Hornberger's Blog

Who Are the Crazies on Korea?

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 14, 2016

The U.S. military-industrial complex and the U.S. mainstream media often describe the leadership of North Korea, headed by President Kim Jong-un, as crazy and irrational. But what could be more crazy and irrational than doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results? What better way to describe the actions of the U.S. national-security establishment and its ...

Republic, Not Empire

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 13, 2016

The following is a modified version of the speech I delivered at the Ron Paul Institute’s “Peace and Prosperity” conference in Virginia on September 10, 2016. On the Fourth of July in 1821, John Quincy Adams delivered one of the most remarkable speeches in American history. The speech is entitled, “In Search of Monsters to Destroy.” In his speech, ...

9/11 Evil Did Not Cancel Pre-9/11 Evil

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 12, 2016

Immediately after the 9/11 attacks President Bush and other U.S. officials declared that the attackers were motivated by hatred for America’s freedom and values. It was a lie, one of the biggest ever told by U.S. officials. The truth was that the attackers were motivated by anger and rage over pre-9/11 U.S. government interventionism in the Middle East, especially ...

I Don’t Know What a Leppo Is Either

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 9, 2016

Prescript: I'm speaking at Ron Paul's conference on peace and prosperity tomorrow (Saturday, September 10) at the Marriott Hotel near Washington Dulles airport. The title of my talk is "Republic, Not Empire." According to the Ron Paul Institute's website, the conference is sold out. Next week I'm speaking on the drug war to students at Northwood University in Midland, ...

Did JFK’s Outreach to Russia Make Him a Traitor Too?

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 8, 2016

Whenever I see U.S. national-security state officials and their acolytes in the mainstream press castigate anyone who favors a favorable relationship with Russia, I can’t help but get that déjà vu feeling. That’s exactly how they felt toward President Kennedy, only multiplied a thousand-fold. The adverse reaction whenever that sentiment is expressed today pales to insignificance compared to the ...

An Exceptional and Indispensable Nation

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 7, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s recent speech to the American Legion confirms the following: If you have liked the last 16 years of Bush-Obama, you’re going to love the next four years under a Clinton presidency. Her definition of “exceptionalism,” “indispensability,” and “leadership” means four more years of welfare, the drug war, bureaucracy, rules and regulations, invasions, occupations, regime-change operations, coups, support ...

Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: Clinton, Trump, and African-Americans

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 7, 2016

Public-School Indoctrination in China … and Here

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 6, 2016

Prescript: This morning, we posted Part 2 of Richard Ebeling’s great nine-part video series, “Understanding Austrian Economics.” It can be seen here. Our new ebook by Richard, Austrian Economics and Public Policy, has reached #4 on Amazon’s list of bestselling ebooks on Economic Theory and #4 on Amazon’s list of ebooks on Political Freedom. Buy the ...

Kaepernick Has It Wrong on the Military

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 5, 2016

Amidst all the hub-hub over San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the national anthem, hardly anyone is noticing how wrong-headed his views are on the military. Explaining that his protest is intended to call attention only to police abuse of African-Americans, Kaepernick clarified that he was not protesting the military. He stated: I have great respect ...

Should States Control Their Borders?

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2016

Given the decades-long, ongoing controversy over immigration, a question must naturally be asked: Should the states of the United States be given the authority to control their respective borders? That is, should they have the same power to control their borders that the federal government has to control the nation’s borders. To clarify, I’m not asking whether state borders should be ...

Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: Clinton’s Interventionism

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 2, 2016

Obama’s Condor

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2016

For the life of me, I don’t see any difference in principal between Operation Condor, the international assassination program being run out of Chile in the 1970s under Gen. Augusto Pinochet, and the international assassination program being run by President Obama, the Pentagon, and the CIA. Indeed, it seems rather bizarre to me that Argentine and Chilean officials are ...