Nationalizations in Cuba and the United States by Jacob G. Hornberger January 12, 2015 Proponents for continuing the Cold War-era U.S. embargo against Cuba, many of whom are Latin Americans, say that as a condition for lifting the embargo, the U.S. government should require the Cuban government to compensate, either with damages or restoration, U.S. companies and even Cuban citizens for the Castro regime’s nationalization of their properties more than 50 years ago. Really? Pray ...
Additional Conservative Hypocrisy on the Cuban Embargo by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2015 In my blog post of January 6, 2015, entitled “Conservative Hypocrisy on the Cuban Embargo,” I listed five ways in which conservative hypocrisy was manifesting itself in the context of the debate over whether the 54-year-old U.S. embargo against Cuba should be lifted. Later, I realized that the list should have enumerated one other way: mass surveillance over the ...
The Communists Won the Cuban Missile Crisis by Jacob G. Hornberger January 8, 2015 For decades the official story here in the United States, one that is inculcated into every student in every public school in the land, is that in the showdown between President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963, Kennedy inflicted a humiliating defeat on Khrushchev by forcing him to back down and remove ...
Putin, Businessmen, and Economic Crimes by Jacob G. Hornberger January 7, 2015 Russian businessman Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg are learning a lesson about economic crimes that American businessmen learned a long time ago. When Alexei decided to take on Russian President Vladimir Putin in the political arena, he and his brother soon became the target of a federal criminal prosecution relating to economic and financial crimes. Two weeks ago, ...
Conservative Hypocrisy on the Cuban Embargo by Jacob G. Hornberger January 6, 2015 We are witnessing classic conservative hypocrisy with their predictable opposition to the lifting of the 54-year-old U.S. embargo against Cuba. That includes many Latin American conservatives who have come to view the U.S. government as their “papasito” and who are now lamenting that the U.S. government might no longer be intervening on their behalf in Cuba. Let’s count five ways ...
FFF’s JFK Books Hit Amazon Best-Seller List by Jacob G. Hornberger January 5, 2015 Last September, The Future of Freedom Foundation launched a special 6 ½-hour video presentation on the JFK autopsy entitled “Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Medical Evidence” by Douglas P. Horne, who served on the Assassination Records Review Board in the 1990s. The video presentation was based on Horne’s five-volume book Inside the Assassination ...
Voluntary vs. Mandatory Charity by Jacob G. Hornberger January 2, 2015 As everyone knows, one of the major differences between statists and libertarians is over the issue of charity. Libertarians believe that charity should be voluntary. Statists believe it should be mandatory. In analyzing this fundamental difference in perspective, there is one indisputable fact: The more wealth there is in a society, the greater the amount of charity that can be ...
A Radical Question about the CIA in the Mainstream Press by Jacob G. Hornberger December 31, 2014 Several days ago, the New York Times, which of course epitomizes the mainstream press in America, asked a question that ordinarily would be found mainly on libertarian websites like that of The Future of Freedom Foundation. In the Room for Debate section of the Times’ Opinion Pages, the Times asked: “Do We Need the C.I.A.?” In the introduction to ...
JFK and the Cuban Embargo by Jacob G. Hornberger December 30, 2014 It will be fascinating to watch the unfolding debate over the lifting of the decades-old Cold War U.S. embargo against Cuba because it will enable Americans today to get a sense of what the U.S. national-security establishment — i.e., the military and the CIA – felt about President Kennedy when he was in office. Already, we’re hearing that President Obama ...
Bring the Sacrificial Lambs in Korea Home Now by Jacob G. Hornberger December 29, 2014 During the Christmas holiday, I had the opportunity to visit with high-school and a college-age nephew, nieces, and their friends in Texas. Watching an extremely harrowing scene involving air-to-air combat in the movie Unbroken, my teen-age niece turned to me and asked, “Is that the way war really is?” I responded, “Much worse.” Back at my brother’s house after the ...
Cold War Spy Games Show the Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. National-Security State by Jacob G. Hornberger December 19, 2014 Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, the Cuban government official who was released from prison as part of a spy trade between the U.S. government and Cuba, is being hailed by U.S. officials as a hero. Of course, that’s not the view of the Cuban government, which considers Sarraff a traitor. At the same time, former U.S. officials Walter Kendall Myers and his ...
A Cold War Breakthrough by Jacob G. Hornberger December 18, 2014 More than 50 years after the U.S. government’s imposition of its brutal economic embargo against the Cuban people, yesterday’s announcement by President Obama calling for a lifting of the embargo represents a major breakthrough for libertarians and others who are committed to the principles of individual liberty, free markets, private property, liberty of contract, freedom of travel, and freedom ...