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Rising Cases of Sedition: Tides of Revolution Surge
Revolution and SeditionMore than 200 people are charged by federal prosecutors for violent crimes related to protests where acts of arson, assaults on federal officers, and other gun crimes are being listed. Attorney General William Barr recently advised federal...
This Land is Our Land: New Zones of Influence
Today, the United States mourns the losses of 9/11 victims as efforts to defund the police, homeland security, and the military are being vigorously pursued by protestors in the streets and in the back-rooms of government. Key democratic run cities are fast becoming terror hot-spots for radicalized groups claiming territory, setting up new laws, and subjecting US citizens to violent unrest. This Line of Effort combined with a presidential campaign promise to enforce a policy to buy-back legally owned assault rifles clearly outlines a DDR campaign to disarm and demobilize both American citizens and the official government of the United States.
Interview with Fred Fleitz Former CIA and Deputy Assistant to President Trump
Fred Fleitz served in 2018 as a Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Chief of Staff to National Security Adviser John Bolton and is currently President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy. At the time of this interview, Fleitz was Director of the Langley...
US Mexico Border Crisis: Unintended Consequences of Porous Borders
Exploring Immigration Options The US Mexico agreement to enable asylum seekers to stay in Mexico for the duration of their claims is moving forwards despite recent opposition from activists. Mexico will benefit from President Trump’s decision to allow 30,000 seasonal...
Iran Raises Nuclear Tensions, US and UK Warn Against Threats from Tehran
Iran supported Recent Strikes on Israel Iran is now threatening to pull out of some of its commitments under the nuclear deal with remaining participants in Europe and China and has increased nuclear weapons programming. Iran supported rocket attacks from Hamas and...
John Bolton Discusses Iran’s Nuclear Program
Introduction Ambassador John Bolton is currently serving as the 27th United States National Security Advisor. Previously, Bolton served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006, and is a former senior fellow at the...
Beyond Reciprocal Tariffs: Making Resource Development and Infrastructure Building Reciprocal
Helping Allies Develop While Repairing US Infrastructure President Trump rallied in Green Bay City of Wisconsin and stressed again the importance of reciprocal trade regarding tariffs. The U.S. aims to match tariffs on other countries imposing high tariffs on US...
Military Spending Shows Where US Power Will Lead
Defense Budget Maps US Influence While the future of U.S. foreign policy and worldwide military involvement in the long-run may seem obscure and uncertain, if you know where and what to look for, you may be able to foresee the future as far as ten to twenty years...
Prisoner Swap? Hey IRGC, Go Flood Yourself!
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in New York for a meeting at the United Nations has invited President Trump to swap prisoners. Secretary Pompeo announced earlier this week that the U.S. will not allow further exemptions for its trade partners like South...
Big Tech Wars: How Big Tech and Russian Intel Interfered in 2016 Election on Opposing Sides
Meet Googliath and His Friends in Social Media The Mueller report finding President Trump innocent of collusion with the Russian Federation’s interference in the 2016 election provides a clear picture of the Russian influence operation but how has the cat and mouse...
This Land is Our Land: New Zones of Influence
Today, the United States mourns the losses of 9/11 victims as efforts to defund the police, homeland security, and the military are being vigorously pursued by protestors in the streets and in the back-rooms of government. Key democratic run cities are fast becoming terror hot-spots for radicalized groups claiming territory, setting up new laws, and subjecting US citizens to violent unrest. This Line of Effort combined with a presidential campaign promise to enforce a policy to buy-back legally owned assault rifles clearly outlines a DDR campaign to disarm and demobilize both American citizens and the official government of the United States.
US Mexico Border Crisis: Unintended Consequences of Porous Borders
Exploring Immigration Options The US Mexico agreement to enable asylum seekers to stay in Mexico for the duration of their claims is moving forwards despite recent opposition from activists. Mexico will benefit from President Trump’s decision to allow 30,000 seasonal...
Military Spending Shows Where US Power Will Lead
Defense Budget Maps US Influence While the future of U.S. foreign policy and worldwide military involvement in the long-run may seem obscure and uncertain, if you know where and what to look for, you may be able to foresee the future as far as ten to twenty years...
Big Tech Wars: How Big Tech and Russian Intel Interfered in 2016 Election on Opposing Sides
Meet Googliath and His Friends in Social Media The Mueller report finding President Trump innocent of collusion with the Russian Federation’s interference in the 2016 election provides a clear picture of the Russian influence operation but how has the cat and mouse...
Democrats Demand Redacted Version of Mueller Report
“No evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government” -ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR April 18, 2019 The two-year saga known as ‘The Mueller Report’ has come to a disappointing, albeit predictable end for Democrats on the morning of...
Narco-America: How Cartels are Influencing U.S. Border Policy with Psyop Tactics
Officials Resign as Public Pressure Intensifies Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation from her post as Secretary of Homeland Security announced yesterday by President Trump on Twitter to be replaced by Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan comes at a...
US Mexico Border Closure
Human Trafficking Increasing in Caravans With another weaponized migrant caravan set to arrive on the US Mexico border inducing a cascading crisis, President Trump’s administration is set to close the border as Mexico abandons its obligations to the US. The...
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants When will Europe learn that helping Iran skirt sanctions will not reward them with economic gains nor the security they seek. President Rouhani is threatening Europe with floods of migrants to their borders and drugs. It’s...
Solutions Between Security, AID, and Development Problems
[continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts, and Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and...
Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and Failures of Disarmament
Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and Failures of Disarmament [continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior...
Beyond Reciprocal Tariffs: Making Resource Development and Infrastructure Building Reciprocal
Helping Allies Develop While Repairing US Infrastructure President Trump rallied in Green Bay City of Wisconsin and stressed again the importance of reciprocal trade regarding tariffs. The U.S. aims to match tariffs on other countries imposing high tariffs on US...
Military Spending Shows Where US Power Will Lead
Defense Budget Maps US Influence While the future of U.S. foreign policy and worldwide military involvement in the long-run may seem obscure and uncertain, if you know where and what to look for, you may be able to foresee the future as far as ten to twenty years...
Building Bridges in Energy Not Divorce
The Great Migration of Oil Wealth to Green Energy Manufacturers in the US The Green New Deal offers a giant divorce settlement between the U.S. and its oil and gas industries with financial damages being spent on the environment. This will lower temperatures by 2°C....
Solutions Between Security, AID, and Development Problems
[continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts, and Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and...
Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts
The Gold Rush of Chad, Libya, Sudan, Niger, and Algeria [continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace] In an arc stretching from Sudan to Southern Algeria, gold surfaced between 2011 and...
International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace
Globalism to Combat Instability Liberal think tanks are using the allure of globalist expansion to recruit companies to invest in Africa while the stability of the region remains a military effort. While some areas are secure for trade, for others it may prove...
World Bank and IMF to Fund Libya- How the Global Order Will Conquer Africa, or Be Conquered Themselves
The Incredible Costs of Rebuilding Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Others Under the Ongoing Spread of Extremism The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are putting investment capital into Libya according to a World Bank representative who spoke at the MED2018...
Blackmail Settlements Could Lead to a Shakedown
Class Action Lawsuits Under Judgement at the Supreme Court The Supreme Court is scheduled to accept a case decided differently between the Fifth and Sixth Circuit Courts on what qualifies as a class action lawsuit in which law firms can file class action lawsuits...
Exploring Issues of Migration, Open Borders, and Trafficking
Turning Crisis into Opportunity for Millions of Migrants Currently in International Flux The 4,000 migrant caravans from Honduras in transit to the Mexico-US border point to two distinct problems that deserve immediate attention. One is the issue of open or closed...
Strike on Disputed Oil Destination- Kurdistan
Kurkuk Remembered Nearly a year ago, on October 16, 2017 Iraqi and Iran-backed paramilitary forces captured the oil province of Kurkuk from the security forces and Peshmerga of Kurdistan. Now, Kurdish activists are calling for a one hour strike in protest to military...
This Land is Our Land: New Zones of Influence
Today, the United States mourns the losses of 9/11 victims as efforts to defund the police, homeland security, and the military are being vigorously pursued by protestors in the streets and in the back-rooms of government. Key democratic run cities are fast becoming terror hot-spots for radicalized groups claiming territory, setting up new laws, and subjecting US citizens to violent unrest. This Line of Effort combined with a presidential campaign promise to enforce a policy to buy-back legally owned assault rifles clearly outlines a DDR campaign to disarm and demobilize both American citizens and the official government of the United States.
Iran Raises Nuclear Tensions, US and UK Warn Against Threats from Tehran
Iran supported Recent Strikes on Israel Iran is now threatening to pull out of some of its commitments under the nuclear deal with remaining participants in Europe and China and has increased nuclear weapons programming. Iran supported rocket attacks from Hamas and...
Military Spending Shows Where US Power Will Lead
Defense Budget Maps US Influence While the future of U.S. foreign policy and worldwide military involvement in the long-run may seem obscure and uncertain, if you know where and what to look for, you may be able to foresee the future as far as ten to twenty years...
Prisoner Swap? Hey IRGC, Go Flood Yourself!
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in New York for a meeting at the United Nations has invited President Trump to swap prisoners. Secretary Pompeo announced earlier this week that the U.S. will not allow further exemptions for its trade partners like South...
As Israel Votes: Sanctions on Soleimani, US Designates IRGC Terrorist Organization
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters his 5th term after securing victory in the Israeli elections promising to establish a government quickly. Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Yisrael Beiteinu, Right-wing Union and Kulanu- right-wing parties were elected into...
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants When will Europe learn that helping Iran skirt sanctions will not reward them with economic gains nor the security they seek. President Rouhani is threatening Europe with floods of migrants to their borders and drugs. It’s...
Solutions Between Security, AID, and Development Problems
[continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts, and Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and...
Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore Exposes US Government Corruption with Secret Agreements with Iran and Saudi Arabia
Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore writes to expose Former CIA Director John Brennan among others in his book, Paine: How We Dismantled the FBI in Our Pajamas. The book available on Amazon provides an account of one cover up after another by George W. Bush, Barack Obama and...
Ceasefire in Gaza Not Likely to Last
After some 500 rockets were sent into Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, a cease-fire was reached with critics on both sides already gathering in protest. Protests this year have already claimed over 200 Palestinian protesters of the blockade on Gaza. 500...
Sanctions on Iran Working Amidst International Panic
Sanctions on Iran are working. Iran’s government is showing signs of beginning to bleed out by flooding the market with liquidity and providing loans to people on the verge of default, mainly the middle class. However, this does not appear to lessen the level of...
Beyond Reciprocal Tariffs: Making Resource Development and Infrastructure Building Reciprocal
Helping Allies Develop While Repairing US Infrastructure President Trump rallied in Green Bay City of Wisconsin and stressed again the importance of reciprocal trade regarding tariffs. The U.S. aims to match tariffs on other countries imposing high tariffs on US...
Prisoner Swap? Hey IRGC, Go Flood Yourself!
Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, in New York for a meeting at the United Nations has invited President Trump to swap prisoners. Secretary Pompeo announced earlier this week that the U.S. will not allow further exemptions for its trade partners like South...
North Korea cozies up to Russia. But Why?
Mere weeks after Kim Jung Un and U.S. President Donald Trump met in Hanoi, the North Korean leader is now making a play to gain Russian support and influence, no doubt to ease the effects of economic sanctions felt by his [Kim Jung Un’s] country, while also...
Trump China Trade Negotiations Push for Progress on Forced Tech Transfers
President Trump’s negotiations with President Xi Jinping report a shocking win on global technology transfers, but US companies need to make the next move. Knocking China out of number one on global exports will take mobilizing the American private sector and...
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants When will Europe learn that helping Iran skirt sanctions will not reward them with economic gains nor the security they seek. President Rouhani is threatening Europe with floods of migrants to their borders and drugs. It’s...
Solutions Between Security, AID, and Development Problems
[continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts, and Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and...
Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore Exposes US Government Corruption with Secret Agreements with Iran and Saudi Arabia
Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore writes to expose Former CIA Director John Brennan among others in his book, Paine: How We Dismantled the FBI in Our Pajamas. The book available on Amazon provides an account of one cover up after another by George W. Bush, Barack Obama and...
Sanctions on Iran Working Amidst International Panic
Sanctions on Iran are working. Iran’s government is showing signs of beginning to bleed out by flooding the market with liquidity and providing loans to people on the verge of default, mainly the middle class. However, this does not appear to lessen the level of...
Midterm Election Abuse Looks like Bolshevism
The Russians called it, “sabotage.” In communist Russia, saboteurs were executed in purges eliminating threats to their Soviet ideology and totalitarian way of life, and they were most fearful of saboteurs because of the means they themselves used to take control. The...
Exploring Issues of Migration, Open Borders, and Trafficking
Turning Crisis into Opportunity for Millions of Migrants Currently in International Flux The 4,000 migrant caravans from Honduras in transit to the Mexico-US border point to two distinct problems that deserve immediate attention. One is the issue of open or closed...
Military Spending Shows Where US Power Will Lead
Defense Budget Maps US Influence While the future of U.S. foreign policy and worldwide military involvement in the long-run may seem obscure and uncertain, if you know where and what to look for, you may be able to foresee the future as far as ten to twenty years...
President Trump to Chase Down Resources in Africa to Combat the Spread of Chinese and Russian Influence
A Quick Look at Nigeria Following the Trump administration’s release of its African strategy the inauguration of which the Nigerian president attended in Washington D.C., Nigeria continues to be a focus point for the US to compete with Chinese investments in Africa as...
Solutions Between Security, AID, and Development Problems
[continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts, and Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and...
Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and Failures of Disarmament
Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and Failures of Disarmament [continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior...
Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts
The Gold Rush of Chad, Libya, Sudan, Niger, and Algeria [continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace] In an arc stretching from Sudan to Southern Algeria, gold surfaced between 2011 and...
International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace
Globalism to Combat Instability Liberal think tanks are using the allure of globalist expansion to recruit companies to invest in Africa while the stability of the region remains a military effort. While some areas are secure for trade, for others it may prove...
World Bank and IMF to Fund Libya- How the Global Order Will Conquer Africa, or Be Conquered Themselves
The Incredible Costs of Rebuilding Libya, Syria, Iraq, and Others Under the Ongoing Spread of Extremism The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are putting investment capital into Libya according to a World Bank representative who spoke at the MED2018...
Exploring Issues of Migration, Open Borders, and Trafficking
Turning Crisis into Opportunity for Millions of Migrants Currently in International Flux The 4,000 migrant caravans from Honduras in transit to the Mexico-US border point to two distinct problems that deserve immediate attention. One is the issue of open or closed...
Sudan, A Masterpiece of Chaos
Raped; burned; run over by armored vehicles; hung from trees- Sudan is suffering the legacies of the Civil War (1983-2005) and the failures of postwar Disarmament Demobilization Reintegration (DDR). “The South Sudanese military, known as the SPLA, together with allied...
Russia’s Diminishing Resources and Proliferation in Unstable Regions
Depletion of Russia’s Mineral Wealth Russia is expected to run out of many of its mineral resources by 2025. Within a decade economically viable reserves of zinc, manganese, copper, nickel, and platinum will have run out, these mineral resources are necessary for...
Interview with Fred Fleitz Former CIA and Deputy Assistant to President Trump
Fred Fleitz served in 2018 as a Deputy Assistant to President Trump and Chief of Staff to National Security Adviser John Bolton and is currently President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy. At the time of this interview, Fleitz was Director of the Langley...
John Bolton Discusses Iran’s Nuclear Program
Introduction Ambassador John Bolton is currently serving as the 27th United States National Security Advisor. Previously, Bolton served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from August 2005 to December 2006, and is a former senior fellow at the...
Archival Institute Interviews Arang Keshavarzian
Introduction Arang Keshavarzian is an Associate Professor Middle Eastern Studies at NYU. His focus is on modern Iran and the Persian Gulf, although he has studied, conducted research, and taught in several other countries in the Middle East and North Africa,...
Archival Institute Interviews Hadi Enayat
Introduction Hadi Enayat is a political sociologist whose main interests are in the areas of religion and international relations, the sociology of law and secularism studies. He has written Law, State and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy and...
Yaphe Discusses the American Hostage Crisis and the Iran-Iraq War
Archival Institute Interviews Judith Yaphe Dr. Yaphe ran the Iran desk at the CIA during the American Hostage Crisis and discusses the events of the late 1970s and 80s surrounding the 1979 Revolution in Iran, the taking of 52 American hostages at the American Embassy,...
Kamiar Alaei Discusses the Treatment of HIV Aids Patients and His Experience Imprisoned in Iran
Archival Institute Interviews Kamiar Alaei|Albany, New York February 3, 2015 Kamiar Alaei is a public service professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Albany and the founding Director of the Global Institute for Health and...
Archival Institute Interviews Clare Lopez
Introduction to Clare Lopez Clare M. Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, national defense, WMD, and counterterrorism issues. Specific areas of expertise include Islam and Iran. Lopez began her career as an operations...
Interview with Elise Auerbach
Introduction to Elise Auerbach Elise Auerbach is the Iran country specialist for Amnesty International USA (AIUSA). Since 1995 she has been an active member of AIUSA’s Middle East Coordination Group, which monitors the work done by Amnesty International USA in the...
Interview with Dr. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones | History of Ancient Persia
Introduction to Dr. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is a senior lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh and a specialist in the history and culture of ancient Iran, Greece, and Egypt. His research focuses on the history, culture,...
Abbas Attar | Eyewitness Account of 1979 Islamic Revolution
Introducing Abbas Attar The powerful testimony of Abbas Attar shows his personal account of conflicts witnessed and photographed of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the Islamicization of the regions of the Middle East and North Africa, and other conflicts involving...
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US Mexico Border Crisis: Unintended Consequences of Porous Borders
Iran Raises Nuclear Tensions, US and UK Warn Against Threats from Tehran
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