The TSA Is Still Crazy after All These Years by James Bovard November 14, 2023 The TSA has been promising to end its boneheaded ways for more than 20 years. Flying out of Dallas International Airport last week, I ruefully recognized that all TSA reform promises are malarkey. As I neared the end of a […]
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We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S. war crimes for many years, and against identical crimes committed by U.S. allies and proxies like Israel and Saudi Arabia: illegal uses of military force to try to remove enemy governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military violence justified by claims of “terrorism”; the … Continue reading "Israeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint"
Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli aerial assault and massacre of Gazans begun on December 27, 2008, lasted for 22 days. The Israeli military deployed its navy, air force and army against the people living in Gaza, using U.S.-supplied weapons and killing 1,383 Palestinians, of whom 333 were children. I remember a doctor at the Al … Continue reading "Calling for a ‘Pause’ in Israel’s Assault on Gaza Isn’t Enough"
Bloomberg Intelligence recently released an analysis showing that a year of interest payments on the national debt now exceeds one trillion dollars. This should have been a wake-up call to Congress and the Biden administration, but it was largely ignored. The political and financial elites’ continued failure to acknowledge the dangers posed by the ever-growing … Continue reading "No Janet, We Cannot Afford More Wars"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war George Bernard Shaw: Selections on war ==== George Bernard ShawToo True to be Good AUBREY…It was at the university that I became what was then called a sky pilot. When the war took me it seemed natural that I should […]
Visiting the Ghosts of Waco by Jim Bovard | Nov 13, 2023 After decades of writing about the greatest atrocity of 1993, I finally visited Waco last week. I was traveling with a friend who was hepped up on seeing Waco’s most popular tourist site—Magnolia, a massive shopping complex spawned by an HGTV program on […]
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selections on peace and war ==== Samuel Taylor ColeridgeNotes on Julius Caesar Act iv. sc 3. Speech of Brutus: – – What, shall one of us,That struck the foremost man of all this world,But for supporting robbers. This […]
On October 20, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, stood on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing, between Egypt and besieged Gaza.
I agree with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. I’ve never written those words before. But on Oct 24, Guterres said to the UN Security Council (emphasis added): The situation in the Middle East is growing more dire by the hour. The war in Gaza is raging and risks spiraling throughout the region. Divisions are splintering societies. … Continue reading "When History Didn’t Begin"
The Biden administration is killing people, openly in Ukraine and Gaza and secretly around the world. It has continued to use the killing machinery crafted by President George W. Bush, expanded by President Barack Obama and employed by President Donald Trump. These presidents have used drones and other unmanned projectiles to target persons in foreign … Continue reading "Unconstitutional Killings"
