People who are trying to reform the NSA and the CIA are just wasting their time. After all, at the risk of belaboring the obvious, these two agencies operate in secret. Moreover, they know that they can do anything they want, including breaking the law, and that...
Jacob G. Hornberger
The United States Lost the Cold War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
As the world celebrates the 25th anniversary of fall of the Berlin Wall, Americans remain more convinced than ever that the United States won the Cold War. The Cold War brought us a national-security state, which consists of an enormous military establishment, a vast...
A Lesson in Intervention in Iraq
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 12, 2014 | Featured Articles
The great Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises pointed out that one government intervention inevitably produces a crisis, which then causes government officials to enact a new intervention to address the crisis. The new intervention, however, produces a new crisis,...
The Cuban Embargo is an Attack on Both Cubans And Americans
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 20, 2014 | Featured Articles
Sen. Robert MenendezIn its October 11 Sunday edition, the New York Times published an editorial calling for the lifting of the 45-year-old Cold War-era economic embargo against Cuba. The Times pointed out: Over the decades, it became clear to many American policy...
Where Did Iraq Get Its Weapons of Mass Destruction?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
In April 2003, when U.S. officials were still celebrating their invasion and occupation of Iraq as a fantastic success, I wrote an article entitled, “Where Did Iraq Get Its Weapons of Mass Destruction?” Actually though, it wasn’t actually an article but rather a list...
The Murder of James Foley
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
In response to the Islamic State’s execution of American journalist James Foley, President Obama referred to Foley’s killers as a “cancer.” That, of course, implies that anti-American terrorism is like a disease, one that strikes at nations willy nilly, without rhyme...
Why Reform the CIA?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
Just as I predicted in my article “Why Not Simply Abolish the CIA?” critics of the CIA’s illegally hacking into the computers of U.S. senators who were investigating CIA torture are calling for reform, rather than abolition, of the CIA. Stuck in the mindset of the...
The National-Security State’s Murder of Two Americans
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
A Chilean court ruled this week that the U.S. national-security state conspired to murder American citizens Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi in Chile in 1973. The brutal act occurred during the violent military coup in which the Chilean military, with the full support...
Ground Hog Day in the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 13, 2014 | Featured Articles
A news article this week entitled “South Laredo Trafficking Group Indicted” caught my attention. That’s because Laredo is my hometown. I spent 26 years there, including 8 years practicing law, most of which was in partnership with my father. That newspaper article is...
Kudos to Ecuador’s President Correa
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 22, 2014 | Featured Articles
Good for Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa for kicking USAID out of his country. If only every nation in the world would do that. While part of USAID’s activities ostensibly relate to helping “the poor,” that’s just a cover to disguise the real mission of the agency:...
US Government’s Regime Change Obsession Rears Its Ugly Head Again
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 5, 2014 | Featured Articles
The US government’s 116-year-old obsession with controlling Cuba has suddenly manifested itself again. Yesterday, the Associated Press, based on secret records that it obtained, reported that USAID, the federal agency that distributes billions of dollars in...
The US Government Should Butt Out of Venezuela
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 3, 2014 | Featured Articles
In an op-ed in the New York Times this week , Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro calls for peace in Venezuela. The socialist president has been besieged by demonstrations in which several protestors have been killed. The protesters focus on horrendous economic...
Non-Intervention is Non-Negotiable!
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
In an article at PJMedia.com, writer Keith Farrell suggests that libertarians should support foreign interventionism and specifically takes The Future of Freedom Foundation and LewRockwell.com to task for opposing foreign interventionism. Acknowledging that some U.S....
Ukraine and the Deferential Press
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 26, 2014 | Featured Articles
One of the distinguishing characteristics between libertarian commentators and the mainstream statist press is, once again, on display in the latest crisis, this one between President Obama and Russian President Putin. You see the standard knee-jerk rally to the...
Drug Warriors Just Don’t Get It
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
U.S. Marine Corps General John F. Kelly, commanding general of the U.S. Southern Command, just doesn’t get it. Testifying before Congress, he lamented the movement toward legalizing drugs here in the United States. He suggested that Latin American officials, who have...
Disband NATO!
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
In a recent New York Times op-ed, John McCain, the man who hoped to be president, said that Russia’s invasion of Crimea has nothing to do with NATO expansion into Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Oh? Well, now, let’s see how McCain would be responding if the shoe were...
Pledging American Lives in the Defense of NATO
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Notwithstanding its recent decision to lift its debt ceiling once again to enable it to add to its ever-growing mountain of debt, the US government has now issued a new pledge, this one being as a guarantor of a $1 billion loan to the new government of Ukraine....
Ukraine and The US National Security State
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 6, 2014 | Featured Articles
At the end of the Cold War, the American people had a grand opportunity, one that entailed the dismantling of the national-security state apparatus that had been grafted onto our governmental system after the end of World War II. It would have made sense, given that...
Russia Reminds Us of Us
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
US officials and the mainstream press are aflame with outrage and indignation over Russia’s invasion of Crimea. If only they would feel the same degree of outrage and indignation over what the US national security state, which was grafted onto our governmental system...
On Cuba, The Times Just Might Be A’Changin’
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
The New York Times is reporting that most Americans, including a majority in Florida, favor normalizing relations with Cuba, which would mean a lifting of cruel and brutal economic embargo that the U.S. government has been enforcing against the Cuban people for more...
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