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Wednesday 11th August 2010
Government Lies Make Leaks Explosive
5:21 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Lying | War crimes | Comments: 5
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 [...]
Monday 26th July 2010
Three More Cheers for WikiLeaks!
11:37 am | Afghanistan | Bush | Lying | Obama | War crimes | Comments: 6
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 [...]
Friday 9th July 2010
“Freedom & the War on Terrorism” - my Pennslyvania speech…
2:24 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bailout | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Obama | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Torture | Transportation Security Admin. | War crimes | Wiretapping | Comments: 2
Now online here: the video of my “Freedom and the War on Terrorism” speech last month in Bernville, Pennsylvania. I want to thank Bob Bowers, who organized this libertarian supper club, for inviting Jacob Hornberger and I to talk there. The audience was excellent - lots of hardliners full of fire-and-brimstone. [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday 1st June 2010
Campaign for Liberty’s Review of Attention Deficit Democracy
10:08 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Democracy | Messianic Democracy | Rule of Law | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 0
Anthony Gregory has a generous review of Attention Deficit Democracy posted today at the Campaign for Liberty website:
There are few writers who pay more attention to the political follies of our time and who provide their readers with more meticulously documented reasons to be outraged than James Bovard, whose new book, Attention Deficit Democracy, presents [...]
Tuesday 4th May 2010
Obama Makes a Joke About Predator Carnage
5:21 pm | Obama | Uncategorized | War crimes | Comments: 17
So now Obama, like Bush, has made a “joke” that views policies that resulted in killing innocent foreign civilians as fodder for mirth at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Obama at that dinner on Saturday night:
“The Jonas Brothers are here; they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But boys, don’t get [...]
Tuesday 20th April 2010
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
11:04 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Census | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Torture | Transportation Security Admin. | War crimes | Wiretapping | lese majeste | Comments: 2
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out this op-ed today….
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
by James Bovard
Americans are once again hearing of the perils of extremism. But the definition of this offense is slippier than a politician’s campaign promise. The definition of extremism has continually been amended to permit government policies that few sober people [...]
Bill Clinton’s Lethal Hypocrisy on Government Violence
9:41 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Clinton | Elective Dictatorship | Rule of Law | War crimes | lese majeste | Comments: 18
from Counterpunch today -
Bill Clinton on Violence and Government
A Lethal Hypocrisy
By JAMES BOVARD
Yesterday, on the fifteenth anniversary of the attack on the federal office building in Oklahoma City, former President Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the New York Times headlined: “Violence is Unacceptable in a Democracy.†The article settles any doubts [...]
Tuesday 6th April 2010
Killing Journalists as Video Game Sport
9:21 pm | Afghanistan | Bush | Iraq | Lying | War crimes | Comments: 0
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 [...]
Monday 18th January 2010
Gitmo Murders & Pentagon Coverup?
12:44 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Torture | War crimes | dictatorship | Comments: 5
Scott Horton of Harper’s has a great piece online on how three detainees at Gitmo were killed during interrogations. The military responded with an elaborate coverup that claimed the three men committed suicide as an “act of asymmetrical warfare.”
The military’s story has been blow to bits in large part by former Gitmo guards who [...]
Monday 9th November 2009
Torture Update: Andy Worthington’s Excellent New Film
10:42 am | Central Intelligence Agency | Cheney | Rule of Law | Supreme Court | Torture | War crimes | Comments: 0
Andy Worthington, the author of The Guantanamo Files, is touring the U.S. with his excellent new film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo.†He will be in California later this week. Tour schedule is here.
“Outside the Law” does a fine job of blending the legal issues and personal details to burn [...]
Friday 10th July 2009
WHOOP WHOOP Quote of the Day - on War Crimes
3:46 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | War crimes | Comments: 0
“We believe that anyone suspected of war crimes should be thoroughly investigated.â€
So claims an anonymous U.S government official, quoted in a story on the New York Times website today.
Of course, he was referring to an alleged massacre of Taliban prisoners by Afghan Gen. Dostum in Afghanistan in late 2001. (Despite Obama’s victory last November, the [...]