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Justin Raimondo
Justin Raimondo
BornDennis Raimondo
(1951-11-18) November 18, 1951 (age 73)
White Plains, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Journalist, author, writer
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Justin Raimondo (born Dennis Raimondo; November 18, 1951) is an American author and the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He describes himself as a "conservative-paleo-libertarian." Raimondo is also a conspiracy theorist and a proponent of 9/11 Truth; he argues that the "official 9/11 narrative doesn't make sense" and speculates that Israel had advance knowledge of the attack.

Career and unsuccessful political campaigns

With Eric Garris, Raimondo organized the "Radical Caucus", which brought them to the attention of the libertarian theorist Murray Rothbard. In 1983, after a schism in the Libertarian Party, Raimondo left 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, paleoconservative John Randolph Club. In 1980, Raimondo ran for public office for the first time. Running as a Libertarian candidate for the 16th district seat in the California State Assembly. Raimondo received 4,730 votes for 7.7% of the vote.

In 1982, Raimondo ran for California's 5th district seat in the United States House of Representatives as a Libertarian, against Democratic incumbent Phillip Burton and Republican challenger Milton Marks. He received 14.2% of the vote. In the 1996 U.S. congressional elections, Raimondo ran as a Republican candidate in California's 8th district against Nancy Pelosi. While he championed 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 25,739 votes for 12.39 percent of the vote while Pelosi got 84.34 percent.

During the 1992, 1996, and 2000 presidential elections, Raimondo supported the campaigns of Pat Buchanan, both as a Republican and in the Reform Party. As he is openly gay, his support of the social conservative Buchanan attracted considerable attention.

Major ideas and recurring themes

Raimondo's consistent opposition to all war derives from his libertarian anarchist political principles.

Conspiracy theories about Israel and 9/11

Raimondo argued in a 2003 Antiwar.com column that Israel exerts a dominant force in the formulation of American foreign policy. Raimondo also believes the United States was led into World War II through lies by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and that the US provoked a war with Japan deliberately through economic sanctions. 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." Raimondo has also written that Israeli intelligence operating in the U.S. had advance knowledge of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Bibliography

In addition to his thrice-weekly column for antiwar.com, Raimondo is a regular contributor to The American Conservative and Chronicles magazine. He formerly wrote two columns a month for Taki's Top Drawer, but ceased in 2009.

He is the author of several books:

  • Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993), reissued in 2008 with new introduction by George W. Carey, by Intercollegiate Studies Institute ISBN 978-1-933859-60-6.
  • Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans (AFPAC, 1996).
  • Colin Powell and the Power Elite (America First Books, 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

  1. http://www.biographicon.com/view/jgmdu/Justin_Raimondo – 0.00kb
  2. ^ http://www.joincalifornia.com/candidate/2787
  3. Justin Raimondo, Commissar Frum: Former Presidential speechwriter smears antiwar conservatives, Antiwar.com, March 22, 2003.
  4. Jeff Deist (July 3, 2014). "Justin Raimondo: Against the War Machine" (MP3). Mises Institute. Retrieved July 19, 2014.
  5. Justin Raimondo (September 11, 2009). "9/11: Our Truth, and Theirs." Antiwar.com
  6. http://www.joincalifornia.com/election/1980-11-04
  7. http://www.joincalifornia.com/election/1982-11-02
  8. Raimondo for Congress: Campaign News and Statements
  9. http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1996/96Stat.htm#5
  10. 1996 U.S. congressional election information
  11. Anderson, Lessley (December 10, 2003), "Intrepid Antiwarriors of the Libertarian Right Stake Their Rightful Claim to Power", SF Weekly, retrieved October 16, 2007
  12. Pat Buchanan
  13. Israel Is the Problem, by Justin Raimondo
  14. YASUKUNI BROUHAHA- by Justin Raimondo
  15. Hitchens, Christopher. Blood for No Oil!, The Atlantic (May 2006)
  16. Smearing Fitzgerald- by Justin Raimondo
  17. The Truth, At Last

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