JFK’s War Against the Military Industrial Complex by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2022 A question I often receive in response to my articles and books on the Kennedy assassination is: What difference does it make? The assassination took place almost 60 years ago. My answer: Look at three things: (1) the current budget of the military-industrial complex; (2) the perpetual foreign-policy crises into which our nation has been plunged; and (3) ...
U.S. Audacity on Brittney Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2022 Only a person who is willfully blind cannot see that the U.S. position on the Brittney Griner case is driven not by some compassionate concern for her welfare but rather by the extreme anti-Russia animus that has afflicted U.S. officials for more than 75 years. Yesterday, a Russian judge sentenced Griner to 9 years in jail. This ...
The Pentagon Is Behind Pelosi’s Trip by Jacob G. Hornberger August 4, 2022 Joe Biden wanted to make it clear that the Pentagon was opposed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, a trip that was obviously intended to gin up a crisis with Red China. The notion that the Pentagon opposed Pelosi’s trip is sheer nonsense. In my opinion, there ...
Celebrating Another Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger August 3, 2022 U.S. officials, U.S. interventionists, and U.S. proponents of the “global war on terror” are celebrating yet another state-sponsored assassination, this one of 71-year old al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was accused of helping to orchestrate the attacks on September 11 more than 20 years ago. The assassination took place by drone in Kabul, Afghanistan, without the consent of ...
“Russian Bad!” by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2022 One of the benefits to the U.S. national-security establishment of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that it has enabled the U.S. mainstream press to focus on the evils of the Russian regime rather than on the evils of the U.S. regime. Consider, for example, the invasions and long-term occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which, most ...
Moral Blindness on U.S. Evil by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2022 One of the big problems we face in America is the unwillingness of all too many Americans to identify and confront evil within their own government, especially when that evil is centered within the Pentagon and the CIA, both of which are considered godlike by many Americans. As I point out in my new book An ...
Too Bad Biden Can’t Trade Maria Butina for Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger July 28, 2022 The mainstream media is reporting that President Biden is offering a trade deal to the Russians. If they will give him Brittney Griner, he will give them Viktor Bout. Who is Viktor Bout? He’s an international Russian arms dealer who got caught in a sting operation orchestrated by the DEA (yes, the Drug Enforcement Administration) in Thailand, ...
Conservative Hypocrisy on Brittney Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger July 27, 2022 The rank hypocrisy among conservatives in the Brittney Griner case continues apace. Yesterday, the conservative Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by a man named Gregg Opelka, who expressed sympathy with Griner. He hopes that “she doesn’t receive the disproportionate 10-year sentence she faces. A milder punishment seems fitting for her unfortunate error of judgment.” He ...
Federal Spending Is the Problem with Inflation by Jacob G. Hornberger July 26, 2022 Both conservatives and progressives are lamenting the soaring prices in the American economy. Not surprisingly, many of them are blaming the problem on Covid and, of course, on Russia. If only Covid hadn’t hit and if only Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, everything in the American economy would be hunky-dory. Progressives are now criticizing the Federal Reserve for threatening ...
Biden versus Trump: What’s the Difference? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 25, 2022 Yesterday, the New York Times carried a news analysis entitled “On U.S. Foreign Policy, the New Boss Acts a Lot Like the Old One.” The article made a very simple point: When it comes to foreign policy, there isn’t much difference between President Biden and former President Trump. Well, duh! As we libertarians have been pointing ...
The Secret Service’s Obstructions of Justice by Jacob G. Hornberger July 22, 2022 According to an article on the website Alternet, “Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is calling for a “criminal investigation” into the U.S. Secret Service‘s deleted text messages” relating to the congressional investigation into the January 6 protests at the Capitol. The article stated, “The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General notified the House and Senate ...
Border-Control Fallacies by Jacob G. Hornberger July 21, 2022 A writer at Substack named David Ferguson writes: Robert Frost once wrote “good fences make good neighbors.” Very true. Isn’t there any private property on the U.S. side of the border? Doesn’t a property owner have the right to defend his justly obtained property? How about hiring private police to keep intruders from trespassing on your property? The ...
