Targeting Cubans for Death to Win Florida by Jacob G. Hornberger August 14, 2020 Desperate for an electoral win in Florida in November, President Trump is targeting the Cuban people with even more impoverishment, maybe even death. He just announced that he is strengthening the 60-year-old economic embargo against Cuba by ordering a cancellation of private charter flights to the island. Trump’s Secretary of State (and former CIA Director) Mike Pompeo said, ...
The CIA’s Longstanding Relationship with Crime by Jacob G. Hornberger August 13, 2020 From the time that the CIA secretly hired former members of the Nazi regime after World War II, one could predict that things were not going to go in a good direction, at least not in a moral sense. After that, there was MKULTRA, which exposed an unknown number of American citizens and foreigners to mentally damaging drug ...
Trump’s Dictatorial Tendencies by Jacob G. Hornberger August 12, 2020 We have seen President Trump’s dictatorial tendencies in the past, such as when he diverted Pentagon slush money to build his Berlin Wall along the border, or when he launched his vicious and destructive trade war against China, or when he raised taxes (i.e., tariffs) on the American people. All of these actions were done without congressional authorization, ...
Why Immunity for the CIA? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2020 Amidst the controversy over the doctrine of qualified immunity for cops, no one is talking about the full immunity accorded to the Central Intelligence Agency, an agency within the national-security establishment that wields omnipotent power. Among the most interesting lines in the new Amazon Prime series The Last Narc is what a CIA official says to DEA investigator ...
Paying the Price for the Free Stimulus Money by Jacob G. Hornberger August 10, 2020 Do you recall that $3 trillion in stimulus money that the federal government sent out to people? Do you recall it was free because, as everyone knows, the federal government is rich? Do you recall how the mainstream press was talking about how generous the federal government is to its citizens? Do you recall also how almost no ...
The Torture and Execution of Kiki Camarena by Jacob G. Hornberger August 7, 2020 Take out your list of movies to watch and place The Last Narc at the top of your list. It’s now showing on Amazon Prime. Consisting of four one-hour segments, it will be the most fascinating drug-war documentary you will ever watch. And revealing as well! In fact, better yet, first watch Seasons 1 and 2 of Narcos: ...
Truman’s War Crimes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2020 This month marks the 75h anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While proponents of the bombings have long justified them on the basis that they shortened World War II, the fact is that they were war crimes. The only reason why President Truman and the pilots who dropped the bombs were not prosecuted as ...
Separate Healthcare and the State by Jacob G. Hornberger August 4, 2020 Among the greatest achievements of our American ancestors was the separation of church and state. Among the greatest things that Americans today could accomplish is the same thing with respect to healthcare. Imagine if the Americans who founded our country had instead implemented a system based on government control, ...
Empire is the Root of U.S.-China Hostilities by Jacob G. Hornberger August 3, 2020 The biggest factor that has led the U.S. government to initiate a hostile relationship against China involves the concept of empire. An empire wants to be the only empire or at least the dominant empire. That is, it wants to control everyone and everybody within its realm, which ideally encompasses the entire world.
The Sad Anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid by Jacob G. Hornberger July 31, 2020 Yesterday, July 30, marked the 55th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid, two socialist programs that ended up destroying what had been the finest healthcare system in history, one based on principles of the free market and voluntary charity. Prior to the enactment of these two ...
State Coercion in “Education” by Jacob G. Hornberger July 30, 2020 A 15-year-old Michigan girl is getting a taste of the apparatus of coercion that forms the foundation of public schooling. The teenager, who happens to be black, is being held in a juvenile detention facility for breaking the terms of her parole for domestic violence against her mother. What parole term did she break? According to ...
Drug War Disappearances and Murders by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2020 How anyone can defend drug laws is beyond me. Consider the following: During the past 15 years or so of drug warfare in Mexico, there have been around 200,000 deaths resulting from drug war violence. 200,000 people, dead. Not because of drugs, but because of the drug war. That’s not all. There are also ...
