posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation, from the May issue of Freedom Daily – BRINGING FREEDOM & PROSPERITY TO AFGHANISTAN by James Bovard The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama’s efforts to legitimize the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan simply ignore the previous […]
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My 2 Cents on WikiLeaks, the FBI, and Assorted Hokum – Antiwar.com Transcript
The good folks at Antiwar.com Radio added a transcript to the MP3 of last week’s interview. My comments on the Obama administration’s ploy to increase FBI surveillance power are excerpted here at the top. (The full text is below. My Kelly Girl past is now no longer secret). Bovard: National Security letters have already been […]
Excellent Interview with WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange by Antiwar’s Scott Horton
Antiwar’s Scott Horton did a superb radio interview with WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange yesterday. Transcript and the MP3 are here. I have been amused to see the tut-tutting of some of the Washington press corps because the Afghan document disclosure was not as earth-shaking as the Pentagon Papers. Folks, this game is only beginning. Assange confirmed […]
Three More Cheers for WikiLeaks!
The latest deluge of truth from WikiLeaks is a welcome novelty in American politics. The New York Times, UK Guardian, and Germany’s Der Spiegel are simultaneously releasing articles today on more than 90,000 Pentagon documents that WikiLeaks posted on the web regarding the Afghan war. These documents reveal the lies that have permeated U.S. Afghan […]
The Media’s Attitude Towards Government Surveillance
This 1990 New Yorker cartoon perfectly captures the usual media attitude towards government surveillance in the post-9/11 world. Happily, today’s Washington Post blockbuster does not show the same complacency.
Best Comical Response to Wash. Post “Top Secret America” Series?
The Washington Post series on “Top Secret America” by Dana Priest and Bill Arkin is off to a great start. I am shocked to learn that the federal government has little or no idea what the hell it is doing. I expect some conservatives will want to indict the Post reporters and editors for treason…. […]
The New American Credo
Weren’t things supposed to be different after Obama was elected? [cartoon from the New Yorker, 2002]