International Monetary Fund

Turkey After Erdogan

Time For Palestinian Leaders to End “Pay-to-Slay” Terror Bounties

Earlier this month, Israel’s new finance minister Bezalel Smotrich withheld just under $40 million of tax revenue that Israel collected on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Smotrich told reporters...

Presidential Vacuum Persists in Lebanon

The term of Lebanese President Michel Aoun ended last week, but the country’s parliament has so far failed to elect a successor. The presidential vacuum, which compounds Lebanon’s political and economic problems, persists because Iranian proxy Hezbollah, the dominant political force in Lebanon, has yet to choose a president from among its two main Christian allies: Aoun’s son-in-law, Gebran Bassil, and Suleiman Franjieh, a grandson of Lebanon’s fifth president, also named Suleiman Franjieh. Hezbollah fears that favoring one means losing the support of the other.

Anti-Israel Gridlock Makes Kuwait The Odd Man Out

The latest parliamentary election blocked needed change in the oil-rich nation.

Tehran’s $1 Trillion Deal: An Updated Forecast of Iran’s Financial Windfall From a New Nuclear Agreement

European and American diplomats say negotiations over the fate of the nuclear deal with Iran have reached their final stage. As a series of previous FDD publications have shown, the new nuclear deal would...

Profit of Hate: How Domestic Extremists Are Embracing Cryptocurrency

Enticed by the relative anonymity of cryptocurrency and the need to circumvent a denial of service, domestic extremists have been able to raise millions.

Missing the Mark

Reassessing U.S. Military Aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces

Bill Gates’s Pandemic Prevention Plan Has a China-Sized Blind Spot

In his new book, the billionaire philanthropist focuses on technical solutions but ignores politics.

Lebanon’s ‘useless’ election will be neither free nor fair

Hezbollah coercion has occurred in the weeks and months leading up to this Sunday’s vote

Cold War II and the new “new world order”

Unless we mobilize, expect no good outcome

Crypto-Fascists

Cryptocurrency Usage by Domestic Extremists

The New Nuclear Deal Would Allow Tehran to Access Up to $131 Billion of Its Foreign Assets

The Biden administration is finalizing a deal that would provide the Islamic Republic with relief from U.S. sanctions in exchange for temporary and limited curbs on Iran’s nuclear program. When the administration...

Taiwan 194

Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China

Why The Iran Nuclear Talks Were Over Before They Began

Indirect talks between the United States and Iran resumed this week in Vienna with world powers eager to find out if the Islamic Republic would agree to curtail its nuclear program. The truth: the...

Biden Is Running a Hostage Negotiation With the Taliban

Making concessions now will only encourage terrorism.

Quad Economy & Technology Task Force: A Time For Concerted Action

Executive Summary The Quad Economy and Technology Task Force was conceived in 2020 to study promising areas for increased cooperation between the Quad countries of Australia, India, Japan and the United...

From Maximum Pressure to Maximum Deference

Biden’s appeasement of Iran has let the regime become more brazen.

Behind the Black Bloc

An Overview of Militant Anarchism and Anti-Fascism

Iranians to the Biden Administration: Do Not Lift Sanctions on Iran

The Biden administration is considering easing sanctions on the Iranian regime before reaching a nuclear agreement, a move that would only jeopardize the national security interests of the U.S and its Middle...

The Realignment

On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.