Internet Activism
Early on, Garris saw the potential of the internet to advance freedom and offer hope for humanity’s progress. In 1995, he founded Antiwar.com in response to the Clinton administration’s intervention in Bosnia’s civil war. Founded on Randolph Bourne’s idea that “War is the Health of the State,” Antiwar.com aggregates foreign policy news links from a variety of perspectives to inform the American people and the world about the overseas plans of the American government and serve as a research tool for “‘citizen experts.’”
In 1999, Garris became the webmaster of LewRockwell.com, the webmagazine of libertarian political commentator Lew Rockwell. He is also webmaster for ballot-access.org, a news site published Richard Winger that raises awareness of restrictive ballot access laws
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