One of the most fascinating aspects of living under imperialism is the lexicon that this philosophy brings into existence. It’s called Empire-Speak. Given the complexity of this specialized language, it usually takes people years of education and training to master...
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Tyranny at Home to Fight Tyranny Abroad
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
President Trump has reminded us of how the US government destroyed the liberty of the American people in the name of fighting tyranny abroad. Exercising the same dictatorial method that his predecessors have employed — executive decrees — he has made it illegal again...
Tyranny Over There but Not Over Here
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of the fascinating aspects of tyranny is that people can recognize it when it happens in other countries but are blind about it when it happens at home. The American people, especially the US mainstream press, are a perfect demonstration of this...
Punishing People for Helping Dying Children is Evil Too
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
In my article “The Evil of Killing Children,” I pointed out how the US government, in an attempt to achieve regime change in Iraq, knowingly and intentionally killed hundreds of thousands of innocent children in Iraq.Unfortunately, killing those innocent Iraqi...
Bring the Troops Home, Mr. President
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
Another terrorist attack in London, and more predictable responses from President Trump, British Prime Minister May, other public officials, and the mainstream press. We have to crack down on terrorism. The problem is with extremist Muslims. They hate us for our...
The Troops Don’t Defend Our Freedoms
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
This article was originally published in 2005 on LewRockwell.com. How often do we hear the claim that American troops “defend our freedoms”? The claim is made often by U.S. officials and is echoed far and wide across the land by television commentators, newspaper...
Lying DEA Officials Get a Pass (Just Like Clapper)
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
Why is there one set of criminal laws for the private sector and another set for U.S. officials?The inspectors general for the State Department and the Justice Department have released a report that states that DEA officials lied to Congress about an episode in...
The Russian Obsession Goes Back Decades
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 20, 2017 | Featured Articles
Just consider the accusations that have been leveled at the president: He has betrayed the Constitution, which he swore to uphold. He has committed treason by befriending Russia and other enemies of America. He has subjugated America’s interests to Moscow. He has been...
On That Day Began Lies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Like many other mainstream political commentators, Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum is outraged and indignant over Donald Trump’s public praise and open embrace of foreign dictators who are allied or friendly with the US government. In an op-ed in the Post’s...
Madison Was Right About War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 4, 2017 | Featured Articles
Given that so many Americans continue to express gratitude to the troops for their forever service in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Syria, and elsewhere, it would be worthwhile to revisit the immortal words of James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution: Of...
CIA Director Pompeo Doesn’t Understand the First Amendment
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 27, 2017 | Featured Articles
You would think that by the time a person becomes the Director of the CIA, he would have a correct understanding of the Constitution, which is the founding document of the federal government, which the CIA is part of. This should be especially true when the CIA...
Just Bring the Troops Home
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
One of the most amazing things about US foreign policy is how so many American remain mired in the interventionist paradigm. Case in point: the Middle East. No matter how much a failure US interventionism has been in that part of the world, people simply cannot bring...
Why Are Americans Searched at the Border?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 18, 2017 | Featured Articles
Whenever American citizens travel to another country, they are subjected to intrusive searches at the hands of US officials upon returning to the United States.Why? What’s the justification?Since Americans living today have all been born and raised under this type of...
The Lynching of Lynne Stewart (1939-2017)
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Convicted felon Lynne Stewart passed away on Tuesday. She was a noted criminal defense attorney in New York City who federal officials prosecuted, convicted, and punished for supporting terrorism.It was a bogus charge, one that perfectly reflects the extent to which...
The Futility and Corruption of the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 24, 2017 | Featured Articles
I just finished watching the much-acclaimed series “Narcos” on Netflix. What a fantastic program. And what an excellent depiction of the futility and corruption of the war on drugs.The series is a true-life account of Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug lord who headed up...
Bribes, Catapults, and Corruption Trump Trumps Wall
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
Donald Trump is obviously a smart man. One cannot build up a billion-dollar financial empire without being smart.Unfortunately, however, Trump is not so smart when it comes to some things, like the drug war. He thinks that simply by cracking down in the drug war and...
Trump and Duterte: Birds of a Feather
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles
When it comes to the drug war, the verdict is in: The big, drain-the-swamp, anti-establishment president, Donald Trump, is turning out to be just like all the other mainstream establishment politicians. He made that clear last week in a speech before a group of...
Perpetual Drug War Deja Vu
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
The Justice Department is ecstatic that it finally secured the extradition from Mexico of notorious drug lord Joaquin Guzman Loera, also known as El Chapo. Arraigned in New York City, El Chapo is being charged with running a multibillion dollar drug enterprise, which...
Obama’s Wasted, Deadly, and Destructive Presidency
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured Articles
Eight years ago, President Obama’s administration started with hope and change. Eight years later, we end up with a legacy of nothing but waste, death, and destruction.Libertarians never had any hope, of course, that Barack Obama would dismantle any aspect of the...
Will the CIA Retaliate Against Trump?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 11, 2017 | Featured Articles
In a truly remarkable bit of honesty and candor regarding the U.S. national-security establishment, new Senate minority leader Charles Schumer has accused President-elect Trump of “being really dumb.”Was Schumer referring to Trump’s ideology, philosophy, or knowledge...
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