Watch Wormwood by Jacob G. Hornberger January 16, 2018 I’ve got a movie recommendation for you: Watch Wormwood, a fantastic Netflix original. Set aside time for binge watching because once you start, you will want to continue watching to the end. Combining a documentary format with depictions of events with actors, the series focuses on the CIA’s execution of Frank Olson, an American citizen who worked for the ...
The Racism and S***Hole Circus Misses the Point by Jacob G. Hornberger January 15, 2018 Amidst all the furor over whether Donald Trump is a racist and whether he did in fact describe Haiti and African countries as “s***holes,” the real point is one that hardly anyone wants to face, including Trump’s critics who continue to support immigration controls on Haiti and Africa to ensure that not too many of their citizens come to ...
The Banality of U.S. Evil by Jacob G. Hornberger January 12, 2018 U.S. officials, led by President Trump, and accompanied by their acolytes in the U.S. mainstream press, are absolutely giddy over what they perceive as the success of U.S. sanctions against Iran and North Korea. With Iran, they are celebrating the fact that horrific economic conditions have led to sporadic protests across the country against the Iranian regime. With North ...
Foreign Interventionism Is Destroying Us by Jacob G. Hornberger January 11, 2018 Most everyone acknowledges that James Madison, the father of the Constitution, possessed deep insights into the relationship between liberty and government. One of his important insights involved the relationship between liberty and war: Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is ...
The British Empire in Yemen by Jacob G. Hornberger January 10, 2018 Over the holidays, I began watching a Netflix/BBC series entitled The Last Post, which revolves around a contingent of British troops in the early 1960s stationed in Aden, a port city in Yemen, the Arabian country today that Saudi Arabia and the United States are bombing to smithereens. The British troops were there as a remnant of the British ...
Trump and Sessions Are Right on the Drug War, Partly by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2018 Imagine that: the New York Times favoring states’ rights. Did you ever think you’d see that day? No, the Times’ editorial board doesn’t exactly put it that way, but that’s the import of its position with respect to President Trump’s order to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to enforce federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana or ...
IRS Tyranny against Swiss Bankers by Jacob G. Hornberger January 8, 2018 Stefan Buck is a happy man. Last fall, a federal jury in Manhattan acquitted him of conspiracy to deprive the IRS of income tax revenue. Although a team of U.S. marshals was ready to take him into custody, Buck was free to walk out of the federal courthouse a free man and return to his home … in Switzerland. Buck ...
Sabotaging Peace in Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger January 3, 2018 It just might be that the two Koreas are figuring out a way to avoid war, much to the anger and chagrin of President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment, who are obviously increasingly viewing war as inevitable and even in the best interests of the United States. Why, even the U.S. mainstream press, which oftentimes seems to operate as ...
A New Year’s Freedom Resolution by Jacob G. Hornberger January 2, 2018 Here’s a great New Year’s resolution for the American people: To redouble our efforts to achieve a free, prosperous, peaceful, and harmonious society, one that can serve as a model for the world. Sounds good, right? But not that easy. This resolution actually requires some deep and critical thinking, specifically relating to two important questions. The first question is: What does it ...
Last-Minute Christmas Gifts: FFF Best-Selling Ebooks! by Jacob G. Hornberger December 15, 2017 Still uncertain what to give friends, relatives, and acquaintances for Christmas? How about one of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s best-selling ebooks? FFF’s newest ebook, Freedom Frauds: Hard Lessons in American Liberty by James Bovard, who is a longtime policy advisor and monthly columnist for FFF. Released this past October, this ebook has now reached #1 on Amazon’s ...
The U.S. Government Will Be the Cause of the New Korean War by Jacob G. Hornberger December 14, 2017 If war breaks out in Korea, which is increasingly likely, make no mistake about it: the cause will be the U.S. government, specifically the national-security state branch of the federal government, i.e., the Pentagon and the CIA. There are three reasons I say this: (1) the presence of U.S. troops in South Korea are the principal cause of the crisis in ...
Why Are There Still Any Foreign Interventionists? by Jacob G. Hornberger December 13, 2017 For the first hundred years of American history, the United States was founded on the concept of a limited-government republic, one whose government did not intervene in the affairs of other nations, specifically in Europe and Asia. America’s non-interventionist philosophy was summed up by John Quincy Adams’ Fourth of July address to Congress in 1821, the title of which ...
