THE EVIL OF SANCTIONS

Justin Raimondo is on vacation. Today we present an appropriate classic from April, 1998, reprinted from the Ludwig von Mises Institute publication, The Free Market. Justin's regular column will return on Wednesday. Among the conventional weapons in the arsenal of the...

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Global Interventionism: The Price We Pay

While the United States government is touting the so-called Clinton Doctrine, which projects American power all over the world in the name of \"human rights,\" the right of Americans to feel safe in their own country is rapidly being diminished. In a recent op-ed...

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August 28, 2002 Justin Raimondo is on vacation. Today we present an appropriate classic from three years ago. This column demonstrates, once again, how accurate Justin's predictions have been about the then-coming Bush Administration. Now, with Condoleezza Rice...

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CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, NEOCON

Christopher Hitchens continues his devolution as the War Party's favorite leftist, and by the time he's done he may have invented a whole new school of thought: but, hey, come to think of it, he's about 30 years too late: the neoconservatives beat him to it. It's...

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THEY FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

Justin Raimondo is on vacation. Today we present an appropriate classic from last year. July 25, 2001 THEY FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT The Legacy of the America First Committee For as long as the cold war lasted, the history of the conservative movement before about 1955...

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THE MIDDLE EAST: WAR WITHOUT END

Justin Raimondo is on vacation. Today we present an appropriate classic from two years ago. As the small boat approached the USS Cole, the two men on board stood at attention, arrow-straight, as if to acknowledge the solemnity and gravity of that moment – and in...

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THE SCOWCROFT DOCTRINE

There is no doubt more than a grain of truth in Maureen Dowd’s thesis that the current foreign policy row over Iraq is essentially a family feud between George W. Bush and his father, and that the solution may have to be "family therapy." But surely this is a...

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BLOWBACK: READ THIS BOOK!

[Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the September 2000 issue of Chronicles, and is reprinted with permission.] In his classic study of noninterventionist or "isolationist" thought, Not to the Swift, historian Justus Doenecke takes note of a phenomenon that...

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Classic Raimondo: THE MYTH OF THE SADDAM BOMB

Justin Raimondo is on vacation. Today we present an appropriate classic from last year.The no-nonsense military affairs columnist Colonel David Hackworth, who gives his readers a grunt's-eye view of what the perfumed princes of the Pentagon are up to, writes that "war...

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HAIL DICK ARMEY!

It's a sadly telling fact of American political life that Rep. Dick Armey didn't dare tell us what he really thinks of Bush II's war plans until he decided it was time to retire: Republican politicians (and Democrats, for that matter) don't usually defy the War Party...

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