The CIA and the Assassination of Orlando Letelier by Jacob G. Hornberger September 27, 2017 On September 21, 1976, a car bomb exploded on the streets of Washington, D.C., killing former Chilean official Orlando Letelier and his young assistant Ronni Moffitt. Since it was clearly a case of premeditated, cold-blooded murder of two innocent people, the killers were subject to being sentenced to death or life in prison. Yet, consider what actually happened to some ...
Forced Healthcare Goodness by Jacob G. Hornberger September 26, 2017 David Lazarus, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, says that there is nothing wrong with Obamacare, which enables him to have his preexisting condition, Type 1 diabetes, paid for by other people. In his article in today’s Times, entitled “Republicans Should Gladly Pay for My Preexisting Healthcare Condition,” he compares Obamacare to a giant insurance program in ...
The Omnipotent Power to Kill Us by Jacob G. Hornberger September 25, 2017 In response to my article “The Worst Mistake in U.S. History,” a reader wrote to tell me that, in his opinion, there have been worse mistakes in U.S. history than the conversion of the federal government to what is called a “a national security state.” He cited as examples the adoption of the federal income tax, the Federal ...
Did the CIA Assassinate Letelier and Moffitt? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2017 Ever since the assassination of former Chilean official Orlando Letelier in 1976, the official position, promoted by both the mainstream press and the Washington establishment, was that former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who the U.S. helped install into power, ordered the hit on Letelier. Yet, as I pointed out in my 3-part article “The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and ...
The Supreme Court Failed Us on Vietnam by Jacob G. Hornberger September 18, 2017 With last night’s beginning of Ken Burns’ new documentary about the Vietnam War, the war will be brought back to the front burner for national discussion and debate. There is one thing that is crystal clear and indisputable about the U.S. intervention into Vietnam’s civil war: The intervention was illegal under our form of government. That’s because it was waged ...
Why No Indictment for Conspiring to Murder Castro? by Jacob G. Hornberger September 15, 2017 During the Church Committee hearings in the 1970s, Congress and the American people learned that the CIA, in partnership with the Mafia, conspired to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Ever since then, the U.S. mainstream media has poked fun at the various ways the CIA and the Mafia intended to kill Castro — e.g., via an exploding cigar or ...
Healthcare Socialism Is Healthcare Quackery by Jacob G. Hornberger September 14, 2017 For the past eight years, conservatives made repealing Obamacare their mantra. Conservative commentators made it the primary theme of their op-eds. Conservative politicians made it the theme of their political campaigns. Conservative educational foundations and think tanks made it the subject of their fund-raising campaigns. The whole thing was always ridiculous. For one thing, it was all talk. Once Republicans gained ...
Owners Have the Right to Price-Gouge by Jacob G. Hornberger September 13, 2017 The New York Times recently published an interesting article about the price-gouging debate between advocates of the free market and advocates of economic interventionism. Although the author, Andrew Ross Sorkin, states at the end of the article that he leans toward interventionism during emergencies, he does a good job summing up the free-market arguments in favor of price-gouging ...
Iran’s War on Booze Is Like America’s War on Drugs by Jacob G. Hornberger September 12, 2017 After 40 years of booze illegality, Iran is getting hit with a dose of reality. Iranian officials are discovering that laws that criminalize the possession or consumption of alcohol do not work. According to an article in the Washington Post, public officials are acknowledging that there is a big alcoholism problem in Iran notwithstanding the fact that alcohol ...
Interventionism Produced the 9/11 Attacks by Jacob G. Hornberger September 11, 2017 One thing is certain about the U.S. mainstream media’s memorialization of the 9/11 attacks. They are not about to mention, much less emphasize, that the attacks were among the rotten fruits of U.S. interventionism, the foreign-policy philosophy that continues to hold the United States in its grip. Given the ongoing debacles of death, destruction, tyranny, torture, ISIS, and refugee ...
Sanctions Are an Act of War by Jacob G. Hornberger September 8, 2017 If the Pentagon suddenly bombed North Korea, killing thousands of North Korean citizens, that would clearly be considered an act of war. Yet, when the U.S. government intentionally targets North Korea with economic sanctions that kill thousands of North Koreans through starvation or illness, that’s considered to be simply a peaceful diplomatic measure. That’s odd because from a practical ...
Liberal Hypocrisy on DACA by Jacob G. Hornberger September 7, 2017 The left is up in arms in anger, indignation, and outrage over President Trump’s decision to cancel the DACA immigration program established by President Obama, which protects young immigrants who were brought by their parents to the United States illegally as children from being forcibly deported to their country of citizenship. In the process, liberals are missing an important ...
