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April 18, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Paraguay’s Endemic Corruption Will Not End Without U.S. Intervention

Asunción’s financial system is compromised: terror finance, cigarette contraband, the trade of counterfeited goods, smuggling, and tax evasion fuel fraud and draw organized crime like a magnet.

August 19, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Why Hasn’t ISIS Blown Up Rome?

At lunch the other day, a smart man asked me how come there hadn’t been terrorism in Italy, even though Islamic State keeps promising to attack the Vatican. You’ve undoubtedl...

January 14, 2016 | Michael Ledeen |

The Iranians “Arrest” Our Sailors, “13 Hours” Gives You Dots To Connect

Last night, we went to see a preview of the new documentary movie about Benghazi, “13 hours.” The audience was one of those Washington groups that contained real expertise, including...

October 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Italian Exception: Defeating the Anti-Semites

The headlines from Europe are all grim. Synagogues assaulted in France, Jews murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and savagely beaten in the streets of Great Britain and Scandinavia, mobs of...

July 29, 2013 | Michael Ledeen |

Whither Egypt? Whence Syria? (Wrong Questions)

July 25th was the 70th anniversary of the fall of Mussolini, voted out of office by the Grand Fascist Council, arrested by order of the king, and imprisoned.  At first, Italy remained in the...

November 8, 2012 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Lessons of the Battle of Benghazi

Our enemies will learn them. Will we?

June 29, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post

A Great Moment for Europe, Soccer, Italy, and Mario Balotelli

Let’s face it: Canada isn’t a soccer country. Yes, our seven-year-olds join leagues and run around chasing a ball for an hour once a week. Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto have teams i...

January 18, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Who’s Really Killing Those ‘Nuclear Scientists’ in Tehran?

They run the banks, the press, all Western governments, the universities, the spooks (most everywhere). And if you can’t find any evidence for it, well, that shows how diabolical the Jews a...

December 28, 2010 | National Review Online

Our Big Fat Moroccan Wedding

Our son Daniel (aka Lt Ledeen, USMC, based in Okinawa) is in the midst of week-long events that will culminate in the wedding ceremony on Thursday afternoon here in Jerusalem. He is marrying Nata...

July 27, 2005 | Clifford D. May

The War Against the Free World

America is not fighting a war against Islam. America is fighting a war against Islamism. The difference between Islam and Islamism is straightforward: Islam is a religion, a faith, the b...