President Obama’s historic opening to Cuba has come under fire from Republican and even some Democratic hawks because Cuban President Raul Castro did not greet him at the airport and because the Cuban government arrested members of a dissident group while Obama’s...
A New Dawn for Cuba and Iran?
“Es un nuevo dia” and “Nowruz Mubarak.” The literal meaning of both phrases welcome the “new day” (nuevo dia, nowruz) in Spanish and Persian respectively (the latter is a holiday greeting for the Persian New Year). And President Barack Obama recently delivered these...
Obama’s Break with the Establishment
The biggest story in Jeffrey Goldberg’s 20,000-word report on “The Obama Doctrine” is President Barack Obama’s open break with the foreign policy establishment. The critique of orthodox national security policy thinking that Obama outlined in interviews with Goldberg...
ISIS Claims Attack on Iraqi Convoy; 171 Killed in Iraq
Behind the Crimea/Russia Reunion
With high symbolism Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Crimea “to check on the construction of the Kerch Strait Bridge, which will link the Crimean peninsula and continental Russia,” the Kremlin announced on Thursday. As the Russians like to say, “It is no...
What’s Up With the Ides of March?
Editorial Note: I am taking the week off in order to catch up on a few projects. But I’ll be back on Monday, so stay tuned to this space. – Justin Raimondo This weekend and the following week marks a triple anniversary: on March 19, 2011, the US and its European and...
Suicide Attacks on Soldiers in Anbar; 185 Killed in Iraq
U.S. Marine, 170 Others Killed in Iraq
My Terrorist, Your Terrorist
So is Hezbollah a terrorist organization? Of course not. So why has the Arab League decided that they are? Because most of the league's member states are Sunni Muslims, while Hezbollah is a Shiite organization supporting Shiite Iran and Alawite (quasi-Shiite) Bashar...
Comrade Michael Rubin Demands the Gulag for Col. Wilkerson
As a committed and unapologetic neocon, Michael Rubin loves the idea of the old purges once common practice under his ideological forebears in the Soviet Union. The details of the infraction were unimportant – and to even consider the need for details once the...


