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Tuesday 31st August 2010

Will Obama Out-BS Bush on Iraq?

Popcorn sales are soaring across the nation because Obama will give a live Oval Office speech tonight on the U.S. victory in Iraq.
I’m disappointed that Obama will not be giving the speech after climbing out of a jet wearing a flight suit, like George W. did with his “Mission Accomplished” speech in 2003.
I expect that [...]

Wednesday 18th August 2010

The Crime of Lying to the FBI???

Former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is a four-star sleazeball. But the feds had their chance to put him away and they failed to convince a jury on all charges except lying to the FBI.
This is one of the “crimes” that best illustrates the mirage of the Rule of Law in the U.S. FBI agents and [...]

Wednesday 11th August 2010

Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive

The Pentagon is caterwauling that the next round of WikiLeaks’ disclosures of US government documents will be even more damaging than the last round.
It is always touching to see the world’s most powerful military machine portray itself as a “pitiful, helpless giant” (the phrase Nixon used in his speech announcing his illegal invasion [...]

Saturday 31st July 2010

MP3 of My Interview with Scott Horton on the FBI, WikiLeaks, Etc.

Scott Horton of Antiwar.com Radio and I had fun tarring-and-feathering the usual federal outrages on Thursday. The MP3 is here.
Scott balked at the chance to reveal his deepest thoughts on Chelsea’s wedding. It could have been a great “Bill Hicks moment.”
Here’s Scott’s thumbnail of the interview:
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, [...]

Thursday 29th July 2010

Excellent Interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange by Antiwar’s Scott Horton

Antiwar’s Scott Horton did a superb radio interview with WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange yesterday. Transcript and the MP3 are here.
I have been amused to see the tut-tutting of some of the Washington press corps because the Afghan document disclosure was not as earth-shaking as the Pentagon Papers.
Folks, this game is only beginning. Assange confirmed [...]

Monday 26th July 2010

Three More Cheers for WikiLeaks!

The latest deluge of truth from WikiLeaks is a welcome novelty in American politics.
The New York Times, UK Guardian, and Germany’s Der Spiegel are simultaneously releasing articles today on more than 90,000 Pentagon documents that WikiLeaks posted on the web regarding the Afghan war.
These documents reveal the lies that have permeated U.S. Afghan [...]

Tuesday 8th June 2010

43rd Anniversary of Israeli Attack on USS Liberty… and the Coverup Continues

5:53 pm | Lying | Uncategorized | Comments: 44

On June 8, 1967, Israeli forces knowingly attacked an American intelligence ship off the coast of Egypt. Thirty-four Americans were killed.
Here is a new YouTube video that captures the spirit of the attack.
The Johnson administration responded by rushing to coverup the facts.
James Bamford, author of Body of Secrets, has unearthed massive evidence proving [...]

Monday 31st May 2010

New Yorker’s Disgraceful Embrace of Government Coverups

2:59 pm | Lying | Secrecy | Comments: 3

from a New Yorker article on Wikileaks’ heroic Julian Paul Assange -
“But, unlike authoritarian regimes, democratic governments hold secrets largely because citizens agree that they should, in order to protect legitimate policy.”
This is one of the biggest crocks in modern history.
Wikileaks is doing more to promote self-government than the vast majority of liberal publications [...]

Memorial Day: Scourge the Lying Politicians…

9:05 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | Comments: 3

This Memorial Day, the media is doing its usual sacralizing of war. Instead, this should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 60 years, their lies have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of almost a hundred thousand American soldiers and millions of foreigners.
And yet, people still get teary-eyed [...]

Tuesday 18th May 2010

“Misplaced Words” - the New Defense for Political Lying

9:59 pm | Democracy | Lying | wool | Comments: 5

The New York Times on Monday night nailed Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for lying about claiming to have served in Vietnam. Blumental, a Senate candidate, responded indignantly. Here’s the update to the story:
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, a Democrat running for the United States Senate, said on Tuesday that he took â€œfull [...]

Friday 14th May 2010

Counterpunch: Operation Tarmac

From Counterpunch -
OPERATION TARMAC
by James Bovard
…..
Unfortunately, few people recognize the political racketeering involved in the postâ€“9/11 roundups of airport workers. That practically ensures that, if there is another major terrorist attack or some similar debacle, mass arrests will once again be used to burnish the governmentâ€™s image.

Thursday 13th May 2010

The Feds’ Post-9/11 Purge of Airport Workers

From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (February 2010)…
American travelers are at far greater risk from weasely cabinet secretaries than from fast-food workers. Operation Tarmac illustrated how â€œretailâ€ lying is dangerous and can result in a prison sentence â€” while â€œwholesaleâ€ lying is a steppingstone to fame and greater power.
The Feds’ Post-9/11 Airport [...]

Tuesday 6th April 2010

Killing Journalists as Video Game Sport

Three cheers for Wikileaks. Their posting of a 38-minute video from an Apache helilcopter showing U.S. gunners killing two Reuters journalists (and ten other civilians) in 2007 is heroic. Naturally, the Pentagon had endlessly scorned Reuters’ Freedom of Information Act and other efforts to get the video.
The video and a transcript of [...]

Tuesday 16th March 2010

Bait and Switch Democracy at its Best

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that she may ram through the Democrats’ health care legislation through the House via a brazen fraud. The Washington Post reports:
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to [...]

Tuesday 1st December 2009

Will Obama Out-BS Bush?

Obama’s speech from West Point tonight may drive the final wooden stake into liberals’ hope that their guy would create a Brave New Order in Washington and the world.
The fact that Obama is following in Bush’s footsteps - talking to an audience of captive individuals who would be ruined for life by a single [...]

Thursday 5th November 2009

The Media as Enablers of Government Lies

Posted online today…
The Media as Enablers of Government Lies Freedom Daily August 2009
by James Bovard
Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians [...]

Thursday 15th October 2009

The National Endowment for Democracy’s Forgotten Sordid History

11:26 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Congress | Lying | Comments: 2

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my piece from their July Freedom Daily issue on one of the biggest shams of modern American history…
THE EARLY HISTORY OF A WORLDWIDE NUISANCE
by James Bovard
Few federal agencies have as much bipartisan support as the National Endowment for Democracy. Created in 1983, NEDâ€™s stated mission is to [...]

Friday 9th October 2009

8 Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan

And so now the Pentagon and the White House are going to tell the truth about Afghanistan?
Pshaw!
Here’s my 2 cents on the issue - distributed by the Future of Freedom Foundation and also appearing on Counterpunch today.
** I have a ‘reader survey’ question at the bottom regarding a specific line in the piece.
EIGHT YEARS [...]

Saturday 27th September 2008

McCain’s Great Betrayal of Fellow POWs

7:42 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Lying | Comments: 17

In last night’s debate, McCain again strutted out the fact of his POW status during the Vietnam war.
A servile media has long allowed this to be the primary part of McCain’s halo.
But instead, it should raise questions that go to the heart of McCain’s willingness to betray his fellow soldiers and countrymen in pursuit of [...]

Monday 5th May 2008

Warring as Lying

1:54 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Lying | Comments: 4

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from the February issue of Freedom Daily on lying & warring.Â Amazing to see how much hokum politicians get away with when they commence killing foreigners…..
Warring as Lying Throughout American History
by James BovardÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Freedom Daily February 2008
Americans are taught to expect their elected leaders to [...]

Saturday 23rd February 2008

McCain’s Forgotten Drug Fix

Amongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist,Â his wife’s sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten.
If a poor black woman from Anacostia had committed the crimes that Cindy McCain committed, the black woman might have been sent to prison [...]

Friday 6th April 2007

Government Lies vs. Self-Government

Responding to implacable demands from central Europe, the Future of Freedom Foundation today finallyÂ posted online the full text of my piece on Hungarian Lies and American Lessons.
Hungarians are still steaming about the government’s lies in last year’s elections, but most Americans appear to have forgotten Bush’s verbal frauds from the campaign trail last October.Â Â Perhaps [...]

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 showÂ 10:30 AM Eastern time Wednesday (11/14). Â Charles is one of the best libertarian hosts in the country;Â his political courage and [...]

Friday 10th November 2006

Lying Politicians: A Conundrum for the Washington Post

11:10 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Lying | Comments: 6

What does the Washington press corpsÂ do when a president brazenly lies?
Nothing, usually.
But every now and then, the lie cannot be ignored - especially if a president confesses during a national press conference.Â
The Washington Post, in its initial article on the day after the press conference, noted that BushÂ ”appeared to acknowledge having misled reporters.” But that [...]

Monday 6th November 2006

Lies & Leviathan: How Government Cons People Into Submission

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

Wednesday 30th August 2006

Bush & Killing in the Name of Democracy

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

Tuesday 15th August 2006

Bush Out-Drivels Himself

7:19 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Lying | Comments: 48

So Bush made the supreme sacrifice, returning from his vacation in Texas to Washington to inform Americans of his latest victories in the Middle East.
His comments at the State Department yesterday came close to breaking his previous personal best in both the delusions and drivel categories.
Bush began by declaring that Hezbollah was fully liable for [...]

Saturday 11th February 2006

The Great Slavery Anniversary

On this day in 1945, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Yalta Agreement with Stalin and Churchill. Roosevelt thereby gave the United States seal of approval to enslaving generations of Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, and others to Soviet tyranny.
From 1942 through 1945, the U.S. government consistently deceived the American people about the character of the Soviet [...]

Wednesday 8th February 2006

L.A. Times: Are You a Suspected Terrorist?

The Los Angeles Times ran my op-ed today on the array of wacko definitions of suspected terrorists that the Bush administration has devised since 9/11.Â Â Here are some outtakes of the piece:
PRESIDENT BUSH and Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales insist that the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of American citizens is a necessary “terrorist surveillance program.” [...]

Tuesday 31st January 2006

The State of the Union Heave-Ho

10:20 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Lying | Comments: 2

Â Any timeÂ a Washington politician startsÂ out by announcing that he is “humbled,”Â hip boots become mandatory attire for listeners. Â
To hear Bush invoke the Rule of Law is like hearing Stalin talk of his devotion for peace.
Bush talked of his friendship for the Iranian people.Â Â This will likely sharply boost the number of Iranians building bomb [...]

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