Time, Millennia, Empires, and Everything

POST NO MILLENNIA This whole millennium business is a bit wearing. Leaving aside the open secret that the new millennium begins in 2001, there's all the Y2K hype and fear-mongering, only some of which comes to us courtesy of caring governments and organs of state...

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FEAR AND TREMBLING IN THE IMPERIAL CAMP?

I don't want to read too much into it, but I think it is just possible that some of the guardians of the Warfare State at the neo-conservative Weekly Standard (but the two articles I'm discussing are not available online; there is, however, a rather good David...

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Christmas in Kosovo

For the nuns and monks of the Serbian Patriarchate at Pec in Kosovo Christmas 1999 will be a sombre affair. Huddled in their monastery together with a few refugees, only the protection of Italian KFOR troops stands between them and an angry Albanian rabble outside....

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WORRYING ABOUT THE RUSSIAN ARMY

On Monday night "Nightline'' featured a program whose taped intro was fraught with worry about yet another possible overseas enemy. Noting that the Russian government seems intent on wiping out virtually the entire nation-province-territory-whatever of Chechnya...

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Truth or Consequences in an Age of Empire

Empire is not like the weather, which is sometimes said to be the subject of much talk and little action. Generally, Americans don't even talk about empire, so they're not likely to do anything for or against it. That is a shame, since the existence of a world-saving...

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THE NEED FOR ENEMIES,

My old friend – or at least acquaintance of (shudder!) more than 30 years – Rep. Dana Rohrabacher came to the Orange County Register last week and I got a little more insight into just how difficult our job of keeping the United States out of foreign...

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Felix Morley: An Old-fashioned Republican

FELIX MORLEY (1894-1981) Felix Morley served the cause we now call the Old Right for many years. His thought was a well-wrought synthesis of classical republicanism and classical liberalism. This led people to see him as a "conservative" – but let's not...

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The First Casualty

In war, goes the old saw, the first casualty is truth. That was certainly the case in the Kosovo war/bombardment/whatever, but it is important to remind ourselves and others of the fact. Lies will certainly be told during the next conflict – and who among us can...

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The Betrayal of Democracy In Post-Soviet Georgia

The Betrayal of Democracy in Post-Soviet Georgia by Chad Nagle British Helsinki Human Rights Group Special to Antiwar.com 11/30/99 Maybe, when the Soviet Union collapsed, it was infeasible for the West to hold Nuremberg trials for all the Communist Party nomenklatura...

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Frank Chodorov: A Libertarian’s Libertarian

LIBERTARIAN AND GEORGIST Frank Chodorov (1887-1966) could well be called a libertarian's libertarian. The eleventh child of Russian immigrants on the Lower West Side of New York, he was named Fishel Chodorowsky but was "always known as Frank Chodorov."1 A...

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