Justin Raimondo

It’s strange what the media has focused on in the extraordinary excerpts from Bob Woodward’s Bush at War published in the Washington Post. A single sentence about how Roger Ailes advised the President in the days after 9/11 has them all in a lather, but my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I … Continue reading “SABOTAGE!”

The latest scheme to enslave us in the name of waging a "war on terrorism" is so bizarre, so obviously the product of a nascent megalomania, that it seems like something out of a very bad novel. According to published reports, the U.S. government is compiling a database that will be used to monitor "every … Continue reading “TOTALLY CLUELESS”

So, you’re depressed about the supposedly unstoppable war about to break out in the Middle East: polls say that most Americans, no matter what their views on this matter, are convinced that war is "inevitable." But, you know what? It just ain’t so. To begin with, nothing but nothing is "inevitable." Human beings have free … Continue reading “WAR PARTY STALLED”

In the months prior to 9/11 a flurry of activity by Israeli intelligence agents in the U.S. signaled that something big was going on – but the FBI, the CIA, and the myriad of federal agencies charged with protecting this country from terrorism hadn’t a clue. Now, why is that? The answer is hidden in … Continue reading “DEBUNKING THE MYTH OF 9/11”

During the cold war, foreign policy issues rarely cut across Right-Left lines: the Left was anti-interventionist, the Right was for "rolling back" the Soviets and the matter was pretty clear-cut. Oh, there were a few libertarians (such as Murray N. Rothbard) who harkened back to the Old Right "isolationists" of the pre-Pearl Harbor era, and … Continue reading “LIBERAL IMPERIALISM”

Last Friday [November 8], Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said in an interview with Le Figaro that he thought Osama bin Laden is not only alive, but also plotting new terrorist attacks: "Something worrying is going on," he said. What’s worrying is that the Bush administration has been ignoring all indications that the terrorist mastermind … Continue reading “HE’S ALIVE!”

The absolute evil of what passes for today’s conservative movement may not shock my more liberal readers, but those of us on the Right who were brought up in a more salubrious time remember when things were quite different. Believe it or not, conservatives didn’t always resort to smears instead of arguments – indeed, they … Continue reading “JONAH GOLDBERG, BOTTOM FEEDER”

Bush "bestriding the world"! gasped the BBC. "Buoyant Bush Wins Mandate for War"! announced the London Times, in clearly horrified tones. "World Braces for ‘Triumphant’ Bush" headlined UPI. "Bush’s hand on Iraq strengthened by GOP gains in Congress, likely UN approval of tough Resolution," the Associated Press matter-of-factly informed us. The day after the Democrats … Continue reading “A MANDATE FOR WAR?”

The Times [of London] headline said it all: "Attack Iran the day Iraq war ends, demands Israel." What more do we need to know about our "special relationship" with Israel? Israel demands, we obey. Yes, there is something very "special" indeed about U.S.-Israeli relations: like John Williams-Muhammed and John Lee Malvo, Bonnie and Clyde, Nathan … Continue reading “TEAM KILLERS”

When I was a little boy, no more than ten years old, I steadfastly refused to go to sleep at night without first putting the theme from the movie Exodus, by Ernest Gold, on the old record player. The soaring chords, the majestic crescendos, the uplifting arpeggios were my introduction to the heroic sense of … Continue reading “ATTACK OF THE OXYMORONS”