In a bombshell report last week, the Justice Department Inspector General found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation made “fundamental errors” and persistently deceived a secret court to authorize surveilling a 2016 Trump presidential campaign official. Inspector...
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Will Deval Patrick be president? Not if his past scandals have anything to say about it.
by James Bovard | Nov 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick entered the presidential race last week. Patrick is touted as a centrist Democrat and is reportedly former president Barack Obama’s favorite candidate. Patrick is also the only candidate in the race responsible for...
As the deep state attacks Trump to rave media reviews, don’t forget its dark side
by James Bovard | Nov 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
“Thank God for the deep state,” declared former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin recently while appearing on a panel at George Mason University. A year ago, the deep state was routinely reviled as a figment of paranoid right-wingers’ imagination. But much of the news...
Foreign Aid Makes Corrupt Countries More Corrupt
by James Bovard | Nov 5, 2019 | Featured Articles
Counting on foreign aid to reduce corruption is like expecting whiskey to cure alcoholism. After closed House of Representatives impeachment hearings heard testimony on President Trump’s role in delaying US aid to Ukraine, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer...
America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia
by James Bovard | Aug 17, 2019 | Featured Articles
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. As British...
Fourth of July Should Celebrate Liberty, Not Politicians Like Trump
by James Bovard | Jul 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Donald Trump’s plan to give an Independence Day televised address from the Lincoln Memorial has outraged many pundits and plenty of normal Americans, too. There has rarely been a shortage of political buncombe on July Fourth but Trump could, as usual, break...
Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: ‘Truth Will Out’
by James Bovard | Apr 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving...
20 Years Ago: Bill Clinton Bombs Serbia, Killing Hundreds of Civilians
by James Bovard | Mar 25, 2019 | Featured Articles
Twenty years ago, President Clinton commenced bombing Serbia for no good reason. Up to 1500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest BS morality plays of the modern era. Clinton sold the bombing as a humanitarian mission, but the resulting...
Iraq War Anniversary: Ron Paul’s Opposition Scored the Szasz Award for Civil Liberties
by James Bovard | Mar 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
This week marked the 16th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Plenty of Bush apologists have been rewriting history on Twitter. But Ron Paul was one member of Congress who had nothing to apologize in the run-up to the war. He was outspoken throughout 2002 and...
John McCain’s Disastrous Militaristic Legacy
by James Bovard | Mar 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
When Sen. John McCain passed away last August, he was lauded far and wide for his long career of public service. Rep. John Lewis, the famous civil-rights activist, hailed McCain as a “warrior for peace.” In reality, McCain embodied a toxic mix of moralism and...
Ethiopia Crash of Boeing 737 Max Might be Latest Example of Backfiring Safety Efforts
by James Bovard | Mar 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
Another Boeing 737 crashed Sunday in Ethiopia, killing all 157 aboard. This is the second crash of the new Boeing model Max 8 since October. Investigators have only begun sorting out this tragedy but some experts suggest that the plane’s automated safety software may...
Trump’s Absurd Claim that Americans Are Free from Government Coercion
by James Bovard | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Trump received rapturous applause from Republicans for his declaration: “America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay...
Julian Assange Deserves a Medal of Freedom, Not a Secret Indictment
by James Bovard | Nov 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been secretly indicted by the Trump administration’s Justice Department, “a drastic escalation” of the feds’ efforts against him, the New York Times reported. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denounced Wikileaks as a “non-state...
Beltway BS on ‘Speaking Truth to Power’
by James Bovard | Nov 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Lying and piety go together in Washington like ham and eggs. After 9/11, a profusion of government falsehoods on Iraq and other topics ravaged official credibility. The political class responded with an endless profusion of promises to “speak truth to power.”...
We Need a #MeToo Movement for Political Consent
by James Bovard | Nov 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
The #MeToo movement is spurring millions of Americans to reconsider the meaning of consent in sexual relations. But there is another realm where far too much has been presumed because of often token gestures. Political consent is defined radically differently than the...
Believe women: Apply Congress’ Christine Blasey Ford test to TSA’s female victims
by James Bovard | Oct 16, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the uproar over Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, many members of Congress declared that women have a “right to be believed.” Unfortunately, Congress is ignoring legions of women who have been sexually abused thanks...
James Comey and the Unending Bush Torture Scandal
by James Bovard | Oct 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
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,...
Don’t count on the FBI to clear up the Kavanaugh-Ford mess. Its record is flawed.
by James Bovard | Oct 3, 2018 | Featured Articles
After last week’s explosive congressional hearing, the Senate and the Trump administration agreed to reopen the FBI background check into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Former FBI chief James Comey wrote Sunday that “the FBI is up for this” because it is...
The Supreme Court: The Dog that Didn’t Bark
by James Bovard | Sep 26, 2018 | Featured Articles
The furor over the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh is spurring many commentators to bewail that the Supreme Court has become too powerful. But the real problem is that the Court is now often little more than a fig leaf to provide legitimacy for a Leviathan that would...
Barack Obama’s Return Just Reminds Us How He Fueled the Distrust That Led to Donald Trump
by James Bovard | Sep 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
Former president Barack Obama is back. He kicked off a series of campaign appearances last week with a blistering attack on the Trump administration and said the Republican Party had “embraced a rising absolutism.” President Donald Trump deserves plenty of harsh...
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