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The Catastrophic Strategic Consequences of the Fall of Yemen

Iranian control of Yemen gives the Mullahs the option of cutting off the sea lanes connecting the Mediterranean to the Indian Oceans. This is a very real threat, as the Iran-backed Houthi rebels consolidate control over Yemen. Most of the West’s oil and most of Western trade with the Far East depends on these sea lanes.

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‘The Terror Network’ Reincarnated

During the Cold War, Red terrorist groups proliferated throughout Western Europe. Claire Sterling detailed in her 1981 blockbuster The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism how, with the help of the Communist Bloc intelligence and their surrogates in the PLO and Cuba, these groups organized a sophisticated network able to provide everything from arranging travel to Cuba and Lebanon for training to guns and fake passports.

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The Greek Communist Revolt At 70, And Its Legacy

Today marks 70 years since the day the Greek Communist Party first attempted to seize control of Greece by force. Though they were defeated, Marxism has remained a prominent force in Greece – and is primarily responsible for the economic

The Greek Communist Revolt At 70, And Its Legacy

Ex-CIA Director Discusses post-Cold War Threats, Defends Defector

After speaking to the Financial Policy Council at the City University of New York, former CIA director R. James Woolsey spoke briefly to Breitbart News about the post-Cold War security outlook and the highest ranking Cold War-era defector to the

Ex-CIA Director Discusses post-Cold War Threats, Defends Defector

Ukraine Betrayed: Why Won't The West Resist Putin?

In late 2013, a giant Christmas tree in Kiev’s Independence Square became a symbol of the protests against the Russian-backed regime of Viktor Yanukovych. According to the UK Guardian: “The Christmas tree was hung with Ukrainian flags and protesters waved

Ukraine Betrayed: Why Won't The West Resist Putin?

Kirsten Powers Asks Followers to Help Iraqi Christians

Kirsten Powers, the great moderate liberal commentator to who actually has the courage and honesty to practice the tolerance and compassion she preaches, has asked her Twitter followers to contribute to Catholic Knights of Columbus fund to assist Iraqi Christians

Kirsten Powers Asks Followers to Help Iraqi Christians

Reds Showing Up in Ferguson Have a History with Criminals and Riots

When Marc Lamont Hill reported that people from a “revolutionary communist” group are provoking mayhem in Ferguson, Missouri, he was referring to the Revolutionary Communist Party USA (RCP). This Maoist/Stalinist cult has a history of working with thugs and criminals

Reds Showing Up in Ferguson Have a History with Criminals and Riots

Katie Pavlich Takes Down the Feminist Marxists

“I once asked Leslie Harris, the head of the ACLU task force on women, how feminists could continue their support of a man [Ted Kennedy] who was such a prominent abuser of women himself. ‘We know that,’ she said, ‘but

Katie Pavlich Takes Down the Feminist Marxists

Iranian Mayhem in Benghazi

“Iran wants chaos,” a former Iranian intelligence chief for Western Europe told Ken Timmerman, author of the new book Dark Forces: The Truth About What Happened In Benghazi. “They want to generate anti-American anger, radicalize the rebels, and maintain a climate

Iranian Mayhem in Benghazi

Foreign Affairs Misreads Lumumba (the Communist)

The current issue of Foreign Affairs (July/August 2014) contains an article about the 1960-1961 crisis in the Congo. Its key point is as follows: The root of the CIA’s intervention in Congo was an overhyped analysis of the communist threat.

Foreign Affairs Misreads Lumumba (the Communist)

Two Weeks in Cuba: International Vultures Thrive on Weakness

“On [Jimmy Carter’s] watch, Fidel Castro was on the march in Africa and fueling potent Marxist revolutionary groups throughout Central America. El Salvador and Honduras were under siege. Grenada actually went Communist in 1979. Nicaragua was taken over by Marxist

Two Weeks in Cuba: International Vultures Thrive on Weakness

Two Weeks in Cuba: Billboards and Ironies

In March of 2014, I did what my left-wing foes always challenged me to do–I traveled to a Communist country to see “real existing socialism” for myself. My two weeks in Cuba, traveling the countryside and staying in working-class Cuban

Two Weeks in Cuba: Billboards and Ironies

Remember Andropov? Putin Does

Former KGB chairman and Soviet dictator Yuri Andropov was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s mentor. As the great historian Anne Applebaum wrote in 2012:  [Putin] initiated a minor cult of Yuri Andropov, the longest-serving KGB boss in Soviet history (1967-1982), as well as

Remember Andropov? Putin Does

Schumer in 2008: Don't Oppose 'Russian Hegemony over Eastern Europe'

In June 2008, Senator Chuck Schumer penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal stating that, in order to enlist Russia’s help in shutting down Iran’s nuclear program, the United States should appease Vladimir Putin in his designs on Eastern Europe.

Schumer in 2008: Don't Oppose 'Russian Hegemony over Eastern Europe'

David Horowitz Exposes Why Progressives Must Lie

In his book Disinformation, Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet Bloc official ever to defect to the United States, describes the Soviet intelligence practice called “framing” – changing someone’s or something’s past to suit present political needs.  The Soviets perfected this

David Horowitz Exposes Why Progressives Must Lie

Ukrainian Dissidents Push UN to Brand Communist Famine 'Genocide'

Amidst an uprising raging in all but two provinces of Ukraine, dissidents inside and outside the beleaguered nation are pushing an effort to immortalize the crimes they suffered at the hands of Communism, leading Ukrainian-American scholars working with the dissidents

Ukrainian Dissidents Push UN to Brand Communist Famine 'Genocide'

Common Core Sparks Infighting in New York Unions

Last year, the depth of frustration with New York’s Common Core burst into the public when parents and teachers confronted State Education Commissioner John King in Poughkeepsie, NY, with their concerns and difficulties.  Nobody is happy about it – not the

Common Core Sparks Infighting in New York Unions

Stopping Tyranny with Mark Levin's 'The Liberty Amendments'

Republished from FrontPageMag.com.  In her memoir of her childhood, Prague Winter, Madeleine Albright describes what it was like to witness the death of democracy in her native Czechoslovakia. She details how the enemies of democracy were able to elect a

Stopping Tyranny with Mark Levin's 'The Liberty Amendments'

David Horowitz Dismantles New Left in Book of Essays

“Never trust anyone over thirty” was a slogan of the 1960s New Left. The movement’s members may now be in their 70s, but many of them never really grew up. Now, one of those who did become an adult, David

David Horowitz Dismantles New Left in Book of Essays

NYC Painted Red

Bill de Blasio is not the only red coming to power in New York City. He will also be joined by a “progressive” majority City Council. Here is a sampling of three of those he will be working with:  —Melissa Mark-Viverito, top

NYC Painted Red

The Kennedy Assassination: All Roads Lead to Moscow?

Fifty years ago, the nation stood in stunned silence as they learned that the President had been killed in Dallas, Texas. The shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, was a Communist. Over the years hundreds-of-thousands of stories have been thrown against the

The Kennedy Assassination: All Roads Lead to Moscow?

Elie Wiesel Opposes Obama's Iran Overtures

At an event attended by a Breitbart News reporter on September 29, Nobel laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel announced strong opposition to President Obama’s overtures to the Islamist regime of Iran. The Jewish newspaper The Algemeiner reported Wiesel said he has spoken

Elie Wiesel Opposes Obama's Iran Overtures

The KGB Spark and the Anti-Military Media it Ignited

The August 2013 edition of Australia’s The Monthly has a piece by Robert Manne which attempts to prove that influential Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett was a paid KGB agent. His method is simple: take the KGB document that says so–smuggled

Obama's Praise for Ho Chi Minh Recycles Old Communist Ruse

In the October 1981 issue of the American Historical Review, Allen Goodman of Georgetown University recounted asking former Comintern member Bertram Wolfe about Ho Chi Minh, whom he had spent three months with touring the Soviet Union as part of

Obama's Praise for Ho Chi Minh Recycles Old Communist Ruse

Detroit, USSA

When people say that Detroit’s bankruptcy is the offspring of the Left, they are more right than they know.  Within the archives of the Communist Party USA at NYU is the transcript of a 1988 interview conducted with Howard Johnson,

Detroit, USSA

Link Found Between Clinton, Gore, and Soviets

The Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars recently published a document called “Excerpts from a record of a meeting between Soviet journalist, Victor Louis, and General Director of the Prime Minister’s Office,

Link Found Between Clinton, Gore, and Soviets

Obama's Most Dangerous Israel Leak

The boss has put together an extraordinary rundown of Obama administration leaks showing a trend that is sabotaging Israel’s ability to strike at Iran’s nuclear facilities. The trend is quite revealing because, as Richard Helms, former director of central intelligence, once explained to Michael

Obama's Most Dangerous Israel Leak