Hornberger’s Blog, March 2007 by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2007 Friday, March 30, 2007 Eminent-Domain Tyranny in Communist China and the U.S. As the federal government continues to move in a pro-empire, pro-militarist direction abroad, rattling its swords against Iran thousands of miles away from the United States, we shouldn’t forget how, at the same time, state and local governments continue to move in the direction of communist China with respect ...
Hornberger’s Blog, February 2007 by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2007 Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Empire or Freedom—That’s the Choice by Jacob G. Hornberger We have several important articles on civil liberties in today’s FFF Email Update. The core issue is this: There is no longer any way to reconcile the powers that the federal government is wielding over the American people — especially the military’s post-9/11 power to arrest, torture, and execute ...
Hornberger’s Blog, January 2007 by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2007 Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Why Bush Wants War with Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger First of all, please don’t fail to read Chalmers Johnson’s terrific new article that we link to in today’s FFF Email Update: “Why Nemesis Is at the U.S.’s Door.” No one has a better handle on U.S. foreign policy and the damage it is causing our ...
Hornberger’s Blog, December 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2006 Friday, December 29, 2006 Yesterday, I blogged about a book entitled A Question of Torture by Alfred W. McCoy, which details how the torture that U.S. officials have engaged in has not been because of a few bad apples but instead has been totally consistent with the pattern of behavior of the CIA for the last several decades. The relationship ...
Hornberger’s Blog, November 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2006 Thursday, November 30, 2006 Newsweek has a good summary of the current status of the Jose Padilla case. It is quite possible that government lawyers might be caught lying, as they were in the infamous Ruby Ridge case. Responding to Padilla’s motion to dismiss based on the government’s having tortured him while in detention, federal attorneys in the case filed ...
Hornberger’s Blog, October 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2006 Tuesday, October 31, 2006 There’s a good reason that the deadline for filing federal income tax returns is April and Election Day is in November — so that when federal incumbents use federal “free” money to purchase votes from the voters, the voters will not realize that this “free” money is the money that they sent the IRS back in ...
Hornberger’s Blog, September 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2006 Friday, September 29, 2006 Do you recall when the neocons were justifying their war of aggression on Iraq and their subsequent military occupation of the country by saying, “The Iraqi people like our occupation because we’re bringing them peace and freedom”? Well, the Associated Press is reporting that 61 percent of the Iraqi people support attacks on U.S. troops in ...
Hornberger’s Blog, August 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger August 1, 2006 Thursday, August 31, 2006 Obviously becoming more desperate given the ever-increasing degeneration of the situation in Iraq and the ever-increasing defections among previously pro-war and pro-occupation GOP congressional candidates, Vice President Dick Cheney has compared the Saddam Hussein regime and the “terrorists” in Iraq to the Adolf Hitler regime. Unfortunately, Cheney misses an important point. In World War II, ...
Hornberger’s Blog, July 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2006 Monday, July 31, 2006 In a 230-180 vote, the House of Representatives voted to increase the minimum wage, a type of law that any reputable economist will tell you does nothing more than condemn people to unemployment. After all, look at the logic. No employer is required to hire anyone. It’s his business. He’s going to hire someone who he believes ...
Hornberger’s Blog, June 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger June 1, 2006 Friday, June 30, 2006 Ever since the 9/11 attacks, The Future of Freedom Foundation has not wavered in its firm opposition to the Pentagon’s torture camp and its kangaroo military tribunals that it set up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with the express purpose of avoiding the constraints of the U.S. Constitution and federal court interference. In my November ...
Hornberger’s Blog, May 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger May 1, 2006 Wednesday, May 31, 2006 In a speech to a friendly audience at West Point, President Bush announced that the “war on terrorism” would ultimately rival the Cold War in its length and difficulty. The corollary, which Bush didn’t mention, is that this will be perpetually increasing budgets for the military-industrial complex, a point that the graduates of West Point ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2006 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2006 Friday, April 28, 2006 An article in yesterday’s New York Times about Vietnam holds a valuable lesson about U.S. foreign policy and the U.S. government’s related policy of trying to isolate the American people from the rest of the world. Vietnam, as everyone knows, is ruled by a non-democratic communist/socialist regime. That means that the citizenry of Vietnam ...
