The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out this email today….. Celebrate Torture Day by Punishing Torturers by James Bovard, June 23, 2009 Since 1997, every June 26 has been formally recognized as the International Day of Support for Victims of Torture. Political leaders around the globe take the occasion to proclaim their opposition to […]
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The Campaign Reform Scam/Crime/Damn Outrage – Parts 1 and 2
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the second part of my analysis of the McCain Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act hokum. (This is from the February issue of Freedom Daily). I am reposting it here, along with the first part of the article (posted on this blog yesterday). *** The Campaign Reform Scam […]
The Campaign Reform Crime (or Scam?)
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from the January issue of Freedom Daily on campaign reform scams. This is the first part of a two-part series on the McCain-Feingold act and related hokum. ******************************** The Campaign Reform Scam Part 1 Freedom Daily January 2009 by James Bovard In 2002, Congress passed […]
Obama’s Double Standard on Atrocities & Evil
At a Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Capitol on Thursday, President Obama called for “fighting the silence that is evil’s greatest co-conspirator.” On the same day, Obama decided to oppose creation of a truth commission to vigorously investigate and expose U.S. torture crimes. This is another of those damn paradoxes of which Washington is full […]
Obama-Style “Nation of Laws”
Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a “nation of laws” at the same time he announced that CIA torturers would not be prosecuted for their crimes. Life in Washington is one damn paradox after another. Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union for their lawsuit that compelled the disclosure of the torture memos yesterday. […]
Washington Post Shills for Terrorists
Not all terrorists are equally damndable, apparently. The Washington Post has an article today on the Iraqi government’s plan to shut down the camp of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK. This is a violent Marxist organization that was designated by the State Department as terrorists in 1997 because of their long record of killing civilians […]
Part 2 of “How Abu Ghraib was Politically Defused”
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the second part of my analysis of “How Abu Ghraib was Politically Defused.” It is amazing how little attention was paid to the heap of evidence of torture-as-official-policy until long after Bush snared a second term. Here is a link to a permanent web page with both […]
Mark Chisholm
We only see it at sunset eh. No wonder you got cal
Mecca delenda est
Material support for terrorism _IS_ terrorism.
Nemo
Immolated Strawman: "Because a minority of Ja
bob geiyer
Millions have entered the US illegally, the Trump