Justin Raimondo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Justin Raimondo (born November 18, 1951) is a libertarian author and the editorial director of the website Antiwar.com. He has been involved in a variety of political efforts from his base in the San Francisco Bay Area. ..."
'What Kind of Democracy Is This?': A grieving father wants to know, 23 May 2007 Related Topics: Democracy, Militarism Examines questions about American democracy and militarism posed by professor Andrew J. Bacevich after the death of his son in combat in Iraq "This is the kind of democracy ... that can have both parties calling for an increase in the size of the U.S. military at a moment when the people are sick and tired of war ... The kind that has all 'major' candidates for the White House ... pledging to prosecute the war in Iraq more efficiently and successfully than Bush."
Arianna Huffington, Racial Profiler: She jumps on the Dubai-bashing bandwagon, 24 Feb 2006 Related Topic: Dubai "With a per capita income of over $20,000, and corporate offices of Ford, Johnson & Johnson, MSD, FedEx, ExxonMobil, CMS Energy, Microsoft ... ensconced in its gleaming ultra-modern skyscrapers, Dubai is the logistical hub of just about every sort of human activity in that part of the globe. It is the Manhattan of the Arab world ..."
Bill Evers Goes Neocon, 15 Jan 2004 Related Topic: Williamson M. Evers "It's funny, but Bill Evers used to be one of those libertarians who went around giving everyone else a purity test, and he often found them wanting. Back in the good old days, he used to write a column for Libertarian Vanguard, the newspaper of the Radical Caucus, ... in which he handed out kudos and judo chops to those that, in his view, deserved them."
Blueprint for Dictatorship: Recent legislation sets us up for tyranny, 30 Apr 2007 Related Topics: Militarism, Right to Petition the Government Describes how the Defense Authorization Act, the Military Commissions Act and changes to the Insurrection Act could be used to impose martial law in the United States "This use of the military to enforce domestic order is a new development in American history, one that augurs a turning point not only in terms of law, but also in our evolving political culture. Such a measure would once have provoked an outcry – on both sides of the aisle. When the measure passed, there was hardly a ripple of protest ..."
Bush's Wartime Dictatorship: The threat of presidential supremacism, 21 Dec 2005 Related Topic: George W. Bush "The new presidential absolutism infuses not only Bush's foreign policy, which asserts the 'right' of the White House to make war on anyone, anywhere, anytime, and for any reason, but also, increasingly, his domestic policies. ... in response to the NSA revelations, the president summoned the executive editor and the publisher of the New York Times to the Oval Office ... "
Christmas in Malaysia: It's not what you might imagine, 23 Dec 2005 Related Topic: Malaysia "Malaysia is the virtual incarnation of religious and ethnic diversity, a veritable melting pot of racial and devotional groups ... Here is an 'Islamic' country where a gigantic Christmas tree sits in the lobby of the hotel I'm staying at ... Modernity is juxtaposed next to traditionalism ..."
Confronting the Empire: It's time ..., 5 Jan 2007 Related Topics: Imperialism, Washington, DC "Culturally, Washington, D.C. has been thoroughly corrupted by the virus of imperialism: these guys (and gals) like the idea of running an empire. Dazzled by their own importance in the scheme of things, and hypnotized by their own hubris, the denizens of the Imperial City disdain any suggestion that we might return to our humble republican roots."
Democracy: The God That Failed: In Iraq, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, 12 Oct 2005 Related Topics: Democracy, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine "Democracy is the god that failed to accomplish its ostensible goals everywhere the U.S. has intervened — but the real objective of our 'liberationist' foreign policy is well on the way to being achieved. ... the would-be exporters of 'democracy' have merely succeeded in creating more and bigger trouble, wherever their democratist dogma has been applied."
Election 2006: A War Referendum: It's all about Iraq, 16 Oct 2006 Related Topic: Democratic Party "The great advantage of the Jeffersonian Democrat project, however, more than outweighs the negatives. The Democratic Party is out of ideas: ideologically, their leaders and 'theoreticians' are remarkably barren. ... These people need to be educated, and, what's more, many of them are educating themselves: Moulitsas' essay proves that. ... All hail the Jeffersonian Democrats — and let the Democratic reformation begin!"
Gore Channels Taft: It was a great speech, 18 Jan 2006 Related Topic: Albert A. Gore, Jr. "Has Al Gore become a conservative? His recent speech to the Liberty Coalition ... sounded as if it had been written by some disgruntled paleoconservative. ... his openly anti-interventionist critique of our foreign policy of preemptive aggression, one might have imagined he had suddenly started channeling Robert A. Taft."
Hating Arabs: Arab-haters target Dubai port company, 22 Feb 2006 Related Topic: Dubai "Dubai is a city of over one million, a major financial and industrial center, and an increasingly popular international tourist attraction. ... Culturally, Dubai is the freest country in the Arab world. ... Dubai is the major financial nexus of the Arab world ... The architecture of Dubai is a vision of futurity ..."
Hell-Bent on War: Putin's right: the US is 'plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts', 14 Feb 2007 Related Topics: War, Imperialism, Iran "In a sane world, the economic consequences alone would be a sufficient deterrent to even considering war with Iran. Skyrocketing oil prices, a huge 'correction' in the financial markets, the sudden immiseration of great numbers of people ... As sick of war as the American people are, their leaders never seem to get their fill."
How Did We Get Here?: You have the "mainstream" media to thank for the Iraqi quagmire, 24 Oct 2007 Related Topic: Iraq War (2003) Recapitulates the actions of various media in making the case for the Iraqi invasion and supporting its continuation "It was Rose, after all, whose four-page spread ... made the most extreme claims about the imminent danger posed by Saddam: the Iraqis were feverishly working on a long-range missile project, which was perilously close to becoming operational. ... When none of this turned up in the aftermath of the invasion, did the editors of Vanity Fair cry 'mea culpa'?"
Iraq: The Hidden Horror: 650,000 Iraqis dead - now that's 'liberation'!, 13 Oct 2006 Related Topic: Iraq "... even if the figure of 650,000 is off by half, the vastness of U.S. war crimes in Iraq is quite a shocker. ... The Iraqi government derides the Johns Hopkins numbers, as well they might: either that, or they'd have to admit they were installed into power by a pack of mass murderers. And that would be far too close to the truth."
John Fund vs. the Truth: He lies about Juan Cole – and much else, 26 Apr 2006 Related Topic: John H. Fund "Back in the late 1970s, ... Fund was active in the Libertarian Party, ... announcing his decision to run for a school board seat in Sacramento, Calif. ... Fund had taken out papers — but had never actually turned them in. ... Confronted with his lie, Fund tearfully confessed to fabricating the entire story ... it was somebody else's campaign."
Lebanon, Again: The Israelis want another go, 9 Feb 2007 Related Topics: Lebanon, Iran "The appearance of Michel Aoun and Hassan Nasrallah on the same stage, rallying the people against the U.S.-backed government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is a veritable replay of the famous Cedar Revolution, when a mass movement from below ousted the pro-Syrian government."
Libertarianism and the War: Over at Cato Unbound, it's Cato unhinged, 2 Apr 2007 Related Topics: Libertarianism, War "Libertarianism has a long and glorious tradition, not the least of which is the principled anti-imperialist legacy of Leonard Read, Frank Chodorov, Murray Rothbard, and a long list of others. It is due to the durability of this tradition, which Doherty celebrates in his book, that libertarians have every reason to face the future with growing confidence."
North Korea's Nukes: Why Now?, 11 Oct 2006 Related Topics: Korea, North, South Korea "When longtime 'Glorious Leader' Kim Il-Sung died, there was, at first, some question as to who would succeed him: the father had made his intention clear that his son was to take the helm, but this was by no means foreordained – there was competition for the job, coming from the military and the various factions within the Workers Party of Korea, the one-party dictatorship that has ruled North Korea since the end of World War II."
Our Terrorism, and Theirs: Liberal apologetics for American atrocities, 5 Jun 2006 Related Topics: Iraq War (2003), Haditha Massacre "... all meaningful moral and legal restrictions on American behavior were swept aside with the illegal and immoral invasion and occupation of a country that had never attacked the United States, and represented no threat to us. Having embarked on a war of aggression, it wasn't too long before we began to slide down the slippery slope ..."
Road to Empire: An illegal treaty with Iraq seals our fate, 28 Nov 2007 Related Topics: Imperialism, Iraq Discusses the "Declaration of Principles for a Long-Term Relationship of Cooperation and Friendship Between the Republic of Iraq and the United States of America" "The British routinely point to their imperial past as a source of pride, as do American Anglophiles. The French, the Spanish, and the Italians all revel in the supposed glory of their past conquests: it's only the Americans who disdain the very idea of having an empire, and, indeed, instinctively sense something profoundly un-American about the whole concept of Washington, D.C., as the capital of a global imperium. That's what ordinary Americans think, at any rate ..."
Ron Paul's Goldwater Moment: He's a Republican, he's antiwar - and the Establishment is deathly afraid of him, 11 May 2007 Related Topics: Ron Paul, Republican Party Critiques Washington-centric "conventional wisdom" about Ron Paul's presidential candidacy "Rep. Paul's cause, however, is not exactly a return to the Republican party of Barry Goldwater: he is a true paleo-Republican in that he wants to go all the way back to the conservatism of Robert A. Taft. Here is a ten-term congressman from Texas who remembers what the Republican party used to stand for ..."
Ron Versus the Huckster: Antiwar Republican sets the terms of GOP debate, 7 Sep 2007 Related Topic: Ron Paul Analyzes Ron Paul's response to Chris Wallace's questions on the Iraq invasion and Paul's exchange with Gov. Huckabee, at the 5 Sep 2007 Republican presidential debate "A great deal of Paul's growing appeal as a candidate lies in his apparent inability to emulate the bromidic grammar-challenged phrases that pass for stirring political rhetoric these days. Instead, he cuts to the chase with a few razor-sharp sentences, and his answer to Wallace did not disappoint his fans ..."
Somalia: US Foreign Policy and Gangsterism: Why the US supports the warlords, 29 Dec 2006 Related Topics: Somalia, Ethiopia "... in the new millennium, we have tossed aside humanitarian concerns in favor of the ruthless pursuit of 'terrorists,' real or imagined. The former 'warlords' hunted by U.S. troops and blamed for Somalia's shocking degeneration into pure chaos are now aided and abetted by the Americans and their Ethiopian cohorts."
The Coming War With Iran: Is it inevitable? , 26 Mar 2007 Related Topic: Iran "The timing of the recent incident in which 15 British sailors were arrested by Iran at the mouth of the Shatt al-Arab waterway for purportedly entering Iranian waters couldn't have been more provocative if it had been planned that way. ... Add it all up, and there seems little doubt as to who carried out what seems like a brazen provocation."
The GOP Purge: The War Party can't win the war in Iraq, so they're taking it out on the GOP, 22 Oct 2007 Related Topic: The Club for Growth, Inc. Describes efforts by some Republican partisans to unseat GOP incumbents who oppose the Iraq invasion, such as Walter B. Jones of North Carolina "The Club purports to be for 'limited government' and 'economic freedom,' ... I've even heard the Club described as 'libertarian' – but this use of its resources as a battering ram against the real libertarian Republicans, such as Walter Jones, shows what these guys are really up to, which is to serve as the neocons' water boys."
The GOP, RIP: They're on the way out — and good riddance, 8 Sep 2006 Related Topics: Republican Party, Militarism "For a good 75 years, the Republican Party has been the party of conservatism, the anointed vehicle for the hopes and dreams of those who believe in limited government and seek to preserve the legacy of the Founding Fathers. No more. It hasn't been true for quite a while, but at least the Republicans were rhetorically committed to conservative principles right up until the second Bush presidency."
The Mugging of Murtha: Congressional Democrats betray the antiwar movement, 17 Nov 2006 Related Topics: Democratic Party, Politicians "... nothing would be better if we could hand the job over to the newly installed Democratic Congress and relax as they extricate us from the Iraqi quagmire. Yet that clearly is not happening: instead, the Democrats, content with purely symbolic measures, are abstaining when it comes to Iraq ..."
The Real 'Existential Threat': War with Iran augurs a global conflict, 30 Mar 2007 Related Topics: War, Democratic Party, Iran "The coming war with Iran will not end until the entire region is aflame – with the fire spreading to three continents, and beyond. Is this the price the world is willing to pay to put an end to the 'existential threat' to Israel? Or will our rulers pause, before plunging into an abyss, to ask: what about the existential threat to the rest of the world?"
The Secret of Pearl Harbor: FDR's Role Exposed — in 1944, 25 May 2001 Related Topic: John T. Flynn "John T. Flynn was one of the first to stand up to the war hysteria, defy the atmosphere of political intimidation, and start asking questions. ... He wrote two scathing pamphlets ... that raised the question for the first time: did FDR have advance warning of the Pearl Harbor catastrophe? "
The Urge to 'Surge': It has to be resisted, 15 Dec 2006 Related Topic: Imperialism "We are learning just how costly imperial ambitions can be: empires, after all, don't come cheap. And then there are the nonmaterial costs: the corruption of politics and of the spirit. ... the political dynamics here in America give life to the empire-building impulse, in spite of the growing national distaste for foreign wars."
Who Lost Iraq?: Neocons run for cover , 13 Nov 2006 Related Topic: Iraq War (2003) "The U.S. occupation is being defeated by objective circumstances, i.e., the near-complete absence of support from the Iraqi people, and not by the exigencies of American politics. ... I contend that these results were eminently foreseeable, that in fact they were foreseen by the very policymakers who urged us on to war."
Why We Fight: Go see the movie, 1 Feb 2006 Related Topics: Why We Fight, Militarism, Military Industrial Complex "One of the best features ... is that it gives the viewer a sense of historical perspective ... in a visually dramatic manner. ... The question 'What are we fighting for?' is asked throughout ... and the answer, by the end, is all too horrifically apparent, but on the way there we are treated to an entire panoply of American opinion."
Interviews
Justin Raimondo Interview, by Scott Horton, The Weekend Interview Show with Scott Horton Three audio interviews: 30 Apr 2005, 6 Jun 2005 and 20 Oct 2005
Books Authored
An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard, 2000 Related Topic: Murray N. Rothbard
