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Monday 30th June 2008

The Capsizing of American Democracy

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this piece from the April issue of Freedom Daily -
THE CAPSIZING OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
by James Bovard
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees. This has created a voting bloc that overwhelms every other potential force. [...]

Tuesday 17th June 2008

Bush Slanders Freedom Again

In a Tuesday interview in Britain, Sky News editor Adam Boulton asked George W. Bush: “There are those who would say look, lets take Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, and rendition and all those things and to them that is the complete opposite of freedom.”
BUSH: “Of course, if you want to slander America.”
This is the [...]

Monday 26th May 2008

No Justice on Memorial Day

11:03 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 6

Here is a great Washington Post photo of Bush strutting at the White House as he receives visitors from the Rolling Thunder veterans motorcycle group.
It is obscene how the same politicians who send Americans to die in unnecessary wars are treated like heroes on Memorial Day.
One would hope that this day, above all others, would be a time [...]

Wednesday 14th May 2008

Now Online: Podcast of BMW Horse**** Interview!

Talk show host Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat on WSPD in Toledo today. We kicked hell out of the Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization BS Act now before the Senate. There were wine, beer, and cigar jokes, as well as expressions of condolence to the Israeli Prime Minister who might be [...]

Thursday 8th May 2008

GoLeft TV Interview Now Online -Radio Broadcast on Saturday

5:31 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 0

Mike Papantonio of the “Ring of Fire” nationally-syndicated radio program “Ring of Fire” recently interviewed me regarding article on “The 9/11 Servility Reflex.” I just heard from his producer Farron Cousins: “Your interview is going to run on this Saturday’s program, at the top of the second hour. We air from 3p - 6p Eastern [...]

Wednesday 9th April 2008

Martial Law Act of 2006

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my article from the January 2008 issue of Freedom Daily on Martial Law. Without further ado…
The Martial Law Act of 2006
by James Bovard
Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make [...]

Monday 24th March 2008

The 9/11 Servility Reflex

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my Freedom Daily piece on the tidal wave of groveling that swept America after 9/11.
THE 9/11 SERVILITY REFLEX Freedom Daily, December 2008
by James Bovard
Many citizens react to their rulers like little kids who recognize that a stranger is acting suspiciously and may be up to no good [...]

Thursday 20th March 2008

Now Online - My Radio Interview on Antiwar.com

7:17 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 7

Antiwar.com’s Scott Horton and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday regarding the 5 year anniversary of Bush’s invasion of Iraq. The interview includes accolades for Antiwar.com itself and heaps justified abuse upon the media.
The MP3 is here. The interview is about 15 minutes long.

Tuesday 18th March 2008

Bush Earned Impeachment Five Years Ago Today

In a memo sent to Congress five years ago today, Bush decreed that he was attacking Iraq “to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.”
The Bush administration linked Saddam to 9/11 to justify [...]

Wednesday 12th March 2008

McCain Again Votes for Torture

John McCain voted to uphold Bush’s veto of the latest anti-torture legislation to pass Congress.
McCain also voted against the initial version of this law that would ban waterboarding by U.S. government agents.
McCain also voted for the final version of the Military Comissions Act in September 2006. By giving Bush boundless discretion to define torture, this law [...]

Tuesday 19th February 2008

My Favorite Cartoon (from Playboy 2002)

Clay Butler did this wonderful cartoon for Playboy for a 2002 article of mine bashing the Patriot Act. His cartoon was so good that I urged St. Martin’s/Palgrave to use it for the cover of Terrorism & Tyranny. Alack - my editors there did not share my mania for cartoons.
The full size of the cartoon is [...]

Wednesday 30th January 2008

Discussing Ron Paul Etc. Thursday Morning - LISTEN LIVE

I will be on the Charles Goyette radio show 8:35 AM Eastern time Thursday (1/31) discussing the Ron Paul campaign and other developments in the presdiential race.
Charles is one of the best libertarian hosts in the country; his political courage and humor have helped make him the most popular talk show host in Phoenix. He is on the dial [...]

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 [...]

Saturday 19th January 2008

Congratulations Ron Paul!

Ron Paul scored a big upset today, coming in #2 in the Nevada primary. It is bracing to see him whup McCain, Thompson, Huckabee, and Guiliani in convincing fashion.
The race between Paul and the winner, Romney, may have been closer with a little bit of luck. The Nevada GOP continually changed the rules and changed the locations for [...]

Friday 11th January 2008

Stomping Freedom: The Martial Law Act of 2006

Counterpunch posted online my Freedom Daily January article on how Congress passed law to give presidents push-button martial law power. Here’s the piece.
Stomping Freedom
Inside the Martial Law Act of 2006
By JAMES BOVARD
Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that [...]

Wednesday 9th January 2008

Why did Antiwar Voters Support McCain in NH?

CNN crunched the exit poll data from yesterday’s New Hampshire primary and found that “among the 34 percent [of Republican primary voters] who said they disapproved of the war, McCain had a wide advantage over the GOP field — even over Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the sole advocate of a U.S. withdrawal in the Republican [...]

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 [...]

Wednesday 2nd January 2008

Thanks for the Great Comments in ‘07!

I greatly appreciate the folks who added their thoughts and wit to this blog over the past 12 months. We’ve had a hoot of a time, despite the political BS flooding this nation.
Laughter might not be the best medicine, but it is a good antidote to the servility that pervades the media and contemporary political life. And I’ve learned a [...]

Sunday 16th December 2007

Before I was Certified as a ‘Bush Hater’…..

11:14 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 9

I’ve received bushels of emails over the past few years denouncing my pinko liberal tendencies. Here’s a collection of some of the highlights after Bush Betrayal came out in 2004.
I was rummaging through some old material yesterday and came across this fervent review of Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore [...]

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 [...]

Tuesday 4th December 2007

Ron Paul Vindicated on Iran

7:29 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 18

Ron Paul is the only non-Armageddon presidential candidate among the Republicans. He is the only person who staunchly opposes a massive first strike against Iran because of its alleged nuclear program. He has long been ridiculed for his aversion to preemptive genocide in the Middle East.
The National Intelligence Estimate yesterday reported that Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons [...]

Saturday 24th November 2007

Another Bush Bootlicker Bites the Dust

10:41 am | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 15

Australian voters kicked Prime Minister John Howard out of office yesterday. Howard was even more of a groveler to Bush than Tony Blair.
One step Bush took to try to help Howard win reelection was to release Australian David Hicks from Guantanamo earlier this year. As part of the deal for his release, Hicks had to promise [...]

Wednesday 10th October 2007

Bush Stands Up for Genocide

3:10 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 11

Bush today vigorously opposed a congressional resolution to finally recognize the Turkish slaughter of more than a million Armenian Christians as genocide. Bush declared: “We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915. This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings, and its passage would do [...]

Friday 5th October 2007

Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?

The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out an op-ed I wrote about presidents’ right to kill. My favorite line from this piece:
Sometimes the threat of a noose is the best way to keep the peace.
ARE PRESIDENTS ENTITLED TO KILL FOREIGNERS?
by James Bovard
What is the common term for ordering soldiers to kill vast numbers of innocent [...]

Monday 23rd July 2007

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 declared that American voters [...]

Friday 20th July 2007

My FFF Speech is Now Online at YouTube

This is the talk from the Future of Freedom Foundation conference last month.
I’m not sure how the segments of the talk are broken out, but it is probably in segment 5 or 6 that I pull the rabbit out of the hat.
The questions from the audience were superb - the Q & A was zippety.
Here’s the [...]

Thursday 19th July 2007

New Bush Dictatorial Decree

Just when my concerns about Bush were starting to subside….
Bush issued an executive order on Tuesday permitting the feds to seize the property of anyone who threatens “the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq” or who “undermin(e) efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.”
Former Justice Department official Bruce [...]

Wednesday 18th July 2007

Deliberative Democracy Dementia

The Foundation for Economic Education posted online the pieces from the May issue of the Freeman. Here’s my two cents on Deliberative Democracy…. (There are a few extra line breaks in this text; I have cursed it quite thoroughly but the blog software remains recalcitrant).

“Deliberative Democracy” Dementia
By James Bovard
James Bovard (jim@jimbovard.com) is the author of [...]

Monday 11th June 2007

Paperback Attention Deficit Democracy Hits Stores This Week

The paperback version of Attention Deficit Democracy arrives in stores this week.
Hmmm…. Re-reading that…. Maybe I should say, “According to credible sources, the paperback version of A.D.D. is scheduled to arrive in stores this week.”
I have to be careful, since many people assume that I blindly trust anything a publisher says.
I will be curious what folks [...]

Wednesday 30th May 2007

Speaking Friday at FFF Conference

10:08 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 13

On Friday morning at 9 a.m. [redacted], I will be giving a spiel on “How Foreign Warring Subverts Freedom at Home” at a Future of Freedom Foundation confab in Reston, Va. The conference, “Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy & Civil Liberties,” will feature an array of liberal, conservative, and libertarian speakers - including a number [...]

Wednesday 16th May 2007

Ron Paul’s Radical Mix: Truth & Politics

7:38 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 82

Hats off to Ron Paul for another great performance in the Republican presidential debate in South Carolina last night.
For almost six years, politicians have acted as if it is federal crime to speak bluntly about 9/11. On the day of the attacks, George Bush proclaimed that the hijackers attacked because they hate America for its [...]

Sunday 13th May 2007

What Would Martial Law Look Like?

If they put a sign saying “Rule of Law” on the front of the howitzer, people might not notice any difference between this and other post 9/11 ornaments in DC.

“Nothing to see here, folks - move along….”
The full size photo for the above is at http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=495676211&size=l
The new Patriot System in DC:

Just another harmless decoration on [...]

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 [...]

Wednesday 9th May 2007

Another Award for a Tyrant Apologist

Harvard professor Harvey Mansfield gave the esteemed Jefferson lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities last night in Washington.
According to the NEH website, “The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities recognizes an individual who has made significant scholarly contributions to the humanities and who has the ability to communicate the knowledge and wisdom of the [...]

Thursday 3rd May 2007

POSTPONED Live Online on St. Louis Radio Today (5/3) at 6:35 PM Eastern

12:09 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 2

Today’s show has been postponed till Monday due to the host being hit by the flu.
******
I will be on the Sloan Ranger Report radio show today at 6:35 pm Eastern through the top of the hour. The program, hosted by Lloyd Sloan, can be heard on WGNU at AM 920 in the St. Louis area. You [...]

Monday 30th April 2007

Happy “Mission Accomplished” Anniversary

Today (May 1) is the fourth anniversary of one of the most dishonest propaganda speeches in modern American history.
President Bush did his flight suit strut on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in front of a banner proclaiming “Mission Accomplished.”
Bush proclaimed, “With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing [...]

Wednesday 25th April 2007

How the Sniveling Media Paved the Road to War

Bill Moyers Journal on PBS tonight had a great program on how media groveling to Bush administration falsehoods and absurdities helped lead to the Iraq war.
The program focused on the villains and bootlickers in the press. It also contained interviews with some of the courageous reporters - such as Warren Stroebel and Jonathan Landay of Knight Ridder [...]

Now Online - Radio Interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton

Antiwar.com’s Scott Horton interviewed me yesterday about the American Conservative article on how Congress rubberstamped martial law.
As always, talking with Scott revived my idealism.
The mp3/audio file can be listened to or downloaded here.

Monday 23rd April 2007

The Martial Law Act of 2007

Congress rubberstamped martial law.
The American Conservative posted online my article on how Congress rolled out the red carpet for martial law. This piece vivifies how neither party in Washington gives a darn about the risks of dictatorship in America.
American Conservative April 23, 2007
Working for the Clampdown
What might the president do with his new power to declare martial [...]

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, [...]

Sunday 25th March 2007

Goyette Interview Now Online

5:14 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 5

The interview with Charles Goyette from Friday is now online here in MP3 format.
We had a good ol’ time - I hope listeners will get some laughs from the show.
Charles is one of the best informed talk show hosts on Bush scandals - it was good to hear his views on how some of these dark [...]

Thursday 22nd March 2007

LIVE ONLINE Friday (3/23) 11:30 Eastern with Goyette in AZ

9:36 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 7

I will be on the Charles Goyette show tomorrow (3/23) at 11:30 a.m Eastern time. Charles is one of the best talk show hosts in the biz - and he is gung-ho pro-freedom. (He has been doing interviews recently for Antiwar.com). His sense of humor helps listeners grin ‘n’ bear almost all of the Bush [...]

“Damned Proud” of Dead Lebanese Women & Children

Former US United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told the BBC today that he was “damned proud” of how the U.S. intentionally blocked efforts to achieve a ceasefire last summer when Israel was bombing Beirut and many other locales in Lebanon.
The BBC summarized Bolton’s comments: “A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls [...]

Tuesday 20th March 2007

Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?

Lew Rockwell suggested yesterday that I do a piece on the Gonzales meltdown and how it could affect Bush. Every now and then, I am not immune to good ideas, so I wrote it and he posted it on LewRockwell.com today.
I appreciate all the comments I received on the Gonzales blog entries in the past week. [...]

Monday 19th March 2007

Thanks to Bill Thompson and the Ocala Star-Banner

11:05 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 1

Bill Thompson, the assistant editorial page editor of the Ocala Star Banner, had kind words yesterday for Attention Deficit Democracy. Here is his piece:
Following a couple wannabes

In case you missed it, America has been at war in Iraq for four years, as of tomorrow. And despite more than 25,000 American casualties and a dwindling list [...]

Friday 16th March 2007

Gonzo’s Final Straw?

Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality. Waas notes at the National Journal:
Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department [...]

Wednesday 14th March 2007

Rising Odds of Impeachment

Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat. His exit is only a question of time. (I been wrong before, but….)
I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales. Bush has “benefitted” from two Attorney Generals who were profoundly dishonest and demagogic. No matter what the Bush administration did, they [...]

Friday 2nd March 2007

My Time in the Tower of London

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online an article of mine from the December Freedom Daily. I posted an excerpt of this piece here earlier; here is the full text.
MY TIME IN THE TOWER OF LONDON
by James Bovard
I visited the Tower of London in May on an overcast, dreary Friday afternoon. The home of [...]

Saturday 24th February 2007

“Liberating” Iran, Enslaving America

Will Grigg, the editor of Pro Libertate, has a new e-zine. Will ran a piece of mine in his initial issue. Will does great work - I hope people check out his hot new ‘Net publication here.
“Liberating” Iran, Enslaving the USA
The price of “regime change” in Iran might be the loss of what remains [...]

Friday 16th February 2007

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 noosed. It states:
Saddam Hussein and [...]

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