President-elect Donald Trump yesterday sounded an alarm about a very serious threat to our national security and commercial interests arising from the current status of the strategic Panama Canal. While Mr. Trump cited concerns about Panama’s exorbitant charges imposed on U.S. military and commercial shipping, he also directly addressed the question of who controls the waterway we built.…
Turkey’s Islamist proxies have seized most of Syria. Now it wants an end to U.S. and other international sanctions on an al Qaeda-linked group controlling much of that long-suffering country. Those include a 10 million dollar bounty on its leader, known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, for the murder of Americans, among others. A multi-national delegation…
Ruthie Bloom, Columnist at JNS I spoke with Ruthie Bloom from Israel about the state of the war Israel is currently engaged in against Iran and its various proxies, including most recently very, very devastating attacks against the so-called Houthi rebels in Yemen in the aftermath of continuing attacks by them against the Jewish state.…
The Biden administration committed yesterday to reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases by 66 percent over the next decade. You might be forgiven for thinking that whoever’s running our country at the moment didn’t get the memo that their team lost the election, with voters soundly repudiating its radical policies with respect to climate change…
Caroline Glick, Host of The Caroline Glick Show Caroline Glick and I discussed what Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey is doing to exploit what he and his surrogates have accomplished in the seizure of Syria, whether Jordan is next, and what it means for Israel and the rest of the region for that matter. We…
The prime-mover behind the toppling of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad was another, de facto dictator: Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He is poised to become its principal beneficiary, as well. During the Cold War, Turkey was ruled by governments that, while Muslim, aligned their country with the West, securing NATO’s southern flank against Soviet aggression. Unfortunately, that alliance…
Major General Joe Arbuckle, Major General, U.S.Army (Ret.) Major General Joe Arbuckle and I spoke about a new initiative by Flag Officers for America supporting the nomination of Pete Hegseth to be the next Secretary of Defense and why all of us should support that nomination to save our military from the wrecking operation to…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Two days after Donald Trump’s landslide 2024 electoral victory, outgoing President Joe Biden announced, “I direct my entire administration to work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.” This appeared to track with Biden’s oft- asserted commitment to “democracy.” Unfortunately, what has happened…
Col. John Mills, Senior Fellow, Center for Security Policy Colonel John Mills and I visited about this peculiar story about drones operating all over the East Coast of the United States at the moment. The competing stories that we’re getting about whether it’s a function of hostile powers action or our own government looking for…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Among the most insidious examples of the damage done by the Biden-Harris wrecking operation against America is its stealthy enabling of “world government” at the expense of our national sovereignty, constitutional Republic and personal freedoms. Notably, the administration has agreed to two treaties conferring unprecedented powers…
The Biden administration just unveiled a new strategy to counter “Islamophobia.” It goes beyond pandering to religious and ethnic minorities to legitimate and encourage the efforts of Sharia-supremacists to compel the rest of us to submit to their domination. Adherence to Sharia – authoritative Islam’s totalitarian operating code – differentiates Muslims willing to live peacefully…
Rabbi Pesach Wolicki, Co-Host Of The Shoulder to Shoulder Podcast Rabbi Pesach Wolicki and I took stock of the ripple effects that we’re seeing, rising from the swift overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, what it’s likely to mean for the rising power and the growing menace of Turkey, which despite being a NATO…
Christopher Wray’s Toxic Legacy at the FBI FBI Director Christopher Wray will resign at the end of the Biden presidency. That’s the very good news. The very bad news is that Wray’s years of politically charged malfeasance have destroyed his agency’s reputation, demoralized its agents and primarily weaponized it against patriotic Americans, not…
Justin Bernier, Chief Executive Officer at National Security Index I spoke with Justin Bernier of the National Security Index about the underwriting of our enemy, namely the Chinese Communist Party, that has been taking place unbeknownst to most Americans with their money, thanks to captured elites on Wall Street and the necessity for ending that…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. When is a jihadist not a jihadist? Evidently, when it is inconvenient to the Biden administration to acknowledge the truth. For example, in Afghanistan, Team Biden has decided to prop up the Taliban with still-ongoing U.S. cash infusions following a bequest of some 80 billion dollars…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Since Pete Hegseth was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to become the next Secretary of Defense, he has been the subject of sustained personal attacks and reports that his prospects for confirmation are uncertain. My bet is that this honing fire will not only result in…
Caroline Glick, Host of The Caroline Glick Show I discussed with Caroline Glick developments in the Middle East, specifically the overthrow of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, a tectonic shift that is likely to have reverberations throughout the region, some of them potentially very promising, some of them potentially very dangerous indeed. We discussed what…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. We face today three strains of totalitarianism. The Chinese Communist Party is using unrestricted warfare and Maoist revolutionary techniques to achieve global hegemony. World Economic Forum fascists are pursuing sovereignty- crushing “resets” to achieve governance of the entire planet And Sharia-supremacists, whether Sunni or Shiite,…
Sam Faddis, Former CIA Ops Officer I discussed with Sam Faddis what has gone on in Korea and what it suggests about the larger enterprises of the Chinese Communist Party as it seeks through strategic arson in places like Ukraine and the Middle East and perhaps now Korea to distract and otherwise dissipate our ability…
This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Amnesty International is the latest hostile entity to defame Israel’s democratically elected government, its military, and its people, falsely accusing them of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Interestingly, Amnesty International’s own Israel chapter has dissented from this indictment. And rightly so. To cite just one example:…