No matter how you feel about the Pentagon and the military-industrial complex, you can’t help but be impressed at how they are able to successfully plunder and loot American taxpayers, no matter how much needless death, suffering, and destruction they wreak on people...
Jacob G. Hornberger
Will El Chapo’s Wife’s 3-Year Sentence Win the Drug War?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
US District Judge Rudolph Contreras has just sentenced Emma Coronel Aispuro to three years in jail. She’s the wife of noted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who is serving a life sentence in a US federal penitentiary. She recently pled guilty to helping...
A ‘Deadly Attack’ on the Capitol?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Yesterday, I was listening to a classical-music station when NPR came on with the news. Addressing the controversy surrounding former President Trump’s efforts to keep secret his records relating to the January 6 protests at the Capitol, the NPR reporter referred to...
Interventionists Ignore 9/11 Motive to Our Detriment
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Nov 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
In the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, some interventionists are ignoring the most important factor in the Afghanistan debacle: what motivated the terrorists to commit the 9/11 attacks. Or, even worse, some interventionists continue to buy into the...
What the CIA Is Hiding in the JFK Assassination
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Oct 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
With President Biden succumbing to the CIA’s demand to continue keeping the CIA’s records relating to the Kennedy assassination secret, the question naturally arises: What is the CIA still hiding? (See my blog post of yesterday entitled “Surprise! Biden Continues the...
US Officials Free Meng Wanzhou
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
After three years seeking the extradition from Canada of Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou, the Justice Department has thrown in the towel by agreeing to a deal that enabled Meng to return freely to China. Meng had been under three years of house arrest in...
The US Government vs. the United States
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 28, 2021 | Featured Articles
Advocates of empire and interventionism are saying that even given the debacle in Afghanistan, America should not “retreat” from the world. Even though our nation has lost “credibility” in the world, they say, it is imperative that the United States continue to...
An Old Soldier’s Denial on Afghanistan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 26, 2021 | Featured Articles
In a letter to the Los Angeles Times regarding the Afghanistan debacle, Stephen Sloane, a retired captain in the US Navy who served in the Vietnam War, is a perfect demonstration of how so many people, especially in the military, live lives of denial when it comes to...
Why People Don’t Trust the Mainstream Media
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Aug 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
An article in the Washington Post about the January 6 protests at the Capitol goes a long way toward explaining why people do not trust the mainstream media. The article, written by a Post reporter named Mike DeBonis, focuses on allegations that the FBI infiltrated...
Wrong Lessons from the Afghanistan Debacle and Defeat
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are not learning the real lessons in their defeat in Afghanistan. Instead, they are coming up with all sorts of reasons as to why their Afghanistan intervention turned out to be such a big debacle. They say that...
The Danger that NATO Poses to Americans
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jul 10, 2021 | Featured Articles
Imagine a massive nuclear exchange between the United States and China. That obviously would not be a pretty sight for the people of either nation. As the mushroom clouds arose over both nations, imagine thinking to yourself: “All this because of a socialist road.”...
Libertarians and the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 23, 2021 | Featured Articles
With June 2021 being the 50th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s “war on drugs,” an ever-increasing number of editorials and op-eds are calling for an end to the drug war. This is an extremely positive sign, not only because it brings America closer to ending...
End the Draft Permanently
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
Recently the US Supreme Court declined to consider a challenge to the all-male draft. The plaintiffs in the case argued that excluding women from the draft was unconstitutional. Apparently the Court is simply letting Congress decide the issue. I’ve got an idea — an...
Old and New Official Enemies
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Jun 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
Doing his best to justify President Biden’s $750 billion military budget, Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that China’s military has been building its military capabilities at “a very serious and sustained rate.” Well, of...
How We Got Omnipotent Government
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
We have all been born and raised under a government that wields the power of assassination. State-sponsored assassinations at the hands of the US government — and specifically the Pentagon and the CIA — have become a rather ho-hum affair. They have become fully...
Ban Paternalistic Government
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 18, 2021 | Featured Articles
What is it about paternalists that prevents them from minding their own business? They are obsessed with minding everyone else’s business and, even worse, using the power of government to force people to live their lives the way paternalists want them to live them....
A Woke CIA … or a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Society?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
There is a battle currently going on over whether the CIA should be woke or not. The battle was apparently incited by a recent segment of a social media series issued by the CIA entitled “Humans of CIA.” According to an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, Susan...
Will Biden Have Blood on His Hands in Afghanistan?
by Jacob G. Hornberger | May 7, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Biden has announced that America’s forever war in Afghanistan is finally coming to an end. He says that US forces will exit the country by next September 11. That’s a good thing. And it is long overdue. But there is one big problem with Biden’s timetable: It...
The Terrorist Haven Fallacy on Afghanistan
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Apr 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
Interventionists are saying that US forces need to stay in Afghanistan because otherwise that country will, once again, become a “haven” for anti-American terrorists. They still just don’t get it. It never ceases to amaze me how blind and obtuse interventionists can...
The Banality of Evil on Sanctions
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Mar 25, 2021 | Featured Articles
The banality of evil within the mainstream press when it comes to actions carried out by the US national-security establishment never ceases to amaze me. The latest example appears in the New York Times in an investigative piece that absolutely stunned me. The piece...
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