Justin Raimondo

Justin Raimondo

Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com, a senior fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute, and author of An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard and Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement .

Their Intelligence and Ours

Ron Rosenbaum, journalist (the New York Observer, Slate.com), author, and one of the few liberals to sign on to the ill-fated Pajamas Media fiasco, is damned mad: Will all the pundits who relied on the discredited 2007 NIE on Iran now admit that they were wrong? That they bought into and kept ...

Evil Speaks”€”Are We Listening?

The latest message from Osama bin Laden"€”an audio recording posted on jihadist Websites"€”is truly scary. Not because he threatens us with death and destruction, though he does. Not because he vows that the 9/11 attacks were just the beginning, though this is strongly implied. And not because ...

9/11 Truths and Lies

On September 11, 2001, nineteen hijackers, wielding nothing more lethal than box-cutters, commandeered four airliners, and turned them into lethal missiles, three of which managed to hit their targets"€”the World Trade Center and the Pentagon"€”while a fourth crashed in a field before it ...

The “€œGood War”€ That Wasn”€™t

I write these words on September 3, 2009, seventy years to the day since Britain and France declared war on Germany"€”an occasion observed, if not exactly celebrated by the leaders and opinion-makers of the West, as the beginning of "€œthe good war."€ The War Party just loves WWII because ...

The Big Media Bailout

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which usually concerns itself with "€œconsumer protection"€ issues, is now taking an interest in the journalism industry. The financially strapped New York Times reports: "€œThe commission is planning two days of workshops in December"€“titled From Town ...

Foreign Policy & Fornication

In those heady days of 2003, when the War Party was really feeling its oats and the neocons, the "€œwarbloggers,"€ and the television talking heads were triumphantly hailing the invasion of Iraq as an unqualified success, one Iraqi pretty much summed up the Arab response to the ...

Obamageddon

An American president is launching the most ambitious, the most expensive, and certainly the most dangerous military campaign since the Vietnam War"€”and the antiwar movement, such as it is, is missing in action. After a long and bloody campaign in Iraq and the election of a U.S. president ...

Culturally Sensitive Imperialism

In Britain, they"€™re getting antsy about Obama's war "€“ the "€œAf-Pak"€ [.pdf] war, that is. Without the poodle Tony Blair to cover for us, Britain's ruling Labor Party "€“ decisively smacked down in the recent elections to the European parliament "€“ is grumbling about being ...

The “€œSuperpower”€ Conceit

The great foreign policy initiative unleashed by the Obama administration, the one that is supposed to earn our new president a place on Mount Rushmore, is a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian question. This issue has bedeviled American presidents starting with Jimmy Carter and continuing ...

Israel Jumps the Shark

Have Israel and its supporters gone over the edge? As Israel defies the US on settlement policies and its continuing mistreatment of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, a recent poll shows the American public is undergoing a significant shift in its historically pro-Israel ...


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