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8 Questions Facing the United Nations at UNGA 81

The United Nations was formed “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” Yet more armed conflicts rage worldwide today than at any point since the world body’s formation at the end...

Will the Next UN Leader Be Good for America?

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s time in office is coming to an end, which raises the question: Who will lead the world’s most important multilateral body next? The 2026 secretary-general...

How to Tackle Venezuela’s (and the World’s) ‘Odious Debt’ Problem

Venezuela could be a test case for reforming international finance’s lending to authoritarian governments.

Russia Recruits Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Iranian Drones

Fifty years since the UN’s ‘Zionism is racism’ resolution

In adopting it, the world body became the main vehicle for the promotion of Jew-hatred, creating a bureaucratic apparatus designed to amplify the Arab and Palestinian campaign to eliminate Israel as a sovereign state.

50 Years of Anti-Zionist Propaganda: Why the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’ Must Be Dismantled

Ecuador Designates Hamas, Hezbollah, and the IRGC as Terrorist Organizations

Noba Issues Decree Against Iranian-Backed Terror: Ecuadorian President Daniel Noba signed an executive decree on September 16, designating Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran’s Islamic...

Iran’s web of terror and propaganda: The case of Al Mustafa University

Last July, Israel’s ambassador to Argentina gave an interview to Latin America’s leading news platform, Infobae, where he named Edgardo Ruben (aka Suhail) Assad, Abdallah Cerrilla, and Abdul...

Russia Lures Young Migrant Women from Latin America to Build Drones

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has discovered Russian efforts to recruit young migrant women from Latin America to build drones to sustain its war of aggression in Ukraine. The Alabuga...

Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba Exploit the U.S. Border Crisis

Latin America’s authoritarians are cooperating to increase illegal immigration to the United States.

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The Unprecedented Surge in Chinese Illegal Immigration

US ships begin long, slow trip to build Gaza dock in unique operation

The ships that are on the way now include the USAV James A. Loux, the USAV Montorrey, USAV Matamoros and USAV Wilson Wharf.

China’s Belt and Road Initiative is bringing new risks to Europe

China’s grand vision of the world-changing BRI may have not been realised, but something else is emerging in its wake — a powerful lever to bend authoritarian-leaning countries toward Chinese interests

Tightening the Belt or End of the Road? China’s BRI at 10

Cash, corruption, crumbling dams — that’s China’s Belt and Road Initiative, 10 years in

As the celebrations for the BRI’s 10th anniversary kick off, attending countries would do well to ask whether their citizens have anything to gain from 'win-win' cooperation with China, Elaine Dezenski writes.

How Xi Jinping’s Policies Could Lead China to Economic Implosion

At the most basic economic level, China needs the United States—a fact that Xi clearly either hasn’t yet realized or refuses to admit.

Washington Needs a New Economic Security Framework for the Americas

Washington must bring powerful answers to pressing issues in the region: populism, political unrest, and disinformation; water and food insecurity; extreme weather; mass migration; the evolving drug trade; money laundering and corruption; and weakened democratic institutions.

Countering Threats Posed by Nation-State Actors in Latin America to U.S. Homeland Security

Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence

Tehran Takes Caracas

On Monday, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi began a five-day tour of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua, three Latin American countries governed by authoritarian, anti-Western regimes. Raisi’s three predecessors...

China Is Bailing Out Its Bad Bets, and Handing the West a Geopolitical Opening

China has created its own subprime infrastructure crisis, and now it is trying to bail itself out. The rescue efforts are focused on loans for China’s much-touted Belt and Road Initiative, or BRI, Beijing’s...