James Bovard

Rule of Law Dies, America Yawns

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_16_bovard.mp3]

James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the Padilla case, torture by the Bush regime and the capacity of the general public to overlook the evidence.

MP3 here . (34:45)

James Bovard serves as a policy advisor to The Future of Freedom Foundation and is a frequent contributor to Playboy, American Spectator, and Investor’s Business Daily. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, New Republic, Washington Post, Washington Times, and Newsweek.

Friday Bonus

For my analysis of the GOP race for the White House, post-Ames, check out my latest for Taki’s Top Drawer, “Decoding the Iowa Poll.” Also, I’ve been blogging regularly over there: here‘s my take on the Hamburger Question, also here — and here‘s me wondering out loud why it is that Reason magazine and the folks over at the Cato Institute have so little to say about the Iraq war. Oh, and a note on ideological diversity.

Charlie Savage

Big Brother Surveillance State Being Set Up Around You Now

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_15_savage.mp3]

Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Boston Globe discusses his recent article, “U.S. Doles Out Millions for Street Cameras.”

MP3 here. (15:16)

Charlie Savage, a reporter for The Boston Globe’s Washington, D.C., bureau, was awarded a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for his work on presidential signing statements. His is the author of the forthcoming Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (to be released in September).

Mikey Weinstein

American Talibs Indoctrinating US Troops

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_15_weinstein.mp3]

Mikey Weinstein, former Reagan White House counsel, president and founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and author of the book, With God On Our Side: One Man’s War Against an Evangelical Coup in America’s Military discusses the American Taliban takeover the Armed Services and the I.G.’s newest whitewash.

MP3 here. (15:37)

Mikey Weinstein is an attorney and businessman who served 10 years’ active duty as an Air Force Judge Advocate (JAG) at military installations from California to Washington, D.C. The former federal prosecutor spent three years in the Reagan White House and served as the Air Force’s first Chief of Telecommunications and Information Systems Procurement Law.

Mikey’s family has deep and distinguished military-academy roots spanning nearly 60 years: His father is a Naval Academy graduate; and Mikey, his brother-in-law, eldest son and daughter-in-law are all graduates of the Air Force Academy (from where his youngest son is scheduled to graduate in 2007). Mikey and his wife of almost three decades, Bonnie, reside in Albuquerque, N.M.

Stu Bykofsky

Does America Need Another 9/11?

[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_08_15_bykofsky.mp3]

Stu Bykofsky, a writer for the Philadelphia Daily News discusses the ideas in his article “To save America, we need another 9/11” (which he has clarified).

My apologies to Stu for Hannitizing him after promising not to.

MP3 here. (18:08)

Transcript here.

Stu Bykofsky has been a columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News since 1987. Prior to the column, his assignments included theater critic, TV critic, copy editor, general assignment features reporter. A native of New York City, Stu has won numerous public service and journalism awards. His professional affiliations include the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Philadelphia’s Pen and Pencil Club. He supports civil-rights, human-rights and animal causes. He is married.