A Formula for Libertarian Success by Jacob G. Hornberger November 21, 2016 By garnering around 4 percent of the national vote, Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson received more votes than any other LP presidential candidate in history. Nonetheless, 4 percent is still a far cry from winning the presidency, a fact that has caused some libertarians to succumb to feelings of despondency, despair, defeat, and depression, especially since much of the ...
Trump and Allende by Jacob G. Hornberger November 17, 2016 Throughout the presidential campaign, President Obama, the national security establishment, and the mainstream press maintained that Donald Trump is unfit to be president. Obama said that Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to be president. For her part, Hillary Clinton stated, “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes. It’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us ...
FFF’s Drug War Video Project Launches Today by Jacob G. Hornberger November 16, 2016 Today we launch our new Drug War Video Project, whose aim is to accelerate an end to the war on drugs, one of the most immoral and destructive government programs in U.S. history. Featuring a broad array of speakers, whose videos will be posted in the coming weeks, the video series presents each presenter’s reasons as to why it’s ...
Trump’s Supporters Don’t Yet Get It by Jacob G. Hornberger November 15, 2016 Trump’s supporters are on the right track, but they still just don’t get it. They know that something is wrong with America. They are characterized by a deep sense of dis-ease about where our country is and where it is going. On a personal level, many of them are barely making ends meet. They have little or no savings. They ...
Trump’s Foreign Policy: Four More Years of Bush-Obama? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 14, 2016 What will President-elect Trump do with respect to foreign policy? Will he follow in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Barack Obama and pursue another four years of death and destruction in the Middle East and Afghanistan? Or will he move America in a different direction by finally bringing U.S. troops home? Unfortunately, he will be coming under tremendous ...
The Moral Bankruptcy of the Left by Jacob G. Hornberger November 10, 2016 All those leftist protestors who are crying and wailing over Donald Trump’s election are only showing how the liberal movement has become as morally bankrupt as the conservative movement. After all, consider what they could be protesting. They could be protesting the 15 years of continuous death and destruction at the hands of the U.S. national security state in Afghanistan ...
Trump: Don’t Follow the Bush-Obama Foreign Policy Legacy by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2016 Eight years ago, President Obama had a chance to change the warmongering direction that outgoing President Bush and the U.S. national-security establishment had led America for the previous eight years. Obama could have said, “Enough is enough. America has done enough killing and dying. I’m going to lead our country in a different direction — toward peace, prosperity, and ...
Freedom, Despite a New Democratically Elected Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger November 8, 2016 For the last year, the American people have had their fun, what with all those presidential candidates catering to them, being nice to them, offering them goodies, and saying all sorts of nice things about them. Tomorrow, however, the roles reverse once again. Either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be in charge. One of them will assume his or ...
Another U.S. Massacre in Afghanistan by Jacob G. Hornberger November 7, 2016 The latest massacre of many innocent people by U.S. forces in Afghanistan provides another demonstration as to why it is imperative that the American people stop deferring to the authority of the national security state and demand the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan. In a war that has now gone on for 16 years, U.S. forces just ...
Continued CIA Secrecy in the JFK Assassination? by Jacob G. Hornberger November 4, 2016 Not surprisingly, among the issues that the mainstream media has never raised during the presidential race is that of the CIA’s secret documents and records relating to the assassination of President Kennedy that are set to finally be released in October 2017. Imagine that: a 54-year delay in releasing records that relate to what was supposedly just a lone-nut murder ...
Washington’s Meddling in Foreign Elections by Jacob G. Hornberger November 3, 2016 As U.S. officials continue to accuse Russia of meddling with the U.S. presidential election, an accusation that they have provided no evidence whatsoever to support, let’s review some of the U.S. government’s history of meddling with elections in others countries. 1. In 1951, the democratically elected parliament of Iran elected a man named Mohammad Mossadegh to be Iran’s prime minister. ...
Purchasing Loyalty with Foreign Aid by Jacob G. Hornberger November 2, 2016 A dispute that is taking place between Saudi Arabia and Egypt indirectly demonstrates the nature of U.S. foreign aid. After dumping a walloping $25 billion in foreign aid to help the Egyptian military dictatorship’s economic woes, the Saudis are hopping mad. Why? Because last month in the United Nations, contrary to Saudi Arabia’s wishes, Egypt voted in favor of a Russian ...
