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Washington Post’s Crazy Iran War Conspiracy Theory – OpEd

Washington Post’s Crazy Iran War Conspiracy Theory – OpEd

Why do so many Americans distrust the Washington Post? “Pro-Iran propaganda network gains traction with posts about Epstein” offers a

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Eurasia Review

James Bovard

How US Aid Propelled Tyranny In Africa – OpEd

How US Aid Propelled Tyranny In Africa – OpEd

U.S. foreign aid is a Tyrant Entitlement Program. Phony piety has long been one of America’s top political exports. President

06.03.2026 5

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

When Did Barbells And Political Hacks Become Sacred? – OpEd

When Did Barbells And Political Hacks Become Sacred? – OpEd

At 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, President Trump posted a home video announcing that he was declaring war on Iran. Many

04.03.2026 4

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

A class-action lawsuit seeks to stop TSA from unlawfully seizing flyers’ cash

If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, Transportation Security Administration agents can fleece you. TSA has...

17.02.2026 4

New York Post

James Bovard

Never Forget Bush’s Bait-And-Switch Iraq War – OpEd

A few presidencies ago, Washington politicians used boundless political and intellectual chicanery to drag America into a ruinous war. Thousands

17.02.2026 100

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Never Forget Bush’s Bait-and-Switch Iraq War

Last November, Axios published new damning information on the role of Saudi government officials in bankrolling the 9/11 attacks on New York City and...

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CounterPunch

James Bovard

Trump Gets Prices Wrong – OpEd

President Trump constantly blusters as if he deserves the Nobel Prize for Economic Triumphs, just like he supposedly deserved the

07.02.2026 1

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

This Is How The FBI Hamstrung Democracy In 2016 And Beyond – OpEd

The 2016 presidential election was so tainted that it spurred the Oxford English Dictionary to choose “post-truth” as the word

06.02.2026 2

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

How the FBI Corrupted Democracy in 2016 and Beyond

The FBI treated Hillary Clinton and her coterie like royalty worthy of endless deference, according to a 2018 report by the Justice Department...

05.02.2026 20

CounterPunch

James Bovard

Affordability fact check: Trump can’t hide from higher prices

“Just after one year of President Trump, our economy is booming. Incomes are rising. Investment is soaring. Inflation has been defeated.” That...

01.02.2026 5

New York Post

James Bovard

Will DHS Destroy Free Speech In Minnesota? – OpEd

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem calls for Minneapolis to  “set up a peaceful protest zone so that these individuals can exercise their First

27.01.2026 4

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Team Trump moves to ban traffic cameras in DC — as NYC’s set to quadruple the dangerous devices

The Trump administration may soon reduce highway robbery by 95% in Washington, DC. The Big Apple needs the same silver bullet because the city’s...

26.01.2026 70

New York Post

James Bovard

Will D.H.S. Destroy Free Speech In Minnesota?

DHS is seeking to enforce a “cone of silence” over all its operations – including information that has already been publicly disclosed. On Face...

26.01.2026 7

CounterPunch

James Bovard

Germany’s Latest War On Freedom – OpEd

There is no censorship here in Germany,” according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have

15.01.2026 10

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Mayor Mamdani’s collectivist warmth is a lot like chilly Commie Bucharest

Revisiting a Romanian regime even more paranoid than Alex Jones.

10.01.2026 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Zombie-like pols and officials want to eat your brain — and destroy free speech

Vice President J.D. Vance denounced European politicians for blighting democracy with brazen censorship in a February speech in Munich. Vance warned:...

05.01.2026 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Trump, Treason, And The New York Times – OpEd

Last Tuesday, President Trump denounced the New York Times in a Truth Social post as a “serious threat to the

30.12.2025 8

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

TSA Violates Republican Royalty: Will Heads Roll? – OpEd

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week after a recent...

27.12.2025 5

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

TSA Violates Republican Royalty. Will Heads Roll?

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week after a recent flight.  Writing on X,...

25.12.2025 20

CounterPunch

James Bovard

The joy of Dilbert: Scott Adams brightened our lives by mocking everyday indignities

Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave the world “Dilbert,” is suffering mightily in the final throes of cancer. After he departs this vale of...

22.12.2025 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Trump’s ‘affordability’ bombast won’t solve his very real economic problems

Is the affordability issue making President Trump schizophrenic? “I don’t want to hear about the affordability!” Trump declared in a Fox News...

08.12.2025 8

New York Post

James Bovard

Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led To Trump’s Venezuelan Killings – OpEd

The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

06.12.2025 10

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Obama’s PowerPoint Death Parade Led to Trump’s Venezuelan Killings

The Trump administration’s killings of scores of Venezuelans are provoking outrage across the Western Hemisphere. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...

05.12.2025 10

CounterPunch

James Bovard

DOGE is dead — long live Washington boondoggles!

DOGE is done. Just over a year ago, President-elect Donald Trump announced he was launching the Department of Government Efficiency to produce “a...

01.12.2025 10

New York Post

James Bovard

An Antidote to the FDR Cult

25.11.2025 20

Reason.com

James Bovard

Fighting the crime wave of government robbing innocent Americans

Despite being charged with no crime, more than half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation’s sidewalks, highways...

18.11.2025 8

New York Post

James Bovard

Food Stamps And The Federal War On Self-Reliance – OpEd

During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically

13.11.2025 8

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Hunger games: The government shutdown showcases food-stamp fraud and follies

The plight of 42 million food-stamp recipients is the federal-government shutdown’s most inflammatory issue. Federal judges ordered the Trump...

09.11.2025 6

New York Post

James Bovard

Trump’s War On Truth-Tellers – OpEd

Some folks who know my work presume that I am implacably opposed to all federal agencies. Not true.  I have

07.11.2025 7

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Trump’s War on Truth-Tellers

The Trump administration has warred against such truth-tellers since its first week in office. On January 24, President Trump fired 17 inspector...

06.11.2025 10

CounterPunch

James Bovard

The Sordid History Of US ‘Aid’ To Colombia – OpEd

President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of

28.10.2025 10

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

The Sordid History of US “Aid” to Colombia

President Trump is rattling his saber against Colombian President Gustavo Petro to punish him for accusing the U.S. government of murdering Venezuelan...

27.10.2025 10

CounterPunch

James Bovard

Will Trump End Sham Democracy Promotions? – OpEd

The Trump administration has slashed federal spending for democracy promotion efforts around the globe. That rollback of U.S. meddling is

22.10.2025 8

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Give me liberty: America doesn’t need a Trump coin — or any other presidential currency

George Washington refused to allow his image on the nation’s coins because it would be too “monarchical.” But will the Trump administration rise...

13.10.2025 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Are You On A Secret TSA Watchlist? – OpEd

In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly

11.10.2025 8

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Are You On a Secret TSA Watchlist?

In 1999, the Supreme Court recognized in that the “‘constitutional right to travel from one State to another’ is firmly embedded in our...

10.10.2025 10

CounterPunch

James Bovard

There’s only one way to end TSA’s political weaponization of surveillance

Only in Washington would an edict to banish all dissidents be labeled Operation Freedom to Breathe. The Transportation Security Administration in 2021...

05.10.2025 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Henry David Thoreau And The Well-Worn Road To Serfdom – OpEd

Henry David Thoreau was one of America’s most eloquent and incisive philosophers. His derision of unjust laws in his essay

26.09.2025 7

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Blame Thoreau for saphead leftists like Zohran Mamdani

New York City is on the verge of electing a self-proclaimed “democratic socialist,” Zohran Mamdani, as mayor. How did so many New Yorkers become...

21.09.2025 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Trump Cannot Stop The Collapse Of The Epstein Coverup – OpEd

On July 7, the Justice Department and FBI announced that billionaire Jeffrey “Epstein harmed over one thousand victims” – mostly young

19.09.2025 10

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Trump Cannot Stop the Collapse of the Epstein Coverup

Epstein’s case exemplifies how federal law doesn’t apply to the financial elite. In 1970, Congress enacted the Bank Secrecy Act, making it a crime...

18.09.2025 10

CounterPunch

James Bovard

Jeffrey Epstein skirted the same law the IRS uses to ruin small businesses

JPMorgan helped Jeffrey Epstein commit thousands of federal banking-law violations, per a bombshell New York Times report. Federal regulators...

14.09.2025 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Schools Make Kids Crazy – OpEd

Almost one-third of government schools nationwide are now surveilling the mental health of students. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker recently signed

05.09.2025 7

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

JB Pritzker’s school-screening law mandates more mental illness — and your state could be next, parents

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker recently signed a bill to compel all Illinois schools to offer students mental-health screenings. Pritzker proclaimed the...

17.08.2025 8

New York Post

James Bovard

Oh, Canada’s hypocrisy! ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters face ludicrous prison sentences for mere ‘mischief’

According to Canada’s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is “mischief.”

02.08.2025 10

New York Post

James Bovard

Is Europe’s Free Ride Over? – OpEd

By Jake Scott A welcome and significant change has come to European politics: an admission that the European Union (EU) has relied

26.07.2025 6

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Waco, Epstein, And Washington’s War On Truth – OpEd

How many atrocities can the federal government get away with?   Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to

26.07.2025 30

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

Did Trump Expose The DC Sham On Waste And Fraud? – OpEd

On January 24, President Trump fired 17 inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. Trump’s action jolted

22.07.2025 9

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

My 46 Years Of Contempt Of Congress – OpEd

“Those bastards didn’t send back my article! Now I have to re-type the whole piece before I can submit it

16.07.2025 10

Eurasia Review

James Bovard

The 1775 Switcheroo That Begot American Independence – OpEd

As Americans celebrate the 249th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we should also toast the 250th anniversary of a savvy...

05.07.2025 8

Eurasia Review

James Bovard