Just received an email from Fox News regarding an interview that I taped with them last Wednesday. The topic was foreign aid – a subject near and dear to my heart. “We just wanted to let you know that the two part series will begin airing tonight on Special Report with Bret Baier, which is […]
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Karzai Solves Mystery of Afghan Corruption
Afghan frontman Hamid Karzai announced this past weekend that foreigners are to blame for the rampant corruption his country. It is true that foreign aid has helped bring out the worst in many Afghan wheeler-dealers. But Karzai and his cronies would likely be looting regardless of whether Uncle Sam air-dropped billions onto his land. New […]
70 Years After Pearl Harbor: New Book On FDR’s Lying Path to War
Wednesday is the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Americans have still not learned all the details of what the U.S. government knew prior to the attack. The Japanese attack was inexucsable, but Franklin Roosevelt’s actions played a far greater role in that debacle than most Americans realize. Thomas Fleming’s FDR and […]
MP3 – Hammering Foreign Aid Corruption and Afghan Lies on Antiwar.com Radio
Antiwar.com radio host Scott Horton and I had a jolly time exposing the frauds behind Afghan aid and other foreign policy charades. It is amazing how Afghan aid would retain any credibility in the American media. Why the ignorance and the kowtowing to the Official Line from the White House, Pentagon, and Karzai? Scott made […]
Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (posted online today) Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan by James Bovard American soldiers are dying so that Afghan politicians can continue looting U.S. tax dollars. Foreign aid has long been notorious for creating kleptocracies — governments of thieves. The $50+ billion foreign aid that the United States has […]
MP3 of Brian Wilson Show Interview on Senate Vote for Military Crackdown on the Homefront
Brian Wilson and I had a good time lambasting the Senate for voting to empower the U.S. military to seize and indefinitely detain American citizens on the homefront. It is amazing to see 44 Republican senators race over a cliff to give absolute power to a president they claim to abhor. As long as some […]
Dilbert Blights 500,000 Lives
I don’t know how many project managers follow Dilbert, but the ones that do (and understand the humor) might be ready for Suicide Watch. Scott Adams has a perfect ear for the absurdities of contemporary American bloviating.