The Bill of Rights Defense Committee just released an excellent new DVD: FBI Unbound: How National Security Letters Violate Our Privacy.” The DVD features interviews with George Christian, the executive director of Library Connection, the Connecticut organization that courageously refused to comply with an FBI National Security Letter (NSL) and helped make the letters a national controversy. Lisa Graves […]
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Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out an op-ed I wrote about presidents’ right to kill. My favorite line from this piece: Sometimes the threat of a noose is the best way to keep the peace. ARE PRESIDENTS ENTITLED TO KILL FOREIGNERS? by James Bovard What is the common term for ordering soldiers to kill […]
FREE BOOKS! On the Brian Wilson Radio Show today (10/4)
I will be on the Brian Wilson radio show today from 5 to 6 p.m. Eastern time on WSPD in Toledo. You can listen live here. Brian received a heap of copies of Attention Deficit Democracy, and he may be passing some of those out today. Brian is now far and away the top rated […]
Great Expose on Lies on the USS Liberty
The Chicago Tribune yesterday printed an expose on the lies regarding the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. John Crewdson’s article makes clear that the U.S. government knew that the Israeli planes had clearly identified the USS Liberty as an American ship before they began strafing and bombing it. Three Israeli torpedo boats attacked and almost […]
How Bush Used Bogus Fears to Win a Second Term
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my fearmongering Freedom Daily article from July 2007. Thus far, it looks like the Fear Card continues to work for the Bush team. The news media has cowered as Bush and Cheney invent one fraudulent pretext after another for the U.S. military to commence slaughtering Iranians. But […]
Complete Text, Syrian Review of Bush Betrayal
Sate Hamza, a Syrian doctor and professor now living in Canada, kindly tracked down and translated the September 17 full review of Bush Betrayal in the Syrian newspaper Al-Thawrah from Arabic into English. He emailed this around 4 a.m. this morning: I found the original review at the following URL: http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_archive.asp?FileName=55888278520070916222749 http://tinyurl.com/2aum3r Here is a full English […]
“Bush Betrayal” on the Road to Damascus
A Syrian government-owned newspaper reviewed the Arabic version of Bush Betrayal this week. Here is the summary of the review, as reported by the British Broadcasting Corp. Middle East wire. [[[[ UPDATE: Full text of the review is posted here.]]]] Al-Thawrah carries a 400-word article by Khalaf al-Jarrad entitled “‘The World President’ Betrayal,” in […]
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