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October 16, 2024 | David May, Pavak Patel

U.S., Canada Designate Samidoun a Sham Charity Front for the PFLP Terrorist Group

The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in a joint action with the Canadian government, designated the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and Khaled Barakat on October 15 for raising funds on...

April 22, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

Crack Down on Anti-Semitic K–12 Curricula

It’s not just on campus: even in primary and secondary education, Jews are often portrayed as privileged whites and Zionist colonial oppressors.

February 23, 2022 | Samantha Ravich, Trevor Logan

It’s Time to Talk About the Shortcomings of Cybersecurity in the Water Industry

In the United States, there are 16 “critical infrastructure” sectors so vital for the fundamental health, safety, and prosperity of the country that their incapacitation or destruction would have catastrophic...

November 23, 2021 | Nathan Picarsic, Emily de La Bruyère

How China Is Trying to Turn the U.S. against Itself

Across the country, Beijing has worked to cultivate relationships with state and local governments and private businesses in an effort to advance its agenda.

June 24, 2021 | Anthony Ruggiero |

New Research Shows Extent of China’s Cover-Up of COVID-19’s Origins

An American research scientist reported on Tuesday that Chinese researchers deleted genetic sequencing data for COVID-19 samples from a U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) database. The deletions highlight...

June 23, 2020 | David Kilcullen |

America in 2020: “Insurrection” or “Incipient Insurgency”?

In the two weeks of disorder that followed the death of George Floyd, 200 cities imposed curfews; 31 states and the District of Columbia called out the National Guard; active-duty U.S. troops deployed in...

June 17, 2020 | Heather McMahon, Michael Schellhammer

The Revolutionary Potential of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Picture Europe in the mid-15th century. The continent was recovering from the bubonic plague. Elites controlled access to information, with monks laboriously copying books letter by letter. Recovery from...

February 5, 2013 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross The Globe and Mail

Homegrown Terror is Real, But You Won’t Find It Online

Homegrown terrorism has become a topic of discussion in both Canada and the United States. A study by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service...

January 31, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Under Fire

An Israeli city in Hamas’ crosshairs.

June 1, 2012 | The Long War Journal

Jihad in Seattle

By LWJ Staff Last week, Michael D. McCright, a.k.a. Mikhial Jihad, a previously convicted felon from the north Seattle suburb of Lynnwood, pled guilty to lesser charges in a cas...

April 6, 2012 |

The Fallacy of the ‘Pinkwashing’ Argument

On March 16, a group of gay Israeli teenagers was set to meet with the Seattle LGBT Commission, a body representing the interests of the gay community before the city government. The students wer...

May 9, 2011 | Live Mint |

India Revives Energy Ties with Iran

New Delhi: In a visible attempt to re-engage with Iran's energy sector, India has submitted a reworked master development plan for Iran's Farsi natural gas block. A consortium led by ONGC Vi...

March 24, 2011 | Middle East Quarterly

Review: Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans

Schanzer and Moosa of Duke University and Kurzman of the University of North Carolina have garnered a fair amount of media attention for their study despite its complete methodological failure. A...

February 24, 2011 | World Defense Review

Somali Piracy Hits America: Some Questions in Need of Answers

The murder earlier this week by their captors of four United States citizens aboard the SV Quest, a yacht hijacked last Friday off the coast of Oman, brought home to America the increasing toll o...

January 18, 2011 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Long War Journal

New report: ‘Domestic Intelligence: New Powers, New Risks’

  Today I was a panelist at the rollout event for a new report published by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, Emily Berman's Domestic Int...

October 21, 2010 |

Obstructed “View”

An African-American woman who affects a Jewish-sounding surname as a running joke storms off the stage in response to what she regards as the slander of Muslims. Only in America. But let me back...

September 18, 2010 |

There Oughtn’t Be a Law

République française has banned the burqa. Along with the face-covering veil (the niqab), the burqa is the garment with which Muslim women conceal their bodies from head to toe. Mor...

September 16, 2010 |

Religion of Peace Alert: FBI Advises ‘Draw Muhammad’ Cartoonist to Disappear

Fox News reports that, at the urging of the FBI, Molly Norris, the "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" cartoonis...

June 7, 2010 | Clifford D. May National Review Online |

My Letter to Hearst

Dear Mr. Swartz, More than 30 years ago I cut my teeth as a foreign correspondent for Hearst Newspapers. Indeed, I believe I was the last "roving foreign correspondent" Hearst w...

May 20, 2010 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Kurdistan Notebook

Erbil, Iraq - More than two months after elections, Iraq's parliamentarians have yet to cobble together a new government.  Is this just the messiness that has to be expected in a fledgl...