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From Energy Crisis to Energy Security

Edited by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Clifford D. May

Energy BookAmerican dependence on oil sends hundreds of billions of dollars overseas every year, forces the U.S. to put its troops in harm's way, and undermines American diplomatic efforts... more

 

PROJECTS & CASE STUDIES

FEATURED PROJECTS

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The U.S. is vulnerable to an emerging threat. An electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack could "cripple military and civilian communications, power, transportation, water, food, and other infrastructure."

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The Center for Terrorism Research (CTR) is dedicated to identifying effective strategies and techniques to combat the threat of terrorism.

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The Center for Law & Counterterrorism puts FDD in the forefront of legal aspects of the war on terrorism – finding the proper, shifting balance that protects both our freedoms and our safety.

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The Future of Terrorism Project examines the strategies that will be needed to defeat new, more lethal strains of terrorism that now threaten America and the free world.

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We are sending hundreds of billions of dollars in oil money to regimes hostile to our interests and our way of life. Our national and economic security is at risk as long as oil has a monopoly in the transportation sector.

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The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) brings together Muslim, Christian, Jewish and secular groups -- American and European -- concerned about the threat posed by terrorist-owned media outlets.

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The Committee on the Present Danger's goal is to stiffen American resolve to confront the challenge presented by terrorism and the ideologies that drive it.

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Africa, often called the “forgotten front” in the global war on terror, has become the next major front in the war by militant Islamism.

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A Pandora's box of corruption and incompetence at the United Nations has been exposed since FDD hired Claudia Rosett as its own investigative reporter and assigned her to the beat.

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Through educating the policy community and the public about the deadly activities of the Iranian-Hezbollah-Syrian axis, FDD attacks its most vulnerable points: its worldwide media operations, its standing in the United States and Europe, its finances, and its efforts to support terror around the world.

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MEDIA & RESEARCH

IN FOCUS

Pyramid Scheme
Amid a harmattan of news, analysis and commentary blowing out of Egypt, one Twitter post stands out. An Israeli tweeted: Dear Egyptian rioters,Please don't damage the pyramids.We will not rebuild. Thank you. A good joke always contains a nugget of truth. This one contains two. The more obvious is the reminder that Egyptians and Jews have an intertwined history, going back to antiquity “when Israel was in Egypt’s land,” as the spiritual made famous by Paul Robeson phrases it, the days when the ancestors of many of today’s Israelis were slaves to pharaohs. ...more
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
02/10/2011



MEDIA

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In the Media

How Democracy Became Halal
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The New York Times
02/6/2011


Egyptology
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
02/3/2011


Dissecting Radical Islam
Reuel Marc Gerecht, The Weekly Standard
02/8/2011


Press Releases

FDD Applauds Senators Casey and Brown for New Iran Sanctions Act
12/3/2010

Notes and Comments

 

POLICY RESEARCH

Palestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn From Palestinian Social Media
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer, Mark Dubowitz
10/19/2010


FDD Report on Iran's Energy Partners
Mark Dubowitz, Laura Grossman
08/5/2010


Testimony Before The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on The Impact of U.S. And European Sanctions on Iran
Mark Dubowitz
07/29/2010


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Dr. Michael Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He is also a contributing editor at National Review Online. Previously, he served as a consultant to the National Security Council, the State Department, and the Defense Department... more
EVENTS
Cliff May and Sebastian Gorka participate in panel on soft jihad
February 17, 2011 —

A Panel Discussion on Soft Jihad...more

Claudia Rosett to Speak at Cornell University on North Korea and Iran
February 28, 2011 —

Freedom and Free Societies at Cornell University presents

"From Axis of Evil to Partners in Proliferation: North Korea and Iran"

Claudia Rosett, Journalist-in-Residence, Foundation for Defense of Democracies 

110 Rockefeller Hall

4:30pm

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FROM THE BLOGS
From Freedom's Edge, Forbes.com: Beware the Brokering of Egypt's ElBaradei by Claudia Rosett, 02/11/2011
Now that Hosni Mubarak has resigned as dictator of Egypt, what role in the perilous transition ahead might be played by former United Nations nuclear chief and Nobel laureate, Mohamed ElBaradei'When protests erupted last month, ElBaradei returned to his native Egypt, and under the caption “opposition leader” has been all over the news, offering himself as a “broker,” a “vessel,” a “bridge,” an “agent of change,” from Mubarak’s rule to “democracy...more

From NRO, The Corner: What Are Iran's Plans Now that Mubarak Is Out? What Are Ours? by Benjamin Weinthal, 02/11/2011
Berlin — Today marks the 32nd anniversary of Khomeini’s Islamic revolution in Iran, just as the Iranian regime, while falsely claiming to support Egyptians’ right to assemble and protest, employs heavy-handed tactics to suppress demonstrations in Tehran...more

From NRO, The Corner: Re: Re: Willful Blindness, Etc. by Clifford D. May, 02/10/2011
James Clapper is the director of national intelligence, so he must know what he’s talking about...more

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