No CIA Regime Change in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger May 16, 2016 Venezuela is in a state of crisis and collapse. The socialist economic system of President Hugo Chavez and his successor Vicente Maduro has plunged the nation into an economic black hole, one that, according to a front-page article in today’s New York Times, is even “claiming the lives of untold numbers of Venezuelans.” The Times writes that the healthcare emergency that has been brought on by the economic crisis is “just part of a larger unraveling here that has become so severe it has prompted President Nicolas Maduro to impose a state of emergency and has raised fears of a government collapse.” In a nation that prides itself for its socialist healthcare system, “It is like something from the 19th century,” said Dr. Christian Pino, a surgeon at the University of Andes Hospital in Merida. All this, of course, raises an important question: Should the CIA use the crisis to target Venezuela for regime change, one by which the ...
Ellen Browning Scripps Would Have Been Proud by Jacob G. Hornberger May 13, 2016 An interesting controversy has broken out at Scripps College in Claremont, California. Several students and professors are protesting the selection of former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, as the commencement speaker. The controversy at the small liberal arts college in California has sent the Los Angeles Times into emotional hyper-drive, causing the paper to weigh in on the controversy with an editorial and an op-ed criticizing the students and faculty who are doing the protesting. (Also publishing an article on the controversy.) The title of the Times editorial was “Students Need to Stop Being So Sensitive and Let Madeleine Albright Speak,” which was a bit misleading since the students are not threatening to prevent Albright from speaking or threatening to interrupt her talk with protests. The students are simply expressing their objections to the selection of Albright as their commencement speaker and, at most, simply expressing a preference for someone else. What’s wrong with that? For their part, ...
JFK and the National Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger May 11, 2016 An update on FFF’s JFK/national-security state books: 1. The Kennedy Autopsy by Jacob G. Hornberger. Launched on September 4, 2014, this ebook continues to be FFF’s all-time bestseller. Soon after its publication, soaring sales caused the book to be listed on Amazon’s list of top 100 bestselling ebooks in 20th-century U.S. history. Today — a year and a half after publication — it is still #8 on that list. It has received 200 comments on Amazon, averaging 4 stars out of 5. Owing to the continued high interest in the book, it is now available in print and audio formats. A recent comment posted on Amazon: “This is a good book that clearly sets forth details about the events concerning the autopsy of President Kennedy. These events are haunting.”-Joey Harper, April 25, 2016. 2. JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why JFK Was Assassinated by Douglas Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s. ...
Remember How We Got Out of Vietnam by Jacob G. Hornberger May 3, 2016 Do you remember what U.S. national-security state officials were saying when millions of Americans were demanding that the U.S. government withdraw its troops from Vietnam and bring them home? They were saying that “national security” was at stake — i.e., the very survival of the United States. If the U.S. government withdrew from Vietnam, they said, the dominoes would start ...
Trump and America First by Jacob G. Hornberger April 29, 2016 Whatever else might be said of Donald Trump, no one can deny that he has the most remarkable ability to make the GOP and mainstream establishment go ballistic. The most recent example is his use of the term “America First” in a foreign policy speech that he delivered right in the center of U.S. Empire, Washington, D.C. Once again, he ...
Are the Brussels Deaths “Worth It”? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 25, 2016 In 1996 U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright was asked by Sixty Minutes whether the deaths of half-a-million Iraqi children from the sanctions that the U.S. government was enforcing against Iraq were worth it. Her response was fascinating: She said that while it was a difficult issue, yes, the deaths of those half-a-million children were, in fact, “worth ...
Do They Hate Belgium for Its Freedom and Values? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 23, 2016 Repeating myself sometimes gets tired and tiresome, but when it comes to the endless stream of innocent people who continue to be killed in terrorist attacks, it’s important to do so. Until enough people realize the root cause of the ongoing and never-ending death and destruction and decide to do something about it, the death and destruction will continue ...
Socialism or Fascism? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 18, 2016 What an exciting political circus! With Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump leading the race in their respective parties, it seems that Americans might well be treated in the fall to the type of political conflicts that have long characterized Europe. Socialism or Fascism? Which will it be? Although Clinton is not as honest as her opponent Bernie Sanders regarding her ...
America Doesn’t Need a National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger March 16, 2016 The American people are absolutely convinced that they need the U.S. national-security establishment, namely, the military, the CIA, and the NSA. Without this totalitarian-like apparatus that was grafted onto America’s governmental system after World War II, it is commonly believed, Americans wouldn’t be safe. It’s the national-security state, the story goes, that is America’s last bastion against the terrorists, ...
Hey, FDR Was a Fascist Too! by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2016 It’s the latest rage among American leftists to point out that Donald Trump has fascist proclivities. A recent example is Robert Reich, who was secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. In an article yesterday on Raw Story, Reich states “Trump has finally reached a point where parallels between his presidential campaign and the ...
Good for Sanders! And Shame on Him! by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2016 At a town hall forum in South Carolina a couple of days ago, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked by CNN whether he stood by recently surfaced comments he made about the CIA back in 1974, which I wrote about in my blog post yesterday. Back then, Sanders pointed out that the CIA was a dangerous institution ...
Sanders, Clinton, the CIA, and the JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger February 24, 2016 An article this week in Politico reveals that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called for the abolition of the CIA during the 1970s. Apparently it is a position that Sanders is now running away from because he certainly hasn’t repeated it during the presidential race, and when the Politico reporter who uncovered the story asked the Sanders campaign ...
