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Tuesday 8th July 2008

The Virtual Iran War Resolution

9:57 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Terrorism | Uncategorized | Comments: 5

This is one of those times that I realize how deficient the English language is in profanity. Congressmen deserve far worse hammering than the vernacular allows.
Congress may vote for a resolution this week that would be a de facto declaration of war on Iran. Iran poses no peril to the U.S. mainland. But since the U.S. [...]

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 [...]

Sunday 11th May 2008

Terrorist Cabal on the Potomac?

4:56 pm | Bovard | Terrorism | Comments: 2

I don’t know for sure that those two were with Hezbollah - or maybe Hamas - but you can’t be too careful in an area perfect for launching kayak attacks on the DC bridges. Unless of course the kayakers drowned before getting that far (as often happens in these waters).
Seems like half the people that throng [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Friday 26th October 2007

The FBI’s Right to Threaten Torture

9:05 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Terrorism | Comments: 15

The following op-ed is being shotgunned out today by the Future of Freedom Foundation.
THE FBI’S RIGHT TO THREATEN TORTURE
by James Bovard
A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But the FBI still [...]

Wednesday 29th August 2007

The “Terrorist” Batting Average

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my article from the June 2007 Freedom Daily on the Bush administration’s endlessly inaccurate terrorist accusations. The title of the piece is about as close to baseball as I have gotten in the last decade or so.
The “Terrorist” Batting Average
by James Bovard
For almost six years, the Bush administration [...]

Saturday 16th June 2007

Finally! My Northwest Territory Breakthrough!

I’ll be on in Yellowknife at 7:35 a.m. Monday.
Maybe even better, I’ll be on in Gander at 7:20 a.m. and in Whitehorse at 8:30 a.m.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will be doing a series of 6 minute interviews with me Monday morn. Canada is adapting a U.S.-style “No Fly List.” The CBC wants me to offer some [...]

Thursday 22nd March 2007

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Sunday 4th February 2007

Killer Cops Next to DC

10:40 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Terrorism | Comments: 22

The #2 Homeland Security official for Prince George’s County, Maryland recently shot two furniture delivery guys who brought a new bed to his house. The headboard had a scratch, according to local news reports. Since one of the delivery guys died a few days ago, the story won’t vanish, regardless of how many times the local government [...]

Monday 29th January 2007

America’s Previous Antiterrorism Disasters in Lebanon

In his State of the Union message last week, George Bush rattled his saber towards Hezbollah, trying to make it sound almost as frightening as Al Qaeda. This was typical Bush hokum. The history of U.S. intervention in Lebanon proves that America should stay the heck out of that country.
I wrote the following piece last August; it appeared in the Future of [...]

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 [...]

Monday 30th January 2006

The Farce at the Heart of the War on Terrorism

7:07 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Terrorism | Comments: 3

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my essay today on “The Farcical Definition at the Heart of the War on Terrorism.” Here is how the piece wraps up:
The United States has long insisted that government agents cannot be terrorists. The FBI defines terrorism as “the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property [...]

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