racketeering
1:21 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the November issue of Freedom Daily -
The EEOC’s Forgotten Racial Racketeering
by James Bovard
Few federal agencies have a more brazen history of trampling due process and basic fairness than the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. From the time the EEOC was created in 1965, it [...]
The Fed is Wrecking Our Economy
1:19 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
My two cents on the latest humbug from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke:
In an interview with Press TV on Thursday, James Bovard, a policy advisor for The Future of Freedom Foundation explained that U.S. Federal Reserve policies are further hurting the U.S. economy rather than improving it.
“The Federal Reserve itself has done so much to [...]