It is supremely ironic. To respond to the dictatorial mindset and policies of Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro, President Trump has adopted his own dictatorial mindset and policies. Trump obviously believes that the way to fight foreign dictatorship is by adopting...
Jacob G. Hornberger
The US Government’s Love of Foreign Dictatorships
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 31, 2019 | Featured Articles
Lest anyone be tempted to believe that President Trump and other US interventionists are intervening in Venezuela because of some purported concern for the Venezuelan people, let’s examining just a few examples that will bring a dose of reality to the situation. This...
US Policy Toward Cuba Attacked America’s Freedom and Values
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
The decades-long US interventionist policy against Cuba failed to achieve its goal of removing Fidel Castro from power and replacing him with a pro-US regime, similar to the pro-US Batista regime that the Cuban revolution ousted from power in 1959. More important,...
The Disgrace of Maria Butina’s Prosecution
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
Some anti-Russianites and Trump critics are saying that the guilty plea by 30-year-old Russian citizen Maria Butina confirms that the Russian government was meddling in the 2016 presidential election. It’s true that Russia might well have been helping Donald Trump,...
Celebrating another Regulatory Conviction in the Anti-Russia Brouhaha
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 11, 2018 | Featured Articles
The mainstream press is tipping its glasses in exultation over the latest regulatory conviction in the anti-Trump, anti-Russia brouhaha. This one comes in form of a upcoming guilty plea by a 28-year-old Russian woman named Maria Butina. Her crime? Failing to register...
Why Can the CIA Assassinate People?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
Given that we have all been born and raised under a regime that has the CIA, hardly anyone questions the power of the CIA to assassinate people. The CIA’s power of assassination has become a deeply established part of American life. Yet, the Constitution, which called...
The Reason for Killing Iranians
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 20, 2018 | Featured Articles
While US sanctions technically permit Iran to import medicines, it is actually just a ruse to make it look like US officials are kind, compassionate, and benevolent. In actuality, the way the sanctions work will mean that the Iranian people will inevitably be deprived...
The Korean War: The Moral Bankruptcy of Interventionism
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 14, 2018 | Featured Articles
An article in Sunday’s New York Times entitled “Remembering the Forgotten War” demonstrates perfectly the moral bankruptcy of the philosophy of foreign interventionism. Calling for the Korean War to become more highly remembered, the author, Hampton Sides, extols some...
Did the Russians Influence My Vote?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
I voted Libertarian yesterday, and the New York Times has me really worried. In an article yesterday entitled “Russians Meddling in the Midterms? Here’s the Data,” the authors, Jonathan Morgan and Ryan Fox, state that while Russian meddling in the midterm election was...
Why Do We Need a National Security State?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 1, 2018 | Featured Articles
Given President Trump’s impulsive decision to suddenly send 5,200 armed US soldiers to the US-Mexico border to prevent a few thousand women and children and others from seeking refugee status in the United States, which foreign citizens are entitled to do under US...
Still Dying for Nothing in Afghanistan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 4, 2018 | Featured Articles
It wasn’t until history class in college that I heard of the Thirty Years War. My immediate reaction was: No way! It just wasn’t possible that a war could last 30 years. Nobody would be that dumb. But given that the US war in Afghanistan has now been going on for 17...
Trump is Right About ‘Flipping’
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
In the wake of the federal criminal conviction of former Trump official Paul Manafort and the guilty plea in federal court of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the mainstream press is singing the praises of special prosecutor (and former FBI Director) Robert Mueller...
Trump Would be Stupid to Talk to Mueller
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 15, 2018 | Featured Articles
The US mainstream press is obviously becoming increasingly anxious about Special Counsel (and former FBI Director) Robert Mueller’s efforts to bring an early end to Donald Trump’s presidency. After all, it has now been 15 months (and millions of taxpayer dollars)...
Silence on US Meddling Abroad
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Among the most fascinating aspects of the brouhaha over supposed Russian meddling in America’s electoral system is the total silence in the US mainstream press about US meddling in the political affairs of other countries. Consider the mass outrage and indignation...
Iran: Another US War of Aggression?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 23, 2018 | Featured Articles
I am getting that Iraq deja vu feeling again, only this time with respect to Iran. You’ll recall the build-up to the US war of aggression against Iraq: WMDs. Mushroom clouds. Charts and graphs. Preventive war. The anti-Iraq propaganda from US officials was...
The Supreme Court’s Deference to the Pentagon
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 29, 2018 | Featured Articles
Imagine a county sheriff that took a suspected drug-law violator into custody more than 10 years ago. Since then, the man has been held in jail without being accorded a trial. The district attorney and the sheriff promise to give the man a trial sometime in the future...
The Emergency Destruction of American Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Emergencies are the time-honored method by which people lose their freedom. That’s because public officials use emergencies as a way to acquire totalitarian powers, under the rationale that they need such powers to keep people “safe.” Of course, officials usually make...
Memorial Day is Based on a Lie
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 28, 2018 | Featured Articles
Today, Memorial Day, Americans across the land will hear the same message: that US soldiers who have died in America’s foreign wars and foreign interventions have done so in the defense of our rights and freedoms. It is a message that will be heard in sporting events,...
Political Gamesmanship at the Olympics
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured Articles
So, why is Vice-president Mike Pence attending the Winter Olympics in South Korea? Is it because he’s a sports fan who just wants to enjoy the quadrennial spectacle of the Olympic games?Unfortunately, no.Pence is going to the games for political purposes. He intends...
America: A Military Nation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 6, 2018 | Featured Articles
Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment...
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