Bribe Money for Ukrainian Officials? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 14, 2022 In my blog post of May 18, 2022, I raised the possibility that the $40 billion aid package that Congress quickly approved for Ukraine was going to be used, at least in part, to pay multimillion dollar bribes to Ukrainian officials. After all, why else would the members of Congress, as well as the Pentagon’s assets ...
Pentagon-NATO Blowback in Nicaragua? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 13, 2022 In what is obviously a tit-for-tat response to the Pentagon’s role in ginning up the Russia- Ukraine war, Nicaraguan officials have announced that they have invited Russian troops to visit the country for “humanitarian”and “training” purposes. They are saying that the visit will be “routine,” but there is actually nothing routine about it. It will be fascinating to ...
The Summit of the Americas: What a Joke! by Jacob G. Hornberger June 9, 2022 I can’t decide which part of the Summit of the Americas is funnier — the dust-up over which Latin American countries President Biden would permit to attend or Biden's dramatic plan for economic improvement in Latin America. The brouhaha over which countries would be allowed to attend involved Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Biden decided that he didn’t want ...
What If the U.S. Had Invaded Ukraine? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 8, 2022 Let’s engage in a thought experiment. Suppose that Ukraine was headed by a pro-Russia regime. After repeated failed attempts at assassination by the CIA, the Pentagon finally decides to invade Ukraine for the purpose of bringing about regime change — i.e., ousting the pro-Russia regime from power and replacing it with a pro-U.S. regime.
A Weird Society by Jacob G. Hornberger June 7, 2022 By now, even the most diehard welfare-warfare statist has to acknowledge that we are living in a weird, dysfunctional, drug-addled, poverty-producing, and violence-prone society. What better proof of the failure of the welfare-warfare state way of life than that? Just look around. Thirty trillion dollars in federal debt, and climbing. Prices of gasoline, food, and other things soaring, ...
The Fed, and No One Else, Is Responsible for Inflation by Jacob G. Hornberger June 6, 2022 According to commentators in the mainstream press and various federal officials, inflation is like the coronavirus. It spreads around the world, hitting different countries in different ways. Sometimes a country will experience only mild symptoms and sometimes more severe symptoms, like what happens with Covid. Now that the inflation virus has hit America, the mainstream media, along ...
Seven Days in May by Jacob G. Hornberger May 31, 2022 Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed entitled, “Why Does the Pentagon Give a Helping Hand to Films Like ‘Top Gun’?” by Roger Stahl, a communication studies professor at the University of Georgia and director of the documentary film “Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood.” The op-ed pointed ...
Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering by Jacob G. Hornberger May 24, 2022 American conservatives, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, have to be in a state of ecstasy over an article about Cuba that appeared in last Sunday’s Washington Post. The article stated that “in a nation plagued by malnutrition,” there is no milk for the Cuban people to purchase. The article points out that Cuba “careens through ...
“Patriotic” Church Ministers by Jacob G. Hornberger May 23, 2022 Pope Francis is taking the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church to task for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Francis told Patriarch Kirill not to be “Putin’s altar boy.” Licensed under Creative Commons. If only that same message had been received and understood by Catholic priests ...
Yay! Biden Lengthens Our Leashes on Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger May 20, 2022 Out of the goodness of his heart, President Biden has just lengthened our leashes when it comes to Cuba. Isn’t that just so nice? Isn’t it great to live under a nice, benevolent democratically elected dictator rather than a cruel and brutal one? Biden is issuing executive decrees permitting more U.S. flights into Cuba, removing caps on ...
Gun-Control Laws Disarmed the Tops Victims by Jacob G. Hornberger May 19, 2022 Once again, with the shooting massacre at the Tops supermarket in Buffalo, New York, we are able to see the disastrous consequence of gun-control laws. Ten innocent people dead and three others wounded. The response of the gun-control crowd is predictable. They say that the shooting shows we need even more gun control than already exists in New ...
Is the Pentagon Taking Us to Heaven? by Jacob G. Hornberger May 18, 2022 In a fascinating public melding of mindsets, the U.S. leftwing media and rightwing media have come together to denounce opposition to the $40 billion aid package that Congress is getting ready to approve for the Ukrainian government. On the left, the Washington Post let loose with an extreme volley against what would seem to be a rather ...
