I have been informed by Palgrave that the Quality Paperback Book Club is planning to do a softcover edition of Attention Deficit Democracy. I wonder if A.D.D. will be among the books offered in promos (3 books for $3) along with sensual massage guides and Dilbert cartoon collections. I suspect there is a potential jest near […]
Archive | August, 2006
The Folly of Democratic Inevitability
The good folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation posted my article today on one of the great democratic delusions of our time. The piece is online here – and below: Freedom Daily May 2006 (posted August 7, 2006) Nonsense on the Inevitability of Democracy by James Bovard Many Americans are being lulled into assuming […]
Freedom Via Military Dictatorship
George W. Bush has apparently given up any aspiration of receiving an honorary award from the American Civil Liberties Union. His administration is responding to the Supreme Court ruling striking down his military tribunals with a legislative proposal that would place far more Americans in peril of having their rights nullified. The Washington Post reports […]
The IDF’s “Human Shield” Defense Blows Up
From Haaretz today: As the Israel Air Force continues to investigate the air strike [at Qana], questions have been raised over military accounts of the incident. It now appears that the military had no information on rockets launched from the site of the building, or the presence of Hezbollah men at the time. The Israel […]
The War Goal that Led to Qana
Nehemia Shtrasler, a columnist in Haaretz, Israel’s most respected newspaper, today explains the goal of the Israeli invasion: “The Olmert-Peretz plan was to shell and demolish south Lebanon and south Beirut until the Lebanese public demanded that its government vomit Hezbollah out from its midst.” With a goal of demolishing much of the part of a neighboring […]
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Ron Redrift
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