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Custer’s Forgotten War Crimes After the Civil War

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 […]

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Fallujah Is Not a Presidential Victory Lap

Fallujah Is Not a Presidential Victory Lap by James Bovard, August 30, 2023 In the first 2024 Republican presidential debate last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis touted his time in Iraq. “I learned in the military, I was assigned with U.S. Navy SEALs in Iraq, that you focus on the mission above all else, you […]

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Remember the Atrocities of the Korean War, Not the Propaganda

https://twitter.com/LibertarianInst/status/1686109801804095488   Libertarian Institute, July 27, 2023 Remember the Atrocities of the Korean War, Not the Propaganda by James Bovard Today is the 70th anniversary of the armistice that ended the fighting between North and South Korea. Almost 40,000 American soldiers died pointlessly in that conflict. If politicians and policymakers were honest and prudent, the […]

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Was the Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century?

Was the Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century? by Jim Bovard | Mar 23, 2023 The Iraq War was spawned by a deadly combination of political depravity and media complicity. Unfortunately, on the twentieth anniversary of the war, both elements of that conspiracy are being whitewashed.  Instead, politicians and their pundit accomplices […]

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Gerald Ford and the Perversion of Presidential Pardons

American Conservative, December 29, 2020 Gerald Ford and the Perversion of Presidential Pardons by James Bovard In pardoning Nixon, the 38th president opened the floodgates to boundless executive power. In his final weeks in office, President Donald Trump is outraging the media and many critics with deluges of dubious pardons. Last Tuesday was “No Corrupt […]

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Korean War Forgotten Lessons with Great Photos from Consortium News

Consortium News kindly reposted my Korean War piece with awesome art work.  Wow! I had not seen almost any of these photos. The Korean War’s Forgotten Lessons on the Evil of Intervention November 20, 2020 Save The secrecy and deceit surrounding U.S. war crimes has had catastrophic consequences in this century, writes James Bovard. With her […]

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