The U.S. Code provides that a murder of a foreigner by an American citizen on the high seas is a federal criminal offense. The pertinent sections are 18 U.S.C. Section 1111 (Murder) and 18 U.S.C. Section 7 (Special Maritime and Territorial Jurisdiction of the United...
Jacob G. Hornberger

The Benefit of the Drug War to Donald Trump
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
From the standpoint of many US officials, one can easily see why they find the drug war advantageous. Like the drug lords and drug cartels, there is a huge drug-war federal bureaucracy that has grown dependent on the drug war. There are, for example, generous salaries...

The Fear-Mongering Rackets of the US National-Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
The end of the Cold War in 1989 provided a fantastic opportunity for a major reset in relations between the American people and the people of Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and other nations that US officials had long designated as official enemies of the...

Trump’s Drug-War Murders in the Caribbean
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
Apparently taking a page out of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug-war playbook, President Trump is taking credit for the intentional military killings of eleven people in international waters near Venezuela. Duterte is on trial right now before the...

Get Ready for a Big Foreign Crisis
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
With President Trump’s MAGA supporters in full rebellion over his refusal to release all the records relating to the Jeffrey Epstein pedophilia investigation, get ready for a big crisis in foreign affairs designed to distract attention from the Epstein scandal. It...

What Freedom of Speech?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 4, 2025 | Featured Articles
In a totalitarian or authoritarian dictatorship, government officials do not need the support of the citizenry to exterminate freedom of speech. That’s because there are no elections to worry about. The regime simply starts having its military and paramilitary goons...
Vance Unwittingly Reminds Us of the Jose Padilla Case
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 27, 2025 | Featured Articles
In mocking California Senator Alex Padilla by referring to him as “Jose,” Vice President Vance has unwittingly reminded us of the Jose Padilla case. The Padilla case showed us how government officials use “crises” to destroy the civil liberties of the people. The 9/11...
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran(q)
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 25, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump says it was necessary for him to order US pilots to bomb Iran to prevent that nation’s government from building a nuclear bomb. Wait a minute. Something is coming to me. Just give me a moment. It’s coming into my mind. Oh, yes, I remember: “WMDs! WMDs,...
Today Is the Anniversary of JFK’s Declaration of War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
June 10, is the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s declaration of war against the national-security branch of the U.S. government. To be sure, he didn’t call it that. He simply was delivering a speech at the June 10, 1963, commencement exercises at American...
The Military’s and CIA’s Assassination of JFK
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
There are two types of evidence in criminal cases — direct evidence and circumstantial evidence. Direct evidence comes in the form of things like confessions, admissions, or eyewitness testimony. Circumstantial evidence comes in the form of indirect evidence. For...
Disappearing People
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 20, 2025 | Featured Articles
One of the ways that brutal right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet would terrorize the Chilean people into patriotic submission to his authority was by disappearing people. This was different from simply torturing and executing them. He and his goons certainly...
There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico’s Drug Cartels
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 17, 2025 | Featured Articles
There is only one way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels and the massive violence that has come with them. That one way is drug legalization — that is, the end of the drug war by legalizing the possession, ingestion, and distribution of all drugs. There is no other...
Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 14, 2025 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iván Archivaldo Guzmán recently evaded capture by Mexican police by using escape tactics that he learned from his father Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The Journal described Iván as “Mexico’s Most...
So Much for Free Speech Under Trump
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
After riding a wave of criticism of Democrats for suppressing freedom of speech, President Trump has just put the quietus on Amazon, which had the audacity to contemplate including the price of Trump’s tariffs in its shopping carts. Upon hearing of Amazon’s plan,...
The Uhuru Prosecution Brings Egg on the Face of the Justice Department – The Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 29, 2025 | Featured Articles
In what can only be called one of the most ridiculous federal criminal prosecutions in U.S. history, the U.S. Department of Justice and, specifically, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, ended up with a massive amount of egg on its face. The...
Stop the US Abuse of Cuba
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
Amidst the horrific US abuse of foreigners through the use of tariffs and police-state enforcement of immigration controls, it’s easy to forget that the US government abuses foreigners in other ways, such as sanctions, embargoes, invasions, occupations, wars of...
The Circumvention of Habeas Corpus
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
The most profound and ominous aspect of the controversy surrounding the deportation of Kilmar Ábrego García to El Salvador is that the Trump administration has figured out a way to circumvent the right of habeas corpus, not just for foreigners but also for the...
America the Ugly
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 15, 2025 | Featured Articles
President Trump might have inadvertently come up with the perfect solution to America’s decades-old, ongoing, never-ending, perpetual immigration crisis. That solution entails making America so ugly that foreigners will no longer want to come here. After all, that’s...
Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Mexico?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 11, 2025 | Featured Articles
According to press accounts, the Trump administration, which some right-wing libertarians have humorously described as being “antiwar,” is now contemplating dropping bombs on Mexico. Yes, real bombs that kill people and destroy things, just like the bombs that U.S....
Trump’s Third Term
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 8, 2025 | Featured Articles
The pundits are having a difficult time understanding how President Trump would fulfill his expressed desire to serve a third term as president. Some of them have fallen back on the possibility that he is joking and just trolling his critics. Others have come up with...
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