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Antiwar.com is an English-language website containing news and opinion pieces related to wars throughout the world, from a libertarian, anti-interventionist perspective. The site was founded in December of 1995, as a response to the Bosnian war. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation, operating under the auspices of the Randolph Bourne Institute, based in Atherton, California. In previous years it was affiliated with the Center for Libertarian Studies. Prior to that affiliation they were an independent, ad-supported endeavor.
Activities
Personnel include a self proclaimed ]Justin Raimondo (founder and editorial director), Eric Garris (founder and webmaster), Matt Barganier (editor), Jeremy Sapienza (assistant webmaster and senior editor), Alexia Gilmore (executive director), assistant editor Scott Horton, research director Jason Ditz, office manager Michael Austin, and administrator Michael Ewens.
Columnists include Raimondo, Ivan Eland, Praful Bidwai, Ran HaCohen, Nebojsa Malic, Alan Bock, Charles V. Peña, Doug Bandow, David Henderson and Joseph Stromberg. Other notable contributors who write exclusive articles for them include: Michael Scheuer, Aaron Glantz, Gordon Prather, and Jon Basil Utley.
The site carries a variety of opinions, regularly carrying authors ranging from the Old Right to the self proclaimed Progressive Left, from Paul Craig Roberts and Pat Buchanan to unreformed Stalinist Alexander Cockburn, and many in between. The editorial position has been staunchly libertarian with a "big tent" message, arguing for libertarians, paleoconservatives, and the anti-war left to work together in opposition to war.
The site has consistently opposed all U.S. interventionism, from the bombing of Serbia to the present occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
A non partisan article about Antiwar.com
Abowe is a sanitized presentation of Antiwar.com. Here is a non-partisan presentation. provides point of view of ideological and political red-green-brown alliance of anti-democratic and anti-Semitic neo-Nazis, paleoconservative Old Right, Islamists and far Left. The language of publications is shrill, openly demagogic; the site provides very little factual information but is a full of conspiracy theories, like accusations that'Israel had foreknowledge of 9/11. While site claims anti-war position, in fact it is openly supportive of Islamic terrorism against the USA and Israel. The balk of the news is devoted to the military affairs in which the USA and Israel are involved. Among historical figures of the past, the main targets of the site are American presidents who fought against racism, Nazi Germany/Imperial Japan/Fascist Italy or Communist Stalin's totalitarianism; Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman and American ally Winston Churchill. Antiwar.com accuses them in "conspiring" to initiate the wars against their opponents.
The site made an enormous effort to became noticeable by the mainstream left (liberal) media which opposes to so called "neo-conservative" policies of president George W. Bush. After initial attention to the site, the left wing media began to ignore it. Because its want of credibility, Antiwar.com is not cited by the leading mainstream. By the final account its failure is a result of public insignificance of red-green-brown alliance in the USA. Antiwar.com failed to attract talented authors. With exception of Buchanan, no one of site authors is known outside of small circle of peculiar fringe to which any of them belonged but Buchanan, according to a common opinion among American conservatives, is now a spent force, who now turned into kind of buffonish caricature of extreme right, see opinions in major conservative web site Free republic.
Besides members of the site's staff, the authors of Antiwar.com include Raimondo, Ivan Eland, Praful Bidwai, Ran HaCohen, Nebojsa Malic, Alan Bock, Charles V. Peña, Bevin Chu,Joseph Stromberg, Randall (Ismail) Royer, a former employee of the Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR now doing a 20-year federal sentence for Islamist terrorist activities, rightist has beens Paul Craig Roberts and Pat Buchanan, unreformed Stalinist Alexander Cockburn.
External links
- Antiwar.com
- PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer, "Voices of Dissent," May 24 1999
- San Francisco Weekly, "Intrepid Antiwarriors of the Libertarian Right," December 10 2003
- FrontPageMag.com, March 15 2005, Stephen Schwartz, "Justin Raimondo. An American Neo-Fascist"