No Protests for Fetty Wap by Jacob G. Hornberger August 25, 2022 NOTE: On Saturday, September 3, the Ron Paul Institute is hosting its annual conference at the Westin Washington Dulles Airport in Herndon, Virginia. The theme for this year’s conference is “Anatomy of a Police State.” I will be speaking at a special add-on conference for young scholars the day before the main conference. Moreover, I have just been ...
How Did America Survive Without an Espionage Act? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 23, 2022 For some 140 years, the United States did not have an Espionage Act. It didn’t come into existence until 1917, when U.S. officials used it to punish Americans who had the audacity to question the U.S. intervention into World War I, an intervention that ultimately led to the rise of the Hitler regime in the 1930s. No ...
America’s Perpetual Foreign-Policy Crises by Jacob G. Hornberger August 22, 2022 Ever since the federal government was converted from a limited-government republic to a national-security state after World War II, America has lived under a system of ongoing, never-ending, perpetual foreign-policy crises. That’s not a coincidence. The national-security establishment — i.e. the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA — need such crises to justify their continued existence and their ...
Invoking the Fifth by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2022 Driven by their extreme anti-Trump animus — which rivals their extreme anti-Russia and anti-China animuses — the anti-Trump crowd is up in arms over Trump’s decision to take the Fifth Amendment in a deposition that was part of an investigation into his finances by the New York attorney general, Leticia James. They are mocking and ridiculing Trump for ...
The U.S. Murder of Ayman al-Zawahri by Jacob G. Hornberger August 10, 2022 While U.S. officials and their acolytes in the mainstream press have described the U.S. national-security establishment’s recent assassination of Ayman al-Zawahri as a great victory for President Biden and the U.S. “global war on terror,” it is important to keep in mind that the assassination was just plain murder on the part of America’s federal killing machine. Federal ...
JFK’s War Against the Military Industrial Complex by Jacob G. Hornberger August 8, 2022 A question I often receive in response to my articles and books on the Kennedy assassination is: What difference does it make? The assassination took place almost 60 years ago. My answer: Look at three things: (1) the current budget of the military-industrial complex; (2) the perpetual foreign-policy crises into which our nation has been plunged; and (3) ...
U.S. Audacity on Brittney Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger August 5, 2022 Only a person who is willfully blind cannot see that the U.S. position on the Brittney Griner case is driven not by some compassionate concern for her welfare but rather by the extreme anti-Russia animus that has afflicted U.S. officials for more than 75 years. Yesterday, a Russian judge sentenced Griner to 9 years in jail. This ...
The Pentagon Is Behind Pelosi’s Trip by Jacob G. Hornberger August 4, 2022 Joe Biden wanted to make it clear that the Pentagon was opposed to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, a trip that was obviously intended to gin up a crisis with Red China. The notion that the Pentagon opposed Pelosi’s trip is sheer nonsense. In my opinion, there ...
Celebrating Another Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger August 3, 2022 U.S. officials, U.S. interventionists, and U.S. proponents of the “global war on terror” are celebrating yet another state-sponsored assassination, this one of 71-year old al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was accused of helping to orchestrate the attacks on September 11 more than 20 years ago. The assassination took place by drone in Kabul, Afghanistan, without the consent of ...
“Russian Bad!” by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2022 One of the benefits to the U.S. national-security establishment of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is that it has enabled the U.S. mainstream press to focus on the evils of the Russian regime rather than on the evils of the U.S. regime. Consider, for example, the invasions and long-term occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which, most ...
Moral Blindness on U.S. Evil by Jacob G. Hornberger July 29, 2022 One of the big problems we face in America is the unwillingness of all too many Americans to identify and confront evil within their own government, especially when that evil is centered within the Pentagon and the CIA, both of which are considered godlike by many Americans. As I point out in my new book An ...
Too Bad Biden Can’t Trade Maria Butina for Griner by Jacob G. Hornberger July 28, 2022 The mainstream media is reporting that President Biden is offering a trade deal to the Russians. If they will give him Brittney Griner, he will give them Viktor Bout. Who is Viktor Bout? He’s an international Russian arms dealer who got caught in a sting operation orchestrated by the DEA (yes, the Drug Enforcement Administration) in Thailand, ...