Justin Raimondo

Justin Raimondo passed away on June 27, 2019. He was the co-founder and editorial director of Antiwar.com, and was a senior fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute. He was a contributing editor at The American Conservative, and wrote a monthly column for Chronicles. He was the author of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement [Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993; Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2000], and An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard [Prometheus Books, 2000].

Watch Your Back

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." "They said that you’d better watch your … Continue reading

Stand Up for Peace

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 of locations in between. (Check the United … Continue reading

Going Crazy

The evidence that something is causing people to go slightly bonkers – is it something in the water? the air? the stars? – continues to pile up. For starters, check out the "logic" of Rep. Charles Rangel’s bright idea to bring back the draft in order to stop the war: "I believe that if those … Continue reading

Turning Point

Antiwar sentiment is on the rise, but is the antiwar movement? A steadily increasing number of Americans oppose invading Iraq, and a full two-thirds want to see a "smoking gun" before we set a course for empire. Around the world, opposition is overwhelming, not only in the Middle East (except Israel), but throughout Europe. The … Continue reading

War Party In Retreat

It may be in somewhat poor taste to say "I told you so," but I can’t resist. My prognosis that the Iraq war, far from being "inevitable," as we’ve been endlessly told, has been postponed if not put on the back burner indefinitely has been all but verified by recent events. In a column posted … Continue reading

Hail Caesar?

The prospect of a war to subdue and occupy Iraq has brought the neo-imperialists out of the closet, so to speak, and inaugurated a new honesty among political commentators on the left as well as the right. As Americans wake up to the brutal reality of a war that could cost half a million Iraqi … Continue reading

Korean Ghosts

On June 13, 2002, Shin Hyo-soon and Shim Mi-sun, both 14 years old, walked along the side of a road on their way to a birthday party, chattering and laughing, as children do. They never saw the mammoth U.S. military truck with two soldiers on board as it crushed them, grinding their bodies into the … Continue reading

Do Neocons Exist?

Max Boot starts out his essay on "What the Heck is a ‘Neocon?’" – which should have been titled "Who, Me?" – by claiming to find the label affixed to his political persona "mystifying." Yet he winds up writing a mini-manifesto of the Neocon Creed: "It is not really domestic policy that defines neoconservatism. This … Continue reading

Happy New Year?

To get some idea of what we’re in for in 2003, take a gander at this news report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency: “Seoul, Dec. 27 (Yonhap) – The United States would deploy some 690,000 troops to augment the 37,000-strong American military presence already here if war should break out on the peninsula, a … Continue reading

A RELIGION OF PEACE?

One good aspect of the holiday season was that veteran Arab-hater James Taranto, whose column "Best of the Web" runs on the Wall Street Journal‘s website, went on vacation, and the world was spared his unsparing hatred for all things Arab for a few blessed days. Not for long, however: he’s back at the same … Continue reading