Ever since the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, it has been an article of faith that Americans should thank the troops for their service in those two countries. Yet, with the exception of libertarians and few leftists, the fact is that during the two decades of...
Jacob G. Hornberger
What Exactly Is Trump’s Impeachable Offense?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 2, 2019 | Featured Articles
I confess that I still don’t get what exactly is going to be the particular offense for which President Trump is going to be impeached. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m all in favor of impeaching Trump and removing him from office, but only for grave crimes, such as...
Foreign Aid for Dictators
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Notice something important about the hoopla regarding President’s Trump withholding of US foreign aid to Ukraine while he was requesting Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden for possible corruption: Nobody in Washington, D.C., or...
From the Anti-Russia Brouhaha to the Ukraine Brouhaha
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 26, 2019 | Featured Articles
Since he became president, Donald Trump has killed thousands of people in Afghanistan and the Middle East in wars that are illegal under our form of government, given that he has never secured the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war to wage such...
The Pentagon’s Upcoming Kangaroo Show Trial in Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
After 18 years, there is a possibility that the Pentagon is finally going to permit a “trial” of five men who are accused of conspiracy to commit the 9/11 attacks. If so, the proceedings will prove what a charade the Pentagon’s entire “judicial system” at Guantanamo...
Spending on Defense Is One Great Big Lie
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 23, 2019 | Featured Articles
Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson is worried. He thinks that maybe — just maybe — the US government is not spending enough on defense. In a column entitled, “Here’s Why We Could Be Under-Spending on Defense,” Samuelson has come up with a complicated formula...
End Foreign Aid to Israel and Everyone Else
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured Articles
Democratic Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are calling on the US Congress to reevaluate US foreign aid to the Israeli government. Their reason? Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, denied entry into Israel for the two of them, owing to their public...
Give Guantanamo Back to Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 7, 2019 | Featured Articles
The US Empire, which controls much of the world through hundreds of military bases in foreign countries, through foreign regimes run by domestic US puppets, and through foreign dependency on US foreign aid, got its start in 1898 during the Spanish American War. It was...
Gun Violence in California
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 30, 2019 | Featured Articles
Upon hearing that a man dressed in a military-style outfit was shooting people with an assault rifle at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California on Sunday, I imagine that there were at least some Californians saying to themselves, “That’s impossible. It’s illegal in...
Ruler of the World
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 24, 2019 | Featured Articles
Recently released secret documents from Chinese company Huawei provide insights into how the US Empire rules the world. According to the Washington Post, the documents reveal that Huawei secretly helped North Korea “build and maintain the country’s commercial wireless...
Hating America After 9/11
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured Articles
Listening to President Trump accuse Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of supporting al-Qaeda reminds me of how conservatives behaved toward libertarians who dared talk about motive immediately after the 9/11 attacks. At the time of those attacks, some of us...
Pompeo’s Big Lie on Iran
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
In a tiff over whether Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his delegation would be permitted to enter the United States as part of a meeting of the United Nations and over whether they would be free to travel freely around New York City, US Secretary of...
Americans Should Adopt Unilateral Free Trade
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Given the ongoing destruction of liberty and prosperity from President Trump’s trade wars, tariffs, sanctions, and embargoes, it’s time to think at a higher level, one that goes beyond mere criticism of Trump’s trade antics. It’s time to think in terms of individual...
Trump Reminds Us That America is a Military Nation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 8, 2019 | Featured Articles
President Trump is being criticized for surrounding himself with tanks, armored vehicles, flyovers, and generals and admirals during his Fourth of July celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. Critics say that it was unseemly for the president to be showing off the...
More US Dictatorship Against Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 12, 2019 | Featured Articles
Lamenting dictatorship in Cuba, the US government has decided to tighten restrictions on the freedom of Americans to travel to Cuba. Never mind that the restrictions were not enacted by Congress and signed into law by President Trump. When it comes to fighting...
Repeal the Espionage Act
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 10, 2019 | Featured Articles
World War I is the gift that just keeps on giving. Although the US government’s intervention into this senseless, immoral, and destructive war occurred 100 years ago, the adverse effects of the war continue to besiege our nation. Among the most notable examples is the...
The Drug War Is Totally Idiotic
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 31, 2019 | Featured Articles
Pardon me for being blunt, but it would be difficult to find anything more idiotic than the war on drugs, an ongoing federal program that has been enacted and enforced by both Republicans and Democrats for decades. The program is sheer idiocy in that its supporters...
Impeach Trump But Only for the Right Reason
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 21, 2019 | Featured Articles
Notwithstanding the fact that their Special Counsel Robert Mueller, after a long detailed investigation, found no evidence that President Trump illegally conspired with Russian officials in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Democrats are still hell bent on...
Iraq Déjà Vu with Iran
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles
Given US National-Security Advisor John Bolton’s war-provoking antics with Iran, I’m getting that déjà vu feeling with how President George W. Bush and his team of interventionists took the US to war with Iraq. Of course, the first question that naturally arises is:...
The World’s Dictatress
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 13, 2019 | Featured Articles
In his Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams stated that if America were ever to abandon its founding foreign policy of non-interventionism, she would inevitably become the world’s “dictatress” and begin behaving...
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