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November 8, 2011 The Eurozone Crisis is Eroding Our Democracy. How do We Withdraw Our Consent From Being Governed? Something even bigger is going on. It's not just global competition for jobs, but also fierce competition between systems of government.... November 8, 2011 Are U.S. Tax Dollars Covering Financial Rewards to Palestinian Terrorists? According to Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, “the PIF was created in 2002 to manage and distribute the money and commercial interests owned by the PA. They b... October 14, 2011 U.S. Considers Sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank Mark Dubowitz, a specialist on sanctions at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said a so-called designation of the bank would not halt all of Iran's crude oil sales, but it would sha... October 13, 2011 Experts: Alleged Plot Shows Iran has No Fear of US If the Justice Department account is accurate, the plot was launched with the approval of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and means Iran's leaders "did not fear a muscular American respo... October 13, 2011 Obama Pressed to Get Tough on Iran for Terror Plot Mark Dubowitz, of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a think tank that advocates tougher sanctions against Tehran, predicted harsher penalties. “There will be a lot of... October 12, 2011 Lessons From the Iranian Plot Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundations for Defense of Democracies has a similar take. He told me via e-mail today, “The fact that the Iranians attempted to carry out an attack on US soil duri... October 11, 2011 Washington’s Stance on Israel and Mideast Peace is Murky At a conference organized by the neo-conservative groups Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Hudson Institute on Capitol Hill yesterday on "The U.S.-Israel Relationship: Twenty Years af... October 11, 2011 Re: Iranian Plot From my FDD colleague, senior fellow Emanuele Ottolenghi, in Brussels: The Qods forces are the regime’s long arm abroad. They are involved in training ter... October 6, 2011 Syrian Thugs Try to Intimidate the U.S. Media The embassy’s clumsy, almost cartoonish, effort to intimidate its critics only serves to highlight the nature of the regime. Ammar Abdulhamid of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies ha... October 4, 2011 Neapolitan Delight You might be used to reading him on Iran and freedom. But in Virgil’s Golden Egg and Other Neapolitan... October 4, 2011 Gone but Not Forgotten Counterterrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, in his book,... September 30, 2011 Wiping Them Out One by One Inside Pakistan, before bin Laden, those killed by drones on Obama’s orders in the last two years include Baitullah Mehsud, overall leader of the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan; Mustaf... September 29, 2011 Pentagon Terror Plot Foiled Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, the author of Bin Laden’s Legacy: Why We’re Still Losing the War... September 28, 2011 Osama bin Laden’s Bodyguard Freed by Pakistan As the security coordinator of the Black Guard, the elite unit charged with protecting bin Laden, he would once have been in close contact with the al-Qaeda leader, according to The Long War Jour... September 23, 2011 Afghans Say Taliban’s Top Pakistan-Based Leaders Sent Peace Envoy’s Killer About 30 of the Taliban’s most prominent leaders have served on the shura in recent years, and many of the group’s members may have dispersed to Karachi or other cities to escape poss... September 21, 2011 Obama’s Middle East Dead End Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies sees a real danger that such talks “will put power back into the hands of the Quartet and President Obama. They will be able t... September 21, 2011 Taliban Bomber Waited Days to Give Afghan Peace Envoy Lethal Hug Mullen said the U.S. will take "appropriate action" against further Haqqani attacks on its forces, while declining to offer details. Since January 2008, nearly a quarter of the 254 U.S. missile s... September 21, 2011 Lesson to the “Pro-Israel” Right: Be Careful What You Ask From Congress Veteran Israel hardliner and neocon Eliot Abrams told the committee that he was not in favor of cutting aid to the PA. David Makovsky of the Washington Institute of Near East Policy -- a think ta... September 19, 2011 After Bin Laden, Same as Before? Is the economic crisis a sign that, even after death, Bin Laden stings at us? Counterterrorism researcher Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the author of the provocative new bo... September 19, 2011 Did Turkey Turn On Israel To Boost Business From The Arab World? But the strategic calculus is harder to crunch. ‘Turkey has quite a bit to lose here,’ said Jonathan Schanzer, analyst in Washington. ‘NATO is looking sideways at it right now,... September 16, 2011 U.S. Congress Mulls Cutting PA Funding, Closing PLO Mission in Light of UN Bid Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the former terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of Treasury, argued that despite the... September 15, 2011 Who’s Really Behind the Kabul Attacks? “These are really joint attacks by all these groups. What [the US-led coalition] ISAF has suddenly done is they’ve pivoted due to negotiations, or talks of negotiations, and they are... September 15, 2011 A U.N. Vote: A Loss for Israel and a Humiliation for the U.S. I spoke this morning with Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Before his testimony he went to th... September 15, 2011 EU Sanctions on Syria Oil and Gas Industry Come with Loopholes The EU appears close to approving new sanctions that would bar European companies from new investments in the Syrian energy sector. But companies may continue working under existing contracts, a... September 15, 2011 Who Owns the Palestine Investment Fund? Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing to re-examine U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority in light... September 13, 2011 9/11: 10 years After Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, author of 'Bin Laden's Legacy: Why We're Still Losing The War On Terror' says that al-Qaida has effected a second change in its strategy in the past f... September 13, 2011 How ‘War on Terror’ Changed US Allegiances "Most regimes in the world are run by bad guys. Some of those bad guys are more open to American assistance and American influence than others," said Clifford May, president of the group Foundati... September 13, 2011 9/11: 10 Years After Terrorism analyst Bill Roggio says, "Al-Qaida hasn't so much as become a diffused entity as it has embedded itself into local groups, for instance with the Pakistani Taliban and the Haqqani... September 13, 2011 Bush and Obama, Shoulder to Shoulder In Mr. Obama’s first year in office, the C.I.A. carried out 53 drone strikes in Pakistan. The next year, it more than doubled that figure, to 117, according to The Long War Journal, a Web s... September 12, 2011 What Have We Learned? In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, the U.S. Treasury immediately went to work finding al-Qaeda’s funding. On September 23, Pres. George W. Bush issued an executive order designat... September 9, 2011 What I Remember CLIFFORD D. MAY As an ex-reporter it has long been my habit to keep a television on in my office — just the picture, no sound. I look up from time to time to see i... September 9, 2011 It’s Time to Rethink Counterterrorism Spending Nowhere has that profligacy been more evident than in the area of homeland security. “Things done in haste are not done particularly well,” says Jackson. As Daveed Gartenstein-Ross wr... September 9, 2011 HuJI Has Close Tes With Anti-India Terror Groups According to the Long War Journal, HuJI was formed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan's Punjab province in the early 1980s to help battle the... September 8, 2011 The Defector’s Tale: Inside North Korea’s Secret Economy Following the collapse of the global socialist market in the early 1990s, an unexpected thing happened on North Korea’s road to financial oblivion: The same economy that cannot produce a us... September 7, 2011 Is al-Qaida Really Losing? Al-Qaida's capabilities to carry out large-scale attacks have been severely diminished, and not just because of Bin Laden's killing. The organization's moral standing in the Muslim... September 7, 2011 Kadafi Son Had a Hollywood Connection A Treasury De... September 7, 2011 Exclusive: China Curbs Iran Energy Work Many U.S. lawmakers believe Beijing has not done enough to curtail ties with Iran. New legislation could increase pressure on the Obama administration to punish Chinese energy firms, said Mark Du... September 7, 2011 Pakistan Army Arrests Al-Qaeda’s Global Operations Chief With U.S. Help The army described Al-Mauritani as “al-Qaeda commander for external operations” who planned strikes at economic targets in the U.S. Europe and Australia and had considered attacks on... September 6, 2011 The Retribution Will Not Be Televised Kashmiri and Rahman are just the latest in a long line of al-Qaida plotters who were supposed to hit us but got hit instead. You can find a... September 6, 2011 Pakistan Claims Significant al-Qaeda Arrests According to the Long War Journal, a U.S.-based Web site that covers the war on terror, a detained German-Afghan al-Qaeda figure falsely identified al... August 31, 2011 The Long War’s Long Tail What if someone came up with a terrific approach to surviving the war on terror and nobody listened? That is the dilemma at the heart of... August 29, 2011 Did the Palestinian Authority Think Through its U.N. Gambit? But there are good arguments why that should come to an end if the PA gets its upgraded status from the U.N. Jonathan Schanzer from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies lays out several grou... August 25, 2011 Computer Firm Faces Scrutiny Over Iran Downloads But former OFAC official Jonathan Schanzer said the law clearly places the onus on a firm to stop suspicious downloads once it is made aware of them. “If you were aware of the use... August 25, 2011 Israel’s Egypt Problem This is troubling news, if in fact the report is accurate. Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies tells me that “while this story must be verified, it should be... August 23, 2011 Rebel Hold on Libya in Doubt as Fighting Rages On "One has to wonder how all this is going to end and whether there is a transitional government that could come in to place right now and command respect and govern efficiently," Dr. Jonatha... August 23, 2011 Will Obama’s Call for Assad to Step Down Pack a Punch? Yet there are other reasons to believe that the calls for Assad to step down and the tougher sanctions won't have much of an impact on the Assad regime. For starters, regional heavyweights l... August 23, 2011 What’s Next for Syria? So Obama, argues Tony Badran, a veteran Middle East watcher at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, decided he had to call openly for regime change, while Turkey has continued “to hol... August 23, 2011 U.S. Joins Calls for Syria’s Bashar Assad to Resign Tony Badran, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Obama's statement is a late-in-coming step but gives U.S. allies, the Syrian opposition and "fence-sitters"... August 23, 2011 Obama Finally Tells Assad to Go So why did Obama finally leap into action? Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies tells me, “Very little has happened in recent days that wasn’t happening five... August 19, 2011 Conservatives Suggest Syria Next Steps President Barack Obama said yesterday that he wants to see Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down from office, and promised to implement more sanctions on the Syrian regime. But conservatives...

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