Tag Archives: Mark Schneider

State Department Flip Flop on Iran?

With Fred Fleitz, Diana West, Mark Schneider and Harold Rhode

FRED FLEITZ, Senior Vice President for Policy and Programs at the Center for Security Policy:

  • State Department statement that Iran has been holding to the deal
  • Will China really help defuse North Korea?
  • Trita Parsi

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

  • The need for investigation of Russian influence operations
  • John Brennan’s collusion with foreign intelligence agencies to defeat Trump

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • Russian Arctic base
  • The future of the New START treaty
  • Russian bombers fly near Alaska

HAROLD RHODE, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute:

  • How Erdogan’s power grab should influence U.S.- Turkey relations
  • Is Turkey a reliable NATO ally?

The Dangers of Russian Nuclear Modernization

Donate Now

Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you

With David Satter, Mark Schneider, Bill Gertz and Diana West

 

DAVID SATTER, Former Moscow correspondent, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute as well as the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia:

  • Putin’s nefarious rise to power
  • FSB bombings blamed on Chechens in 1999
  • Moscow’s social engineering

 

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • Nuclear and political threat from the Kremlin
  • Net effect of the NEW START Treaty
  • Putin’s plans for the next U.S. President
  • Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
  • No First Use Agreement

 

BILL GERTZ, Senior Editor at the Washington Free Beacon and Inside the Ring columnist at the Washington Times:

  • Russia’s tactical nuclear build-up of low yield weapons
  • Tokyo considering obtaining their own nuclear capability due to U.S. weakness
  • Hillary Clinton’s sweetheart deal for a Chelsea’s friend

 

DIANA WEST, Nationally syndicated columnist, Blogs at Dianawest.net:

  • Incursion of jihadists in the U.S.
  • Demonization of those who oppose leftist policies
  • Increase of Islamic attacks in the West

Donald Trump rebelling against GOP foreign policy establishment

Donate Now

Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you

With David Goldman, Bill Gertz, Rick Manning, Dr. Mark Schneider

DAVID GOLDMAN (Spengler), columnist for Asia Times Online, author of “How Civilizations Die and Why Islam is Dying Too”:

  • GOP foreign policy establishment and Egypt’s fate during the Arab Spring
  • Donald Trump’s approach to the Middle East
  • Political Islam of Turkey’s AKP party incompatible with democracy

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon, columnist at the Washington Times:

  • Ukrainian efforts to retake Crimea?
  • Russian airpower launching sorties against Syrian rebels, from an Iranian base
  • ‘Underground command and control facilities’ around Moscow
  • China launches a quantum communications satellite
  • Bob Corker’s opposition to the CTBT going to the UN floor

RICK MANNING, President of Americans for Limited Government:

  • Freedom of the internet at stake with ICANN
  • Both presidential candidates opposed to the TPP
  • Obama’s efforts to nationalize the police force
  • Trump’s speech concerning law and order

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • CTBT doesn’t define what it’s banning
  • Russia and China’s numerous modernization programs underway
  • US deterrent in critical danger

 

 

Russia’s Nuclear Superiority

Donate Now
Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you.

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • Russia’s complete modernization of nuclear weapons
  • Putin’s violations of the START treaty

(PART TWO):

  • What is a cobalt bomb?
  • Development of hypersonic missiles in Russia
  • Moscow’s “De-Escalation” doctrine

(PART THREE):

  • Likelihood of a future war involving nuclear weapons?
  • China’s “First-Use” policy

(PART FOUR):

  • What is the underground Great Wall of China?
  • U.S. modernization programs compared to Russia and China

(PART FIVE):

  • Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs
  • Viability of the American nuclear arsenal
  • Lethality of U.S. second-strike capability

The ISIS Crusade Continues

Donate Now
Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you.
With Gen. Jack Keane, Günther Jikeli, Mark Schneider, Tim Daughtry

Gen. JACK KEANE, former Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Army:

  • ISIS’s conquest of the Iraqi city of Ramadi
  • Should special operations raids ever be discussed publicly?
  • Implications of the Iran deal for nuclear ambitions in the Middle East

GÜNTHER JIKELI, of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy:

  • Who are the primary perpetrators of anti-Semitic violence in Europe?
  • Does Islamic Law provide a basis for violence against Jews?
  • Dangers of believing the Muslim Brotherhood’s claims that it represents all Muslims
  • Manifestations of anti-Semitism in anti-Zionist rhetoric

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst with the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • Nuclear proliferation as a result of the Iran deal
  • Weighing the possible threat of an Iranian EMP attack
  • Lack of Senate involvement in the Iranian negotiations
  • Russia’s violation of the INF Treaty

Dr. TIM DAUGHTRY, co-author of Waking the Sleeping Giant: How Mainstream Americans Can Beat Liberals at Their Own Game

  • An overview of the Citizens’ Mandate Interim Report
  • Is the Republican Congress living up to the promises made to voters in 2014?
  • Where disunity among conservatives towards the Trade Promotion Authority stems from
  • What the Tea Party image projects, and why it needs revamping

Cognitive Dissonance in the Western World

Donate Now

Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you.

With Eric Schmitt, Diana West, Roger Kimball, Mark Schneider

ERIC SCHMITT, New York Times reporter and co-author of “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Campaign Against Al Qaeda”:

  • One general’s quest for the truth behind the Islamic State
  • The ideological vulnerabilities of the West
  • What Kobani reveals about the Islamic State’s strategy
DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character”:
  • A military failure to properly educate U.S. forces about what motivates ISIS
  • The minority that has “weaponized” Islam
  • Message of the Pentagon-sponsored essay contest honoring the late Saudi King Abdullah

ROGER KIMBALL, Editor and Publisher of The New Criterion:

  • The politics of appeasement and cognitive dissonance
  • Terror attacks’ common thread
  • Theocratic pressure on Western institutions
Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, former Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy Principal Director for Forces Policy:
  • Cold War-style nuclear provocations in the U.K.
  • Putin’s continued escalation in Ukraine to distract from the tattered Russian economy
  • Russian ICBMs in the Crimea
  • The stated goal of full nuclear modernization in Russia by 2021

Hagel Gets Chucked

Donate Now

Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you.

with Mark Schneider, Alice Linahan, Zach Taylor, Gordon Chang

PART ONE:

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s resignation earlier today
  • Is the American nuclear deterrence capability truly useful but inadequate?
  • The nuclear threats the U.S. could face from Russian, Chinese, and Iranian weapons modernization

PART TWO:

ALICE LINAHAN, Vice President of Women on the Wall:

  • Effects of Obama’s Common Core curriculum on the U.S. education system
  • Controversy regarding Islamists penetrating the U.S. educational system and advancing Sharia ideology through Common Core
  • Looking at Arabic-immersion schools in Texas and around the U.S.

PART THREE:

ZACK TAYLOR, Chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers:

  • Concerns of political deception in Obama’s executive amnesty
  • The prevalence of counterfeit Social Security numbers and other legal documents confiscated from illegal aliens
  • Just how many countries are criminal illegal aliens coming from?
  • International perspectives on President Obama’s approach to rule of law

PART FOUR:

GORDON CHANG, author of “The Coming Collapse of China”:

  • China’s construction of an artificial island in the territorially disputed region of the South China Sea
  • Xi Jinping’s “New Security Architecture for Asia” taking an anti-U.S. stance
  • U.S. moral commitment to a stable and pro-Western Taiwan
  • Chinese cyber reconnaissance inside U.S. electrical companies

A Congressional Appeal to the UN to Act on Human Rights Violations in Gaza

Donate Now

Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you.

With Rep. Doug Lamborn, Diana West, Dr. Mark Schneider, Jim Hanson

Representative DOUG LAMBORN (CO-5):

  • The Obama Administration’s belated response to Russia’s violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty
  • Rep. Lamborn’s bipartisan letter to the UN calling for an investigation into human rights abuses committed by Hamas
  • An argument for the need for Congressional action on immigration that addresses DACA and might help discourage future illegal immigration
  • Protecting the electric grid from natural and man-made electromagnetic pulses

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

  • The popular portrayal of moral ambivalence between Israel and Hamas
  • Hamas’ exploitation of Palestinian civilians for public relations purposes
  • The current Administration’s lackluster support for Israel despite its vocal criticism of Hamas

MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • A discussion of Schneider’s article that concluded that Russia has violated the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and which was followed a few hours after publication by the US government’s acknowledgment of the violation
  • Likelihood of a return to Cold War tensions
  • Is there a correlation between Russian aggression and the lack of modernization of U.S. nuclear forces?

JIM HANSON, of Blackfive.net:

  • Calls for Jesse Ventura to walk away from his newly-won defamation lawsuit against the estate of the late Navy Seal Chris Kyle
  • PTSD and the validity of Rep. John Walsh’s claim that the illness prompted him to plagiarize his Master’s thesis
  • Thoughts on who should be held responsible for the downing of the civilian airliner MH17

Unanimous Vote on Legislation Forbidding Terrorists to Enter the US as Ambassadors–Now Waiting on Obama’s Signature

Donate Now
Secure Freedom Radio is made possible by listeners like you.

With Doug Lamborn, Mark Schneider, Diana West, Bill Roggio

Congressman DOUG LAMBORN, of the 5th district of Colorado:
  • The unanimous passage, in both the House and Senate, of legislation that bars terrorists from acquiring visas into the U.S. as ambassadors
  • What Iran’s appointment of a former terrorist says about its new “moderate” president, and what Obama’s refusal to yet sign the bill says about his policy towards Iran
  • The continuing assault on religious freedom in the military
  • The importance of mitigating the security vulnerabilities of the nation’s electric grid

Dr. MARK SCHNEIDER, Senior Analyst for the National Institute for Public Policy:

  • Modernization of the Russian military by Putin’s government
  • The treaties Russia is currently violating
  • Concerns about what the massive “Underground Great Wall” implies about China’s nuclear capabilities, and China’s aggressive weapons modernization program
DIANA WEST, author of “American Betrayal”:
  • Brandeis University’s “silencing” of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the crimes she speaks out against
  • America’s disregard of the ties between the Tsarnaev brothers, jihad, and a mosque in Cambridge, MA
  • Is Islam being given special treatment with the new “safe spaces” initiative, or will all houses of worship now be declared surveillance free zones?
BILL ROGGIO, Editor of the Long War Journal:
  •  Russian military activities in Eastern Ukraine
  •  Problems in Syria complicating the mission to find and destroy its chemical weapons
  • Tough policy choices for the US because of a dearth of moderate rebel groups in Syria—what are America’s options?

The United States’ Fall As A World Leader

With Pete Wehner, John Wohlstetter, Mark Schneider, Bill Gertz

PETER WEHNER, former deputy director of speech writing for President George W. Bush, gives his professional insights into President Obama’s speech and how the President’s foreign policy is causing the United States to slip as a world power.

JOHN WOHLSTETTER, senior fellow at The Discovery Institute, addresses Russia’s resetting position in the Middle East, as well as the U.S.’ diminishing power.

MARK SCHNEIDER, of the National Institute for Public Policy, analyzes what might come from any possible deal between the U.S. and Russia over disarming Syria of its chemical weapons stockpile.

BILL GERTZ, senior editor of the Washington Free Beacon and columnist for the Washington Times, covers an assessment of Syria’s chemical weapons and the ripple effects the Middle East is having on U.S. policies towards China and elsewhere.