James Bovard

• The 9/11 Servility Reflex (December 2007)
  
  
• Do Elections Guarantee Freedom? (November 2007)
  
  
• Will a Drug Warrior Be Hanged? (October 2007)
  
  
• The FBI’s Right to Threaten Torture (October 2007)
  
  
• Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners? (October 2007)
  
  
• Bush’s AmeriCorps Fraud (September 2007)
  
  
• Drunken-Driver Check Points: Every Driver Guilty (August 2007)
  
  
• How Bogus Fears Bought Four More Years (July 2007)
  
  
• The “Terrorist” Batting Average (June 2007)
  
  
• How Foreign Warring Subverts Freedom at Home (Video) (June 2007)
  
  
• What Do Citizens Owe Government? (May 2007)
  
  
• War Lies and the 2004 Election (April 2007)
  
  
• Ford’s Legacy: Lawless Government (March 2007)
  
  
• The Second Anniversary of Bush’s Worst Bosh (February 2007)
  
  
• Hungary’s New Lesson for America (January 2007)
  
  
• My Time inthe Tower of London (December 2006)
  
  
• The Bush Torture Memos (November 2006)
  
  
• A Legacy of Anti-Terrorist Failure in Lebanon (October 2006)
  
  
• “Every Day is 1956”: The Hungarian Revolution Today (October 2006)
  
  
• Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship (October 2006)
  
  
• The Perils of Emergency Power (September 2006)
  
  
• The United States of Barbarism (September 2006)
  
  
• Lies and Leviathan (August 2006)
  
  
• Operation Founding Fathers (July 2006)
  
  
• Killing in the Name of Democracy (June 2006)
  
  
• Nonsense on the Inevitablility of Democracy (May 2006)
  
  
• Attention Deficit Democracy (video) (May 2006)
  
  
• The Fraudulent Meaning of Elections (April 2006)
  
  
• Constitutional Illiteracy and Attention Deficit Democracy (April 2006)
  
  
• Bush’s Bogus Theory of Absolute Power (April 2006)
  
  
• Bush’s Wiretap Crimes and the FISA Farce (March 2006)
  
  
• Freedom as a Ticket for Power (March 2006)
  
  
• The Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy (March 2006)
  
  
• The Most Absurdities Per Kilo (February 2006)
  
  
• Illegal Surveillance: A Real Security Threat (February 2006)
  
  
• Free Speech on the Ropes (January 2006)
  
  
• The Farcical Definition at the Heart of the War on Terrorism (January 2006)
  
  
• Attention Deficit Democracy (January 2006)
  
  
• The FISA Farce (January 2006)
  
  
• Hoover’s Second Wrecking of American Agriculture (December 2005)
  
  
• How the Feds Took Over Farming (November 2005)
  
  
• Harebrained Pot and Wheat Decisions (October 2005)
  
  
• A Forgotten Post-9/11 Hoax (September 2005)
  
  
• A Federal War on Dissent? (August 2005)
  
  
• Bush’s Foreign-Aid Fraud (July 2005)
  
  
• Afghan Absurdities (June 2005)
  
  
• The Biggest Medical Fraud Ever (May 2005)
  
  
• Uncle Sam’s Iron Curtain of Secrecy (April 2005)
  
  
• Ashcroft, 9/11, and Government as Victim (March 2005)
  
  
• Bush Profiteering from Housing Defaults (February 2005)
  
  
• Bush’s Presidential Papers Power Grab (January 2005)
  
  
• Gun Nuts at 30,000 Feet? (December 2004)
  
  
• Bra Wars (November 2004)
  
  
• Sudan: Don’t Forget the Past Follies (October 2004)
  
  
• The No-Fault No-Fly List (October 2004)
  
  
• Saddam as the Twentieth Hijacker (September 2004)
  
  
• The Bush Betrayal (August 2004)
  
  
• FBI Blunders and the First World Trade Center Bombing (August 2004)
  
  
• Torture as Due Process (July 2004)
  
  
• Terrorism Debacles in the Reagan Administration (June 2004)
  
  
• The NeoCon War on Peace and Freedom, Part 2 (May 2004)
  
  
• The NeoCon War on Peace and Freedom, Part 1(April 2004)
  
  
• Trampling Aliens in the Name of Anti-Terrorism (March 2004)
  
  
• Iraqi Sanctions and American Intentions: Blameless Carnage? Part 2 (February 2004)
  
  
• Iraqi Sanctions and American Intentions: Blameless Carnage? Part 1
  (January 2004)
  
  
• China: From Brutal Oppressor to Terrorist Victim (December 2003)
  
  
• Wilson’s Crusade and Bush’s Crusade (October 2003)
  
  
• The Folly of Invading Iran (October 2003)
  
  
• Bush’s WMD Flimflams (September 2003)
  
  
• The Greatest Ignorance of the Greatest Number (August 2003)
  
  
• Bush at War (May 2003)
  
  
• Foreign Dissent on Bush’s Imperial Ambitions (January 2003)
  
  
• Drug-War Justice for the Rich and Powerful (December 2002)
  
  
• Political Plundering of Property Owners (November 2002)
  
  
• The Folly of Protecting Teens from Work (October 2002)
  
  
• Protectionist Welfare for Steel (September 2002)
  
  
• Bush’s Farm Fiasco (August 2002)
  
  
• Is the Prison-Industrial Complex on the Ropes? (July 2002)
  
  
• The Other Terrorism Problem (June 2002)
  
  
• America’s Hypocritical Counterproductive Foreign Aid (May 2002)
  
  
• America’s Pro-Terrorism Foreign-Aid Program (May 2002)
  
  
• Anthrax Antics from Uncle Sam (April 2002)
  
  
• The Bush Administration’s “Drugs = Terrorism” Fraud (April 2002)
  
  
• State Terrorism and Bush’s War (March 2002)
  
  
• Drug Laws: Terrorists’ Best Friends (February 2002)
  
  
• Gun-Ban Shenanigans at the UN (January 2002)
  
  
• The Hopped-Up DEA Chief (December 2001)
  
  
• Ruby Ridge: The Coverup Continues (November 2001)
  
  
• Government Trust Grows Despite Its Inability to Protect (October 2001)
  
  
• Crises and Blind Faith in the State (October 2001)
  
  
• Terrorism and Blind Faith in the Government (October 2001)
  
  
• Sink the Sugar Boondoggle (September 2001)
  
  
• Senate Farce: Reining in the FBI (September 2001)
  
  
• A Modest Proposal for the Next Drug-War Shootdown (August 2001)
  
  
• The Latest Waco Fireball (July 2001)
  
  
• Send Chainsaws to AID (June 2001)
  
  
• Dictatorship out of Thin Air (May 2001)
  
  
• The Clinton Regime’s Final Bosh (April 2001)
  
  
• Clinton’s Kosovo Fraud (January 2001)
  
  
• Laptops to the Rescue (December 2000)
  
  
• AmeriCorps: Salvation through Handholding (November 2000)
  
  
• How the State Became Immaculate, Part 3 (October 2000)
  
  
• How the State Became Immaculate, Part 2 (September 2000)
  
  
• Ten Thousand Czars (September 2000)
  
  
• Ambush at the Border (September 2000)
  
  
• DARE’s Dying Gasp (September 2000)
  
  
• How the State Became Immaculate, Part 1 (August 2000)
  
  
• Clinton’s Fair-Trade Fraud (July 2000)
  
  
• Census Bureau: A Threat to Freedom (June 2000)
  
  
• Clinton’s Coming Colombia Catastrophe (May 2000)
  
  
• The EEOC’s War on Fairness (May 2000)
  
  
• Fair-Housing Flimflams (April 2000)
  
  
• Government Equals Force (March 2000)
  
  
• The Re-igniting of Waco (February 2000)
  
  
• King of Chaos: The Fiasco of Floyd (January 2000)
  
  
• Custom-Made Abuses at Customs (December 1999)
  
  
• Drug-Courier Profiles, or, Why We Are All Guilty (November 1999)
  
  
• Ethnic Cleansing, American-Style (October 1999)
  
  
• Parity: Bureaucratic Tyranny by Moral Fraud (September 1999)
  
  
• Time to Curb SWAT Rampages (September 1999)
  
  
• Blockbuster Victory for the Second Amendment (August 1999)
  
  
• The Mirage of Administrative Justice (July 1999)
  
  
• Sabotaging Privacy for Political Profit (June 1999)
  
  
• Order by Agreements or by Iron Fists (May 1999)
  
  
• Cutthroat Competition and Dead Chickens (April 1999)
  
  
• Robbery with an Environmental Badge (March 1999)
  
  
• The Failure of the Republican Revolution (February 1999)
  
  
• Freedom to Farm Washington (January 1999)
  
  
• Booze Busting: The New Prohibition (December 1998)
  
  
• Dictatorship of Gadflies (November 1998)
  
  
• More Federal Lies on Guns (October 1998)
  
  
• The Legalization of Prostitution (September 1998)
  
  
• Tariffs as Enemies of Freedom (August 1998)
  
  
• The Growing Farce of Fair Housing (July 1998)
  
  
• Endangered: Property Rights (June 1998)
  
  
• Needed: The Separation of Cable and State (May 1998)
  
  
• The Great Sugar Shaft (April 1998)
  
  
• The Fires of Waco Are Still Burning (March 1998)
  
  
• Plundering Immigrants and Other Travelers (February 1998)
  
  
• The Justice Department’s Other Criminal Cover-up (January 1998)
  
  
• Killing and Lying for Safety: Airbags and the Salvation State
  (December 1997)
  
  
• Ruining People’s Lives for Fun and Profit (November 1997)
  
  
• The Energizer Leviathan: Still Growing and Growing (Ocotober 1997)
  
  
• Sovietizing American Virtue (September 1997)
  
  
• Laundering: The Criminalization of Everything (August 1997)
  
  
• Public Schools: Turning Children and Parents into Peons (July 1997)
  
  
• The Drug War vs. Public Health and Safety (June 1997)
  
  
• The Latest Gun-Control Fiasco (May 1997)
  
  
• Police Brutality: A License to Maul (April 1997)
  
  
• Destroying Families for the Glory of the Drug War, Part 2
  (March 1997)
  
  
• Destroying Families for the Glory of the Drug War, Part 1
  (February 1997)
  
  
• Clinton’s Biggest Disaster Fraud (January 1997)
  
  
• The Hypocritical War on Terrorism (December 1996)
  
  
• The Guilding of the American Workforce (December 1996)
  
  
• Our New National Chief Therapist (December 1996)
  
  
• Drug-War Dementia (November 1996)
  
  
• The Cartelization of the American Workforce (October 1996)
  
  
• Section 8: A Wrecking Ball for Your Neighborhood (September 1996)
  
  
• Zoning: The New Tyranny (August 1996)
  
  
• Minimum-Wage Law as Political Racketeering (July 1996)
  
  
• Kill a Boy, Get a Medal (June 1996)
  
  
• The ADA: Attorney’s Dreams Answered (May 1996)
  
  
• Subverting Freedom through Benevolence (May 1996)
  
  
• The Assault-Weapons Scam, Part 1 (March 1996)
  
  
• The Assault-Weapons Scam, Part 2 (April 1996)
  
  
• Did the Supreme Court Flush the Fourth? (February 1996)
  
  
• The United States: A Protectionist Nation (October 1994)
  
  
• The Immorality of Protectionism (September 1994)

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