Release the CIA’s Still-Secret JFK Records Now by Jacob G. Hornberger June 10, 2015 Today, June 10, marks the anniversary of one of the most important and remarkable speeches in American history — President John F. Kennedy’s speech at American University on June 10, 1963 -- what has become known as the “Peace Speech.” Two excellent books have been written about the speech: To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Speech ...
Who’s the Traitor? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2015 A few days ago, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Max Boot authored an article in Commentary entitled “The Traitor’s Triumph” in which Boot accused NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden of being a traitor for revealing the NSA’s illegal and unconstitutional super-secret surveillance scheme to the American people and to the people of the world. Boot’s article raises one of ...
Is Max Boot Really a Liar and a Coward? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2015 Glenn Greenwald and Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, engaged in an interesting exchange about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in which Greenwald suggested that Boot is both a liar and a neocon coward. The exchange arose out of Boot’s critique of an op-ed by Snowden published last week by the New York Times. ...
The JFK Assassination and the Inconceivable Doctrine by Jacob G. Hornberger June 5, 2015 Despite the large amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to the culpability of the U.S. national-security state in the assassination of President Kennedy, there are still some people who exclaim “Conspiracy theory!” whenever someone challenges the official finding of the Warren Commission that JFK was felled by a former Marine lone-nut communist using a junk Italian-made World War II rifle ...
Wrong Message in the Ulbricht Case by Jacob G. Hornberger June 4, 2015 The first thing that entered my mind upon reading that New York City Federal Judge Katherine Forrest had sentenced Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht to life in prison without parole was, “What in the world could that woman be thinking?” At the sentencing hearing, Forrest indicated that the draconian sentence she was imposing on Ulbricht was meant to serve as ...
Will U.S. Soldiers Soon Be Dying for Communism? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 3, 2015 Do you recall the justification that U.S. officials used for sending more than 58,000 American men to their deaths in the Vietnam War? They said that communism was so bad and such an enormous threat to the United States that it was necessary to stop the North Vietnamese communists before they came to the United States and took over ...
The National Security States of China and the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger June 2, 2015 The New York Times recently published a story about China that reveals, indirectly, the revolutionary transformation of the U.S. government that occurred at the end of World War II. The article focuses on the nature of the Chinese communist state as a “national-security state” and points out that that “national security” laws are being used to maintain the ...
Rand Paul: A Profile in Courage by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2015 Yesterday, thanks to the heroic efforts of Sen. Rand Paul, the Patriot Act automatically expired. Yes, you read that right. No reform of the Patriot Act. Just termination. In case you’re wondering, the United States hasn’t fallen into the ocean and the federal government, including the IRS, has not fallen to the terrorists. Of course, that hasn’t caused the fear-mongering that ...
Iran’s Criminal Justice System Looks Like Gitmo’s by Jacob G. Hornberger May 29, 2015 Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian is being prosecuted in Iran for “espionage for the hostile government of the United States.” He was initially arrested and incarcerated without any charges being filed against him. He is now being tried in a secret trial before an unsympathetic judge. Sound familiar? It should. It’s the same type of “judicial” system that the U.S. government ...
Free Trade Means Free Trade by Jacob G. Hornberger May 28, 2015 There is a lot of controversy over the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a big trade agreement that is being negotiated between the United States, Canada, and a number of Asia-Pacific countries. What is most amusing about the controversy is how the mainstream press, as well as D.C. politicians and bureaucrats, describe the agreement. They call it a “free trade” agreement. That’s ...
It’s Monetary Crisis Time in Greece by Jacob G. Hornberger May 27, 2015 In the first two weeks of June, we might well witness the demise of two of the biggest socialist experiments in history. One involves the welfare state in Greece and the other involves the centrally planned monetary unit known as the Euro. By now, most everyone is familiar with the financial crisis in Greece. For decades, Greece has had an ...
The Fable of the Chickens by Jacob G. Hornberger May 26, 2015 Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived a flock of chickens. They were the happiest chickens in the whole world. There was always plenty to eat and the chickens were free to range wherever they wanted. Eggs were plentiful and the happy flock was always growing. One day, however, those happy chickens met with disaster. A group ...
