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An interview conducted by “Philip Dru.” Check out his other interviews with prominent libertarians and antiwar personalities.WMV format (requires Windows Media Player)MP3 format (download requires any MP3 player) James Bovard is an award winning journalist, columnist, and author. He writes for the Future of Freedom Foundation, the Independent Institute, and has been published in many … Continue reading “Truth About the ‘War on Terrorism’”

‘Shock Video: Who Shot New 9/11 Tapes?‘ Thanks for your article “Shock Video.” My first thought when this thing hit the news was “Israel.” Just shows I’ve been reading too much Antiwar.com. But it really does “feel” like Israel, doesn’t it? While we’re on the subject, just a quick thought I’ve been meaning to share … Continue reading “”

It may be that, by four or five months from now: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz will have heard the siren song of academia and returned to teach in ivy-covered halls somewhere, and that His deputy, Undersecretary for Policy, Douglas Feith, will have decided he can’t really afford to put his young kids through school … Continue reading “Baker’s Return Equals Cheney’s Heartburn”

Seymour Hersh, with his usual thoroughness, has documented Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s latest scheme for Iraq. It is, in short, to set up death squads, trained by Israelis and using Israelis as consultants in Iraq. The Israeli role is supposed to be hush-hush, but not only Hersh, in his New Yorker article, but also … Continue reading “Murder Inc.”

Iraqi intellectuals living both inside Iraq and as members of the expatriate community in Europe and North America are warning that Iraq is perilously close to a civil war in light of recent events and decrees issued by both the US Civilian Provisional Authority (CPA) and the Iraqi Governing Council (IGC). In chronological order, 1. … Continue reading “Iraqis Warn Country Close to Civil War”

Hundreds of civilians were killed by Coalition cluster bombs and air strikes designed to "decapitate" the Iraqi leadership, according to a new report by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW), which said the high cost in civilian casualties caused by the two tactics may have violated the laws of war. The report, which found that … Continue reading “Cluster Bombs, Air Strikes Killed Hundreds in Iraq”

As the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush searches increasingly desperately for a viable "exit strategy" from an Iraqi quagmire, its policy there is appearing ever more incoherent. The latest example – and an especially spectacular one – took place Wednesday when, at the same moment that Bush himself was personally asking key European … Continue reading “The Axis of Incoherence”

The advocates of war in the Middle East, now in panic mode, have resorted to concocting third-rate fiction to support the occupation of Iraq. Consider this email that National Review stalwart Cliff May claimed to have gotten from a real live Iraqi [who presumably reads NR for the stories and not the salacious pin-up stuff … Continue reading “Case Forged”

Bill Kristol raises the dread specter of Howard Dean in the White House, and it’s all because the President’s hawkish impulses are being somehow subverted by out-of-line subordinates: “While Bush is committed to victory in that war, his secretary of state seems committed to diplomatic compromise, and his secretary of defense to an odd kind … Continue reading “Neocons Turning on Bush?”