How extremism reaches from Gaza into American classrooms
Organizations with terrorist ties are shaping young minds by training teachers in kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms across the country.
California
Seeking to Expand Its Lead in Fusion Technology, China Accelerates Construction on New Reactor Project
China is racing ahead to expand its global lead in fusion technology. On April 29, IEEE Spectrum reported that construction had accelerated on a likely fusion research facility in Mianyang, Sichuan, with...
Policy Briefs
Pro-Hamas Activists Tell Teachers to Break the Law and Strike on May Day
Pro-Hamas activists are telling teachers to break the law. Labor for Palestine, a coalition of union groups, is calling on teachers to walk out on May Day. This is not a lone incident but rather part of...
Insights
U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill Advancing Maximum Support for the Iranian People
Solidarity with the Iranian people is rising in the U.S. Congress. Reps. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced a bill on the evening of April 2 calling for “maximum support” to the...
Policy Briefs
Why Russia Wants to See California Secede
The Kremlin has a long history dealing with secessionist movements within the Russian and Soviet empires. Now Moscow is using the experience to weaponize secession movements elsewhere.
Op-eds
How Trump’s war on cartel cash can stop fentanyl enablers — and save American lives
“China and the Mexican cartels are not trying to create drug addicts — they [are] trying and succeeding at killing off our people — primarily young men. If we were in a traditional war with over...
Op-eds
AI-Generated Imitation of Elon Musk Pushes China’s Propaganda on YouTube
In late January, FDD identified a YouTube channel, MuskTalk007, filled with AI-generated videos imitating Elon Musk that push pro-China propaganda. Since its creation on December 7, 2024, the channel has amassed almost 2 million views, garnering considerable engagement for videos that denigrate the United States and present China as technologically and economically superior.
Policy Briefs
Why Does Qatar Keep Helping Terrorists?
Qatar remains one of the world’s foremost proponents of violent Islamist movements and states. The U.S. should treat it accordingly.
Op-eds
Russia Exploits LA Fires to Sow Discord and Promote False Claims
Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, leveled the false claim that U.S. prison inmates were being used as forced labor to fight the Los Angeles wildfires. Her comments were part...
Policy Briefs
Tehran Arrests Iranian-American Dual National, Executes Jewish Iranian
Tehran Incarcerates Iranian-American Journalist: The United States said that it was investigating Iran’s reported arrest of a dual national, Voice of America disclosed on November...
Flash Briefs
Germany Shuts Down Iranian Consulates, Urges Sanctions Following Citizen’s Execution
Germany will close all three of its Iranian consulates in response to the Islamic Republic’s execution of a German-Iranian dual citizen and prominent dissident earlier this week,...
Flash Briefs
Israel SitRep: October 30, 2024
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Israel at War Situation Report
U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Brutal Judge Iman Afshari
The death sentences keep coming from Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. In July, the court’s presiding judge, Iman Afshari, pronounced the dreaded verdict for Pakhshan Azizi, a prominent...
Op-eds
How To Pose as a Reasonable Critic of Israel (With a Little Help From the Media)
Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic surgeon from North Carolina. He is Jewish but believes that Zionism is “sadism” and “the moral equivalent of Nazism.” Feroze...
Op-eds
China and the U.S. Are Careening Toward a South China Sea Crisis
A failure of deterrence risks pushing the region into deeper conflict.
Op-eds
Prime Minister Netanyahu Departs for Washington, Seeking Bipartisan Support
Latest Developments Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flew to Washington on a scheduled visit on July 22, one day after President Joe Biden announced his exit from the 2024 presidential race....
Flash Briefs
The Surprising National Security Role of America’s “Best Idea”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s former bodyguard, who once reportedly confronted a bear at a mountain retreat while Putin slept through the ordeal, was appointed secretary of the...
Op-eds
The US presidential debate shows Middle East is not in focus
Trump’s main focus is in discussing Iran, and beyond that his main manifesto is that exhibiting a kind of America first strength will deter adversaries.
Op-eds
5 Things to Know About Chinese Drone Company DJI
Chinese drone manufacturer Shenzhen DJI Innovation Technology Company Limited (known simply as DJI) controls over 70 percent of the global drone market, perfectly illustrating the fusion of China’s economic...
Insights
China is main beneficiary of West’s futile energy transition push
Consumption of fossil fuels is as strong as ever as they remain irreplaceable