Kissinger and my Interstate 81 Epiphany By James Bovard Henry Kissinger died last week. So far, I’ve been handling my grief pretty well. Kissinger was the most esteemed war criminal in American history. Kissinger, who was Nixon’s National Security Advisor, summarized Nixon’s order for bombing Cambodia; “Anything that flies on everything that moves.” In […]
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Remember the Atrocities of the Korean War, Not the Propaganda
https://twitter.com/LibertarianInst/status/1686109801804095488 Libertarian Institute, July 27, 2023 Remember the Atrocities of the Korean War, Not the Propaganda by James Bovard Today is the 70th anniversary of the armistice that ended the fighting between North and South Korea. Almost 40,000 American soldiers died pointlessly in that conflict. If politicians and policymakers were honest and prudent, the […]
Covid and Corrupt Federal Statistics
American Institute for Economic Research, December 28, 2021 Covid and Corrupt Federal Statistics James Bovard Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Biden and other Democrats continuously invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their Covid-19 mandates and policies, but the same shenanigans and willful omissions have characterized Covid data. During […]
USA TODAY: Neither Trump Nor Biden Deserve Honeymoon from Cynicism
USA TODAY, October 31, 2020 Neither Donald Trump nor Joe Biden deserve a honeymoon from cynicism by James Bovard “The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism,” declared former president Barack Obama two years ago. But as we enter the final days of another demagoguery-drenched presidential campaign, it is time to give cynicism the credit it […]
Roosevelt’s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the “Good War”
Roosevelt’s Fraud at Yalta and the Mirage of the “Good War” by James Bovard August 25, 2020 This year is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. One of the biggest frauds of the final stage of that war was the meeting at Yalta of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister […]
George H.W. Bush’s Forgotten Debacles and Demagoguery
George H.W. Bush’s Forgotten Debacles and Demagoguery by James Bovard After former President George H.W. Bush died late last year, he was widely hailed as a great leader and patriot. At the National Cathedral funeral service, biographer Jon Meachan declared that Bush was a “twentieth-century Founding Father.” The minister of Bush’s church in Houston compared […]
The Hill: In Washington, the Truth has Refugee Status
The Hill In Washington, the truth has refugee status By James Bovard, opinion contributor — 08/21/18 04:30 PM EDT 0 “Truth isn’t truth,” declared Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal attorney, on Meet the Press on Sunday. Giuliani’s comment — the weirdest absolution yet proffered for Trump — is the “Trump era’s epitaph,” according to a Washington Post columnist. But truth really […]