Egypt and the Destruction of Civil Liberties in America by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2020 There are lots of things wrong with the conviction and incarceration of 54-year-old Mustafa Kassem, who died last week in Egypt. Kassen was an American citizen who drove a taxi in New York City. He had two children. In 2013, the Egyptian military ousted the democratically elected president of the country, which reestablished its omnipotent ...
The Drug War Has Destroyed Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger January 16, 2020 When I was a kid growing up in Laredo,Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s, tourists from all over the country would come to Laredo to get a taste of “old Mexico.” Laredo is situated right on the border. The downtown area was connected to the downtown area of Nuevo Laredo with one international bridge. The two cities ...
Interventionism Makes Americans Less Safe by Jacob G. Hornberger January 15, 2020 There is something important to note about U.S. interventionism in faraway lands: None of the people that the U.S. government is killing, maiming, or destroying is invading and trying to conquer the United States. Neither are the governments of the nations in which the victims are citizens. No one is invading and trying to conquer the United States. There is ...
The Pentagon’s and CIA’s Power to Assassinate Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger January 14, 2020 Pentagon officials are assuring Americans that the Pentagon’s recent assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani will make Americans safer. There is at least one big problem with that formulation, one that, unfortunately, many Americans still don’t recognize. That problem is this: the power of assassination wielded by the Pentagon and the CIA extends to American citizens. Why is that ...
Assassination Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2020 We are all familiar with the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture center and prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, where the U.S. national-security establishment has knowingly, intentionally, and deliberately destroyed protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Those include the right to a speedy trial, right to effective assistance of counsel, right to remain silent, right to trial by jury, ...
The Long Sordid History of Pentagon Intervention in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger January 10, 2020 There is no reason for the Pentagon to be depressed, despondent, or angry over the fact that Iraqi officials are kicking the Pentagon out of Iraq. The Pentagon doesn’t belong in Iraq in the first place. First, it’s important to keep in mind that ever since the Pentagon and the rest of the U.S. national-security establishment ...
The Ongoing U.S. War on Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2020 The Washington, D.C., establishment and the U.S. mainstream press continue to express concern about the possibility that war is going to break out between the United States and Iran. That is ridiculous. What they don’t want to confront is that the U.S. government is already waging war against Iran and has been for many years. After all, how else to ...
Immigration Controls and Private Property by Jacob G. Hornberger January 8, 2020 There is a perception among some libertarians that simply by privatizing all property in the United States the issue of government-controlled borders would disappear. The issue would become, they say, simply a matter of each private owner deciding who comes onto his privately owned property. They conclude their argument by saying that there would be no “open borders” in ...
The Roots of U.S. Hatred Toward Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger January 7, 2020 Português A question that naturally arises but one that the mainstream press never asks is: What is the reason for the deep-seated hatred that the U.S. national-security state has toward Iran? No, the answer doesn’t begin with the fact that Iranian revolutionaries took American diplomats hostage during the Iranian revolution in 1979, ...
The Failure of Operation Iraqi Freedom by Jacob G. Hornberger January 6, 2020 What everyone can agree on with respect to the current crisis in Iraq is that Operation Iraqi Freedom, the slogan that the Pentagon used in the run-up to its 2003 invasion of Iraq, has been one great big miserable failure. Despite Pentagon and CIA plans to convert Iraq into a paradise of freedom through massive death and ...
The Cause of America’s Dysfunctionality by Jacob G. Hornberger January 3, 2020 In analyzing the causes for the dysfunctional nature of American society (e.g., soaring suicide rates, especially among young people, massive drug addiction and alcoholism, and widespread violence, including irrational mass killings), among the things to consider is the replacement of America’s founding economic, monetary, and governmental system with a different system.
Concealed Carry in Texas Churches Saved Texas Lives by Jacob G. Hornberger January 2, 2020 Even gun-control advocates are admitting that if it hadn’t been for the actions of Jack Wilson, there would be more people killed by gunman Keith Kinnunen in the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas. Kinnunen, who had a history of mental problems, entered the church with a concealed weapon, which he pulled out during church services. Within ...
