George Custer was killed 150 years ago at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But he committed many atrocities before his death, including burning down the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. Confederate Col. John Mosby fought him there, and Custer hanged some of Mosby’s troops in my old hometown Front Royal, Virginia. This video is tied to […]
George Custer was killed 150 years ago at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But he committed many atrocities before his death, including burning down the Shenandoah Valley in 1864. Col. John Mosby fought him there, and Custer hanged some of Mosby’s troops in my old hometown Front Royal, Virginia. This video is tied to my […]
Lester, the Sky Hasn’t Fallen By James Bovard Lester Brown and his think tank, the Worldwatch Institute, are a cross between Chicken Little and King Midas. Despite the wrong-headed and dire nature of Mr. Brown’s State of the World messages and other economic and environmental prophecies, many influential people take his word as gold. Indeed, […]
Counterpunch, June 26, 2026 The Origin of Trump’s Drug War Killing Spree George W. Bush in the Oval Office with is Attorney General John Ashcroft, who said of the war on drugs: “I want to renew it. I want to refresh it, relaunch it if you will.” White House photo by Eric Draper. President Trump […]
On Little Bighorn Anniversary, Remember Custer’s Crimes by James Bovard June 25th was the 150th anniversary of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. Col. George Custer and 267 US soldiers were massacred by thousands of outraged Indian warriors on the plains of eastern Montana. In 1969, as a twelve-year-old traveling to a Boy Scout Jamboree […]