National Security

I am still working out why I watch the high dudgeon sparked by Julian Assange and the WikiLeaks dump of a quarter-million State Department cables that has given rise to the most heated, bloodthirsty chorus I have ever heard in

The United States ended WWII by dropping two nuclear weapons upon the Japanese homeland in 1945. The surrender of the Japanese came soon after, catching The Kremlin and The Pentagon off guard. The invasion of Japan was a certainty to

One of my favorite Saturday Night Live skits ever. I have not laughed this much in years. [youtube n4j7W4BiILM nolink]

There are three myths about terrorists that must be corrected if we are to battle terrorism effectively, according to Col. Matt Venhaus: that Muslim youth become terrorists for economic reasons; that they become terrorists primarily for religious reasons; and that

Washington Times Geo-Politics editor, Bill Gertz, is on record as America’s greatest national security investigative journalist and he joins Frank Gaffney on Secure Freedom Radio every Friday to cover the weeks top defense issues from his column, Inside the Ring.

The latest massive leak of classified documents by Wikileaks demonstrates not only the innocence but also the superficiality of the West. People in the U.S. don’t know what it means to live under a terrorist dictatorship. The idea that they

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a complex figure, charismatic, ambitious, and “in short, a natural politician.” If we weren’t generally aware of that fact, a series of confidential cables released by Wikileaks makes it abundantly clear – and

Punchline first, because it’s good to laugh, even mirthlessly. Set-up: Hillary Clinton was in Kyrgyzstan (oh, to be in Bishnek now that December is here) yesterday for five (5) hours to pay protection money, I mean, sign a deal to

Make no mistake about it, the ongoing WikiLeaks operation against the US is an act of war. It is not merely a criminal offense to publish hundreds of thousands of classified US government documents with malice aforethought. It is an

The New York Times is reporting: “The whistle-blowing Web site appears increasingly engaged in a game of digital Whac-A-Mole as it struggles to stay online. The Web infrastructure that supports WikiLeaks is deliberately diffuse and difficult to track, with servers

Bye-bye Oslo Al Quds al Arabi ( Arabic ) is reporting that the Palestinian Authority’s unelected Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad announced on his radio show that the PA no longer will be bound by the Oslo Accords they and Israel

The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom visited and praised a well-known extremist mosque in London Monday, and invited its youth to participate in an embassy-funded initiative to travel to the United States. The East London Mosque(ELM) hosted recent speeches

Technology Review reports that WikiLeaks, under denial of service attack and having been booted from previous hosts, has now found a new host that literally keeps its data center in an underground bunker. You can see some fascinating photos with

Bruce Bechtol, author of Defiant Failed State: The North Korean Threat to International Security and adjunct professor at Angelo State University, joins Frank Gaffney to discuss the aggressive North Korean regime. The main stream press is missing the mark on

I’ve often described the native inhabitants of Sweden as “persons of Swedish background”. This is not a joke — it’s an English translation of the official terminology employed by the Swedish state to describe the fair-skinned blue-eyed Swedish-speakers who made

Someone with backbone in the Austrian Parliament. Watch the whole thing. You won’t be disappointed. [youtube XRmgI_WXff0 nolink]

An unrepentant terror mastermind has a parole hearing scheduled for early January 2011 in civilian court. No, it is not Ramzi Yousef. It’s not Khalid Sheikh Mohammed nor any of the other Guantanamo detainees. This pioneer in terror was plying

Last week (see Ireland Bailout Fails to Calm Markets), we showed you graphs of bond yields (interest rates) for four of the PIIGS countries — Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. Now, here are the graphs for Italy and Belgium: 10-year

It’s a full court press by the Obama Administration. The goal: to hurry the Senate into approving the stalled nuclear arms treaty, the New START Treaty, with Russia during the Lame Duck session. This treaty is flawed, yet the Administration

An accurate dramatization, per State Department cables published by Wikileaks, of how the Obama White House conducts its Middle East diplomacy. It’s not exactly like this, but it’s pretty much exactly like this, ya know? [youtube FhNOWVuSXGE nolink] You’ll be

“This guy [Bradley Manning] has access to 250,000 documents and we shouldn’t be worried about it? We should be worried about because if this is what one guy with a computer and a $35 dollar domain can do, just imagine

While Wikileaks’ Julian Assange is much in the news, there’s been very little written about the individual and the forces that likely played a role in shaping him. Certainly he’s bright enough and claims to embrace some new form of

Throughout her career, journalist Asra Q. Nomani has never shied away from challenging conventional wisdom among Muslims when it comes to Islamist extremism and the threat of terrorism. In her latest article at the Daily Beast website, Nomani makes the

President Obama made clear yesterday that he is determined to get Senate approval on the New START Treaty before Christmas. His press spokesman actually predicted that it would happen – thanks, in part, to forward-leaning comments made in recent days