Scott Horton has converted our interview from yesterday into an MP3 which can be easily downloaded here.
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Foley the One-Handed Warrior
ABC News revealed this afternoon that Foley was engaging in “Internet sex” with a teenage boy while Foley was voting for the Bush administration’s Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriation in 2003. ABC reports: This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., … Maf54 [FOLEY]: I miss you Teen: ya me too Maf54: we are still […]
Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, R.I.P.
Former congresswoman Helen Chenoweth died yesterday in a Nevada car crash. She was one of the most courageous members of Congress in the mid-late 1990s. She fought harder than any Idaho senator to find out the truth about the federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. While Sen. Larry Craig was wishy-washy, hemming and hawing, Chenoweth was unflinching. Obituaries mention that […]
LIVE ONLINE – Tuesday (10/3) 6 pm Eastern- Scott Horton KAOS radio show
Scott Horton will be having me on his show on KAOS radio tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/03) evening at 6 pm Eastern. You can listen online live here. Or tune up in the Austin, Texas area at 92.7 FM. We will be bantering on torture, dictatorship, Attention Deficit Democracy, and, if I’m lucky, beer. Scott is a […]
Happy Dictatorship Day
The prize for the headline of the year goes to today’s Washington Post for the following gem: “Many Rights in U.S. Legal System Absent in New Bill” The Post article on the military tribunal bill the Senates passed yesterday details some of the legal and procedural rights that people seized as “enemy combatants” will not […]
The United States of Barbarism
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out today an oped I wrote on the torture deal. FFF is one of the few places that has remained true to its principles since 9/11. FFF chief Jacob Hornberger refused to compromise or kowtow no matter how high Bush’s approval ratings rose. The United States of Barbarism by James Bovard, […]
Torture, the Law of the Land – and The Torture Mastermind Reviewed
The key players in the U.S. Senate have agreed with the Bush administration to retroactively legalize torture by U.S. government agents. The compromise deal struck yesterday will block prosecution for CIA officials who tortured detainees since 9/11. I would expect that, in the name of “fair play,” someone will begin pushing similar legislation to give […]
