Toward the end of last month, there emerged from Important Places a statement of the strategic thinking of the Bush administration. Much was made of the document's unilateralism and rhetorical embellishments. Further examination suggests that the chief novelty lies in...
Missile Tests Foment New Rivalries
As the beat of America's war-drums against Iraq gets louder, the Indian government finds itself in an untenably contradictory situation: should it support a United Nations-endorsed attack against Iraq's "terrorist" Saddam Hussein regime, as part of US...
Iraq First Stop on the Road to Empire
We're ki cking off our Fall campus tour, and Justin Raimondo is on the road: what follows is the text of a speech delivered on October 9, 2002, at Washington University, Missouri. Why war? Why Iraq? And why now? As the editorial director of Antiwar.com, and a...
Iraq: ‘A War Waiting for a Pretext’
For about a year, we've been hearing how intensely George W. Bush wants to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Mr. Bush has made all sorts of accusations against Hussein, but offered no public evidence to support his assertions. Finally, this past Monday evening we were...
Khan Yunis: Before the Juggernaut
A mobile watchtower, lifted into the air by a crane, surveys Khan Yunis day and night. An ambulance from the city waits behind a nearby concrete building day after day; it waits so that the next child shot for playing too close to the wall can make it to the local...
Forward to The Past
Results of the Bosnian general elections should be official by now, though it was already obvious on Tuesday that ethnic parties triumphed convincingly. Though agency reports over the past several days have made a great deal of that outcome, as usual they refused to...
Opposing the Use of Military Force Against Iraq
I oppose the resolution authorizing military force against Iraq. The wisdom of the war is one issue, but the process and the philosophy behind our foreign policy are important issues as well. But I have come to the conclusion that I see no threat to our national...
Weary Lonesome Blues
Through stupidity, forgetfulness, poor geography and bad luck as much as anything, I found myself caught up in the 'great' anti-war march in London last week. Can't say the crowd was anywhere near as congenial as the pro-Palestine lot earlier in the year, nor was the...
LARRY ELLISON’S GOLDEN AGE: PROFITEERS OF THE WARFARE STATE
We're starting our Fall Campus Tour this week, and Justin Raimondo is on the road. In lieu of a regular column, we're offering a special treat: a feature article by Raimondo written especially for Chronicles, and made available to you on the web: "Larry Ellison's...
War For Frivolous Reasons
This is being written before President Bushs address to the nation Monday night, but news reports say he doesnt expect to deliver any startling new evidence beyond what has already been widely reported. He seems to think that what is already known about...


