Caribbean
Good Climate Policy Should Fight Corruption and Organized Crime
They are key drivers of deforestation and environmental degradation.
Op-eds
Two More Reasons to Worry About China
Keep an eye on China’s relationship with Cuba, for starters.
Op-eds
War by Other Means
A History of Anti-Israel Boycotts, From the Arab League to BDS
Monographs
Did you have a horrible Thanksgiving?
The blame-America-first crowd always does, and insists you should, too
Op-eds
New Sanctions Target Iran’s Oil-for-Terror Network
The Treasury Department took action today against a global network that exports Iranian oil for the benefit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization....
Policy Briefs
Trump Should Cut Hezbollah’s Lifeline in the Americas
A crackdown is long overdue.
Op-eds
How the US Can Keep Venezuela from Becoming a Failed State
On Sunday, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will face his country’s hungry, impoverished voters. The election will be neither free nor fair, so another win for the corrupt Socialist pa...
Op-eds
The Mystery Martyr
Death came suddenly for Samer Ibrahim Atoui, a 48-year-old native of the southern Lebanese village of Khiyam. On October 2, 2017, a Syrian opposition social media account posted photographs showi...
Op-eds
Hurricane-hit countries slash cost of citizenship-by-investment programs
Caribbean nations ravaged by recent hurricanes are selling citizenship a...
Op-eds
The Enemy in our Backyard: Examining Terror Funding Streams from South America
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Legislative Testimonies
Washington must resist Europe’s pressure over Visa Waiver Program
In December, Congress passed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act. The legislation created exceptions to the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), including for dual citiz...
Op-eds
A Better Way to Sell Citizenship
Last October, the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia announced it would launch a citizenship-by-i...
Op-eds
Snap-Back: A Journey Through Iranian Sanctions Evasion in Georgia
Two Iranian truck drivers sat idly in the parking area of the Poti Free Industrial Zone(FIZ), waiting for customs authoriti...
Op-eds
Obama’s Iran Policy Is Lost at Sea
American negotiators and their cohorts are trying to close a deal that would let Iran keep its nuclear program, subject to intricate conditions of monitoring and enforcement. Yet how is a deal li...
Op-eds
In Latest Sanctions, U.S. Again Targets Iranians Holding Caribbean Passports
For the fourth time this year, U.S. officials blacklisted an Iranian national using a Caribbean passport while purportedly helping Iran circumvent sanctions. The U.S. Treasury Depa...
Op-eds
How Iran Uses Dual Citizenship in the Caribbean to Skirt Sanctions
St. Kitts and Nevis (SKN) is a miniscule Caribbean nation whose biggest employer is the state sugar corporation and whose currency features wading sea turtles and the visage of Queen Elizabeth II...
Op-eds
The Neo-Ottoman
Turkey should have been part of the solution. Instead it’s become part of the problem. The problem, of course, is the spread of jihadism throughout the Middle East, North Africa and beyond....
Op-eds
North Korean Ship Tests the Waters Near America’s Shores
It’s not often that North Korean-flagged freighters turn up near America’s shores, but when they do, they deserve attention. North Korea has a prolific record of arms smuggling, narco...
Op-eds
The Big Story — the Global War — Goes Mostly Unreported
The “news” is resolutely out of context. A subject about which virtually nothing is known–the mystery of the missing airplane–gets saturation “coverage,”...