The latest deluge of truth from WikiLeaks is a welcome novelty in American politics. The New York Times, UK Guardian, and Germany’s Der Spiegel are simultaneously releasing articles today on more than 90,000 Pentagon documents that WikiLeaks posted on the web regarding the Afghan war. These documents reveal the lies that have permeated U.S. Afghan […]
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“Freedom & the War on Terrorism” – my Pennslyvania speech…
Now online here: the video of my “Freedom and the War on Terrorism” speech last month in Bernville, Pennsylvania. I want to thank Bob Bowers, who organized this libertarian supper club, for inviting Jacob Hornberger and I to talk there. The audience was excellent – lots of hardliners full of fire-and-brimstone. The question-and-answer exchanges after […]
Obama’s Latest Assault on the Truth
From A Tiny Revolution: The feds have arrested Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, for allegedly leaking the classified video footage of a US helicopter slaughtering Iraqi civilians in 2007. Manning allegedly leaked other information to WikiLeaks. This follows the indictment of a National Security Agency official who allegedly leaked information on Bush’s illegal wiretap […]
Campaign for Liberty’s Review of Attention Deficit Democracy
Anthony Gregory has a generous review of Attention Deficit Democracy posted today at the Campaign for Liberty website: There are few writers who pay more attention to the political follies of our time and who provide their readers with more meticulously documented reasons to be outraged than James Bovard, whose new book, Attention Deficit Democracy, […]
Obama Makes a Joke About Predator Carnage
So now Obama, like Bush, has made a “joke” that views policies that resulted in killing innocent foreign civilians as fodder for mirth at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Obama at that dinner on Saturday night: “The Jonas Brothers are here; they’re out there somewhere. Sasha and Malia are huge fans. But boys, don’t get […]
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out this op-ed today…. The Slippery Definition of Extremism by James Bovard Americans are once again hearing of the perils of extremism. But the definition of this offense is slippier than a politician’s campaign promise. The definition of extremism has continually been amended to permit government policies that […]
Bill Clinton’s Lethal Hypocrisy on Government Violence
from Counterpunch today – Bill Clinton on Violence and Government A Lethal Hypocrisy By JAMES BOVARD Yesterday, on the fifteenth anniversary of the attack on the federal office building in Oklahoma City, former President Bill Clinton had an op-ed in the New York Times headlined: “Violence is Unacceptable in a Democracy.” The article settles any […]
