Justin Raimondo

The “trial” of Slobodan Milosevic couldn’t have come at a better time. As the US rampages through Afghanistan, bombing friend and foe alike, openly gearing up for an excursion into Iraq – all the name of a holy “war on terrorism” – the double standard operating here is almost comically obvious. THE RAPE OF YUGOSLAVIA … Continue reading “Go, Slobo, Go!”

The news that the US government has set up a special department, the “Office of Strategic Influence,” to plant false news items has liberals and journalists (or do I repeat myself?) in a funk: this is terrible, they whine, why it’s unprecedented. To which the only possible reply is: Oh really? DISINFORMATION: A SHORT HISTORY … Continue reading “Anthrax Cover-Up?”

The annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute, attended by the elite opinion-makers, the movers and shakers of the conservative movement, was a truly solemn event. Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary and a renown neoconservative, was scheduled to address the crowd. The gravity of the occasion was underscored by Christopher Demuth’s gushing introductory remarks, wherein … Continue reading “Pope Poddy’s Papal Bull”

My theory that the events of 9/11 blew a hole in the space-time continuum and transported us into a world where up is down, and nonsense is reason – advanced here, here, here, and (presciently) here – seems confirmed beyond all doubt by the news that US planes are raining dollars on Afghanistan. And, no, … Continue reading “World of Unreason”

With the shooting in Afghanistan largely over, for now, and in the lull before the next big US intervention – will it be Iraq? Iran? Somalia? – the bloodthirsty emotional atmosphere in which we have all been enveloped since 9/11 is being kept up to a fever pitch by the latest outbreak of hostilities: the … Continue reading “The Olympic War”

We’re living in a comic book world, where American superheroes confront an “Axis of Evil,” and the Evil One (Lex Luthor?) is defeated but lives to fight another day. I hear that comics have fallen on hard times, and that today’s sophisticated kids just can’t be bothered (too much like reading), but, really, if it … Continue reading “Bizzaro World”

We’re living in a comic book world, where American superheroes confront an “Axis of Evil,” and the Evil One (Lex Luthor?) is defeated but lives to fight another day. I hear that comics have fallen on hard times, and that today’s sophisticated kids just can’t be bothered (too much like reading), but, really, if it … Continue reading “BIZARRO WORLD”

The wave of cyber-attacks on Yahoo! and a host of other major US websites was in its second day when Janet Reno came riding in on her white horse, promising us “protection” and vowing to get to the bottom of a disruption that horrified investors and roiled the markets. Her FBI henchmen were quick to … Continue reading “Cybercops Unleashed”

The utter cluelessness of what passes for ostensibly “conservative” leaders these days was brought home to me when I read the following item by National Review editor, Rich Lowry: “DOES THIS MAKE SENSE?: [Rich Lowry] “I love James Surowiecki of The New Yorker. He’s a great financial writer. So, I wonder about his argument in … Continue reading “National Review’s Military Socialism”

While the attorney general is taking off after the Tali-boy, what about the truly criminal negligence of US law enforcement agencies, who clearly experienced some kind of massive intelligence meltdown? As Howard Kurtz points out in the Washington Post today [Thursday]: “For five long months, almost no one has wanted to gripe about it out … Continue reading “9/11 Cover Up?”