On Saturday, protests supporting Julian Assange will occur around the world. In London, Assange supporters will link arms around the parliament building. Protests will also occur outside the Justice Department headquarters in Washington (I’ll be one of the speakers),...
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Lessons from Biden’s Disinformation Board Debacle
by James Bovard | Sep 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden’s campaign to banish (or maybe outlaw) political paranoia took a wallop last spring. In April, the Department of Homeland Security proudly announced that it had created a new Disinformation Governance Board. The following month, the board’s chairman...
Did the FBI Swing the 2020 Election?
by James Bovard | Aug 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
Joe Biden won the 2020 election as a result of 43,000 votes in three states. The election was far closer than the media has usually admitted. There were plenty of dubious factors that could have tipped the scales for a Biden victory, including machinations by the...
Will Punch-Drunk Biden Take America Down with Him?
by James Bovard | Jun 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden often looks like a punch-drunk old fighter sent into the ring once too often. At this point, the only thing lower than Biden’s approval numbers is his energy level. Is Uncle Joe too old to rebound? At this point, Biden is running on little more than...
The Latest Media Assault on Freedom
by James Bovard | May 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
Prominent journalists are calling for the media to champion a “pro-democracy” bias in how they portray politicians and government agencies. But tub-thumping for democracy — or at least for politicians who claim to be pro-democracy — is a poor substitute for exposing...
The Supreme Court Uses Twisted Logic to Protect US Agents Committing Torture
by James Bovard | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to...
The Media War on Canadian Truckers: Is Freedom Public Enemy Number One?
by James Bovard | Feb 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom...
Raiding the World Bank: Exposing a Fondness for Dictators
by James Bovard | Dec 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
I have always had a bad attitude toward official secrets regardless of who is keeping them. That prejudice and John Kenneth Galbraith are to blame for an unauthorized withdrawal I made from the World Bank. When I lived in Boston in the late 1970s, I paid $25 to attend...
The DC Sniper Rampage: The Biggest Police Debacle of the Century?
by James Bovard | Dec 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
Those who forget police debacles could be the victims of the next law enforcement fiasco. Former Montgomery County, Maryland, police chief Charles Moose passed away on Thanksgiving Day. He became famous as the most prominent law enforcement official during a...
The Biden Crackdown on Thought Crimes
by James Bovard | Nov 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is seeking to radically narrow the boundaries of respectable American political thought. The administration has repeatedly issued statements and reports that could automatically castigate citizens who distrust the federal government. We may...
Why Government Cover-Ups Succeed
by James Bovard | Oct 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
“It’s not necessary to censor the news, it’s sufficient to delay the news until it no longer matters,” Napoleon Bonaparte reportedly said. The same standard helps explain why Washington politicians and federal agencies usually get away with covering up their lies and...
My Time with the FBI
by James Bovard | Sep 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued...
Biden’s Wrecking Ball for Financial Privacy
by James Bovard | Sep 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration is seeking to compel banks to report to the IRS any bank account with more than $600 in transactions per year. This proposal is a linchpin of Biden’s American Families Plan, and will supposedly help generate almost $500 billion in federal...
Red Light Robberies Across America
by James Bovard | Sep 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Crime is surging in American cities, but the official data leave out the most frequent source of highway robberies. More than 400 cities have set up red light cameras that are institutionalized racketeering that subverts public safety. Tens of thousands of American...
Remember When Conservatives ‘Canceled’ Anyone against the War on Terror? I Do.
by James Bovard | Sep 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Life in American changed twenty years ago after the 9/11 attacks. Many Americans became enraged at anyone who did not swear allegiance to President George W. Bush’s antiterrorism crusade. Anyone who denied “they hate us for our freedoms” automatically became an enemy...
Absolute Power Is No Covid Safety Net
by James Bovard | Aug 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown champions have perennially invoked “science and data” to sanctify any mandate politicians impose. Hard facts have recently shown that neither vaccines nor face masks provide surefire protection against the virus. But...
Kabul’s Collapse and DC’s Incurable Arrogance
by James Bovard | Aug 20, 2021 | Featured Articles
After the Taliban captured Kabul far faster than anyone in Washington forecast, secretary of state Tony Blinken went on Sunday morning talk shows and announced that the US mission in Afghanistan had been “successful.” Unfortunately, there will be plenty of robotic...
Pseudo-Omniscience Versus Freedom
by James Bovard | Aug 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
Shut up and submit” is now the favorite Covid cure of some of America’s leading progressives. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist, revealed on Tuesday that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless...
The Coming ‘January 6’ Train Wreck
by James Bovard | Jul 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
The January 6 Capitol clash may be the gift that keeps on giving to cynics everywhere. In the coming months, Americans will likely see jaw-dropping bureaucratic debacles, stunning abuses by federal prosecutors, and appalling bloodlust by angry Biden supporters....
No Victory Lap For Governors Who Locked Down America
by James Bovard | Jul 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
There are no fact-checkers for victory laps. Last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo summarized his experience with the Covid-19 crisis: “Speaking for myself, it was a tremendous personal benefit.” Cuomo made that declaration in a speech concluding his one-year...
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