Hornberger's Blog

The Cancer of the National-Security State

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 29, 2023

NOTICE: Owing to vacation plans, except for July 4, FFF Daily will not be sent out during the week of July 3. It will resume on Monday, July 10. **** Suppose that after you visit your doctor for a physical examination, he informs you that you are suffering from the following ailments: A stiff knee, which requires ...

The Mule Shows Why the Drug War Will Never Be Won

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 28, 2023

NOTICE: Owing to vacation plans, FFF Daily will not be sent out during the week of July 3. It will resume on Monday, July 10. **** Last night, I watched The Mule, the drug-war movie on Netflix that was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. It was the second time I’ve seen the movie.  Eastwood also stars ...

The Mafia Did Not Orchestrate JFK’s Assassination

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 27, 2023

NOTICE: Owing to vacation plans, FFF Daily will not be sent out during the week of July 3. It will resume on Monday, July 10. **** With this being the 60th anniversary year of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, there will undoubtedly be an increasing number of articles in the mainstream press about the assassination leading ...

Has Russia Been Degraded Enough?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2023

NOTICE: Owing to vacation plans, FFF Daily will not be sent out during the week of July 3. It will resume on Monday, July 10. **** American interventionists undoubtedly finished the weekend in a deep depression over the fact that Russia did not devolve into a full-scale civil war. With Wagner Group’s leader Yevgeny Prigozhin’s decision to give ...

More Deaths from Immigration Controls

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2023

Immigration-control advocates have lots more deaths to add to their immigration-control ledger, although these deaths took place in Europe rather than the United States. According to New York Times, “As many as 650 men, women, and children” drowned when an overcrowded fishing trawler carrying illegal migrants capsized off the coast of Greece. The Times called it “one of ...

We Can Now See How Russia and China Feel

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 22, 2023

China’s purported plan to establish a military training base in Cuba can help the American people to understand more fully Russia’s opposition to NATO expansionism in Eastern Europe and Ukraine as well as China’s opposition to U.S. military bases near China. U.S. officials are going ballistic over the purported China-Cuba deal, not because the deal is illegal but ...

Protecting the Secrets of the Dark Side

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 21, 2023

Given that the United States is a national-security state, it stands to reason that most, if not all, of its secrets relate to its dark-side activities, including the planning and carrying out of state-sponsored assassinations of political leaders. Woe to the person who discloses any of these dark-side activities, for he or she will be branded a spy, ...

What Is Evan Gershkovich’s Side of the Story?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 20, 2023

Last March 29, Russian officials arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and charged him with espionage. Prior to his arrest, Gershkovich had been writing a series of critical articles regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that the Journal had been publishing. He has been incarcerated ever since and is awaiting trial.  From the very start, the Wall ...

The Anti-Communist Crusade

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2023

A central feature of the Cold War racket was the anti-communist crusade. At the behest of the U.S. national-security establishment, the entire nation became obsessed with the commies, both foreign and domestic. The Reds were coming to get us. They were everywhere. They were in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Russia, China, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia, Brazil, and most everywhere else. ...

The Socialism and Fascism of Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2023

Everyone is familiar with President Franklin Roosevelt’s embrace of socialism with his adoption of Social Security, a program that originated among socialists in Germany. With Social Security, the government, operating through the IRS, seizes a portion of income from young people and gives it to seniors. Like with all socialist programs, statists claim that Social Security reflects the ...

Were Madison, Eisenhower, Truman, and King Right or Not?

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2023

What did James Madison, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Truman, and Martin Luther King have in common? They all pointed out the dangers and adverse consequences of America’s national-security state governmental structure. Yet, oddly, the critiques and admonitions of all four of them have been disregarded by modern-day Americans. James Madison was the person who crafted the Constitution. He was ...

Why JFK Was Deemed a Threat to National Security

by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2023

Three days ago — June 10 — was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University. Reading or listening to the speech today, it is not difficult to see why the U.S. national-security establishment deemed Kennedy to be a grave threat to national security, just as it did with certain foreign leaders, such ...