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War Lies & the 2004 Election

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from the April 2007 Freedom Daily on “War Lies & the 2004 Election.” What sort of democracy allows rulers to perpetuate their power with brazen lies?   WAR LIES & THE 2004 ELECTION          Freedom Daily April 2007 by James Bovard  Shortly after he was reelected, President Bush […]

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Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us

  The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.   I snapped this photo of their Republican fashion statement at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.  (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]

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1979 New York Times Satire on the All-Volunteer Congress

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 […]

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