Justin Raimondo

The Saudi bombing of a funeral in Saana, Yemen, killed about 200 – we don’t yet know the exact number – and wounded over 500. No one believes the denials of the Saudis: clearly this event was targeted for special treatment. They didn’t just bomb it once: they came back again to rain death and … Continue reading “The Saudis, Hillary, and the Destruction of Yemen”

Hillary’s little helpers in the “mainstream” media are frothing at the mouth over Gary Johnson: at first, they didn’t get how this election is being defined by Donald Trump and therefore thought the third party campaign of Johnson and former Massachusetts Governor William Weld would cut into Trump’s vote and perhaps deliver the election to … Continue reading “Gary Johnson and ‘Moral Equivalence’”

The narrow rejection of the Colombian referendum that was supposed to have approved a peace accord between the government and the FARC guerrilla group should have surprised exactly no one. That’s because the conflict that has wracked Colombia goes all the way back to 1948: imagine if our Civil War had lasted nearly seventy years. … Continue reading “The Colombian Conundrum”

The Clinton smear machine, having finally noticed that Gary Johnson is cutting into what they regard as Hillary’s rightful share of the so-called "millennial" vote, has set its sights on the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate. It wasn’t supposed to be this way: the conventional wisdom was that the Libertarian ticket of Johnson and former Massachusetts … Continue reading “In Defense of Gary Johnson”

The year was 1956: the icy winds of the cold war were blowing across the political landscape. And it was a presidential election year, pitting the internationalist Republican Dwight Eisenhower against Adlai Stevenson, the darling of the Democratic party’s left wing. The “isolationist” faction of the GOP, led by Sen. Robert A. Taft, had been … Continue reading “Libertarianism and War”

For all Hillary Clinton’s reputation as a policy wonk, her debate performance consisted almost entirely of personal attacks. And while our media is out there proclaiming a Clinton "victory," their evaluation merely shows how distanced they are from ordinary Americans, who don’t revel in nastiness. Trump, on the other hand, although he allowed himself to … Continue reading “The Debate: Trump’s Three Points for Peace”

While we have gotten used to the neo-McCarthyite tactics employed by the Clinton campaign linking Donald Trump to the Kremlin, the whole disgraceful operation has reached a new low with the introduction of US law enforcement agencies into the mix. According to a report by Michael Isikoff – who has become the Judy Miller of … Continue reading “The New Cold Warriors Sic the FBI on Donald Trump”

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.” While I’m … Continue reading “The Crazy Years”

Well, I messed my hand up using my monster of a rototiller. Nothing serious, but typing is out of the question for today – so no column, unfortunately. But never fear – I’ll be back on Friday. NOTES IN THE MARGIN You can check out my Twitter feed by going here. But please note that … Continue reading “A Doctor’s Note”

The year was 1955, the dawn of the cold war, and an old prophet was writing what would be his last book. It was a volume of history – The American Story, he called it – in which he reviewed the cavalcade of twists and turns that had brought us to that moment when we … Continue reading “America, the Helpless ‘Superpower’”