Ever since the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World War II, America has lived under a system of ongoing, never-ending, perpetual foreign-policy crises. That’s not a coincidence. The...
Jacob G. Hornberger
US Audacity on Brittney Griner
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
Only a person who is willfully blind cannot see that the US position on the Brittney Griner case is driven not by some compassionate concern for her welfare but rather by the extreme anti-Russia animus that has afflicted US officials for more than 75 years. ...
What’s So Great About Democracy?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
At the recent Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, President Biden refused to permit Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua to attend because they aren’t democracies. As everyone knows, for the past several decades, the US government has made democracy its shibboleth. It’s...
Assange Should Put the Pentagon and the CIA on Trial
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 20, 2022 | Featured Articles
With the recent decision by British Home Secretary Priti Patel to approve the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States, it is now a virtual certainty that Assange will soon be brought to the US for trial. Let’s hope that he uses the opportunity to put the...
An Endless Stream of Scary Official Enemies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 17, 2022 | Featured Articles
Any government that is a national-security state needs big official enemies — scary ones, ones that will cause the citizenry to continue supporting not only the continued existence of a national-security state form of government but also ever-growing budgets for it...
Bribe Money for Ukrainian Officials?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 15, 2022 | Featured Articles
In my blog post of May 18, 2022, I raised the possibility that the $40 billion aid package that Congress quickly approved for Ukraine was going to be used, at least in part, to pay multimillion dollar bribes to Ukrainian officials. After all, why else would the...
What If the US Had Invaded Ukraine?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
Let’s engage in a thought experiment. Suppose that Ukraine was headed by a pro-Russia regime. After repeated failed attempts at assassination by the CIA, the Pentagon finally decides to invade Ukraine for the purpose of bringing about regime change — i.e., ousting the...
Seven Days in May
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed entitled, “Why Does the Pentagon Give a Helping Hand to Films Like ‘Top Gun’?” by Roger Stahl, a communication studies professor at the University of Georgia and director of the documentary film “Theaters of War: How...
Biden’s Regime-Change Lie
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Biden’s denial that the US government is committed to regime-change in Russia is a lie. Ever since its inception, the core mission of the US national-security establishment, specifically the Pentagon and the CIA, has been regime change. The goal has always...
Sanctions Kill Innocent People and Also Destroy Our Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
While American statists are cheering the US government’s sanctions on Russia, 71-year-old John Hanick shows us how the cheers are also for the destruction of the rights and liberties of the American people. That’s because US officials have just charged Hanick, who is...
Winner and Losers in the Ukraine Crisis
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 9, 2022 | Featured Articles
Let’s examine winners and losers in the Ukraine crisis. Let’s start with the losers. The biggest loser are the people of Ukraine. They are being killed, injured, and maimed by the Russian invasion of their country. The invasion is also destroying their homes,...
Ukraine: Why the Pentagon and the CIA Hate Julian Assange
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
As most everyone knows, the hatred that US officials have for Julian Assange has no bounds. For years, they have relentlessly and obsessively done everything they can to destroy, isolate, persecute, prosecute, incarcerate, torture, and hound the guy to death. They...
The Cold War Racket Never Ended for the US
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
There is something important to recognize about the Cold War: It was not ended by the US government. Instead, it was ended by the Soviet Union. If it had been up to the US national-security establishment, the Cold War would have gone on forever because it is the best...
A Time for Introspection
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
With the crisis over Ukraine getting bigger by the day, this would be a good time for the American people to engage in some serious introspection, especially given the recent withdrawal of US forces from their forever deadly and destructive war in Afghanistan. One...
January 6 and the Enabling Act
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
Ever since the January 6 protests got out of control, the mainstream press and the Democrat Party establishment have done everything they can to milk it for all its worth. The one-year anniversary of that event continues that trend. Just look at the front pages of the...
Using Assange to Send a Three-Part Message
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
When Julian Assange and Wikileaks disclosed evidence of dark-side activity, including war crimes, on the part of the US national-security establishment, US officials felt they had no choice but to use Assange to send a three-part message. The first message is to...
The Omnipotent Power of the Pentagon
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
No matter how you feel about the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex, you can’t help but be impressed at how they are able to successfully plunder and loot American taxpayers, no matter how much needless death, suffering, and destruction they wreak on people...
Will El Chapo’s Wife’s 3-Year Sentence Win the Drug War?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
US District Judge Rudolph Contreras has just sentenced Emma Coronel Aispuro to three years in jail. She’s the wife of noted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is serving a life sentence in a US federal penitentiary. She recently pled guilty to helping...
A ‘Deadly Attack’ on the Capitol?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, I was listening to a classical-music station when NPR came on with the news. Addressing the controversy surrounding former President Trump’s efforts to keep secret his records relating to the January 6 protests at the Capitol, the NPR reporter referred to...
Interventionists Ignore 9/11 Motive to Our Detriment
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, some interventionists are ignoring the most important factor in the Afghanistan debacle: what motivated the terrorists to commit the 9/11 attacks. Or, even worse, some interventionists continue to buy into the...
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