The July 30 issue of American Conservative contains a piece I did updating the latest twists and turns of the torture scandal. Here’s the lead paragraph: From the first days after the Abu Ghraib photos hit the airwaves, the torture scandal has epitomized the worst of the Bush presidency. A timid media, a cowardly opposition […]
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Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?
Lew Rockwell suggested yesterday that I do a piece on the Gonzales meltdown and how it could affect Bush. Every now and then, I am not immune to good ideas, so I wrote it and he posted it on LewRockwell.com today. I appreciate all the comments I received on the Gonzales blog entries in the […]
Great Torture Humor
Tim O’Regan has the perfect response to the Establishment media’s groveling to the tortured confession and the redacted transcript out of Gitmo. O’Regan reveals that KSM and his look-alike, porn star Ron Jeremy, are the “Hairy Brothers of Destruction.” O’Regan reveals: KSM supplied a type-written note that listed all of the crimes the duo is responsible […]
My Time in the Tower of London
The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online an article of mine from the December Freedom Daily. I posted an excerpt of this piece here earlier; here is the full text. MY TIME IN THE TOWER OF LONDON by James Bovard I visited the Tower of London in May on an overcast, dreary Friday afternoon. […]
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 […]
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 […]
March on Washington this Saturday (Jan. 27)
This Saturday should see the biggest antiwar demonstration in Washington since September 2005. Details here. I will be heading down to the big show. When I go to these events, I tend to saunter more than march, savoring the circus elements of these festivities and spending lots of time on the periphery. Stopping Bush from expanding […]
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