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Saturday 28th May 2011

Dilbert Solves the Patriot Act Mystery?

We learned in the last few weeks that a secret ruling exists which permits the federal agencies to violate far more Americans’ rights under a twisted interpretation of the Patriot Act.
Are the feds using smart phones to track millions of Americans?

Friday 25th February 2011

Patriot Act Poster from ACLU

Great stuff from the American Civil Liberties Union!

Thursday 10th February 2011

Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies

… posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation
Freedom Daily October 2010
Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies
by James Bovard
It seems like a century since Bill Clinton was president of this country. Unfortunately, the abuses of George W. Bush and the pratfalls of Barack Obama are causing many people to raise their [...]

Thursday 3rd February 2011

Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy

The Campaign for Liberty reposted this 2006 article of mine today, so, what the heck - I’ll pile on.
The Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy
By James Bovard
The American political system failed when Congress and the media recently rolled over in favor of extending the most onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Despite stark [...]

Thursday 13th January 2011

Speaking on the Patriot Act on a CPAC Panel Next Month…

I will be paying my respects to the Patriot Act at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. The panel is sponsored by the Campaign For Liberty. C4L will be having lots of stout events at this year’s CPAC. [...]

Wednesday 5th January 2011

Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the September issue of Freedom Daily - (also on Counterpunch)
Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush
by James Bovard
The Tea Party movement is challenging politicians and political establishments in many parts of this country. Many Tea Party supporters define [...]

Monday 6th December 2010

“Assassin Nation” in new American Conservative

The January issue of American Conservative contains my piece, “Assassin Nation” - on Obama’s new policy for killing Americans.
That issue is not yet generally available online; it is available at newstands and for subscriber viewing at their website. Here is a brief outtake from the article:
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Thursday 2nd December 2010

WikiLeaks Interview: Trashing Congress, Hillary Clinton, & the American Media

Brian Wilson, talk show host extraordinaire at WSPD Toledo, and I had a great time on the air today raising hell over Washington’s reaction to WikiLeaks. It is a damn outrage to see kowtowing congressmen, a strutting Secretary of State, and groveling American journalists as far as the eye can see.
You can listen to [...]

Sunday 28th November 2010

Three More Cheers for WikiLeaks, Exposing More Official Lies

Anyone who favors self-government should support the efforts by WikiLeaks to expose official lies. Their latest release of hundreds of thousands of State Department diplomatic cables will hopefully undermine the piety and pretentiousness of U.S. foreign policy for years.
The Obama administration is rolling out the same old “people will die!” hobgoblin in response [...]

Friday 22nd October 2010

Pentagon’s Biggest Lie? “No Surprises” Expected from WikiLeaks

So the pre-leak spin by the Pentagon is that they have already disclosed everything important that will be revealed in the next WikiLeaks document super-dump.
Obama’s Pentagon apparently believes that Americans are as gullible - if not mutton-headed - as the Bush Pentagon believed.
No surprises expected in WikiLeaks Iraq war dump: Pentagon WASHINGTON [...]

Sunday 10th October 2010

A Tea Party Bright Side: Making the Fed Sweat

It’s great that the Tea Party is making the Federal Reserve sweat….
The New York Times has a piece detailing how, thanks to Tea Party activists, one “likely outcome” of the November elections “is greater scrutiny of the Fed, even though the Wall Street regulatory overhaul that Mr. Obama signed in July already calls for a [...]

Thursday 9th September 2010

The True 9/11 Legacy: USA as Valhalla for Torturers and Government Secrecy

The Ninth Circuit court of federal appeals embraced the Obama and Bush administration’s spurious arguments that Americans cannot be permitted to know the details of Bush-era torture. But the court, in one of the most optimistic moments in recent judicial history, declared that its decision “does not preclude the government from honoring the fundamental [...]

Monday 7th June 2010

Obama’s Latest Assault on the Truth

2:23 pm | Iraq | Secrecy | War crimes | Comments: 10

From A Tiny Revolution:

The feds have arrested Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, for allegedly leaking the classified video footage of a US helicopter slaughtering Iraqi civilians in 2007. Manning allegedly leaked other information to WikiLeaks.
This follows the indictment of a National Security Agency official who allegedly leaked information on Bush’s illegal wiretap [...]

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 [...]

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