JFK’s Peace Speech Got Him Killed by Jacob G. Hornberger June 11, 2024 Yesterday, June 10, was the anniversary date of President John F. Kennedy’s famous “Peace Speech” at American University in 1963, which was about five months before he was assassinated in Dallas. It was that speech — specifically, the vision set forth in that speech — that got him killed. The speech set forth a vision that Kennedy had ...
The Destruction of Julian Assange by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2024 Last month, a British court gave Julian Assange permission to continue opposing the U.S. government’s attempts to extradite him to the United States to stand trial for violating the World War I Espionage Act. In truth, what U.S. officials are really targeting him for is that Assange, as head of WikiLeaks, had the audacity to reveal war crimes ...
Hunter Biden Would Not Be Prosecuted in a Free Society by Jacob G. Hornberger June 7, 2024 How ironic that the son of a Democrat president of the United States is having to pay the price for living in a paternalistic state that his own father ardently supports. Hunter Biden is currently on trial in a U.S. District Court for federal gun-control violations. Waiting in the wings is another federal prosecution for income-tax violations. It’s ...
The Deep State Is Not Shutting Down Alex Jones by Jacob G. Hornberger June 6, 2024 Famous right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones and some of his supporters are claiming that the Deep State is on the verge of shutting down him and his media company, Free Speech Systems, including his Infowars operation. Pure nonsense. It’s not the Deep State that is threatening Jones with a shutdown. It’s a U.S. bankruptcy court that is doing so. ...
A Century of Immigration-Control Failure by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2024 On the 28th of last month, the United States celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the U.S. Border Patrol. According to the website of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Border Patrol was established “for the purpose of securing the borders between inspection stations. In 1925 its duties were expanded to patrol the seacoast.” If there ...
Donald Trump: Victim, but Certainly No Hero by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2024 In my opinion, Trumpsters and other right-wing acolytes of Donald Trump are correct in their assessment of the grave abuse of prosecutorial and judicial power that led to his criminal conviction. However, given their blind allegiance to the former president, what they are unable to see is that Trump is largely responsible for his own woes in the ...
Will the U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine Lead to Nuclear War? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 30, 2024 When U.S. officials began using NATO to move eastward toward Russia’s borders after the ostensible end of the Cold War, their aim was to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine. Their hope was to embroil Russia in a forever war with Ukraine that would “degrade” Russia by bringing about the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian troops. By ...
A National Home with a Government-Owned Front Door? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2024 Advocates of immigration controls oftentimes use the concept of a front door of a person’s home to justify their support of immigration controls. They say that since a homeowner has the right to determine who comes into his house, the government should have the authority to decide who comes through the “front door” of our national home. The ...
Remembering Those Who Died for Our Government by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2024 Each Memorial Day, countless Americans recite the standard mantra that has been inculcated within their minds from the first grade of the public (i.e., government) schools to which their parents were forced to send them: American soldiers who died in America’s wars died to protect our freedoms and defend our country. Each Memorial Day, it is worth reminding ...
Drug-War Obtuseness in Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2024 In the final debate between Mexico’s two leading presidential candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez, before the June 2 election, both candidates vied with each other as to which one would be a stronger drug warrior. Both of them vowed to smash the violent drug cartels that dominate Mexican society. It would be difficult to find a better ...
Closer to Nuclear War by Jacob G. Hornberger May 17, 2024 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. Those who relish the idea of nuclear war between the United States and Russia undoubtedly must ...
Where Is the Compassion in Social Security? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2024 One of the things that has long fascinated me about Social Security is how its proponents portray themselves as “caring and compassionate” for favoring this socialist program. Social Security, like all other welfare-state programs, uses the coercive apparatus of the federal government — specifically taxation on income — to take money from younger people to give it to ...
