Three Mavericks

Something's in the wind. From the rocky shores of the Sea of Japan to the sandy beaches of the Adriatic, a new and benevolent form of nationalism is on the rise: not the dark irredentism that infected prewar Germany and the comic-opera totalitarianism of Mussolini's...

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An American in China

I got off of the bus deep in the western Sichuan backwaters and I was met by a hard stare from a toothless, shirtless peasant. He asked where I was from and I said America. He eyed me up and down and then declared, "We aren’t afraid of you." We...

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Why They Hate Us

America-haters the world over were ecstatic that the US was not reelected to the UN "Human Rights Commission." That great champion of human rights, Communist China, gleefully pontificated in their state-controlled media that "the U.S. election loss shows that...

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Vidal’s Non-Interventionist Manifesto

Justin has the flu so today we present a classic Raimondo column from last year. October 18, 2000I can write all the columns I want, pointing out this or that outrage committed by the US government in the realm of foreign affairs, railing about the hubris of the...

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The Real China Threat

"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it ever come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence." ~...

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The State of the Army, Part 1

"In Israel, every human being is a soldier, and every soldier – a human being," went a famous old saying ascribed to David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founder and first prime minister. In the pre-sound-bite era, when lengthy and complex slogans were...

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Viva Berlusconi!

An international hate campaign against Italian rightist leader Silvio Berlusconi is now going into high gear. The goal: saving the Euro-communist ("center-left") government now in power, and derailing Berlusconi's hopes of becoming Prime Minister in the upcoming [May...

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The Spin Begins

The film had barely stopped rolling over at CBS before the Kerrey spin machine started cranking out apologias: "I think this war's not over," warbled Kerrey after the broadcast. "I think they're not going to leave us alone until we're all dead. It's always possible to...

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Getting Away with Murder?

Democrats defend him because he's one of them: Republicans defend him for ideological reasons; liberals like Robert Scheer give former Senator Bob Kerrey, accused war criminal, a pass, but use the occasion to condemn America as the epitome of human evil;...

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