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The largest color revolution attempt in recent Iranian history is led by a woman on Washington's payroll - and we have the facts. There are Iranian women, though a minority, who are not in favor of the mandatory veil - a legitimate grievance, an...

The new Congress should support a strategic review of U.S. international broadcasting when it takes office in January.

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (a branch within the US State Department) releases annual ‘Human Rights Reports’ on 194 different countries around the globe. Their 2021 report for Ukraine was released in April of this year. Despite its relevance to whether US intervention in the RU-UA war is merited, the report received zero media coverage.

Michael Pack has a heavy load to carry. The new head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), must bear the weighty tip of the spear for American public diplomacy in an age of great-power competition—and the competition is fierce. Rather than make him a dartboard for controversy, Washington should mount a bipartisan effort to make him successful.  The World We Got

After two years of stalling, it’s time for the Trump administration to get its own leadership in place at the U.S. government’s global media complex. After a few cliffhanging and nail-biting developments in late 2018, the Senate is positioned to move forward with the nomination for the top job at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, leaders in both the legislativeand executive branches essentially discarded public diplomacy as aCold War relic. Since 9/11, the situation has improved onlymarginally if at all. To restore America's voice, governmentleaders should draw on the nation's Cold War legacy to lay thefoundation for the next generation of public diplomacy.

Congress should offer Americans a better budget than the President’s budget—one that addresses the key drivers of spending growth.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Without fail, every time a Trump nominee gets closer to a Senate confirmation hearing to head the International Broadcasting Bureau, the media pounces and sounds the alarm.

In its final report, the 9/11 Commission made 40 different recommendations for improving America's homeland security. Congress responded by passing the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which implemented the report's most significant proposals. Recently, the House of Representatives passed the Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recom­mendations Act of 2007 (H.R. 1) as part of the Speaker of the House's "100 Hours" agenda. H.R. 1 claims to follow th...