Jacob G. Hornberger

Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas.

The Deep State’s Long Enmity Toward the People of Iran

Neither Iran nor Iraq has ever attacked the United States. Iran is not over here. It is the U.S. deep state that is over there.

Jacob G. Hornberger
By Jacob G. Hornberger
An Iranian woman walks past a mural, painted on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy, in Tehran, Iran, Nov. 2, 2013. Ebrahim Noroozi | AP

The U.S. deep state’s hatred of the Iranian people goes back a long way, at least as far back as 1953. That was the year that the CIA, which was called into existence in 1947 when the U.S. government was being converted to a national-security state, targeted Iran with its first regime-change operation. And guess who paid the price for that

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How The US Government Punished A Man For Helping Dying Children

In 1997, Bert Sacks traveled to Iraq to deliver $40,000 worth of medicine. For this, he was fined $10,000 by the U.S government.

Jacob G. Hornberger
By Jacob G. Hornberger
Suffering from leukemia, 5 year-old Sahira lies in her bed as her mother weeps at the Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1999. (AP/Murad Sezer)

In my article “The Evil of Killing Children,” I pointed out how the U.S. government, in an attempt to achieve regime change in Iraq, knowingly and intentionally killed hundreds of thousands of innocent children in Iraq. Unfortunately, killing those innocent Iraqi children was not the only evil action taken by U.S. officials regarding the Iraq

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The Fallacies Of The Anti-Islam Crowd

After the Cold War suddenly and unexpectedly ended, the U.S. national-security establishment lost its official bugaboos — communism and the Soviet Union.

Jacob G. Hornberger
By Jacob G. Hornberger
An American protester in Washington, D.C. holding a sign saying he's Islamophobic.

Ever since the 9/11 attacks, there has been a fringe element in American society that has claimed that the attacks were part of a centuries-old religious war between Islam and Christianity. They’ve claimed that Muslims constitute a grave threat against everyone in the United States and the Western world because Muslims are supposedly determined to

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