Early on, Garris saw the potential of the internet to advance his political beliefs. 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.'"