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...
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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,...
Serfdom under the TSA
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
By now, I’m sure that most Americans have their own personal stories about TSA abuse. The U.S. government’s takeover of airport security after the 9/11 attacks has made flying an unpleasant experience. This past weekend, I was flying back to Virginia. A TSA agent took...
No Emergency Powers in the Constitution
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 15, 2024 | Featured Articles
It has become an article of faith that under our system of government, federal officials can declare an emergency, which then purportedly authorizes federal officials to exercise emergency powers. However, it just ain’t so. There is nothing in the Constitution that...
Is the Drug War Finally Over?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured Articles
The U.S. government just convicted Juan Orlando Hernandez of a drug offense. Who’s he? He’s the former president of Honduras. U.S. officials charged him with conspiracy to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Last Friday, a federal jury in New...
The Tyranny of Domestic Highway Checkpoints
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
Many years ago, I traveled to Cuba, which, as most Americans recognize, is governed by a dictatorial regime. One day I took a cab from Havana to a small town named Trinidad. The drive took several hours and I arrived at dusk. I paid the cab driver and he...
The Worries of a Retiring NSA Chief
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, who recently retired as director of the National Security Agency, is worried. He’s worried about terrorism, drug cartels, Russia, China, hackers, spies, and other scary things. His many worries are detailed in an op-ed he has in...
US Sanctions Bring Russian Air Travelers Closer to Death
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 7, 2024 | Featured Articles
US officials were undoubtedly disappointed over the recent emergency landing of a Russian civilian airliner on a farm in southern Russia. Experiencing a hydraulics problem that was causing the plane to rapidly lose fuel, the pilots were not able to make it to the...
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