The Near Enemy: China’s Subnational Reach Into the United States
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Mark Kirk
MSCI ESG Ratings May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 17 other state attorneys general sent a letter on March 28 to financial analytics firm MSCI Inc. following a report the firm may be imposing punitive environmental,...
Policy Briefs
Congress Should Take Away Iran’s $10 Billion Sanctions Relief
Just five weeks after the Hamas October 7 massacre, the State Department re-issued a sanctions waiver on November 14 enabling Hamas’s terror sponsor, Iran, to use more than $10 billion in previously inaccessible funds held in Iraq. ...
Policy Briefs
The Disastrous Implications of the $6 Billion Iran Hostage Deal
President Joe Biden’s decision to trade $6 billion for five American citizens unlawfully detained in Tehran isn’t just the largest hostage ransom payment in American history—it’s...
Op-eds
FDD Supplemental Iran Nuclear Assessment to ODNI Annual Report
On July 10, 2023, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published a report for Congress about Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities, as required by law.1 “Iran is not currently...
Insights
American Military Aid to Israel Serves Both Countries Well
A response to a dangerous proposal
Op-eds
Don’t Stop Digging Into Iran’s Nuclear Secrets
Few Americans have probably heard of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watchdog. Last week, the IAEA’s board of governors convened in Vienna to hear from its director...
Op-eds
Iran’s Meaningless Concession Ahead of Key Nuclear Meeting
Iran has begun reinstalling surveillance cameras and monitoring technologies at key nuclear sites ahead of a June International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting, according to a reporter for The Wall...
Policy Briefs
Morningstar Blacklist May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws
The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) this week reported that Sustainalytics — the environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings arm of Morningstar, Inc. — imposes negative “controversy” ratings on...
Policy Briefs
Israel Must Prepare to Save the World from a Nuclear Iran
This month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Europe “identifies more with the Israeli position” on Iran’s nuclear program, a conclusion he reached after meeting with French...
Op-eds
The Iran Nuclear Deal Isn’t Dead
The State Department is fighting to keep it alive, even if an agreement benefits Russia and China.
Op-eds
Morningstar Misleads Investors on Its Anti-Israel Bias — Again
The investment research firm Morningstar, Inc. committed last October to making changes to its Sustainalytics environmental, social, and governance (ESG) subsidiary’s research in response to FDD’s ongoing...
Insights
Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine
Biden’s chronic risk aversion is prolonging the war and making it more costly
Op-eds
How Biden, Congress can stop the UN from legitimizing antisemitism
United Nations officials urged countries in October and November to reject the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, the global benchmark for identifying...
Policy Briefs
No, Iran didn’t ban morality police — it duped press, and Biden administration
For a few hours this past weekend, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism pulled off a global disinformation operation to undermine a popular revolt, falsely suggesting the regime in Tehran had...
Op-eds
Jew-Free Investing
How the BDS campaign infiltrated ESG
Op-eds
Biden needs to share intel, get out of the way and let Israel end Iran nuclear threat
President Biden’s private meeting Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid will likely become one of the most consequential conversations of his presidency. After 18 months of failed diplomacy...
Op-eds
Vandenberg Coalition Afghanistan Working Group Report
Executive Summary The Vandenberg Coalition Afghanistan Working Group convened a diverse group of national security professionals to develop policy recommendations for the Biden administration and Congress...
Memos
Biden on verge of making worst deal ever with Iran
As the civilian death toll mounts in Ukraine and the world prepares for unspeakable crimes against humanity yet to come, the Biden administration said Friday it’s close to announcing a Russian-brokered...
Op-eds
How America Lost Its Leverage on Iran
Ten years ago, two senators, one Republican and one Democrat, joined together to force America to sanction Iran. In the years since, the leverage they built has dissipated. Why?