The House of Representatives did pass a $13 billion supplemental appropriation bill last week that included $2.1 billion for the ill-advised mission in Kosovo and $1.7 billion for military and anti-drug aid to Colombia, by a fairly convincing 289-146 margin. But...
From Camp Swampy to Camp Bondsteel!
A friend asked the following question: "James Rubin admits that the US considered the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Bosnian Muslims 'allies' . . . Why? What motive does the US have for picking these bums as pals?" A review of authoritative sources on this...
J. Reuben Clark (1871-1961)
CLARKS TWO CAREERS The long life of Joshua Reuben Clark, Jr. embraced two quite different careers. Born in Grantsville, Utah in 1871, Clark received a law degree at Columbia University in 1906 and worked at the US state department from 1906 to 1913, leaving to...
America’s War In Colombia–Is it ‘For the Children’?
2's column will not appear Wednesday or Friday this week: he is busy making the final corrections on his latest book, An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard, due out in July from Prometheus Books. His column will return Monday, April 10.Does anyone...
Who Will Save the Young?
"There is an easy way to assess foreign policy initiatives such as making defense commitments or sending American troops on foreign missions. First of all, determine the objective. Then ask yourself these two questions: Would I be willing to die to achieve this...
Masters of Deceit: Kosovo and the Media
The media told us that a reenactment of the Holocaust was going on in Kosovo, with the Serbs in the role of the Nazis and the Kosovar Albanians standing in for the Jews and that was a lie. For it turned out that approximately 2,108 persons from both sides were...
The War Party and the Media
The panel on which I sat at the Antiwar.com was entitled, "The War Party and the Media or Do I Repeat Myself?" Along with George Szamuely and Eric Garris, I tried to explore some of the reasons for what might be seen as something of a mystery: Why...
Never Mind Kosovo–What About New Mexico?
I was reminded of why I hate the Republican Party last Sunday morning while watching Tim Russert of "Meet the Press" prompt Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott on why we need to be involved everywhere. Iraq is supposedly building "long range missiles" in Khartoum, and...
Beyond Left and Right
Editor's note: This is an edited version of Justin Raimondo's speech, "The Globalist Design," to the Second Annual Antiwar.com conference. BEYOND LEFT AND RIGHT "Beyond Left and Right: The New Face of the Antiwar Movement," that was the theme of this, the second...
Tom Paine (1737-1809) on War, Governments, and Trade
PAINES REPUTATION The English radical Thomas Paine was without contest the greatest propagandist of the American Revolution in Common Sense, The Crisis, and other writings. His The Rights of Man, written in response to Edmund Burkes broad attack on...


