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Friday 25th January 2008

Bush Does Abraham

The intellectual bootlickers surrounding Bush have apparently persuaded him that he is the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln. Fox News recently had unprecedented access to Bush to produce a documentary to air on Sunday night: ““George W. Bush: Fighting to the Finish.” Fox reporter Bret Baier commented of his meetings with Bush: ”
We talked a lot [...]

Wednesday 9th January 2008

Will a Drug Warrior Be Hanged?

So, after the primary results last night, I was looking for something uplifting to put on the blog.
Voila! The possibility that an evil politician could get hanged!
The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online an article from their Freedom Daily on the Bush-blessed Thai slaughter of drug users and other people hated by the police. The American media [...]

Friday 14th December 2007

Bush’s AmeriCorps Fraud

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article on AmeriCorps from the September 2007 Freedom Daily.
I admit: the first sentence is my favorite line in the piece.
Bush’s AmeriCorps Fraud Freedom Daily, September 2007
by James Bovard
Politicians have long used moral doggerel to make citizens docile. Though President Bush is often verbally inept, he has [...]

Friday 21st September 2007

“Bush Betrayal” on the Road to Damascus

11:21 am | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | dictatorship | Comments: 9

A Syrian government-owned newspaper reviewed the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal this week.
Here is the summary of the review, as reported by the British Broadcasting Corp. Middle East wire. [[[[ UPDATE: Full text of the review is posted here.]]]]
Al-Thawrah carries a 400-word article by Khalaf al-Jarrad entitled “‘The World President’ Betrayal,” in which the [...]

Friday 11th May 2007

Bush’s Bizarre Bombast - & Slandering Texas

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the piece I did for them early this year on the anniversary of Bush’s second inaugural address.
Flying to Dallas on a packed plane a few days after Bush’s second inauguration was memorable. I have not been immersed among so many true believers since the Pledge of Allegiance recitation [...]

Thursday 29th March 2007

Antiwar.com Radio/ Scott Horton Interview Now Online

Scott Horton and I had a rattling good chat today about some of the latest connivings in Washington. This latest Antiwar.com Radio production is online here.
Here’s Scott’s summary of the show from Antiwar.com Blog today -
James Bovard discusses the U.S. attorney scandal, his hopes that more criminal activity will be revealed when Gonzales is forced out, [...]

Tuesday 14th November 2006

Radio LIVE ONLINE Wed. (11/15) 10:30 am Charles Goyette Show

Got a call this afternoon from Charles Goyette, who heard about my terrorist behavior on the Washington subway and wanted to get me on the air before they take me away.
I will be on his show 10:30 AM Eastern time Wednesday (11/14). Charles is one of the best libertarian hosts in the country; his political courage and [...]

Monday 6th November 2006

Lies & Leviathan: How Government Cons People Into Submission

The fine folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation posted a piece of mine on how government cons people into submission. The timing is a bit unfortunate, since the 2006 election campaign disproved my assertion that politics is perennially dishonest.
Lies and Leviathan
by James Bovard Freedom Daily August 2006
Big government requires big lies — and not just on [...]

Tuesday 17th October 2006

Backstage at the Torture Signing Ceremony

The feds have become super vigilant in tapping our phone calls, tracing our movements, and intruding into our lives over the last 5 years.
Wouldn’t it be great to have hidden microphones around the White House this morning to hear what was said by dignitaries, congressmen, and other sociopaths invited for the signing ceremony of the [...]

Friday 13th October 2006

Bush’s Operation Founding Fathers Fraud

Operation Founding Fathers
by James Bovard
FREEDOM DAILY July 2006
(posted online by Future of Freedom Foundation October 13, 2006)
Few subjects generate more official lies than the U.S. government’s devotion to spreading democracy abroad. Iraq has been the largest most recent geyser of such deceits. In order to understand future U.S. government messianic democracy efforts, it is worthwhile [...]

Monday 2nd October 2006

LIVE ONLINE - Tuesday (10/3) 6 pm Eastern- Scott Horton KAOS radio show

Scott Horton will be having me on his show on KAOS radio tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/03) evening at 6 pm Eastern. You can listen online live here. Or tune up in the Austin, Texas area at 92.7 FM.
We will be bantering on torture, dictatorship, Attention Deficit Democracy, and, if I’m lucky, beer. Scott is a hardliner [...]

Friday 29th September 2006

Happy Dictatorship Day

The prize for the headline of the year goes to today’s Washington Post for the following gem:
“Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill”
The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday details some of the legal and procedural rights that people seized as “enemy combatants” will not possess. (Amnesty [...]

Monday 25th September 2006

The United States of Barbarism

The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out today an oped I wrote on the torture deal.
FFF is one of the few places that has remained true to its principles since 9/11. FFF chief Jacob Hornberger refused to compromise or kowtow no matter how high Bush’s approval ratings rose.
The United States of Barbarism
by James Bovard, September 25, 2006
The [...]

Friday 22nd September 2006

Torture, the Law of the Land - and The Torture Mastermind Reviewed

The key players in the U.S. Senate have agreed with the Bush administration to retroactively legalize torture by U.S. government agents. The compromise deal struck yesterday will block prosecution for CIA officials who tortured detainees since 9/11. I would expect that, in the name of “fair play,” someone will begin pushing similar legislation to give [...]

Thursday 14th September 2006

Comic Relief from Baghdad

3:06 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | Comments: 12

The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was “no dictator.”
This is hilarious. The Bush administration helps arrange a show trial. And they can’t even get the story line straight in a kangaroo court.
The chief prosecutor complained that the judge has allowed “defendants to go too far, with unacceptable expressions and [...]

Thursday 7th September 2006

I’m Speaking Monday (9/11) at Camp Democracy, DC

2:28 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | Comments: 6

I will be speaking on “Bush & Attention Deficit Democracy” at the Camp Democracy antiwar protest on the Mall in Washington on Monday, September 11.
The program has me listed as being on from 1:30 to 3 pm but I swear to God I won’t be talking that long. Either there are questions from the audience or [...]

Tuesday 5th September 2006

LIVE ONLINE Wed. (9/6) - Salt Lake City radio

8:15 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | Comments: 2

I will be on the “Born on the Fourth of July” radio show with host Barbara Whiteley tomorrow (Wed., 9/6) for one hour tomorrow afternoon starting at 2 p.m. Eastern time. You can listen live on the net here (link is in the upper left right corner). The station is at 630 AM on the [...]

Wednesday 30th August 2006

Bush & Killing in the Name of Democracy

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my June 2006 Freedom Daily article on “Killing in the Name of Democracy.” Doing the research for this article was hell on my idealism.
KILLING IN THE NAME OF DEMOCRACY Freedom Daily, June 2006
by James Bovard
President George W. Bush perpetually invokes the goal of spreading democracy to sanctify his foreign policy. [...]

Sunday 27th August 2006

How to Pry the Truth out of Congressmen

The Los Angeles Times ran a piece of mine today on fair play for our elected representatives. Online here (registration required?) and following:
Modest Proposal: Waterboard Congress
Maybe White House-favored interrogation techniques would coax lawmakers to tell the truth about U.S. anti-terror policies.
By James Bovard
JAMES BOVARD is the author, most recently, of “Attention Deficit Democracy” (2006).
August 27, [...]

Thursday 17th August 2006

Justice Dept. Appeals Ruling on “No Hereditary Kings”

Federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor declared in a ruling today: “We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the Constitution. So all ‘inherent power’ must derive from that Constitution.”
The Justice Department [...]

Wednesday 16th August 2006

Bush: Betrayed by Iraqi Ingrates

Today’s New York Times reveals that George W. Bush is deeply disappointed that the Iraqi people have “not shown greater support for the American mission.”
One person who attended a meeting of Bush’s “war cabinet” on Monday commented on Bush’s reaction: “I sensed a frustration with the lack of progress on the bigger picture of Iraq [...]

Sunday 13th August 2006

Paving the Way to War with Iran

Israel’s war on Lebanon is a warm-up for the U.S. war on Iran.
That is the message of Seymour Hersh’s latest superb article in the New Yorker. Hersh reveals that the Bush administration was “closely involved” in planning Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. A former senior intelligence official informed Hersh that, beginning this Spring, “planners from the [...]

Tuesday 8th August 2006

Quality Paperback Book Club to offer ATTENTION DEFICIT DEMOCRACY

10:28 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | Comments: 3

I have been informed by Palgrave that the Quality Paperback Book Club is planning to do a softcover edition of Attention Deficit Democracy.
I wonder if A.D.D. will be among the books offered in promos (3 books for $3) along with sensual massage guides and Dilbert cartoon collections. I suspect there is a potential jest near here.

Wednesday 2nd August 2006

Freedom Via Military Dictatorship

George W. Bush has apparently given up any aspiration of receiving an honorary award from the American Civil Liberties Union.
His administration is responding to the Supreme Court ruling striking down his military tribunals with a legislative proposal that would place far more Americans in peril of having their rights nullified.
The Washington Post reports today:
A draft [...]

Friday 28th July 2006

Redefining War Crimes out of Existence

The Washington Post today details how the Bush administration is desperately scrambling to get Congress to pass a law to retroactively legalize torture.
OK, this is not exactly what the Post said — they would not be so ill-mannered towards the government.
But the Supreme Court’s decision last month declaring that the Bush order on enemy combatants [...]

Wednesday 19th July 2006

LISTEN LIVE ONLINE - Thursday (7/20) 10 am Eastern - I’m on Charles Goyette Show

I will be on the Charles Goyette show at 10 AM Eastern time Thursday (7/20). Charles is now on KFNX, 1100 AM - available via the dial all over AZ and surrounding turf, and via the Internet all over the world (except West Virginia). Listen live online here.
We will be discussing the history of Israeli action in Lebanon, keying [...]

Monday 17th July 2006

Israel’s Forgotten Record in Lebanon, 1982+

LewRockwell.com posted a piece of mine today on the latest round of Mideast killings. Most of the piece is extracted from my 2003 book, Terrorism & Tyranny: Trampling Justice, Peace, and Freedom to Rid the World of Evil (Palgrave).
Here’s the lead of today’s piece:
As the Israeli government continues bombing throughout Lebanon in response to Hezbollah’s [...]

Friday 23rd June 2006

Fox News Fan Mail

Got this email from someone who heard my two cents (actually, more like a half cent) on Fox News tonight.
I bet this guy is out at a bookstore right now trying to buy up all the copies of my books that he can find. **********
You are the one with attention deficit disorder. One look at [...]

On Fox News Hannity & Colmes tonight 9:30 (friday)

Just finished an interview/debate on MSNBC on the New York Times’ illegal surveillance.
I will be on Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes tonight at 9:30 debating the same program.
Should be a barrel of monkeys.
LATER:
***POST-SHOW POSTSCRIPT: OK, so much for the barrel forecast. Major snafu (this blog aspires to family friendly language, except for fan mail) with the [...]

Wednesday 7th June 2006

The Most Absurdities Per Kilogram

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my Freedom Daily article on the feds’ war against Tommy Chong. Always sad to see a great comedian get no respect.
Here are the first few paragraphs; full text is here.
The Most Absurdities per Kilo
by James Bovard, Posted June 6, 2006
The war on drugs has produced more absurdities per kilo [...]

Saturday 27th May 2006

Al Jazeera Interview Transcript now Online

The transcript of my interview on Al Jazeera is now online here. There is an audio link button near the top of the page.
The host, Ahmed Mansour, was the Al Jazeera correspondent who stayed in Fallujah during the first US attack on that city in April 2004. Rumsfeld denounced him by name and made [...]

Friday 14th April 2006

Another Brazen Bush Lie on 9/11

LewRockwell.com posted my piece today on Bush’s brazen lies on Flight 93.
This is the type of story that makes even me totter on the edge of cynicism.
ANOTHER BUSH 9/11 LIE EXPOSEDby James Bovard
The transcript the feds released this week of the final minutes of Flight 93 proves that President Bush brazenly and consistently lied to [...]

Sunday 12th March 2006

A Liberal Reviews Bush Betrayal

The Aging Hipster recently read Bush Betrayal. I’m happy he made it through the book and took the time to put his thoughts on his blog. He gave me permission to repost it - so here it is. The Aging Hipster is a self-described “Georgia Mountain Man” and Pittsburgh Steelers fan. Both those factors mean that, unlike some white-gloved [...]

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