Justin Raimondo

Journalist Seymour Hersh has given us good reason to believe what many have long suspected: that the “hacking” of the Democratic National Committee, which supposedly delivered the White House to Donald Trump, was an inside job. In a recorded phone conversation (here’s a transcript) with Ed Butowsky, a Republican operative who has been financing an … Continue reading “Has Seymour Hersh Debunked ‘Russia-gate’?”

Progress is slow. That’s what I’ve learned – and come to expect – after twenty-plus years at this post, commenting on world events and swimming against the tide. However, after all this time, it looks to me as if the tide is turning – slowly, unevenly, yet surely – against the War Party. Oh yes, … Continue reading “The End of Globalism”

When former FBI chief Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel to preside over the “Russia-gate” probe, official Washington sang hosannas. Democrats, Republicans, the pundits, and the cocktail party chatterers of every persuasion swooned over his “impeccable” credentials. That should’ve served as a warning sign, right there. Because what are those credentials? What is the … Continue reading “Robert Mueller, Conspiracy Theorist”

Oh boy, if it’s not one thing it’s another: looks like I’ve got quite a case of pneumonia! Yes, in the middle of summer. This has pretty much taken me down, so no column today: but don’t worry, I’ll be back (I think!) by Monday at the latest. NOTES IN THE MARGIN You can check … Continue reading “Out Sick”

The Republican-controlled Congress couldn’t get it together on healthcare, infrastructure, immigration, or much of anything else, but, hey, they got together with the Democrats on a Russia sanctions bill: the “Russia, Iran, and North Korea Sanctions Act.” If you read the text, the proportion of moral preening, rheotorical rodomontade, and blustering bloviation is unusually high, … Continue reading “Sanctions Bill: An Ode to Hypocrisy, Groupthink, Smugness, and Cronyism”

The headline in the Washington Post said it all: “Trump ends covert CIA program to arm anti-Assad rebels in Syria, a move sought by Moscow.” The madness that has infected what passes for journalism today could not be more starkly dramatized: everything is seen through the distorting lens of Russophobia. It doesn’t matter that that … Continue reading “Trump Ends Syrian Regime Change Campaign”

We’re all supposed to be outraged by alleged Russian “meddling” in the 2016 election, despite the fact that no actual evidence of such interference has been made public. First it was “17 intelligence agencies” supposedly confirmed that Moscow was behind the DNC/Podesta email releases, and then it was down to just three – with the … Continue reading “The ‘Foreign Meddling’ Double-Standard”

The United States spends more on the military than the top eight countries combined – but that’s still not enough for our military-industrial-congressional complex. They want yet more tax dollars shoveled into that bottomless maw, and it looks like they’re going to get it. The House of Representatives just passed the National Defense Authorization Act … Continue reading “Space Cadets and Sex Changes: Our “Defense” Budget Is a Bad Joke”

Oh, it was glorious fun, yielding the kind of satisfaction that us anti-interventionists rarely get to enjoy: not one but two prominent neoconservatives who have been wrong about everything for the past decade – yet never held accountable – getting taken down on national television. Tucker Carlson, whose show is a shining light of reason … Continue reading “Tucker Carlson, Neocon Slayer”

As a storm breaks over Washington, and the details of foreign “collusion” and intrigue over the 2016 presidential election break out into the open, I just happened to be re-reading Gore Vidal’s The Golden Age, a novel set in the run up to World War II in which pretty much the same plot line plays … Continue reading “Was Trump Junior Framed?”