The US government’s 116-year-old obsession with controlling Cuba has suddenly manifested itself again. Yesterday, the Associated Press, based on secret records that it obtained, reported that USAID, the federal agency that distributes billions of dollars in...
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The US Government Should Butt Out of Venezuela
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
In an op-ed in the New York Times this week , Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro calls for peace in Venezuela. The socialist president has been besieged by demonstrations in which several protestors have been killed. The protesters focus on horrendous economic...
Non-Intervention is Non-Negotiable!
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
In an article at PJMedia.com, writer Keith Farrell suggests that libertarians should support foreign interventionism and specifically takes The Future of Freedom Foundation and LewRockwell.com to task for opposing foreign interventionism. Acknowledging that some U.S....
Ukraine and the Deferential Press
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
One of the distinguishing characteristics between libertarian commentators and the mainstream statist press is, once again, on display in the latest crisis, this one between President Obama and Russian President Putin. You see the standard knee-jerk rally to the...
Drug Warriors Just Don’t Get It
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
U.S. Marine Corps General John F. Kelly, commanding general of the U.S. Southern Command, just doesn’t get it. Testifying before Congress, he lamented the movement toward legalizing drugs here in the United States. He suggested that Latin American officials, who have...
Disband NATO!
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
In a recent New York Times op-ed, John McCain, the man who hoped to be president, said that Russia’s invasion of Crimea has nothing to do with NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Oh? Well, now, let’s see how McCain would be responding if the shoe were...
Pledging American Lives in the Defense of NATO
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Notwithstanding its recent decision to lift its debt ceiling once again to enable it to add to its ever-growing mountain of debt, the US government has now issued a new pledge, this one being as a guarantor of a $1 billion loan to the new government of Ukraine....
Ukraine and The US National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
At the end of the Cold War, the American people had a grand opportunity, one that entailed the dismantling of the national-security state apparatus that had been grafted onto our governmental system after the end of World War II. It would have made sense, given that...
Russia Reminds Us of Us
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
US officials and the mainstream press are aflame with outrage and indignation over Russia’s invasion of Crimea. If only they would feel the same degree of outrage and indignation over what the US national security state, which was grafted onto our governmental system...
On Cuba, The Times Just Might Be A’Changin’
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The New York Times is reporting that most Americans, including a majority in Florida, favor normalizing relations with Cuba, which would mean a lifting of cruel and brutal economic embargo that the U.S. government has been enforcing against the Cuban people for more...
Nice Job, Conservatives
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
When Barack Obama was elected president, the chickens came home to roost above the sordid nest that conservatives made for us after the 9/11 attacks. It was after those attacks that conservatives, quivering and quaking in their shoes over the thought that the...
Morality versus the National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
One of the horrible consequences of the national-security state apparatus that was grafted onto America’s governmental system is how it has oftentimes placed Americans in the position of choosing between morality and obedience to the law. Just this week, we have been...
The National-Security State’s Dangerous China Taunt
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 28, 2013 | Featured Articles
It didn’t take long for the U.S. national-security state’s “pivot” toward Asia, after its disastrous 12-year foray into the Middle East, to produce a new crisis for Americans. In response to China’s decision to implement a new air zone involving a long territorial...
Terrorism and the Bill of Rights
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 22, 2013 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of the Boston bombings last spring, GOP Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham and others called on Barack Obama to treat the surviving suspect in the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as an “enemy combatant” rather than as a criminal defendant. The episode...
Veterans Day and Foreign Interventionism
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 19, 2013 | Featured Articles
Commemorating Veterans Day, people honored Americans who have served in the U.S. military, especially those who have fought and died in America’s foreign wars. In doing so, however, it’s easy to forget the fact that what the soldiers fought for and died for in those...
The Fourth Branch of Government
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 10, 2013 | Featured Articles
One of the most interesting aspects of President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address in 1960 was his warning to the American people regarding the danger that America’s military-industrial complex posed to our democratic processes. Eisenhower didn’t make it clear whether he...
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