This Saturday should see the biggest antiwar demonstration in Washington since September 2005. Details here. I will be heading down to the big show. When I go to these events, I tend to saunter more than march, savoring the circus elements of these festivities and spending lots of time on the periphery. Stopping Bush from expanding […]
LIVE ONLINE Friday (1/19) at 4:30 PM Eastern on Brian Wilson Show
Brian Wilson and I will be thrashing the Bush adminsitration’s latest dodges regarding its illegal surveillance tomorrow afternoon. You can listen live here Brian has been doing a great job whupping up on the mayor of Toledo, revealing the rascal as a two-bit censorship hack. There’s a photo of Brian here just before he smashed down […]
Bush’s Remote Control Martyrs
In the Tuesday interview for PBS Newshour, host Jim Lehrer asked Bush why he has not asked more AMericans.. to sacrifice something” for the war in Iraq. The President replied: “I think a lot of people are in this fight. I mean, they sacrifice peace of mind when they see the terrible images of violence […]
“Close Enough for Government Work” Torture
A newly-released Pentagon-funded study entitled “Educing Information” examines the “concerns about recent U.S. interrogation activities, subsequent investigations, and the efficacy of contemporary tactics, techniques, and procedures.” Surprise, surprise: the U.S. government has little or no idea what it is doing when it tries to beat the truth out of people. A Washington Post story on the […]
Surge & Dictatorship
The real issue in Bush’s speech Wednesday night is not the additional troops he intends to send to Iraq. The real issue is his nearly open proclamation of dictatorial powers. Apparently, once a president lies a nation into war, he is entitled to absolute power for as long as he chooses. Regardless of how many […]
The Perils of Emergency Power
Freedom Daily September 2006 (posted online January 2007) The Perils of Emergency Power by James Bovard The New York Times reported on June 23 that President Bush invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to justify warrantless searches of Americans’ and other people’s financial data. According to Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey, the U.S. government may […]
What if Nixon had been Hanged?
Seeing the rave reviews on how Iraqis will benefit from the hanging of Saddam Hussein, and hearing the late Gerald Ford lauded today to the heavens, I can’t help wondering how American history might have changed if Richard Nixon had been hanged. Of course, I’m not suggesting Nixon should have been hanged by a lynch […]
