James Bovard: Archives

Past articles by James Bovard on LewRockwell.com

Transmission Belts for Government Lies
The media.

Rounding Up the Innocents
What really happened after 9-Eleven.

Delusions of Democracy
And the current deluder-in-chief.

Will the Feds Declare Martial Law?
Jim Bovard on the "war on terror," next installment.

His Other Crime
Jim Bovard on McNamara and the World Bank.

Oppose Obama
And his latest attack on our privacy.

Celebrate Torture Day
By punishing the torturers, says Jim Bovard.

Nobody Here But Us Non-Torturers
Jim Bovard on how Abu Ghraib was politically defused.

Obama Is Grabbing Your Medical Records
Jim Bovard on the health of the state.

More Freedom Hokum
Jim Bovard on Bush's parting baloney.

Bush's War on Civil Liberties
Jim Bovard on the police state (video).

Smile and Cower to the TSA
James Bovard on the new "attitude-detection" finks.

The Hero of the Vietnam War
James Bovard on Daniel Ellsberg's lessons for our time.

Warring As Lying
Jim Bovard on an American tradition.

Permission To Declare Martial Law
James Bovard on another "law" for dictatorship.

The Religion of 9/11
And American servility to it.

Do Elections Guarantee Liberty?
Don't make James Bovard laugh.

Putting Government on a Leash
James Bovard on the drug war in Thailand.

The FBI's Threat of Torture
James Bovard on the police state.

Highway Tyranny
James Bovard on drunk-driving checkpoints.

A Perk of the Presidency
Killing people.

Bogus Fears
How they brought us four more years.

What Do Citizens Owe the Government?
About zero.

Lies Elected Bush
War lies.

Plotting Martial Law
James Bovard on the clampdown.

Perverting Freedom
James Bovard on Bush's worst bosh.

Happy 'Mission Accomplished'!
James Bovard on the fourth anniversary.

Duce Dubya
James Bovard on what Bush might do with his new power to declare martial law.

What We Can Learn From the Hungarians
About resisting the state.

Gonzales's Fall, Bush's Impeachment?
Jim Bovard on what's really going on, and what's really at stake.

Judicial Murder
James Bovard on the Tower of London, and the Tower of DC (under construction).

Thumb Screws for Freedom
James Bovard on the Bush torture memos.

US Out of Lebanon
James Bovard on all the damage so far.

The Torture Regime
James Bovard on how it grew.

Gov't Is Corrupt and Corrupting
James Bovard on Beltway think-tanks and torture.

Fever and Disease
Make that lies and leviathan.

'Every Day Is 1956'
James Bovard on the Hungarian Revolution today.

Spreading Democracy Abroad
"Democracy" meaning, of course, US rule.

The Forging of Our Fetters
James Bovard on Bush's signing-statement dictatorship.

Bush's Director of Torture
James Bovard on John Yoo.

The Torture Deal
James Bovard on the United States of Barbarism.

Mass Killing is A-OK
In the name of the god democracy.

The Inevitability of Democracy?
Nonsense.

Conservo-Fascism
James Bovard on our greatest danger.

Israel's Prior Peacekeeping
James Bovard on an earlier invasion.

Just Another Fraud By Our Rulers
James Bovard on elections.

Power Pencil
James Bovard on Bush's signing statements.

Your Money and Your Life
James Bovard on the police $tate.

The Most Absurdities per Kilo
The war on drugs is ridiculous as well as evil.

Constitutional Illiteracy
And Attention Deficit Democracy.

Another Bush 9/11 Lie
This time about Flight 93.

Bush's Drive for Dictatorship
James Bovard on the bogus theory of absolute presidential power.

Hoover's State Agriculture
James Bovard on the pre-Roosevelt.

Learning To Distrust 'Freedom'
It's a ticket to power, says James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy.

Mistaking the Constitution for a Bird
James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, on Cheney.

Attention Deficit Democracy
James Bovard on the Patriot Act.

Watching the Watchers
James Bovard on State of War: the Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, by James Risen.

Fascist Farming
James Bovard on how the feds mussolinized agriculture.

The Real Security Threat
The taxing, spying, controlling feds.

The Farcical Definition
At the heart of the terror war. Article by James Bovard.

Attention Deficit Democracy
James Bovard on Bush, America, and tyranny.

Harebrained Pot and Wheat Decisions
James Bovard on los Supremos.

The FISA Farce
A secret court is no protection against dictatorship. Article by James Bovard.

Federal Screwups
And how they entitled Bush to absolute power.

Post-9/11 Hoax
James Bovard on a fascinating – and suppressed – incident.

Dissent Haters in DC
James Bovard on their new war on opposing opinion-holders.

Bush's Foreign-Aid Bonanza
James Bovard on another part of the Republican spendathon.

Our Afghan Satellite
James Bovard on lies about the other war.

LBJ George
James Bovard on the biggest Medicare fraud.

Uncle Sam's Iron Curtain
James Bovard on totalitarian secrecy.

Ravenous Government
James Bovard on Ashcroft, 9/11, and the state as victim.

Bush Profiteering From Housing Defaults
Anti-discrimination pays.

Another Bush Power-Grab
On presidential papers. Article by James Bovard.

Gun Nuts at 30,000 Feet?
James Bovard on how to make flying safer.

Thinking of Intervening in the Sudan?
Don't forget past follies, says James Bovard.

The Blundering FBI
James Bovard on the World Trade Center bombings.

Bush Supporters Vindicate the President
Letters to James Bovard about his new book, The Bush Betrayal. N.B.: some bad language (and bad spelling).

The Bush Betrayal
Chapter one, by James Bovard.

More Soldiers Dead for the Empire
It's been twenty years since the Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up. Where are we, asks James Bovard.