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“Liberating” Iran, Enslaving America

Will Grigg, the editor of  Pro Libertate, has a new e-zine.   Will ran a piece of mine in his initial issue.  Will does great work – I hope people check out his hot new ‘Net publication here. “Liberating” Iran, Enslaving the USA The price of “regime change” in Iran might be the loss of what […]

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Iran, Bush, and Velvet Revolution.us

  The above ad is from VelvetRevolution.us.   I snapped this photo of their Republican fashion statement at the antiwar demonstration in DC on January 27.  (Full size photo is available here.) VelvetRevolution has another advertisement out proclaiming: WAR CRIMINALS GET HANGED Who is willing to hang beside George Bush? The ad features a picture of Saddam getting […]

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Democracy versus Liberty

Even with George W. Bush as president, democracy does not guarantee liberty.  Here is a piece I wrote for the Freeman on the topic last summer (now online here in PDF).   The editor of the Freeman, Sheldon Richman, has one of the best freedom blogs on the Net; his “Free Association” is here. If you enjoy […]

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Bush Brings Medieval Justice to America

The Bush administration has been shockingly clear regarding its intentions to medievalize American justice.  The memos vindicating torture written by high-ranking Bush administration officials should have woken up all Americans to the rising peril.  Unfortunately, the memos have gotten far less attention than they deserve. This article, posted today by the Future of Freedom Foundation, ran […]

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Bush’s Biggest Bosh – 2nd Anniv.

Following is the lead and wrap-up of a piece  I did for the February issue of Freedom Daily. The Future of Freedom Foundation will put the full text online later this year. The Second Anniversary of Bush’s Worst Bosh by James Bovard Two years ago last month, Bush gave his second inaugural address. As I […]

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Lively Interview Online – Torture, Iran, Dictatorship, etc.

Antiwar.com columnist Scott Horton interviwed me today for an hour about Attention Deficit Democracy. We had a good ol’ time –  I hope folks get lots of laughs from the show.  Scott, who has done some excellent writing on the danger of war with Iran, had excellent observations on the latest developments in the Middle […]

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America’s Previous Antiterrorism Disasters in Lebanon

In his State of the Union message last week, George Bush rattled his saber towards Hezbollah, trying to make it sound almost as frightening as Al Qaeda.  This was typical Bush hokum.   The history of U.S. intervention in Lebanon proves that America should stay the heck out of that country. I wrote the following piece last August; it appeared in the Future […]

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