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March 24, 2023
The United States’ Energy Future Needs Critical Minerals—and Latin America
Energy is a weapon in wartime and a key to prosperity in peacetime. As the world moves towards greater adoption of renewable energy sources and electric vehicles, we need to ensure that America’s...
March 23, 2023
The West’s Iran policy risks another Middle East war
“We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” President Joe Biden proclaimed before last fall’s United Nations General Assembly, a stance he has repeated numerous times throughout his...
March 23, 2023
Xi, Putin Visit Light on Support for Russia’s Invasion
Putin Hosts Xi for State Visit Days after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest, Vladimir Putin hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a state visit. The event marked a diplomatic...
March 22, 2023
Beijing’s Subversive Political Warfare in the Pacific—and the Need for Greater Engagement by the United States and Taiwan
Honduras has said it intends to shift diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China. We know this story: with the exception of 2007, when St. Lucia switched from Beijing to Taipei, the trend has run in this...
March 22, 2023
The ‘Yugoslavia Scenario’: How Russia Intends to Use an Anniversary in Its Ongoing Information War
On Tuesday Vladimir Putin warned the U.K. against sending Ukraine depleted uranium shells. Maria Zakharova immediately called this plan the “Yugoslavia scenario,” accusing NATO of using ammunition...
March 22, 2023
Wars of the Jewish state
TEL AVIV, ISRAEL – How many simultaneous conflicts can a small country handle? Israel – whose land area is smaller than that of Djibouti, and whose population is smaller than that of Cairo – may soon...
March 21, 2023
Popular Resistance Committees Attempts To Establish a Foothold in the West Bank
On Tue., the Shin Bet said that in recent weeks it arrested four West Bank Palestinians attempting to carry out attacks against Israeli targets. The Shin Bet alleges that the Gaza-based Popular Resistance...
March 21, 2023
How to Keep Antisemitism Away From Turtle Bay
Another antisemite has turned up in the ranks of senior UN officials — this time in the body’s human rights arm, no less. Craig Mokhiber heads the New York section of the Office of the High Commissioner...
March 21, 2023
Pray for Peace This Ramadan
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins March 22. It celebrates the month during which Muslims believe Allah revealed the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad. The holiday, marked by fasting and prayer, is intended...
March 20, 2023
Washington ignores Putin’s designs on Moldova at its peril
One of Europe’s most modest countries is becoming a major center of conflict. Russia is targeting the small-but-strategic lands of Moldova as the next big front in its war on Ukraine. While Washington...
March 20, 2023
Blind Sided
In June 2022, Facebook and Twitter accounts suddenly focused their wrath on Australian company Lynas. The previous year, Lynas—the largest rare earths mining and processing company outside China—had...
March 20, 2023
No US-Turkey Rapprochement Is Possible Under Erdogan
Turkey’s Ambassador Murat Mercan recently argued in Defense One that “transitioning transatlantic security priorities to an era of great power competition inevitably will necessitate exploring venues...
March 17, 2023
Could the Saudi-Iranian deal lead to peace with Israel?
A joint trilateral Saudi-Iranian-Chinese statement surprised the world and prompted speculation that Riyadh might be switching sides, abandoning America and joining the anti-Western axis. Dragging its...
March 17, 2023
Vultures at the gate: The national security risk of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure
In 2008, as the U.S. financial sector melted down, Beijing saw opportunity. “The financial crisis was a rare opportunity for Chinese enterprises lacking resources and advanced technology to go...
March 17, 2023
Building Virtue Into Virtual Assets
The illicit use of crypto-currencies—with billions lost, stolen, or exploited by criminals, hackers, rogue states, and bad actors—has cast an understandable cloud over the industry. And both virtual...
March 16, 2023
How Much Can Iranian Artillery Ammo Help Russia?
British outlet Sky News reported last week that Iran had secretly supplied Russia with a considerable amount of ammunition and intends to send more. If true, this would be a boon for Moscow at a time...
March 16, 2023
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE: Russians Down U.S. Drone, Iran Sends Putin Ammo
Two Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets “conducted an unsafe and unprofessional intercept” of an American MQ-9 Reaper drone performing routine...
March 16, 2023
Ukraine’s Cyber Defense Offers Lessons for Taiwan
The Ukraine war has filled the world with graphic images of a surprisingly capable underdog resisting the advances of a lumbering aggressor. But while the pictures are far less compelling, the story...
March 15, 2023
How Iran’s Regime Is Threatened by Its Clerics
Fereydoon Abbasi is a hardline parliamentarian and former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. In 2010, he barely survived what looked like an Israeli assassination attempt. And in December 2022,...
March 15, 2023
Hezbollah suspected in cross-border attack inside Israel
On Wednesday, the Israeli military said a suspect who crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon carried out a roadside bomb attack adjacent to the Magiddo Junction in northern Israel. The military’s...
March 15, 2023
The Axis of Tyrannies
On November 1, 1936, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini gave a speech celebrating the treaty he had signed with German dictator Adolf Hitler. “This Berlin-Rome protocol is not a barrier, it is rather...
March 14, 2023
Amid Ukraine War, Russia’s Global Hunt for Weapons Turns Up Surprisingly Little
Russia’s attempt to procure suicide drones from Beijing appears to have failed, as the Chinese Foreign Ministry quickly denied any plans to provide lethal aid. By contrast, dozens of countries are...
March 14, 2023
Turkey’s Erdogan grasps desperately for Kurdish votes
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expanded the number of political parties affiliated with his “People’s Alliance” to include a far-right Islamist party: Huda Par, a religiously...
March 13, 2023
Can something be done in wake of the Saudi-Iranian deal?
Israeli National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer have recently held very important meetings with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and his team, with the...
March 13, 2023
Who Is Poisoning Iranian Schoolgirls?
Excerpt Iranian news outlets began reporting three months ago that schoolgirls were falling ill with headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue and breathing difficulties. The shrine city of Qom, historic seat...
March 10, 2023
America Is Still Losing the Information War
In late January, the Russian Foreign Ministry launched its latest disinformation campaign, claiming that Moscow had acquired more than 20,000 documents about a supposed secret U.S. biological...
March 10, 2023
Hamas Lauds Terror Attack in Tel Aviv, Hints of Role Behind Shooting
On Thu., Hamas issued a statement praising Mutaz al-Khawaja for carrying out a shooting attack near a Tel-Aviv café that left three people wounded. The terror strike follows an ongoing wave of violence...
March 9, 2023
WAR IN UKRAINE UPDATE: Russia Advances; Moscow Continues to Benefit from Western Technology
Russians Take Eastern Bakhmut, While Zelenskyy Vows to Hold the Rest Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group has captured the eastern part of Bakhmut, Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who heads...
March 9, 2023
Micronesia’s President Writes Bombshell Letter on China’s ‘Political Warfare’
David Panuelo, the president of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) has written a letter to FSM leaders providing extraordinary details on Beijing’s political warfare and grey zone activity in the...
March 8, 2023
Biden’s State Department ignores Iranian death plots inside America
It took quite a bit longer than it should have, but the State Department finally released its 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism. As ever, the document covers the countries that experienced attacks, those...
March 8, 2023
Why Are US Universities Rehabilitating a Convicted Palestinian Terrorist?
College seminars on terrorism do not usually feature an actual terrorist, yet Sami al-Arian spoke at just such a panel at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis last December. The moderator introduced...
March 8, 2023
China’s global supremacists
Code Pink, among the looniest groups on the far left, last week attempted to disrupt a hearing of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Protestors held up signs and wore t-shirts...
March 7, 2023
Iran’s Slow Boil
The clerical regime in Tehran has held the streets. It remains to be seen, however, if the strategies employed to keep the ayatollahs afloat will prevail. When Mahsa Amini, a young Sunni Kurdish-Iranian...
March 7, 2023
March Is Women’s History Month, But Not in Iran
“Dear mothers, I’m a mother and my child is in a hospital bed…don’t send your children to school,” one parent in the Iranian city of Qom pleads. Iranian schoolgirls by the hundreds are falling...
March 7, 2023
Turkey’s Crimes Against Humanity Under ICC Spotlight
Turkey is facing difficult times, really difficult times. The numerous earthquakes which struck ten provinces in the southeastern part of the country killed tens of thousands, made 1.25 million homeless...
March 6, 2023
Biden’s diplomacy without deadlines erodes US-Gulf alliance
As US and Gulf Cooperation Council officials huddled in mid-February to discuss military coordination that could counter Iran’s destabilizing activity in the region, an explosive Iranian drone slammed...
March 6, 2023
Israel Super Capabilities in Space
Geospatial intelligence, GEOINT, is the evolution of visual intelligence, VISINT, and as some would argue, a revolution in the field. This important source of intelligence has remained a “stepchild”...
March 6, 2023
A Warning to the U.S. From Brazil and Iran
Last month, as newly elected Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva was preparing to visit President Joe Biden at the White House, a crisis loomed over U.S.-Brazil bilateral relations: Two...
March 6, 2023
China’s Ukraine Peace Plan Is Actually About Taiwan
Excerpt After twelve grinding months, China appears no more capable of influencing the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine than it was at the conflict’s inception. Largely reduced to spectator status,...
March 4, 2023
‘India can provide capital, technology to harness Bougainville’s resources’
Within the next few months, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Papua New Guinea (PNG). It will be a first for an Indian Prime Minister and the visit is keenly anticipated in the country...
March 3, 2023
Democratic backsliding harms the potential of a US-Mexico supply chain pivot
Mexico remains one of the United States’ most important allies and trading partners, but its engagement with the U.S. is cycling between two seemingly opposing trends: the desire to attract more...
March 3, 2023
Analysis of IAEA Iran Verification and Monitoring Report – February 2023
Excerpt Background This report summarizes and assesses information in the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) quarterly report for February 28, 2023, Verification and monitoring in the Islamic...
March 3, 2023
Russia’s hybrid warfare playbook now includes Moldova and the Balkans
Excerpt Ukraine is not the only European nation whose sovereignty is threatened by Russia. Also threatened are Moldova and Kosovo, two small but decidedly pro-Western countries. They have not suffered the...
March 3, 2023
We Have a New National Cybersecurity Strategy. Now What?
The new National Cybersecurity Strategy is clear and concise, laying out the case for a more robust and engaged approach to defending our national critical infrastructure from a growing list of threats...
March 3, 2023
How Silicon Valley Engineered China’s Protest Crackdowns
As an unprecedented protest movement quickly spread to dozens of Chinese cities last fall, calling into question Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s authority, the country’s Orwellian surveillance system...
March 3, 2023
US adds $5 million bounty to the Islamic State’s leader in the DRC
Yesterday, the United States’ State Department’s Rewards for Justice program placed a $5 million bounty on Musa Baluku, the emir of the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province in the Democratic Republic...
March 3, 2023
Turkey’s Erdogan must take concrete action on Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood
Prior to the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey in early February, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was attempting to pull off several foreign policy magic tricks ahead of the country’s May...
March 1, 2023
The war in Ukraine isn’t just about Ukraine
Dear Mr. President, First, kudos to you for going to Kyiv. Not many sitting American presidents have visited active war zones. I’m told Vladimir Putin was informed you’d be there. Though he’d have...
February 28, 2023
Bring Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen to Capitol Hill
Speaker Kevin McCarthy is weighing a trip to Taiwan. Instead, he should invite Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen to address a joint session of Congress at the end of her term early next year. Mr....
February 28, 2023
Hezbollah Fighter Killed Under Unclear Circumstances
On Feb. 24, Hezbollah’s media outfit published a statement mourning the death of its fighter Ali Yahya al-Zayin. “The Islamic Resistance [Hezbollah] grieves the loss of the martyr fighter Ali Yahya...
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