Copying the Communists by Jacob G. Hornberger January 24, 2020 The incarceration of 56-year-old Chinese citizen Huang Qi at the hands of Chinese authorities helps to remind us of how the conversion of the U.S. government to a national-security state fundamentally altered life in America in an adverse way. Huang is a human-rights advocate in China, one who has courageously publicized and disclosed human-rights violations ...
Two Different Americas by Jacob G. Hornberger January 23, 2020 There have been two completely different Americas in U.S. history. Let’s examine twelve ways in which they differ. 1. For more than a century after the United States came into existence, there was no income taxation or IRS. People were free to keep everything they earned and decide for themselves what to do with it.
Our American Ancestors Didn’t Trust the Federal Government by Jacob G. Hornberger January 22, 2020 The U.S. Constitution brought into existence a federal government whose powers were limited to those enumerated in the Constitution itself. If a power wasn’t enumerated, it simply could not be exercised. That’s because our American ancestors didn’t trust governmental power. They clearly understood, based on both historical knowledge and life experience, that the greatest threat to their freedom and well-being ...
The Absurdity of the U.S. Prosecution of Meng Wanzhou by Jacob G. Hornberger January 21, 2020 The U.S. extradition proceedings against Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou only goes to show the utter perversity of the U.S. government’s policy of imposing economic sanctions on foreign regimes and, in a larger context, the perversity of the entire U.S. foreign policy of interventionism and meddling in the affairs of other nations.
They Killed King for the Same Reason They Killed Kennedy by Jacob G. Hornberger January 20, 2020 Amidst all the anti-Russia brouhaha that has enveloped our nation, we shouldn’t forget that the U.S. national-security establishment — specifically the Pentagon, CIA, and FBI — was convinced that Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist agent who was spearheading a communist takeover of the United States. This occurred during the Cold War, when Americans were made to believe that ...
Egypt and the Destruction of Civil Liberties in America by Jacob G. Hornberger January 17, 2020 There are lots of things wrong with the conviction and incarceration of 54-year-old Mustafa Kassem, who died last week in Egypt. Kassen was an American citizen who drove a taxi in New York City. He had two children. In 2013, the Egyptian military ousted the democratically elected president of the country, which reestablished its omnipotent ...
The Drug War Has Destroyed Mexico by Jacob G. Hornberger January 16, 2020 When I was a kid growing up in Laredo,Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s, tourists from all over the country would come to Laredo to get a taste of “old Mexico.” Laredo is situated right on the border. The downtown area was connected to the downtown area of Nuevo Laredo with one international bridge. The two cities ...
Interventionism Makes Americans Less Safe by Jacob G. Hornberger January 15, 2020 There is something important to note about U.S. interventionism in faraway lands: None of the people that the U.S. government is killing, maiming, or destroying is invading and trying to conquer the United States. Neither are the governments of the nations in which the victims are citizens. No one is invading and trying to conquer the United States. There is ...
The Pentagon’s and CIA’s Power to Assassinate Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger January 14, 2020 Pentagon officials are assuring Americans that the Pentagon’s recent assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani will make Americans safer. There is at least one big problem with that formulation, one that, unfortunately, many Americans still don’t recognize. That problem is this: the power of assassination wielded by the Pentagon and the CIA extends to American citizens. Why is that ...
Assassination Nation by Jacob G. Hornberger January 13, 2020 We are all familiar with the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture center and prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, where the U.S. national-security establishment has knowingly, intentionally, and deliberately destroyed protections guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Those include the right to a speedy trial, right to effective assistance of counsel, right to remain silent, right to trial by jury, ...
The Long Sordid History of Pentagon Intervention in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger January 10, 2020 There is no reason for the Pentagon to be depressed, despondent, or angry over the fact that Iraqi officials are kicking the Pentagon out of Iraq. The Pentagon doesn’t belong in Iraq in the first place. First, it’s important to keep in mind that ever since the Pentagon and the rest of the U.S. national-security establishment ...
The Ongoing U.S. War on Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger January 9, 2020 The Washington, D.C., establishment and the U.S. mainstream press continue to express concern about the possibility that war is going to break out between the United States and Iran. That is ridiculous. What they don’t want to confront is that the U.S. government is already waging war against Iran and has been for many years. After all, how else to ...
