Justin Raimondo

What better day to mourn our old republic than Memorial Day? Proclaimed by Civil War veterans in 1868 to commemorate the dead, today it evokes memories of past conflicts and those that are ongoing – all of which were (and are) the catalysts of this country’s degeneration into an empire. Yes, all of them, including … Continue reading “In Memoriam: Our Old Republic”

While the world’s attention is focused on the Middle East, as usual, where ISIS – the creation of Washington’s Saudi and Gulf allies – is the focus of the latest alleged “terrorist threat,” a potentially more dangerous crisis is being ramped up by our professional regime-changers in the volatile Balkans. The Russian-Turkish plan to pipe … Continue reading “The Next Ukraine”

It’s nice to see how the presidential candidates are being interrogated over their view of the Iraq war. When Megyn Kelly asked Jeb Bush “If you knew then what you know now, would you have ordered the invasion of Iraq?” he was so flummoxed that he could barely give a coherent answer – and he … Continue reading “Why We Deserve Your Support”

With key provisions of the so-called Patriot Act set to expire on June 1, the fight to preserve the Constitution is heating up – and the battle lines tell us everything we need to know about the state of the country and the prospects for liberty. On one side we have a grand alliance of … Continue reading “Litmus Test: Will Patriot Act Spying Continue?”

While the debate over Seymour Hersh’s London Review of Books piece goes on, one detail of his reporting has been little mentioned: the scapegoating of Dr. Shakil Afridi as the man who supposedly identified Osama bin Laden to the CIA, a story put out there by the US – and subsequently exposed by Hersh as … Continue reading “The Fall Guy: Dr. Shakil Afridi”

Who said this?: “I’m not saying that they’re at the highest levels, but I believe that somewhere in this government are people who know where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda is, where Mullah Omar and the leadership of the Afghan Taliban is, and we expect more cooperation to help us bring to justice, capture or … Continue reading “Bin Laden’s End: The Truth Comes Out”

The brouhaha over an alleged 1994 Iranian plot to bomb a Jewish community center in Argentina, of all places, has been in and out of the news for years. Hysterical headlines, fantastic allegations, simmering intrigue, a mysterious suicide that some are claiming was a murder – it all sounds like a fourth-rate made-for-television thriller. That … Continue reading “Follow the Money”

The British political class is in the midst of a fight – the election poll is taking place as I write this – but one thing unites them all, and that is hatred of the populist Nigel Farage and his UK Independence Party (UKIP). Farage is a personable guy, an ordinary bloke as they say, … Continue reading “Britain’s Political Circus”

Neoconservative ideologue Jamie Kirchick says Pamela Geller, the well-known anti-Muslim demagogue, is an “embarrassment.” “She’s what you would get,” he writes, “if Fran Drescher and the late ultranationalist anti-Arab rabbi-turned-political leader Meir Kahane reproduced.” But why is Kirchick embarrassed? After all, what has Geller to do with him? The answer is that Geller says what … Continue reading “Merchants of Hate”

Ron Paul, as usual, was prescient when he warned – in 2007 – of a Gulf of Tonkin type incident in the Persian Gulf that could bring us to the brink of war with Iran. The seizure by the Iranians of a commercial vessel flying under the Marshall Islands flag in the Gulf in order … Continue reading “The Maersk Tigris Incident”