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Tuesday 15th November 2011

Memorial Day Reflections and Revisionism

11:46 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | War crimes | Comments: 0

from the August issue of Freedom Daily (posted online last week)
Memorial Day Reflections and Revisionism
by James Bovard,
On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it 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 [...]

Friday 11th November 2011

Veterans Day: Remembering The Nature of War and Politicians

2:28 pm | Lying | Uncategorized | War crimes | Comments: 8

Veterans Day was originally Armistice Day, pegged to the end of the First World War. Unfortunately, almost all the lies that propelled that war have been lost in the Memory Bank.
The following 8 minute video is a potent reminder on both the nature of war and the nature of politicians who send men to [...]

Monday 25th July 2011

MP3 of Freedom Fest Panel Flogging the War on Terror

Jacob Hornberger, Sheldon Richman, and I had fun flogging the war on terror during a Freedom Fest panel earlier this month.
Since I was the token moderate on the panel, I went third. I started out my riff (@ 20 minutes into the tape) talking about how a TSA agent at Baltimore went [...]

Tuesday 28th June 2011

Idolizing Absolute Power: Assassination Bloodlust

From today’s Counterpunch -
Assassination Bloodlust
Idolizing Absolute Power
by JAMES BOVARD
The Christian Science Monitor published a piece I wrote last month wrote opposing allowing the U.S. government to kill Americans without a warrant, trial, or any judicial niceties. The article, “Assassination Nation: Are there any limits on President Obama’s license to kill?,” spurred [...]

Tuesday 21st June 2011

Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law

from the March issue of Freedom Daily….
Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law
by James Bovard
Last November, George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, hit the streets. And Americans could see firsthand the former president bragging about ordering torture. Bush wrote that when he was requested to approve the CIA’s waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he responded, [...]

Tuesday 17th May 2011

Obama’s Unlimited Right to Kill?

from today’s Christian Science Monitor -
The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
Assasination nation: Are there any limits on President Obama’s license to kill?
As part of its war against violent extremism, the Obama administration now claims a right to kill Americans without a trial, without notice, and without any chance for targets to legally object.
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By James [...]

Thursday 12th May 2011

Latest Pro-War Power Grab

I was interviewed this morning (pre-coffee, unfortunately) by Press TV on a provision in a House bill that could make it even easier for presidents to start new war. Here’s their summary of the interview:
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The House Armed Services Committee has expanded the Bush-era “war on terror” bill, with amendments that would allow any president [...]

Thursday 21st April 2011

Ted Rall Nails Obama on Spreading Democacy to Libya

Tuesday 19th April 2011

MP3 of Interview with Antiwar’s Scott Horton on Idiot Libyan Policymakers

From Antiwar.com: “James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses his article, “Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars;” the two-party “consensus of rascals” on US foreign policy; the “best and brightest” government policymakers who are blinded by arrogance, tunnel vision and echo chambers; and the confusion about whether disastrous foreign policy decisions [...]

Wednesday 13th April 2011

Absurdity of Trusting Foreign Policymakers

sent out this morn by the Future of Freedom Foundation…
The Absurdity of Trusting Foreign-Policy Makers
by James Bovard, April 13, 2011
The United States is attacking Libya on the basis of vague hopes that peace will triumph after the Allied bombing ceases. There are plenty of reasons to doubt whether a few hundred cruise missiles will beget [...]

Friday 8th April 2011

Obama’s Torture Regime?

Spencer Ackerman of Wired has an excellent piece today on the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command’s secret jails in Afghanistan. Ackerman notes:
Human rights groups have been sounding the alarm about these detention centers since 2009. Detainees who claim to have gone through the sites have told them about abuses inside the so-called “Black Jails” ranging [...]

Thursday 7th April 2011

MP3 of Interview on Brian Wilson Show: Libya, ICE, WPost, and other targets

WSPD’s Brian Wilson had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday about various political villains and other scoundrels. You can listen to the @ 25 minute interview by clinking on the highlighted text below:
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Wednesday 6th April 2011

Wash. Post Editorial: Kill More Libyans Now!

The Washington Post has an editorial today fretting that the Obama administration has not killed enough Libyans. The Post warns that U.S. killing of more Libyans is the best way to assure a bright future for Libya. OK, that’s not verbatim - but this is: “The dangers of the military stalemate [...]

Friday 25th March 2011

Obama’s Unlimited Right to Kill?

Is there any limit to the killing that a U.S. president can initiate as long as he claims benevolent motives? Over the past dozen years, three presidents commenced bombing nations that posed no threat to the U.S. The only “restraint” seems to be whether presidential speechwriters can stitch together phrases to portray [...]

Monday 21st March 2011

MP3 of Interview on Libyan War with Katherine Albrecht

Katherine Albrecht and I had a fine time thrashing Obama & crew for their Libyan fiasco.
You can listen to the @ 20 minute interview by clicking on the following:
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It was great to hear Katherine in such high spirits and full of vim and vigor today. She is going through some very [...]

Obama’s Mushroom Cloud Legacy

For years, we have heard that Obama is different than other politicians - wiser, more compassionate, more prudent.
Bull.
Blowing the hell out of Libya settles any doubts about whether Obama is simply another deluded ruler who will use power however he pleases to burnish his reputation.
Obama is simply a high-falutin’ version of George W. Bush. [...]

Friday 11th March 2011

MP3 of Interview on Patriot Act & Teacher Unions with Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson and I had fun trouncing the Patriot Act and Teacher Unions on the WSPD radio yesterday.
Click on the highlighted text below to hear the MP3:
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Tuesday 15th February 2011

Video - Me & Jacob Hornberger Thumping Conservative Statists

Jacob Hornberger Show from CPAC 2011 with James Bovard from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.
From the Future of Freedom Foundation: This edition of the Jacob Hornberger Show was recorded at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 11, 2011. Jacob and special guest James Bovard discuss “Why Do Conservatives Support Statism?”
The Jacob [...]

Monday 24th January 2011

Our Know Nothing Foreign Policy (full text)

The American Conservative placed online today the full text of my review of Magic and Mayhem.
Worst and Brightest
Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages
By James Bovard
In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading con [...]

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