The U.S. military tried to cover up the Taliban’s shooting of a U.S. general on Thursday in Kandahar. What other Afghan debacles is the Pentagon hiding? Here’s a 2009 piece I did for Counterpunch and the Future of Freedom Foundation on the lies that permeated the first 8 years of the Afghan war. The New […]
Future of Freedom Foundation James Comey and the Unending Bush Torture Scandal by James Bovard The vast regime of torture created by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks continues to haunt America. The political class and most of the media have never dealt honestly with the profound constitutional corruption that such practices inflicted. Instead, […]
Twenty-six years ago today, an FBI sniper killed Vicki Weaver as she stood in her cabin door holding her baby. That sniper was never held liable for gunning down that mother on a north Idaho mountaintop. As a result, Americans continue to be imperiled by federal agents’ license to kill. Below are some articles I […]
The American Conservative Seymour Hersh and the Disappearing Iconoclast He won a Pulitzer for My Lai and cracked Abu Ghraib wide open. But this reporter is still a lonely breed. By James Bovard • August 17, 2018 Journalist Seymour Hersh in 2009. Credit: Institute for Policy Studies/Flickr Seymour Hersh, Reporter: A Memoir, Sy Hersh. Knopf, June […]
USA TODAY, May 16, 2018 Spare me claims Gina Haspel will ‘speak truth to power’. Real truth-tellers go to jail. by James Bovard Gina Haspel and other intelligence leaders all have shady pasts but real truth-tellers get disgraced. In the Senate Intelligence Committee secret vote today on whether to confirm Trump nominee Gina Haspel as chief of […]
A few more tweets…. Careful analysis of bomb blast evidence proves Trump's missile strike on Syria was a big success https://t.co/we20mT1len — James Bovard (@JimBovard) April 15, 2018 What damned phrase of George W. Bush will @realDonaldTrump repeat next? Maybe "Bring 'em on!" uttered by GWB on 7/3/2003 – prior to Iraqi militants killing thousands […]
Last night’s Vice Presidential candidate debate is another proof that the 2016 campaign is the gift that keeps on giving – at least for cynics. Here are a few tweets and some comments from Facebook – Another victim of the #VPDebate & the 2016 prez campaign – the canard that democracies are naturally peace-loving — […]
Jim
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Leo
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