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January 9, 2024 | Elaine K. Dezenski |

Kleptocrats in democracy’s clothing: Beijing and Moscow talk anti-corruption at the UN

Redefining terms like anti-corruption, human rights, democracy, and integrity — even when self-evidently disingenuous — provides China the cover to mimic the mechanisms of good governance while blunting...

February 23, 2022 | Samantha Ravich, Trevor Logan

It’s Time to Talk About the Shortcomings of Cybersecurity in the Water Industry

In the United States, there are 16 “critical infrastructure” sectors so vital for the fundamental health, safety, and prosperity of the country that their incapacitation or destruction would have catastrophic...

January 19, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

All the president’s enemies

Mitch McConnell is no Vladimir Putin

August 15, 2017 | Tony Badran |

The Pentagon Fills Hezbollah’s Shopping List

In recent years, federal law enforcement agencies have repeatedly arrested Hezbollah operatives in the US who were trying to procure weapons and other combat-related equi...

November 20, 2015 | |

New Report Outlines Ways to Combat Islamic State’s Antiquities Trafficking

FDD Press Release

February 5, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Globe and Mail

Homegrown Terror is Real, But You Won’t Find It Online

Homegrown terrorism has become a topic of discussion in both Canada and the United States. A study by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...

July 27, 2012 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Gunpowder & Lead

Terrorism, Economics, and the London Olympics

On July 25, I spoke on a panel at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies on the topic of Combating Olympic Terrorism (video of which can be found...

December 16, 2011 |

Over There: The Occupiers, Seen from Europe

Viewing the Occupy Wall Street movement from post-Communist Europe, I can’t stop thinking of October 1917. This date, when the Bolsheviks seized power from the Russian Provisional...

October 27, 2011 | Lee Smith Tablet

Mob Tactics

Egypt captured Israeli-American Ilan Grapel to generate popular support among the volatile anti-Western middle class at home

April 27, 2011 |

Al-Qaeda, Yes; DOMA, No

The modern-day John Adams brigade down at King & Spalding has finally found a client too unpopular to merit representation: the American people. That is exactly the same conclusion drawn by E...

November 27, 2010 |

Into Thin Airwaves

Back in January 2010, Secretary of State Clinton gave a pay-any-price, bear-any-burden address calling for the liberation of the global Internet. The price Washington was willing to pay? It promi...

April 26, 2010 | Ethan Gutmann World Affairs Journal

Hacker Nation: China’s Cyber Assault

A  decade before Operation Aurora—China’s recent hacking spree of at least thirty-four Western companies—the Chinese government attempted to seize American computer code th...

November 20, 2009 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross CTR Vantage

Jamil al-Amin, the former H. Rap Brown

The criminal complaint against Luqman Abdullah and his associates states that when al-Ummah succeeds in establishing a "separate, sovereign Islamic state," they intend for it to be led by Jamil a...

November 20, 2009 | CTR Vantage

The Darul Islam Movement in the United States

The 1960s were a time of great social upheaval in the U.S. Within the African-American Muslim population, young organizations trumpeted separation from mainstream American culture. Of these group...

November 20, 2009 | CTR Vantage

Cause Célèbre Islam: Racism, Revolution, Black Nationalism

“We can’t just be saying, ‘O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government,’ we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.”...

July 21, 2009 |

Danger Zone to be Broadcast Internationally and in the US on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio

July 21, 2009 (Washington, D.C.) -- Danger Zone, FDD's popular and respected radio show about terrorism, democracy and international security issues, now in its 5th year, wi...

January 27, 2009 |

Endangered Electricity System

In August 2003, a tree fell into a power line on Ohio’s electricity grid, causing more electricity to be rerouted across other high-voltage power lines to compensate. All was seemingly well. Withi...

April 11, 2007 |

The Al Capone Model of Anti-Terror Policing

AL CAPONE HAD BECOME a celebrity criminal by 1931. Everybody knew what he was up to: his litany of offenses included murder, bribery, and running illegal breweries. But the government would have...

September 21, 2005 | Clifford D. May

Profiles and Courage

I'm writing this on my laptop in the Atlanta airport, waiting for a flight delayed due to weather. But I can't complain. I didn't spend long at the security check. On the other han...

January 30, 2005 |

The Reachable Star

War-Ravaged Elections and Human Freedom