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Trump Freezes Foreign Aid Frauds

Trump Freezes Foreign Aid Frauds by James Bovard, Libertarian Institute January 29, 2025 The  Trump administration suspended top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this week. The move, labeled a “Monday afternoon massacre,” was spurred by allegations that top USAID officials were circumventing President Trump’s ninety day freeze on foreign aid disbursements. […]

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Bush Supporters Vindicate the President (2004)

Originally posted at LewRockwell.com. Bush Supporters Vindicate the President by James Bovard, October 12, 2004 Palgrave MacMillan created a blog site for my new book, The Bush Betrayal. The blog site contains an email link for readers to send me their insightful observations. Many Bush supporters have taken the time to respond and kindly explained […]

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‘Trump-Washing’ U.S. History Endangers Our Freedom

‘Trump-Washing’ U.S. History Endangers Our Freedom by James Bovard, October 1, 2024 Kamala Harris seeks to capture the White House with a message built on vaporous “positive vibes” and “joy.” The Harris campaign is bolstering that message by portraying Donald Trump as a deadly peril to democracy unprecedented in American history. The former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ), […]

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Politicians Will Always Be Damn Rascals

Politicians Will Always Be Damn Rascals by James Bovard, June 10, 2024 Former President Donald Trump was recently convicted by a New York jury after prosecutors claimed he was guilty of “hoodwinking” voters in the 2016 election by paying to cover up his boinking of a beefy porn star. Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg proclaimed that […]

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Sen. Bob Graham, 9/11, and the Mirage of American Democracy

Senator Bob Graham, 9/11, and the Mirage of American Democracy  by James Bovard Former Senator Bob Graham passed away on April 16 at the age of 87. Graham had been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Iraq War, but his brightest legacy was his perennial fight against the George W. Bush administration’s cover-up […]

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Kissinger and My Interstate 81 Epiphany

  Kissinger and my Interstate 81 Epiphany By James Bovard Henry Kissinger died last week.  So far, I’ve been handling my grief pretty well. Kissinger was the most esteemed war criminal in American history. Kissinger, who was Nixon’s National Security Advisor,  summarized Nixon’s order for  bombing Cambodia; “Anything that flies on everything that moves.” In […]

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Harvard Law Dude DeSantis Goes to Gitmo and Fallujah

Counterpunch, September 1, 2023 Harvard Law Dude DeSantis Goes to Gitmo and Fallujah by James Bovard In the first Republican candidate presidential debate last week, Florida governor Ron DeSantis  touted his time in Iraq. “I learned in the military, I was assigned with U.S. Navy SEALs in Iraq, that you focus on the mission above […]

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