Tag Archives: Diana West

Can 250 Special Operators Change the Syria Dynamic?

April 27, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Rep. Steve Russell, Diana West, Seth Cropsey, Rowan Scarborough, Dr. Luis Fleischman

Rep. STEVE RUSSELL (OK-5), HASC member, Vice Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s National Security Subcommittee:

US troop deployments to Syria
Implementing war trials at Guantanamo Bay
Wise council needed on defense reform

DIANA WEST, Author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:

Obama praising Angela Merkel’s policy of open German borders
The left’s stifling of free speech
Administration effectively blackmailing the UK into staying in the EU
Losing sovereignty through international trade agreements

SETH CROPSEY, Served as Deputy Undersecretary of the US Navy:

Time for a new ‘American Grand Strategy’
Stronger US naval presence needed to deter Russia, China, and Iran
Depleted US Navy hampered by continued cuts

ROWAN SCARBOROUGH, National Security Reporter at The Washington Times:

War of culture on the US Armed Forces
Pentagon dictate prioritizing climate change
Political correctness more important to administration than combat-trained troops

Dr. LUIS FLEISCHMAN, Adjunct Professor at Florida Atlantic University:

Drastic measures in Venezuela amid nation-wide electricity shortages
Finding responsible leadership in Caracas to carry the country forward
Impeachment on tap for Brazil?
Addressing corruption, not poor economic performance, the main priority for Latin American policy makers

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Global War on the Economic Front

April 18, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Kevin Freeman, Diana West, Gordon Chang, Joseph Humire, Michael Bastasch

KEVIN FREEMAN, Founder and CEO of Freeman Global Investment Council:

Saudi threats to dump large shares of US Treasury bonds
China morphing the Yuan into a gold-backed currency
Consequences from a failed ‘petrodollar’
Using the US energy industry in the global economic war

DIANA WEST, Author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault On Our Nation’s Character”:

Obama’s upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia and the battle over the infamous classified 9-11 papers
Lack of reporting on Alwaleed bin-Talal
Kingdom of Saud an enemy of Western democracy

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com Columnist and The Daily Beast Contributor:

Looking at Russian and Chinese provocations on US reconnaissance aircraft
Xi Jinping’s imperialism fueled by domestic matters
Chinese naval beachhead in Djibouti and other military installations throughout Africa
Reports of yet another scheduled North Korean nuclear detonation

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director of the Center for a Secure Free Society, former USMC combat veteran:

Possible pending impeachment of Brazilian leader, Dilma Rousseff
Cuba’s communist government continuing to consolidate power
Big blow to Peruvian socialism
Deadly earthquake in Ecuador over the weekend

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

DOE audit exposing critical flaws in grid security
Revisiting the incident of Russian hackers bringing down Ukraine’s electric infrastructure
Apocalyptic scenario of a solar storm in today’s digital world
Obama Administration continuing to push the narrative of climate change as the most urgent threat to national security

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Growing Link Between Terrorist Organizations and Drug Lords in Latin America

April 12, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Rep. Robert Pittenger, Diana West, Dr. Bruce Bechtol and Dr. Peter Vincent Pry

Rep. ROBERT PITTENGER (NC-9), Vice Chairman of the Bipartisan Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing:

Opening the U.S. financial markets to Iran
Link between terrorist organizations and drug lords in Latin America
Obama unilaterally allowing refugees who have provided “limited material support” to terrorists

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of a Grown Up”:

Red-Green Axis
President Obama’s Libya debacle
Erdogan demands prosecution of German comedian

Dr. BRUCE BECHTOL, Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University:

North Korean missile, satellite and nuclear capabilities
Kim Jong-un’s Intelligence Chief defects to South Korea

Dr. PETER VINCENT PRY, Executive Director on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security:

Assessment of North Korea’s “Super-EMP” weapon
NORAD Commander Gortney’s concerns about an EMP attack
How to protect our nuclear grid

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Is Deposing Assad Feasible?

March 30, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Diana West, Ben Weingarten and Jim Hanson

Dr. JONATHAN SPYER, Director of the Rubin Center for International Affairs at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (Israel), Fellow at the Middle East Forum:

Israel’s effective navigation of the Syrian civil war
Is Obama’s policy for deposing Assad feasible?
Prescriptions for the West to combat the global Jihad

DIANA WEST, author of “Death of the Grown Up,” nationally syndicated columnist:

Insights from the Belgium attacks
Likelihood of Turkey joining the European Union
Hillary Clinton’s meeting with MPAC leaders

BEN WEINGARTEN, founder and CEO of Change Up Media LLC, Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute:

NYPD Intelligence Unit’s “Radicalization in the West” study buried
Jihadist radicalization taking place in U.S. prisons

JIM HANSON, Executive VP of the Center for Security Policy, National Security Advisor to Senator Ted Cruz:

NYPD Commissioner’s fallacy that counterterrorism cannot use ideology
How civilization jihadists neuter American law enforcement
Ted Cruz’s policy to prevent “no-go” zones similar to Molenbeek, Brussels
Iranians charged with hacking into a NY dam

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Guantanamo Bay as a National Security and Intelligence Asset

March 16, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Sen. Steve Daines, Rep. Mike Pompeo, Rick Manning, Diana West

Sen. STEVE DAINES (R-MT) Member of the Senate Committees on Appropriations and Energy & Natural Resources:

Administration admitting Iranian malfeasance in a prior cyber attack on a New York state dam
Necessity of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility
Intelligence assets lost if Gitmo is turned over to the Castro regime
Using a private sector model to fix the VA health care system

Rep. MIKE POMPEO (KS-4) Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Select Committee on Benghazi:

President Obama’s upcoming Cuba trip as a ”shut down Gitmo” campaign
Continuing down the path towards an Iranian nuclear weapons program
Restraints on the IAEA on sanctioning the Islamic Republic
Obama’s Global Engagement Center in combating extremism

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

The Trans-Pacific Partnership rewriting the rules for the world economy
Unfair, anti-American trade practices in the current TPP
How to stop a lame duck vote on the TPP

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist:

Emergence of migration restrictions as Germany becomes increasingly “Balkanized”
Study finding sixty-one million immigrants currently in the US
Chicago shutdown of the Trump rally from an emerging coalition of leftist groups

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National Security Predictions from Super Tuesday

March 2, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Ben Weingarten, Diana West, Fred Fleitz, Peter Huessy

BEN WEINGARTEN, Founder and CEO of ChangeUp Media LLC, Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute:

Super Tuesday results
Republican candidates’ positions on national security
NYPD report mentioning Islamic supremacy being scrubbed from official records

DIANA WEST, Author of “The Death of the Grown Up” and “American Betrayal”:

Trump’s success on Super Tuesday
Similar use of subversion by Communists and Islamists
Trump supporters drawn to his rejection of globalism

FRED FLEITZ, Senior VP for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA analyst:

Former Speaker of the House John Boehner’s recent criticism of the Iran nuclear deal
Moderate candidates barred from participating in Iran’s elections
United Nations sanctions on North Korea being tampered with by the Chinese
Last batch of Hillary Clinton emails released by the State Department

PETER HUESSY, Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council:

Arguments made for unilateral cuts to US nuclear deterrent capabilities
Importance of the nuclear umbrella
Danger of unilaterally disarming

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Showdown in the South China Sea

February 17, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Diana West, Michael Cutler, Gordon Chang and Mark Henshaw

DIANA WEST, Author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of the Grown Up”:

Pope Francis’ speech near the Mexican border today
Geert Wilders’ death threats from political opponents as he gains momentum in the Netherlands
Spring will bring more chaos for Europe as migrant flow continues

MICHAEL CUTLER, Retired Senior Special Agent of the former Immigration and Naturalization Services:

Immigration to US likely to be encouraged by the Pope’s speech in Juarez
What is the real number of illegal immigrants in America?
Some Syrian refugees represent a threat to national security

GORDON CHANG, Forbes.com columnist and Daily Beast contributor:

China putting SAMs on Woody Island in the South China Sea
Why the US shouldn’t join the “Law of the Sea Treaty”
Symbolism of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Sunnylands, CA.
President Obama’s commercial and geopolitical reasons for supporting the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Threat of military coup against Kim Jong-un?

MARK HENSHAW, former CIA analyst, author of “The Fall of Moscow Station”:

Overview of the new book, “The Fall of Moscow Station”
Damage to the US caused by foreign intelligence services
The CIA’s “Red Cell”

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Is the Military Equipped to Defend Against Future Threats?

February 10, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Michael Bastasch, Diana West, Tom Donnelly and Bruce Klinger

MICHAEL BASTASCH, Investigative Reporter at The Daily Caller:

Supreme Court puts a hold on Obama’s Clean Power Plan
Administration demanding military give priority to climate change
Implications of the fracking tax

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of the Grownup”:

Donald Trump’s plans for national security
The Democratic Party’s embrace of socialism
PEGIDA protest shut down in France

TOM DONNELLY, Co-director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies at the American Enterprise Institute:

Adequacies and deficiencies of Obama’s budget proposal regarding defense
Obama’s harm to the military
Shrinking US Naval Fleet

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Which Presidential candidate can secure a mandate to rebuild the military?
Disconnect between the military and the civilian population
Implications for the military if they are required to factor in their carbon footprint during times of war

BRUCE KLINGNER, Senior Research Fellow for Northeast Asia at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center:

North Korea’s recent ballistic missile tests
Current officials in Pyongyang reneging on prior international arms agreements
Allying with China against the Kim Regime
US reassurances to South Korea regarding the THAAD Missile Defense System

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Syria Peace Talks Halted, What’s the President’s Plan?

February 3, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Diana West, Samuel Bendett, Joseph Humire and Fred Fleitz

DIANA WEST, nationally syndicated columnist, author of “American Betrayal” and “Death of a Grownup”:

Geert Wilders’ resistance to Europe’s infiltration of Islamism
Europe has brought Tahrir Square into every town square
What the US can learn from Europe

SAMUEL BENDETT, defense and foreign policy analyst:

Russia’s plans for global dominance
What Putin’s aggression may mean for former Soviet satellite states
How the West was overly optimistic about democratization after the fall of the USSR

JOSEPH HUMIRE, Executive Director at the Center for a Secure Free Society:

What will Cuba look like after the death of the Castro brothers?
Cuba’s internal population control
Islamist penetration of Latin America

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President at the Center for Security Policy, former CIA analyst:

Iran’s shopping spree with sanctions relief
How JCPOA will play into the elections & possibly hurt Clinton’s presidential bid
Upcoming Syrian peace talks

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Castro Regime Taking Over Gitmo?

January 27, 2016Secure Freedom Radio

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With Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Michael Rowan, Monica Crowley, Diana West

Rep. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN (FL-27), Chairman Emeritus of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs:

Italian’s covering up nude statues so as to not offend Iranian president Rouhani during his state visit
US abandoning allies in the Middle East
Clinton Emailgate: what should the punishment be?
If Obama closes Gitmo, will he hand the reigns over to the Castro Regime?
Venezuela’s path to implosion

MICHAEL ROWAN, author of “The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chávez and the War Against America”:

How the Cuban model of communism has bankrupt Venezuela despite the country’s vast oil and natural gas reserves
Hezbollah active in Venezuela and what that has to do with Iran’s sanctions relief
Narco terrorists holding government positions in Caracas

MONICA CROWLEY, Fox News Analyst:

Obama’s efforts to close Guantanamo Bay as his most dangerous betrayal
Looking at ISIS’ recruitment of women
Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all had eyes on the Clinton server
Huma Abedin’s chances of facing serious legal jeopardy

DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”: