Justin Raimondo (born Dennis Raimondo^[1] on November 18, 1951^{[citation needed]}) is a libertarian/paleoconservative author and the editorial director of the website Antiwar.com. November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... This article is about the individualist philosophy, which is supportive of private property. ... The term paleoconservative (sometimes shortened to paleo or paleocon when the context is clear) refers to an American branch of conservative Old Right thought that is frequently at odds with the current of conservative thought as espoused by the Republican Party elite. ... Antiwar. ...

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Background

During the 1960s, Raimondo took a brief interest in the philosophy of Ayn Rand before joining Young Americans for Freedom. In the 1970s, he became active in the Libertarian Party. With Eric Garris, he organized a "Radical Caucus", which brought Raimondo and Garris to the attention of the influential libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard. (The caucus was revived in 2004 as the Rothbard Caucus.) In 1983, after a schism in the party, Raimondo left the Libertarian Party and attempted to organize a libertarian faction in the Republican Party known as the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee. After 1989, Raimondo again began working with Rothbard in the anti-war John Randolph Club. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... Ayn Rand (IPA: , February 2 [O.S. January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982), born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum (Russian: ), was a Russian-born American novelist and philosopher,[1] best known for developing Objectivism and for writing the novels We the Living, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged and the novella Anthem. ... Official seal of Young Americans for Freedom. ... The Libertarian Party is a United States political party created in 1971. ... Eric Garris (born December 1953) is an activist in the libertarian movement in the United States, best known as the founding webmaster of two prominent libtertarian websites. ... Murray Newton Rothbard (March 2, 1926 – January 7, 1995) was a highly influential American economist, historian and natural law theorist belonging to the Austrian School of Economics who helped define modern libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism. ... The Rothbard Caucus is a caucus within the United States Libertarian Party. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Republican Party, often called the GOP (for Grand Old Party, although one early citation described it as the Gallant Old Party) [1], is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... The John Randolph Club (JRC) is a paleoconservative social and political organization founded in the 1980s and operated by the Rockford Institute with chapters throughout the United States. ...

Recent Activities

In the 1996 U.S. congressional elections, Raimondo ran as a Republican candidate in California's 8th district against Nancy Pelosi. While championing conservative and libertarian causes in general, the main emphasis of his campaign was his opposition to the deployment of U.S. troops in the Balkans and, in particular, Pelosi's vote to that effect. Raimondo received 13% of the vote while Pelosi got 85%.^[3] 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Nancy Patricia DAlesandro Pelosi (born March 26, 1940) is currently the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and has set several firsts for that position. ...

During the 1992, 1996, and 2000 presidential elections, Raimondo supported the campaigns of Pat Buchanan, both as a Republican and in the Reform Party. Being an openly gay man, his support of the social conservative Buchanan attracted considerable attention ^[4]. In 1995, during the Clinton administration's military interventions into the Bosnian war, Raimondo and Garris launched Antiwar.com to provide a platform for their opposition. The site has continued to publish on a daily basis. Raimondo has been a vocal critic of the invasion of Iraq and the ongoing occupation. In 2004, he supported Ralph Nader for President, and explained his reason for this in an article published in The American Conservative. Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Presidential electoral votes by state. ... Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938) is an American politician, author, syndicated columnist, and broadcaster. ... The Reform Party of the United States of America (abbreviated Reform Party USA or RPUSA) is a political party in the United States, founded by Ross Perot in 1995 under the belief that Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics--as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital... Homosexuality refers to sexual interaction and / or romantic attraction between individuals of the same sex. ... Social conservatism is a belief in traditional morality and social mores and the desire to preserve these in present day society, often through civil law or regulation. ... William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III[1] on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ... See: Intervention (counseling) - an orchestrated attempt by family and friends to get a family member to get help for addiction or other similar problem. ... This is a history of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... Combatants Invading Forces: United States United Kingdom Australia Poland Denmark Occupation forces. ... Occupation zones in Iraq as of September 2003 The post-invasion period in Iraq followed the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition led by the United States, which overthrew the Baath Party government of Saddam Hussein. ... Presidential election results map. ... Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934), is an American attorney and political activist. ... The American Conservative (TAC) is a biweekly magazine founded by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki Theodoracopulos, and edited by McConnell. ...

Major ideas and recurring themes

Several themes recur regularly in Raimondo's writing, mostly derived from his libertarian ideological roots. He strongly opposes the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He believes that initiatory war is wrong, immoral, and counterproductive, that a small group of neoconservatives in both major American political parties has been responsible for "lying us into war" repeatedly, and that the ideals of the Old Right conservative movement have been consistently sold out since around the time of the Vietnam war, when neoconservatives united with religious conservatives to pursue an expansive foreign policy, often in support of the country of Israel. This article is about the individualist philosophy, which is supportive of private property. ... Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered new forms of conservatism. ... Political parties Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain political power within a government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns. ... The Old Right refers to separate political groups in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... Combatants Republic of Vietnam United States Republic of Korea Thailand Australia New Zealand The Philippines National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam People’s Republic of China Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea Strength US 1,000,000 South Korea 300,000 Australia 48,000... Neoconservatism describes several distinct political ideologies which are considered new forms of conservatism. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A countrys foreign policy is a set of political goals that seeks to outline how that particular country will interact with other countries of the world and, to a lesser extent, non-state actors. ...

Long before John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt argued that Israel exerts a dominant force in the formulation of American foreign policy (see The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy), Raimondo was essentially saying the same thing. [1] Raimondo also believes the United States was led into World War II through lies by FDR and that the US provoked a war with Japan deliberately through economic sanctions. [2] Raimondo's views have been compared by Christopher Hitchens to those of Charles Lindbergh, whom Raimondo describes as an "American hero sprung from the heartland." [3] However, it seems clear that Raimondo does not endorse Lindbergh's infamous Des Moines speech in which the famous aviator decried Jewish influence on the media (see Raimondo's book, Reclaiming the American Right, pages 106, 137, 227). Raimondo has also written repeatedly about the Israeli Art Student conspiracy and he has written that elements of Israeli intelligence operating in the U.S. had advance knowledge of the 9/11 attacks. [4] He also claimed that the anthrax attacks were orchestrated by a crazy genius evil Jewish scientist who wanted to draw the US into war on Iraq. [5] John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. ... Stephen Martin Walt (born July 2, 1955) is a professor of international affairs at Harvard Universitys John F. Kennedy School of Government. ... The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy[1] (a condensed version used the title The Israel Lobby[2]) is a controversial working paper written by John Mearsheimer, political science professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, academic dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... FDR may refer to: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - The 32nd President of the United States, Flight data recorder - device used to record aircraft and pilot behavior in order to analyze accidents (usually called black boxes by the news media). ... For Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Junior, see Lindbergh kidnapping. ... The date that commonly refers to the attacks on United States citizens on September 11, 2001 (see the September 11, 2001 Attacks). ...

Writing style

Raimondo's writing style might be characterized as caustic, detail-oriented, and sometimes angry or sarcastic. His typical "Behind the Headlines" column covers foreign policy, and he is not above enjoying the downfall of his adversaries or attacking other Internet pundits, with some of his favorite targets being Christopher Hitchens, William Kristol, Jonah Goldberg, David Frum, and Andrew Sullivan. More often than not, though, his targets of attack are government figures and programs. He was also one of the first Internet pundits to make maximum use of the linkability of the web, filling each article with extensive hyperlinks to source material, punditry, his own articles, and statistics he believes support his claims. He has compared critics who claimed the accidental killings at Gaza beach weren't deliberate to Holocaust deniers who claimed the Holocaust was a hoax.[6] Look up caustic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth, England) is a British-born American author, journalist and literary critic. ... William Bill Kristol (born December 23, 1952 in New York City) is an American conservative pundit, inspired in part by the ideas of Leo Strauss. ... Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969), is an American conservative commentator. ... David J. Frum (born 1960) is a Canadian-American former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, and the author of the first insider book about the Bush presidency. ... Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10, 1963) is a conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his intimate and insightful style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. ... In computing, hypertext is a user interface paradigm for displaying documents which, according to an early definition (Nelson 1970), branch or perform on request. ... WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (or the Web) is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents that runs over the Internet. ... A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. ... Articles with similar titles include the Spanish name Garza. ... Richard Harwoods Did Six Million Really Die? Holocaust denial refers to the claims of a small number of amateur historians who argue that the Holocaust is either exaggerated or completely falsified. ... ...

Bibliography

In addition to to his thrice-weekly column for antiwar.com, he is a regular contributor to The American Conservative and Chronicles magazine. Raimondo also writes two columns a month for Taki's Top Drawer.

He is the the author of several books:

• Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993)

• Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans (AFPAC, 1996)

• An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard, Prometheus Books, July 2000, ISBN 1-57392-809-7.

• The Terror Enigma: 9/11 And the Israeli Connection, iUniverse, November 2003, ISBN 0-595-29682-3.

References

External links

• Raimondo's Online Work at AntiWar.com
• Raimondo's Online Work at TakiMag.com