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...
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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...
Have you gained or lost weight? Congrats, TSA is now tracking you for suspicious activity.
by James Bovard | Aug 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
If you fall asleep or use the bathroom during your next flight, those incriminating facts could be added to your federal dossier. Likewise, if you use your laptop or look at noisy children seated nearby with a “cold, penetrating stare,” that may be included on your...
That Time the Media Cheered for Gestapo Immigration Tactics
by James Bovard | Jun 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
Every Trump voter is effectively "standing at the border, like Nazis, going 'you here, you here,'" MSNBC guest Danny Deutsch declared on Friday. Former CIA Director Michael Hayden also compared the Trump administration's immigration crackdown with Nazi concentration...
Pro-War Media Deserve Criticism, Not Sainthood
by James Bovard | Jun 21, 2018 | Featured Articles
The media nowadays are busy congratulating themselves for their vigorous criticism of Donald Trump. To exploit that surge of sanctimony, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out The Post, a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration....
Inspector General’s Report on FBI and Clinton’s Emails Shows Secrecy Threatens Democracy
by James Bovard | Jun 17, 2018 | Featured Articles
The inspector general report on the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton contained plenty of bombshells, including a promise by lead FBI investigator Peter Strzok that “we’ll stop” Donald Trump from becoming president. The report reveals how unjustified secrecy and...
A Politically Weaponized FBI is Nothing New, But Plenty Dangerous
by James Bovard | Jun 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
The Justice Department Inspector General is expected to release on Thursday its report on alleged FBI misconduct during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump supporters and opponents are already pre-spinning the report to vindicate or undercut the president....
After pointlessly groping countless Americans, the TSA is keeping a secret watchlist of those who fight back
by James Bovard | May 29, 2018 | Featured Articles
"I need a witness!" exclaimed the security screener at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Because I had forgotten to remove my belt before going through a scanner, he explained, I must undergo an "enhanced patdown." I told him that if he jammed his hand into...
Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child Molesters
by James Bovard | May 25, 2018 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump was hailed by the media last August when he announced he was sending more US troops to fight in Afghanistan. A Washington Post editorial praised his “principled realism” and saluted “a rare but welcome story of self-correction” (since Trump had portrayed...
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