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Energy Victory

By Robert Zubrin
In this compelling argument for a new direction in US energy policy, world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Robert Zubrin lays out...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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Marine Corps and Peace Corps
I was north of Kandahar, flying in a helicopter with an American general who was telling me more than I could absorb about rural irrigation systems. I asked if he had ever imagined, back when he was at West Point, that he’d become so expert in agricultural development? ...more
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
04/28/2011



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In the Media

Trust the Russians
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
04/21/2011


Clunker Energy Policies
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
04/14/2011


From Benghazi to Tel Aviv
Clifford D. May, Scripps Howard News Service
04/7/2011


Press Releases

FDD Praises Rep. Brad Sherman and Rep. Ed Royce for New Iran Sanctions Legislation
04/20/2011

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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Clifford D. May, a former New York Times foreign correspondent, is president of FDD. May served as an expert advisor to the Baker-Hamilton Commission, was appointed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's committee on democracy, and has been called one of America's "100 most influential conservatives"by Britain's Telegraph newspaper...more

EVENTS
Jonathan Schanzer to Address the Florida Society for Middle East Studies
April 30, 2011 —

Social Upheaval and Social Media: A Guide to the New Middle East

Barry and Florence Friedberg Auditorium, Florida Atlantic University - Boca Raton Campus

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Claudi Rosett Speaks at the Denver Council on Foreign Relations
May 3, 2011 —

"Gaming the UN System, for Tyranny, Terror and Profit"

Hosted by the Denver Council on Foreign Relations

May 3rd, 2011

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Sebastian Gorka to Speak at Conference on Winning the Ideological War Versus al Qaeda
May 25, 2011 —
Fighting the Ideological War: Strategies for Defeating al Qaeda

A One-Day Conference
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
9:00 a...more

FROM THE BLOGS
From The Rosett Report: Just Move the UN Human Rights Council to Syria by Claudia Rosett, 04/27/2011
With the Assad regime murdering hundreds of protesters, it’s patently grotesque that Syria might get a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council...more

From The Corner, NRO: Will Europe Break from Its Pro-Assad Course? by Benjamin Weinthal, 04/27/2011
Berlin — Syrian president Bashar Assad’s ongoing destruction of the country’s pro-democracy movement has catapulted Europe into the spotlight, since the EU has unique financial leverage over Syria’s regime...more

From The Weekly Standard Blog: WikiLeaks: The Iraq-Al Qaeda Connection Confirmed, Again by Thomas Joscelyn, 04/26/2011
A former Guantanamo detainee “was identified as an Iraqi intelligence officer who relocated to Afghanistan (AF) in 1998 where he served as a senior Taliban Intelligence Directorate officer in Mazar-E-Sharif,” according to a recently leaked assessment written by American intelligence analysts...more

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