[Justin Raimondo is on the road. What follows is the text of a speech he delivered on Thursday to the Palestine Center conference, at the National Press Club, in Washington, D.C.] How is it that U.S. policy in the Middle East has essentially nothing to do with vital...
If Americans understood our last war on Iraq, would we more strongly oppose another one? Do we know what our military does in the real world, where the Pentagon won't even take our lapdog of a press corps out for a walk? The Gulf War's 'video game accuracy' was a lie...
If there were any hopes in the past few weeks, what with the rising tide of antiwar sentiment, that the Empire might turn back from the brink of invading Iraq, the Emperor’s annual speech should have dispelled them. Within a few short weeks, before the weather...
The troop deployments, the tough talk about President Bush getting impatient (the hardly-hidden assumption being that by virtue of occupying the Oval Office he has the right and perhaps the duty to tell Saddam Hussein or any other titular leader in the world what to...
Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector who quit in 1998 and now says the U.S. is intent on manufacturing phony "evidence" of arms violations as a pretext for war, is the victim of what may be the sleaziest set-up job in recent history, a smearing so...
One thing you have to say about being opposed to this March’s Gulf War is that, there’s nothing desperately brave in being so. It’s a conceit of too many anti-war activists that by bravely striking out against this silly crusade, they’re taking on...
As nuclear taboos of various kinds get weakened and violated the world over, India and Pakistan are drawing each other into the vortex of a potentially ruinous nuclear and missile arms race. They are transiting from a posture of demonstrating an assured capability to...
You're an American GI, and you signed up because you love your country, you want to defend it, and you also want to improve the quality of your own life in a dead economy. You're willing to fight anywhere they send you, obey orders like a good soldier, and you think...
In cities and small towns across the country, on the East Coast and in the West, Americans are standing up to the War Party and standing up for peace. Around the world, January 18 is the big day, with rallies scheduled for Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and dozens...
I was working out in the gym the other day, when Richard Rodriguez, a friend of mine, came in, greeted me, and remarked: "I told some friends of mine about your book on the Israeli connection to 9/11, and do you know what they told me?" "Uh. Nope."...
