Anthony Ruggiero

June 2, 2024 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Biden must resist the WHO’s power grab

Excerpt The once-in-a-century COVID pandemic was fueled by China’s obstruction and obfuscation and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mismanagement. Yet WHO has considered a pandemic treaty that...

October 19, 2023 | Anthony Ruggiero, Richard Goldberg

Biden’s plan to expose nuclear secrets to Moscow and Beijing

Excerpt In a stunning decision to potentially expose vital national security secrets to America’s top adversaries, the Biden administration last month quietly invited Russia and China to send...

March 10, 2023 | Ivana Stradner, Anthony Ruggiero

America Is Still Losing the Information War

Washington urgently needs a 21st-century communication strategy.

February 11, 2023 | Anthony Ruggiero |

When the Same North Korea Policy Fails Over and Over Again

A veteran negotiator explains how Washington’s attempts at nonproliferation floundered.

November 22, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero |

How to Really Turn the Screws on North Korea

Unprecedented missile tests deserve a more serious diplomatic and economic response.

November 10, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero, Greg Scarlatoiu

World Cup Shows Need to Crack Down on Kim’s Labor Exploitation

Shipping workers abroad helps the North Korean leader evade sanctions and finance his nuclear weapons.

October 10, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero |

When Will Biden Put Pressure on North Korea?

Letter to the Editor: A once-robust sanctions program has atrophied since Trump embraced summit-level diplomacy with Kim in 2018.

October 6, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

Europe must trigger snapback of UN sanctions on Iran

Excerpt France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States have pursued a bifurcated Iran policy: attempting to revive an expiring nuclear deal while tolerating the Islamic Republic’s brutal repression...

September 9, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero |

How the US monkeypox response failed to learn COVID’s lessons

Excerpt The Biden administration’s failed response to the spread of monkeypox has highlighted America’s inability to respond to large-scale disease outbreaks. These problems are bipartisan and were...

March 19, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero, Behnam Ben Taleblu

Time to reconstitute pressure on Pyongyang

Excerpt A “saturation attack” describes simultaneous launches aimed at overwhelming an adversary’s defenses and crippling their capability and will to respond. Amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of...

March 18, 2022 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

Congress must stop Team Biden from giving Russia a financial lifeline in Iran deal

Washington appears determined to undermine its own economic-sanctions campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin for his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine — and aid a second dictatorship in the...

November 2, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

Putting chemical weapons questions to Russia backfired

Excerpt Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent more than a year ago. The United States and its allies responded at a recent meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons...

July 17, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

Putin escapes accountability for chemical weapons use

Vladimir Putin is the target of an unusual form of punishment. He reportedly maintains a program for assassinating dissidents with chemical agents, yet top European leaders cannot wait to embrace the...

June 24, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

New Research Shows Extent of China’s Cover-Up of COVID-19’s Origins

An American research scientist reported on Tuesday that Chinese researchers deleted genetic sequencing data for COVID-19 samples from a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) database. The deletions highlight...

April 22, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero, Andrea Stricker

OPCW Member States Hold Syria Accountable for Chemical Weapons Use

Eighty-seven member states of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) voted yesterday to suspend Syria’s voting rights in the organization. This was an appropriate, albeit overdue,...

March 5, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Biden’s Half Measures on Ebola Put the United States at Risk

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an order on Tuesday detailing new public health measures in response to outbreaks of Ebola in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

March 4, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

Biden Must Expose China’s COVID-19 Cover-Up

Chinese authorities are still refusing to share critical evidence about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) still refuses to challenge Beijing and is even promoting...

February 24, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

IAEA Weakens Iran Nuclear Safeguards

Before departing Iran on Sunday, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi issued a joint statement with his hosts, announcing they had reached an agreement on Tehran’s...

June 8, 2018 | Anthony Ruggiero

Fox and Friends

FDD's Anthony Ruggiero joins Fox and Friends to discuss what the expect from the upcoming summit between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. Watch the full discussion...

June 7, 2018 |

Voice of America

FDD's Anthony Ruggiero joins Voice of America Farsi to discuss North Korea's promises to cut ties with Syria and Iran.  ...