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Oh! That’s a War! (Somalia, Yemen, Etc.)

This great Gahan Wilson cartoon from the January 3, 2011 New Yorker captures the cluenessness (real or pretended) of Washington policymakers who pretend that U.S. drones and bombing raids on foreign countries are merely expressions of American good will…  

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Rep. Hoekstra Wins CIA Torture Medal of Honor

from the Future of Freedom Foundation sent out this op-ed today – [also posted on Counterpunch here] Hoekstra Receives CIA’s Bootlicking Award by James Bovard, December 28, 2010 On December 21, the Central Intelligence Agency gave its Agency Seal Medal to Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. Hoekstra has labored […]

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How Washington Protects Your Privacy & Liberty

from the January issue of The Freeman – James Bovard How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty January/February 2011 • Volume: 61 • Issue: 1 Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better […]

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