My 2004 speech in Las Vegas on why the war on terror is a war on liberty. Bush’s war on Iraq is thrashed including the spiraling torture scandal.
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My 2004 Speech: Bush’s Wars Doom American Liberty
Terrorism & Tyranny: 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Interview (complete)
My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview on my book, Terrorism & Tyranny” Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (St. Martin’s Press). Host Brian Lamb asked great questions and we managed to have a few laughs on the grim topic. Some excerpts: “Flattery ruins more politicians than sex.” “It is an old […]
WSJ 1992: NAFTA Sowed the Seeds of Trump’s Trade Wars
OTD 34 years ago, I warned: “Pandering to protectionists is poisoning the North American Free Trade Agreement.” NAFTA’s managed trade squabbles sowed the seeds for future trade wars. Trump vindicated this article. Wall Street Journal, July 31, 1992: “Free trade is not complex; it does not require an army of bureaucrats to define and re-define […]
The Origin of Trump’s Drug War Killing Spree
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 […]
The Demented Origin of the Drugs-Terrorism Nexus
The Demented Origin of the War on Drugs and War on Terrorism Nexus by James Bovard, June 22, 2026 President Trump effectively claims that he is entitled to preemptively kill suspected drug traffickers anywhere on earth, or at least in the Western Hemisphere. The U.S. military has killed hundreds of people in its attacks on […]
An All-American Retort to Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon
An All-American Retort to Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon by James Bovard, Libertarian Institute April 24 2026 Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has reportedly killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon as part of an effort to commandeer that territory. Israel’s bombing has […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Jim
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Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay