November 1956, 50 years ago, was a month the drama of which many of us can yet recall. It was a defining moment of the Cold War. This was the month Eisenhower was reelected in a landslide and in which he laid down, in simultaneous crises, the new ground rules of the...
President Bush and Karl Rove realize they are losing the pre-election public relations battle with the Democrats over the war in Iraq. Rove, the president's political ace, didn't think the American people could intellectually process more than three words. So he...
LONDON - More than three years after London saw its biggest ever rally to prevent the war in Iraq, the group Stop the War is launching a new campaign to pull coalition forces out of Iraq. That rally in 2003 failed to stop the war, as the massively backed coalition had...
Updated at 11:20 a.m. EST, Nov. 1, 2006 In the latest developments in war-torn Iraq, 80 Iraqis were killed and another 37 were wounded in violent acts. At least 40 more Iraqis are reported kidnapped in one incident alone and the U.S. military also reported two more...
A Jewish Hitler? Justin Raimondo: My first letter. Thanks for your site, which I have been compulsively reading for months now. It gathers the cream of commentary like no other. Two things: Since reading "Reconnecting With the Reality-Based Community," Scott...
For the first time since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, active-duty members of the military are asking members of Congress to end the occupation of Iraq and bring U.S. soldiers home. More than 100 soldiers announced Wednesday that they are seeking protection under...
The third and final act in the national tragedy that is the Bush administration may soon play itself out. The Okhrana reports increasing indications of "something big" happening between the election and Christmas. That could be the long-planned attack on...
When President George W. Bush was asked at his news conference last Wednesday whether we are winning in Iraq, he answered, "Absolutely; we're winning." The disingenuousness was almost enough to provoke sympathy for the beleaguered president as he lived...
While the Iraqi catastrophe – and whether we are about to be at a post-midterm election "tipping point" in that country – preoccupies Americans, an older Bush administration Afghan "success" story has sprung enough holes to sink the Titanic and looks to be...
[Editor's note, Nov. 1: Justin Raimondo is traveling. His column will return Friday.] (The following is the text of a talk given at Duke University before a joint meeting sponsored by the Libertarian Party of North Carolina and the Green Party.) The theme of this...
