Justin Raimondo

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Justin Raimondo at an anti-war demonstration (2007)

Justin Raimondo (born November 18, 1951 - June 27, 2019 in Sebastopol , United States ) was an American journalist and commentator . He was the founder and editor-in-chief of Antiwar.com and a correspondent for The American Conservative magazine .

Life

Raimondo studied Ayn Rand's philosophy in the 1960s and eventually joined the conservative youth organization Young Americans for Freedom . In the 1970s he became active in the Libertarian Party . There he was noticed by the party's thought leader Murray Rothbard when he and Eric Garris founded the Libertarian Radical Caucus . In 1982 he ran against the Democrat Phillip Burton and the Republican Milton Marks in the election for a seat in the United States House of Representatives . Raimondo received 14% of the vote. After a break in the Libertarian Party in 1983, he joined the Republicans. There he began to organize the libertarian wing of the Libertarian Republican Organizing Committee . From 1989 he began then, together with Murray Rothbard in paläokonservativ aligned John Randolph Club to operate pacifist. In 1993 he stood against Phillip Burton's successor in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi , in the congressional elections in the eighth constituency of California . Pelosi received 85% of the vote, Raimondo 13%. In the presidential elections in 1992 , 1996 and 2000 he supported Pat Buchanan , either as a Republican candidate or a candidate for the Reform Party . The support of Buchanan by Raimondo, who openly professed his homosexuality, attracted considerable media attention because of this rare combination. In 1995 he and Rothbard founded antiwar.com to express their opposition to US intervention in the Bosnian war . Raimondo later also expressed himself critical of the Iraq war under George W. Bush and the subsequent occupation of Iraq . In the 2004 presidential elections , Justin Raimondo supported the Green candidate , Ralph Nader , and in the 2008 elections he stood up for Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich , although he had a critical relationship with these candidates.

Raimondo was diagnosed with lung cancer in October 2017 and died as a result on June 27, 2019 at his home in Sebastopol, California .

Publications

  • Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement , Center for Libertarian Studies (1993) and Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2008), ISBN 978-1-933859-60-6 .
  • Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against US Intervention in the Balkans (AFPAC, 1996).
  • An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard , Prometheus Books, 2000, ISBN 1-57392-809-7 .
  • The Terror Enigma: 9/11 And the Israeli Connection , iUniverse, 2003, ISBN 0-595-29682-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Metro of March 28, 1996 (English).
  2. ↑ Justin Raimondo, RIP (1951–2019) , press release dated June 27, 2019 on the Antiwar.com website, accessed the same day. (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Raimondo, Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and commentator
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1951
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2019
Place of death Sebastopol (California) , United States