The Official Enemies Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger February 15, 2022 An essential element in any national-security state is the need to keep the citizenry afraid. If people aren’t afraid, they won’t be so eager and willing to continue flooding large amounts of taxpayer largess into the coffers of the national-security establishment. Therefore, central to any national-security state is the need for official enemies, rivals, and opponents. Fear was ...
Vengeful Thievery by Biden and the Pentagon with Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger February 14, 2022 Throughout the invasion and 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, U.S. officials portrayed themselves as great saviors and benefactors of the Afghan people. Perhaps the best example of this phenomenon is the Pentagon’s application of the term “Operation Enduring Freedom” to its deadly and destructive operations in Afghanistan. There was also the supposed concern for “women’s rights” within the country.
A New Way to Fight the Drug War? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2022 A letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun yesterday shows how important it is to raise people’s vision to higher level — one that goes beyond reform and instead goes to the principles of a free society. The letter was written by a man named Michael Westerhaus. His letter brings up some of the ...
Obtuseness on Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger February 10, 2022 An op-ed in the Washington Post this week shows how obtuse some people can be when it comes to Iran. The article was written by a man named Barry Rosen, who is a former U.S. diplomat who was taken hostage in Iran during the Iranian revolution in 1979 and held in captivity for 444 days. Rosen ...
Assassination Hypocrisy by Jacob G. Hornberger February 9, 2022 On the morning of January 25, 1993, a man named Mir Amal Kansi appeared outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, where he began assassinating people who were driving their cars into the facility. He ended up killing two CIA employees and wounding three others. Four years later, FBI agents arrested Kansi in Pakistan and brought him back ...
Setting Up Crises in Afghanistan and Ukraine by Jacob G. Hornberger February 8, 2022 As I have watched how the U.S. national-security establishment has set up its latest crisis, this one in Ukraine, I couldn’t help but be reminded of how it set up a similar crisis in Afghanistan in 1979. Back then, the goal of U.S. national-security state officials was to goad the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan. U.S. National ...
More U.S. Murders in the Middle East by Jacob G. Hornberger February 7, 2022 The U.S. national-security establishment and its acolytes in the mainstream press are celebrating the U.S. military’s murder in Syria of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim Hashimi Qurayshi. Mind you, they don’t call it murder. They call it a “targeted killing” of a “bad guy” or a “terrorist.” But murder it is because the U.S. military has no legitimate ...
Leftists Have It Wrong on Rights by Jacob G. Hornberger February 3, 2022 One of the central defects among leftists (that is, “liberals,” progressives, socialists, or interventionists) is their wrong-headed view of the nature of people’s rights. Their belief on this issue is one of the distinguishing characteristics between leftists and libertarians. Leftists believe that people’s rights come from the government or from the Constitution. As such, they view rights not ...
Where Is Congress on Ukraine’s Membership in NATO? by Jacob G. Hornberger February 2, 2022 Given all those pious pro-democracy pronouncements by U.S. officials, I’d like to ask what might be considered a discomforting question: Where is the U.S. Congress when it comes to deciding whether Ukraine becomes a member of NATO? The answer to that question might be even more discomforting than the question itself: In a country that purports to be ...
Neil Young and Joni Mitchell Are Not Censoring Joe Rogan by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2022 Leftists are going ballistic over the Joe Rogan dustup at Spotify. After Rogan had a guest on his show that expounded COVID-19 viewpoints that go against what the government likes, singer Neil Young announced that he was pulling his songs from Spotify to protest what Rogan had done. He was followed by singer Joni Mitchell, who announced the ...
The U.S. Government Will Be Responsible for Ukraine Deaths by Jacob G. Hornberger January 31, 2022 Despite the fact that U.S. officials are playing the innocent in the Ukraine crisis, the fact is that the U.S. government will be responsible for the death toll that results from a Russian invasion of Ukraine. That’s because it is the U.S. government, specifically the Pentagon and the CIA, who have precipitated the crisis. If the U.S. ...
The Cold War Racket Never Ended for the U.S. by Jacob G. Hornberger January 27, 2022 There is something important to recognize about the Cold War: It was not ended by the U.S. government. Instead, it was ended by the Soviet Union. If it had been up to the U.S. national-security establishment, the Cold War would have gone on forever because it is the best racket in U.S. history, one that continually expanded the ...
