Great Powers Don’t Default
The Dangers of Debt-Ceiling Brinkmanship
Visiting scholar
Xi Jinping in His Own Words
What China’s Leader Wants—and How to Stop Him From Getting It
Op-eds
‘China’s Media Warfare seeks global totalitarian thought control’
India and other countries would do well to study how China employs Media Warfare to try to undermine Taiwan’s democratic institutions, fracture national unity, demoralize the public and military, and create social instability in pursuit of its goal of annexing this sovereign country.
Op-eds
Democracies still don’t understand CCP’s political warfare: Kerry Gershaneck
‘Both India and the US have pro-China factions, for reasons ranging from simple greed to leftist, pro-totalitarian ideology. Consequently, it has been difficult to develop a national consensus to fight...
Op-eds
FDD Welcomes Saudi Arabia and Gulf Expert David Weinberg as Senior Fellow
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies proudly welcomed...
Press Releases
Is Al Qaeda Iraq a Threat to Sweden?
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion...
Op-eds
Democracy Will Prevail in Egypt and Across the Middle East
Democracy has been the dominant form of political organization in Canada and other English-speaking countries for so long that we often forget just how historically unusual it is. Until the estab...
Op-eds
The Medieval Medical Horrors of North Korea, A Real-life Mordor
Five decades after Joseph Stalin’s death, there is only one place on earth where his dream of exterminating the individual human spirit in the name of communism survives in its purest form:...
Op-eds
Ex-Guantanamo detainee suicide bomber fought at Tora Bora
On the morning of March 23, 2008, an Easter Sunday, a massive blast rocked the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Eight kilometers away at Forward Operating Base Marez, the US Military Transit...
Op-eds
Released Guantanamo detainee behind March suicide truck bombing at Combat Outpost Inman in Mosul
Al Qaeda in Iraq, through its puppet organization the Islamic State of Iraq, released its latest propaganda video on June 23. The video contains a montage of attacks throughout Iraq, and fe...
Op-eds
Former Defense Department Consultant Mario Loyola Joins FDD as Visiting Fellow
Washington, D.C. (Oct. 4, 2007) – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) welcomes former defense department consultant Mario Loyola as a visiting fellow. While at FDD,...
Press Releases
Is Al Qaeda Iraq a Threat to Sweden?
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq recently offered a bounty encouraging the assassination of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor for having published drawings deemed insulting to the religion of Islam. Omar al Baghdadi, in an audio statement said Lars Vilks, who "dared insult the Prophet", should be killed for a reward of $100,000 and, if "slaughtered like a lamb", the killer will receive another $50,000. In addition, he offered a Jihadi financial reward of $50,000 for the murder of Ulf Johansson, the editor of Nerikes Allehanda, the Swedish paper that printed Vilks' cartoon on August 19.
Op-eds
The Caliph-Strophic Debate
It seems that the US is having a hard time winning the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims, but an equally serious problem can be observed in the intellectual circles of America where some have...