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James Bovard Articles etc.
Barrons: Potomac River Blindness - Why Govt. Waste is Invisible in DC
American Conservative: FBI: A Stasi for America
Washington Times: Obama's New Disability Hiring Quota
Wall Street Journal: Don't Trust Feds with "Happiness Index"
Wall Street Journal: The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled
Los Angeles Times: Ludicrous Constitutional Linchpin of Obama
FFF: The EEOC'S Forgotten Racial Racketeering
Wall Street Journal: Confessions of a One-Season Santa Claus
Los Angeles Times: The Postal Monopoly and the Great Mail Slowdown
Counterpunch: Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan
Fox News: Drunks and Foreign Aid
MSNBC interview on Federal Training Flounders
Wall Street Journal: Federal Job Training Wrecks Work Ethics
Wall Street Journal: Raising Hell in Subsidized Housing
George Mason Univ. Speech on Obama vs American Freedom
American Conservative: Leviathan's Lies
Wall Street Journal: Food Stamps for Millionaires
Forgotten Failures of the Peace Corps
Counterpunch: Idolizing Absolute Power
Wall Street Journal: My Summer Road to Perdition
Freeman: Fear-Mongering and Servitude
Barron's: Governing as Looting (Foreign Aid & Afghanistan)
Christian Science Monitor: Obama's Unlimited Right to Kill?
America's Know-Nothing Foreign Policymakers
Your Tax Dollars at Work and Play
CPAC Speech Trashing the Patriot Act
Interview on Conservative Leviathan Lovers
TV and Radio Appearances and Speeches on YouTube
NEW: BOVARD ARTICLES IN PORTUGUESE
The "Of Course" Curse (1983, New York Times)
Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy
The Right to Resist Government Power (2000)
How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
Why Tea Party Members Should Despise George W. Bush
Rep. Hoekstra Receives CIA Bootlicking Award
Make Bill of Rights Day Our Anti-Politician Day
Abolish the Phony Privacy Board
De-Sacralizing Democracy to Save Liberty
How Democracy Breeds Political Idiocy
Worldwide Downfall of Democracy
Welfarization & the Capsizing of Democracy
Obama and Attention Deficit Democracy
Tea Party Movement: Pro-War, Pro-Torture, Pro-Freedom?
Bill Clinton's Lethal Hypocrisy on Government Violence
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
Christian Science Monitor: Don't Trust the Census
Russian TV interview on Danger of Dictatorship
The Material Witness Ticket to Servitude
Fox News FreedomWatch Interview on FBI Crime Wave
Frightening Voters into Submission
Bogus Anti-Terrorist Crackdown on Financial Freedom
How George W. Bush Redefined American Freedom
The Media as Enablers of Government Lies
Interview with Glenn Beck on AmeriCorps
National Endowment for Democracy's Sordid History
Eight Years of Big Lies on Afghanistan
Fox News Freedom Watch Interview with Judge Napolitano
Jamaican Radio Interview on Torture
Post 9/11 Roundup of Innocents: Ashcroft's High Crime
Barron's: Obama's Summer Jobs Program Farce
McNamara's Other Body Count Debacle
REAL ID and the Danger of Government
Celebrate International Torture Day by Prosecuting Torturers
"Expanding the IMF to Bail out Tinhorn Dictators"
"The Latest Torture Coverup Scam"
"AmeriCorps and the Peril of Mandatory National Service"
"Obama's Great Medical Records Roundup"
"How Abu Ghraib was Politically Defused"
older articles:
Wall Street Journal, New York Times articles
Los Angeles Times articles
Freedom Daily// Future of Freedom Foundation articles
Freeman articles (Foundation for Economic Education)
More recent Bovard articles & interviews:
Ripon Forum: The National Service Illusion
FFF: Warring as Lying in American History
American Conservative: Latest Twists on the Torture Scandal
Counterpunch: Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?
FFF: The FBI's Right to Threaten Torture
Freedom Daily: Drunk Driving Checkpoints vs. Freedom
American Conservative: Will Torture Finish Off Bush?
Freeman: Deliberative Democracy Dementia
FFF: What do Citizens Owe the Government?
American Conservative: Congress Rubberstamps Martial Law
Boston Globe: "The 'Terrorist' Batting Average"
American Conservative: The Torture Ticking Time Bomb Beneath the Bush Administration
Los Angeles Times: Your Right to Torture the Truth out of Your Congressman
Editor & Publisher: The Washington Post Makes Dictatorial Powers Mundane
FFF: Government Lies vs. Self-Government
Globalist: The Torturous Servility of Washington Think Tanks
Baltimore Sun: Bush's Illegal Covert Financial Surveillance [also in the China Post, Salt Lake Tribune, Bergen Record, & other papers]
Freeman: Democracy versus Liberty
Freedom Daily: The Bush Torture Memos
FFF: The New Hungarian Uprising's Lessons for America
American Conservative: "All Your Balls Belong to Us" - my Review of John Yoo's Torture manifesto
FFF: Bush's Operation Founding Fathers Fraud
American Conservative: Conservatives' Treason on Free Speech
LRC: Israel's Forgotten Record in Lebanon, 1982+
American Conservative: Bush's Dictatorial Signing Statements
Fox News's Hannity & Colmes, June 23, 2006, debating Bush abuses
MSNBC, June 23, 2006 - debating Bush's illegal financial surveillance
American Conservative: "Reach Out & Tap Someone" (NSA wiretapping)
Video of National Press Club Talk - FFF MAY 2
The AL-JAZEERA Television Interview Transcript from London May 17
FFF: Bush's Wiretap Crimes & the FISA Farce
FFF: The Most Absurdities Per Kilo (the Chong Bong Bust)
Sunni's Salon Interview - April 2006
American Conservative: Bush's War on Democracy
Baltimore Chronicle: Bush's Bogus Theory of Boundless Power
Los Angeles Times: A Terrorist on Every Corner?
Orange County Register: Defining Freedom Down
Newsday: We're Losing in the Government Game
American Conservative: The NSA Spying Scandal
Orange County Register: Forgotten Dangers of Illegal Surveillance
American Conservative: Lawless Dick Cheney Strikes Again
Chicago:
Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy
O Estado de São Paulo: "A ignorância está afundando a democracia" (Brazil's third largest circulation newspaper)
Editor & Publisher: Fact-Checking the Feds on Airport Killing
Antiwar.com: Killing in the Name of Democracy
Baltimore Chronicle: The Farcical Definition at the Core of the War on Terror
FFF: Unleashing the Federal Surveillance Machine
Reason: TSA Killers & Their Apologists
Freedom Daily: How the Feds Took Over Farming
O Estado de São Paulo: Um terrorista em cada canto [Brazil]
Washington
Times: Setting the Record Straight
Wisconsin Public Radio interview with Joy Cardin (1/25)
Other 2006 publications:
Salt Lake Tribune, Anniston Star, Las Cruces Sun News, Dodge City Globe, Southern Utah University Journal, The Peninsula (Qatar), Manchester Union Leader(NH), Albany Times Union, Myrtle Beach Sun News, Montana Standard (Butte), The Colombian (Vancouver, WA), Pasadena Weekly, Central Oregonian, Islamic Broadcasting Network, Glencoe News (Minnesota), Daily Sun News (Washington), Northwest Arkansas News, Willits News (California),
ARTICLES FROM BEFORE 2006
Spinoffs, Excerpts, et al.:
The Millennium Challenge Foreign Aid Fraud Barron's February 21, 2005
The Pentagon's Growing Threat to Homeland Liberties Alternet December 10, 2004
TSA's Nationwide Looting Epidemic New York Times August 18, 2004
Ashcroft's Antiterrorism Antics -American Conservative October 11, 2004
Bush Lies & Thrives Alternet September 17, 2004
The Bush Administration's Wrecking Ball Benevolence Barron's August 23, 2004
Bipartisan Repression of Freedom of Speech Baltimore Sun, August 6, 2004
Thwarting Terrorists with a Kosher Meal Registry Boston Globe, August 16, 2004
The Latest Farm Policy Fraud Washington Times, August 15, 2004
Saddam as the Twentieth Hijacker Freedom Daily October 2004
The No-Fault No-Fly List October 13, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle: Quarantining Dissent - Protecting Bush from Free Speech, Jan. 4, 2004
Reason Magazine: Cover story defaming the Transportation Security Administration - February 2004
The Freeman: COINTELPRO: The Model for the FBI's New Crackdown? - Jan. 04
American Conservative: Bush's War on Freedom of Speech December 15, 2003
USA Today: Bush's Biggest Lie on Iraq August 14, 2003
American Conservative: The New Post 9/11 Surveillance State May 19, 2003
Baltimore Sun: America Fights for Freedom to Read August 18, 2003 (also in Newark Star-Ledger, Hartford Courant, Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, and other papers across the U.S.)
Washington Times: Bombing Sudan - Deja Vu Five Years Before Iraq August 31, 2003
Washington Times: FBI Incompetence the Key to Moussaoui Case September 7, 2003
Washington Times: Concrete Lessons of the Sniper Case October 3, 2003
Investors Business Daily: Patriot Act vs Financial Freedom October 8, 2003
Counterpuch: The Reagan Roadmap to Antiterrorism Disaster October 8, 2003
FFF: The Folly of Invading Iraq October 18, 2003
Washington Times: The TSA Keystone Kops October 23, 2003
LRC: 20 Years after the Beirut Bombing: More Soldiers Will Die for Empire October 23, 2003
Freedom Daily: President Wilson's Crusade and President Bush's Crusade November 2003
Playboy: Terrorizing the Bill of Rights April 2002
Articles mentioning the book:
Claire Wolfe, Backwoods Home Magazine: Ashcroft v. Bovard (January 2004)
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Policy Review: The Great Hunger Hoax (1983)