As most everyone knows, the mainstream media is hurting, big time. For many years, subscriptions and advertising revenue have been plummeting. Some of the big papers have been able to survive only by having some multimillionaire bail them out with his own money and be...
Jacob G. Hornberger
The Moral Depravity of US Sanctions and Embargoes
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles
In the December 29, 2024, issue of the conservative Wall Street Journal, the paper’s longtime columnist Mary Anastasia O’Grady, who also serves on the Journal’s editorial board, wrote an article harshly criticizing the dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela....
Jimmy Carter’s Hypocritical Olympic Boycott
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
According to an article in the Washington Post, Gene Mills, a U.S. citizen who was one of the top amateur wrestlers in the world, stated, “He stole my life. That was my life. He took it away from me.” Mills was referring to President Jimmy Carter, who...
Don’t Pardon Michael Byrd. Indict Him Instead.
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jan 7, 2025 | Featured Articles
The Washington, D.C., establishment is, needless to say, up in arms over President-elect Trump’s plans to pardon the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6 four years ago. After hundreds of criminal prosecutions and sometimes long jail sentences meted out by...
Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple...
Will Trump Buckle Again on the JFK Records?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
fascinating situation has now developed between President-elect Donald Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment with respect to the long-secret JKF-assassination-related records that the CIA has succeeded in keeping secret for more than 60 years....
Our Official Enemies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
Whenever I see the vehement anti-Russia sentiment that pervades American society, I can’t help but think about Muhammad Ali. After Ali announced that he would not comply with the U.S. government’s draft notice, which almost certainly would have meant that he would...
Tampa Trial on Free Speech Exposes US Hypocrisy
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
As I have written in my last two blog posts (here and here), the US government is prosecuting members of a small political group named the African People’s Socialist Party and its related “Uhuru” movement. The trial is taking place in US District Court in...
Russia Is Not Our Enemy
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
Given the ongoing war between the United States and Russia in Ukraine, it’s natural for Americans to conclude that Russia is our enemy. Not so. Our enemy is instead the US national-security establishment — i.e., the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — the entity that is...
US Hypocrisy on Supposed Iranian Meddling in the US Election
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 14, 2024 | Featured Articles
The FBI is warning Iran not to meddle in the upcoming US presidential election. That’s rich given that it was the US government’s meddling in an Iranian election that is the root cause of the perpetual, ongoing, never-ending animosity between the two regimes today....
I’m Speaking at the Ron Paul Institute’s Annual Conference
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
In three weeks, I will have the honor of again speaking at the Young Scholar’s part of the Ron Paul Institute’s annual conference at Dulles, Virginia. I’ve had the good fortune of speaking there for the past several years. I will be speaking on “A Limited Government...
Congressional Incompetence in Its Trump-Shooting Investigation
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 24, 2024 | Congress Alert
Members of Congress are besides themselves over the testimony of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle regarding the near-assassination of former president Trump. They are upset that Cheatle was unable to provide them with adequate explanations as to what appears...
Why the U.S. Secrecy Surrounding Evan Gershkovich?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
Last Friday, a Russian court, operating in secret, convicted Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a Russian penal colony. Ever since Gershkovich’s arrest in March 2023, I have written extensively about the case....
Assassination Accomplishes Nothing
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
I was a few minutes into my talk at FreedomFest when former President Trump was almost assassinated. It was ironic because my talk was about the U.S. national-security establishment’s assassination of President Kennedy. While my talk specifically focused on the CIA’s...
Closer to Nuclear War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
I can’t help but wonder what proponents of America’s participation in the old Cold War dinosaur known as NATO are thinking about NATO officials who are contemplating sending NATO military personnel into Ukraine to train Ukrainian troops in their war against Russia....
Superman’s Partnership with the Feds
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 6, 2024 | Featured Articles
As we all know, as part of the U.S. government’s much-vaunted war-on-terrorism racket, some big technology firms have chosen to partner with the government in an effort to win the war on terrorism. In the process, they have aided the government, sometimes illegally,...
Defenders of the Israeli Government Encourage Antisemitism
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
American universities are besieged by students protesting their schools’ investments in U.S. suppliers of weaponry to the Israeli government, which Israeli officials are using to carry out their military campaign in Gaza. Some universities are now calling in riot...
A Warped View of Patriotism on Pat Tillman
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
A recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times demonstrates what is a warped interpretation of the term “patriotism.” The op-ed is about former football player Pat Tillman, who was killed in Afghanistan twenty years ago. It’s written by Bill Dwyre, a...
The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 17, 2024 | Featured Articles
If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an...
Why the JFK Assassination Still Matters
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
Someone might reasonably ask, “What difference does the JFK assassination make to those of us living today? The assassination took place more than 60 years ago. Everyone involved in it is now dead. Why not just forget it and move on?’ Those are reasonable questions,...
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