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12/03/2017 | En Parrilla
Poisoning people for ‘Palestine’?
BDS funds coming from olive oil sales need federal agency's scrutiny.
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26/05/2016 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
What is the Gulen Movement and why is it dangerous for America?
The following was taken from an interview from Frank Gaffney’s “Secure Freedom Radio”. Clare Lopez, a retired CIA operations officer and the current Vice President for Research and Analysis at the Center for Security Policy, discusses a little-know threat known as the Gulen Movement. Lopez goes on to describe the threat from this particular movement to academic institutions inside the United States.
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04/08/2015 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Science vs. Cheap Politics
MSNBC and Vox now dedicate full time staff to debunk science with sarcasm. Within 24 hours of congressional testimony from the nation’s top electrical grid experts, testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on the vulnerability of the U.S. power system to solar and nuclear EMP, Vox’s Max Fisher challenged Chairman Ron Johnson on the science after his questioning of Ernest Moniz on the Iran EMP threat.
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18/12/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Federal Agency Blackout Puts Spotlight on Harry Reid: Will He Move Bipartisan Bill to Prevent Catastrophic Grid Takedown?
On Monday, December 15 the State Department suffered a power outage from a construction accident. The Office of Personnel Management, the Federal Reserve, the General Services Administration, the Labor Department, the FDIC, the U.S. Park Police and one Washington Metro stop were also blacked out by a blown transformer at the same time.
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14/12/2014 | Medio Ambiente
F.E.M.A. Document reveals 130 million Americans could suffer extended blackouts due to intense solar storm
In the latest official confirmation about the acute vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid, the Washington Free Beacon has revealed that a Freedom of Information Act request produced a fact sheet describing a 2012 Federal Emergency Management Agency interagency plan for severe space weather.
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10/08/2014 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New Security Arrangements May Be the Quiet Legacy of Obama Adminstration in Africa
During this week’s Africa Leaders Summit in Washington the major emphasis was placed on foreign investment with thirty three billion in promises for electrical infrastructure, seven billion of which is meant to come directly from the US government.
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01/09/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Obama’s vanishing deterrent
Barack Obama appears at this writing to be poised to embroil the United States in a new war in Syria in response to the recent, murderous use of chemical weapons there. Ill-advised as this step is, it is but a harbinger of what is to come as reckless U.S. national security policies and postures meet the hard reality of determined adversaries emboldened by our perceived weakness.
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26/10/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Center releases 2011-2012 Congressional National Security Scorecard
The Center for Security Policy released today its 2011-2012 Congressional National Security Scorecard for the 112th Congress. The scorecard-- which scores all Representatives and Senators on key national security votes in their respective chambers over the past two years-- is available both as a single document [PDF] and as a series of individual online reports focusing on each legislator's national security votes, grouped by state.
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27/07/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Tragedy in Cochabama
The 42nd General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia on June 4, 2012. Again the coming together of all the nations of the Western Hemisphere was effectively used by the Bolivarian countries to weaken the OAS Democratic Charter and reduce the influence of the United States.
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16/11/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
13 former Senators urge Reid, McConnell to postpone deliberations on New START treaty
Washington, DC— As President Obama intensifies pressure on the United States Senate to take up and approve the New START Treaty in the brief lame-duck session that starts next week, eleven former members of the upper house of the legislature have signed a joint letter to its current Democratic and Republican leaders.
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20/10/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Center issues Congressional Scorecard; Peace Through Strength Platform shows way forward on national security
The Center for Security Policy today released its ninth National Security Scorecard evaluating the performance of members of the 111th Congress on matters of great importance to the security interests of the United States. 158 Members of the House of Representatives and 32 Senators received a score of 100% qualifying them as "Champions of National Security," the full list of which appears below.
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29/01/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Fmr. Pacific Fleet Commander warns Obama: Don't link climate change and national security
Ahead of the State of the Union address and in the wake of recent and ongoing climate science scandals, President Obama should appoint an independent panel of experts to evaluate the purported climate change-national security link, urged Adm. James A. Lyons, Jr., USN (Ret.), former Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Chairman of the Center for Security Policy's Military Committee.
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12/07/2008 | Economia y Finanzas
The Open Fuel Standard
There is a "perfect storm" of national security, economic, and environmental conditions that compel the United States to begin immediately reducing its dependence upon unstable and hostile foreign sources of energy.
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07/02/2008 | Frente Externo
A teaching moment
Lost amid the national distractions of a Super Bowl and Super Tuesday, the clock is running down on an immense sale of precision-guided munitions and other advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia and several of the smaller oil-rich Gulf States the Saudis dominate.
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08/12/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
On Iran, Bolton tells it like it is
In the December 6 issue of the Washington Post, former U.S. Ambassador the United Nations and former Undersecretary of State for Arms Control John Bolton cogently articulates the numerous reasons why the "key judgments" of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear weapons program – which state that Iran halted the program in 2003 as the result of diplomatic pressure – should be treated with a high degree of skepticism.
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28/09/2007 | Frente Externo
Reading the LOST compass
Come Thursday, the future of the United States Senate will begin to take shape. On that day, the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee will begin the first of two days of hearings on ratification of one of the most momentous international agreements in memory: the United Nation's Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
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28/08/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Connect the dots
What do the following recent news items have in common?
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05/06/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Soft power unplugged
There is a growing appreciation of several facts about the war we are in. First, we are most immediately up against an ideology – Islamofascism describes it well – that has unmistakable totalitarian political characteristics and ambitions.
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25/04/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
In defense of Baghdad's 'walls'
Over the last few days, there has been a lot of discussion in the media about the security barriers being erected in Baghdad. In The Times, among other publications, critics have complained that a "wall" between neighborhoods would divide Sunnis from Shiites and aggravate tensions.
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21/04/2007 | En Profundidad
The economics of Latin American ''populism''
Latin America has long ceased to be a primary concern for U.S. foreign policy makers. Two separate European wars in the last century, as well as the decades-long Cold War, shifted American strategic focus outward, away from the region that had once been a primary concern.
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09/04/2007 | Frente Externo
Pelosi's proclivities
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is clearly one of those women who want it all. In her case though, this is not simply a matter of a lady seeking to have both a family and a fulfilling and successful professional life. Rather, the first female leader of the House of Representatives evidently seeks also to be the commander-in-chief and the secretary of state.
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28/03/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Policing Terror
Some people think the reason there have been no successful terrorist attacks in the United States since 9/11 is because the threat from Islamofascists and others wishing us ill has been overblown.
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19/03/2007 | Frente Externo
Chavez indoctrinating kids
Back in 1973, Chileans were uneasy about the socialist policies of Marxist President Salvador Allende, but it wasn't until Allende started messing with children's minds that citizens demanded action.
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12/03/2007 | Medio Ambiente
China's developing environmental crisis
During a briefing on climate change in Beijing last month, Jiang Yu, spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry, said that wealthier countries must take the lead in curbing greenhouse gas emissions, since they had been polluting for much longer. "It must be pointed out that climate change has been caused by the long-term historic emissions of developed countries and their high per capita emissions," she said.
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24/02/2007 | En Parrilla
Scandal in Columbia - is Chavez behind it?
Colombia's Foreign Finister resigned on Monday February 19, after her brother, Alvaro Araujo Castro, a Senator, was accused of conspiring with paramilitary groups in a political scandal that could hurt President Alvaro Uribe, a key ally of the United States in its fight against drugs and the terrorist group known as the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia).
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28/01/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Straw in the Solar Wind
Breaking nearly two weeks of silence, Communist China has now confirmed that it did indeed successfully attack and destroy an aging weather satellite more than 500 miles above the earth. As U.S. intelligence revealed last week, the destructive intercept was performed by a kinetic-kill vehicle (KKV) launched onboard a medium-range ballistic missile.
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22/01/2007 | En Parrilla
Correa's Ecuador: a blow to anti-drug policy
In a recent interview in the Argentinean magazine "Debate", Gabriel Guerra Mondragon, an advisor to Hillary Clinton on Hispanic and Latin American affairs and a former US Ambassador to Chile shockingly pointed out that "all anti-American statements we hear from (Bolivian President) Evo Morales and (Venezuelan President) Hugo Chavez are not against the US properly speaking but against Bush. This (anti-Americanism) can be reverted if a democrat is elected President"
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18/01/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
For your country
Last week, President Bush addressed the Nation to describe a "way forward" in the War for the Free World and its Battle of Iraq. Next week, he will give another address, one that may ultimately prove even more decisive in determining our success in the global conflict of which the Iraq theater is but one part.
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12/01/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
It's a plan
President Bush's address to the nation last night about "the way forward" on Iraq involved doing perhaps the hardest thing any politician ever has to do: telling voters, legislators and the press what they don't want to hear.
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08/01/2007 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US- Memo to the President
By now you have been getting lots of free advice about what to say - and what not to say - in your remarks Wednesday about a new strategy for Iraq.
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31/12/2006 | Frente Externo
Securing America's energy needs
Seemingly unrelated events of the past week suggest considerable trouble ahead for U.S. vital interests. As President Bush puts the finishing touches on his plans for a new strategy for waging the War for the Free World, he had best make sure that he focuses not only on Iraq and Iran (as recommended in this space last week) but on energy security, as well.
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21/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'The fabulous Baker Boy': Coup de grace for the Iraq Surrender Group
Even by fickle official Washington's standards, the half-life of the Iraq Study Group's report seems to have been remarkably short.
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15/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Shareholder democracy' goes to war: terror-free investing
Today's Wall Street Journal (Dec. 14)marks an important breakthrough on the financial front in the War for the Free World, a heretofore largely neglected but potentially decisive battlefield for Americans and other freedom-loving peoples.
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10/12/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Center's Kyle and Woolsey warn aganist negotiating with Iran and Syria
In the wake of the submission to President Bush and the Congress of the Iraq Study Group's report, members of that unelected, unaccountable commission have insisted that all of its recommendations must be adopted fortwith.
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28/11/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The new groupthink
We are, as the saying goes, between Iraq and a hard place. Unfortunately, events this week seem likely to drive us inexorably closer to the hard place - one that is going to be a lot worse than what we have seen in Iraq so far.
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24/10/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Divest North Korea
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il has reportedly told Chinese interlocutors that he is "sorry" about testing a nuclear weapon and that he is willing to resume his country's participation in the so-called Six-Party Talks.
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18/10/2006 | En Profundidad
Snatching defeat?
America's preoccupation with the crises du jour - the rising terrorist menace to the liberation of Iraq, the Iranian regime's determination to acquire the means to act on its genocidal threats against Israel and the United States and, most recently, North Korea's nuclear coming-out party - has left Washington ill-prepared to deal with one of tomorrow's major security challenges: the rise of the radical anti-American left in Latin America.
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09/09/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
On eve of 9/11 anniversary, Center's Gaffney tells Congress of continuing Islamofascist threat
As the Nation prepares to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Center for Security Policy President Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. appeared today before the House International Relations Committee's Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation to discuss the nature of America's war against Islamofascism and the measures the United States must adopt to prevail.
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03/09/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Success! Ground-based missile defense performs as advertised, clears way for defending America
Today's (Friday September, 1st)successful intercept of a simulated incoming ballistic missile by an operationally configured ground-based missile defense interceptor is a major milestone in the effort to realize President Ronald Reagan's vision of an America protected against such offensive weapons. It comes at a moment when there are growing missile threats from Iran, North Korea, China and Russia and when critics in Congress and elsewhere doubt the readiness of our defenses.
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29/08/2006 | Frente Externo
US- Sounding retreat
Urban legend has it that populations of wild rodents known as lemmings periodically commit mass suicide by throwing themselves off cliffs. In fact, these critters do no such thing. It remains to be seen, however, whether American voters will this Fall do the functional equivalent of the lemming leap: Electing politicians who seductively promise retreat from a strategy of forward defense, thus imperiling large numbers of our countrymen abroad and possibly at home.
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24/08/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Snare and delusion: House intelligence report makes clear diplomacy won't end Iranian threat
Iran's much-ballyhooed proposal yesterday to enter into "serious negotiations" with the United States and Europe on an array of issues - including its so-called "nuclear program" - is being seized upon by some as a evidence that the Islamic Republic of Iran is actually prepared to abandon the ambitions and behavior that endanger American and international security interests.
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04/07/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Center's Glick dissects Olmert's feckless - and increasingly dangerous - response to Palestinian violence
In her front-page column in today's Jerusalem Post, the Center for Security Policy's Senior Mideast Fellow, Caroline Glick, examines the question of whether Israeli Prime Minister "gets it" in the face of the latest, sophisticated and deadly attack from the Gaza Strip.
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30/05/2006 | Frente Externo
Bolderdash
President Bush has, unfortunately, encouraged the belief of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the Jewish State can safely abandon 90-95% of the West Bank and parts of Jerusalem.
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18/05/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Venezuela arms embargo should be part of Bush Doctrine
The new U.S. arms embargo against the extremist regime in Venezuela should have implications beyond South America. Though intended to protect democracies in the region, the embargo should be used to convince our allies that there is a price to be paid for actions that willfully undermine American security interests.
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15/05/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
There is a war on
Now we know. The Sunday morning CNN program hosted by Wolf Blitzer provided an explanation for at least some of the bizarre behavior in evidence lately in Washington.
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09/05/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
From Londonistan to Palestan
In courtrooms and movie theaters this spring, Americans are being exposed in an unvarnished way to the true character and evil purposes of our enemies in this War for the Free World. Yet, governments around the world - including, on most days, ours - seem still to be unwilling, or unable, to come to grips with these realities.
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08/04/2006 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Mexican solution
The Congress has received lots of free advice lately from Mexican government officials and illegal aliens waving Mexico's flag in mass demonstrations coast-to-coast. Most of it takes the form of bitter complaints about our actual or prospective treatment of immigrants from that country who have gotten into this one illegally - or who aspire to do so.
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19/12/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
A war to the death
The news from Iraq today features a video of a terrorist murdering a man believed to be a kidnapped American civilian. The victim was trying to help rebuild that country. His cold-blooded execution is a reminder of what our Islamofascist enemies have in mind for all of us, non-Islamist Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
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02/11/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Our war with Iran
On October 26th, the new president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made international headlines by declaring that "Israel must be wiped off the map." Leaders from around the world tut-tutted that such things really should not be said, ignoring the fact that this goal has been a cornerstone of Iranian policy - and, for that matter, that of a number of other states - for years.
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04/09/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
On eve of U.N. push for global government, advocates urge Senate to approve a building block: The Law of the Sea Treaty
As concern grows that the United Nations is intent on replacing what the National Security Guidance calls "an orderly arrangement of sovereign states" with a proto-world government - complete with the ability to impose international taxes, a new push is being made for a treaty that would advance that purpose: the Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
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27/06/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
War President
Memorandum for President George W. Bush:
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20/06/2005 | Frente Externo
¿Qué hacer con Venezuela? - PDF

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02/06/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The national security case for C.A.F.T.A.
The Senate's pending decision to consent or reject ratification of the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) will be influenced by many factors - economic, political and strategic. In the final analysis, however, the consideration that should trump all others is the fact that CAFTA will contribute to America's national security - and its defeat would significantly and adversely affect our security interests in the region and beyond.
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03/05/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Broken treaty
Starting this week, the United Nations will engage in one of the activities that has caused the organization to fall into disrepute and prompted the Bush Administration to insist on its systemic reform: the quintennial review conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
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09/04/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Harvard University divests holdings of Chinese firm over concern they could benefit terrorist Sudan
Precedent setting decision seen as positive step to limit funding of genocide and terrorism
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09/04/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Amnesty by any other name
Hundreds of "Minuteman" volunteers are fanning out this week across the Arizona-Mexico border. They hope, by so doing, to help the authorities reduce somewhat the human tsunami of illegal aliens crossing into America. More importantly, perhaps, they seek in the process to call to the attention of our leaders the public's rising anger about this invasion of our territory - and its huge national security, social, economic and other costs.
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15/03/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
The Eurofaustians
"The advance of hope in the Middle East...requires new thinking in the capitals of great democracies - including Washington, D.C. By now it should be clear that decades of excusing and accommodating tyranny, in the pursuit of stability, have only led to injustice and instability and tragedy. It should be clear that the advance of democracy leads to peace, because governments that respect the rights of their people also respect the rights of their neighbors. It should be clear that the best antidote to radicalism and terror is the tolerance and hope kindled in free societies. And our duty is now clear: For the sake of our long-term security, all free nations must stand with the forces of democracy and justice that have begun to transform the Middle East." George W. Bush, National Defense University March 8, 2005
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01/03/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Arming China
On Thursday, House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde penned an op.ed. for the Wall Street Journal that highlights "a dangerous development taking shape toward China, one that runs counter to the advance of liberty and threatens U.S. security interests" as well as those of China's neighbors. Rep. Hyde was commenting, of course, on the European Union's impending decision to lift its arms embargo on China.
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01/03/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Arsenals of tyranny
At the end of 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered a powerful "fireside chat," one that is a fitting backdrop to the visit to Europe being made this week by his successor, George W. Bush. In his radio address, FDR summoned a reluctant America to make the sacrifice necessary to produce the arms urgently needed by freedom-loving people in Britain and elsewhere at risk of being overrun by Nazism and other forms of tyranny. He called the United States "the great arsenal of democracy."
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02/02/2005 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Exit' to where?
"Stop the world, I want to get off" was once the title of a popular theatrical comedy. Today, it seems to be the mantra of Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts and others who are demanding that the United States have an "exit strategy" from Iraq. Senator Kennedy has even announced that its first step should be the immediate withdrawal of 12,000 troops.
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15/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
'Wither' Israel?
(Washington, D.C.): The plight of Israelis today calls to mind the tongue-in-cheek prayer of Tevye, the hero of "Fiddler on the Roof" who, in light of his people's suffering, asks the Almighty if someone else could be the chosen people for a while.
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15/12/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Kill (the) bill
(Washington, D.C.): The philosopher George Santayana once said that "fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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09/03/2004 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Active Measures
When voters are asked to evaluate their choices for President next November, they will have to weigh carefully the temperament, judgment and instincts of the man who will hold that office. Nowhere will these qualities be of greater consequence than with respect to the execution of his duties as Commander-in-Chief. John Kerry’s long record of extremely liberal Senate votes on national security-related matters offer ample grounds for concerns on all three scores.
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29/07/2003 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New 9/11 report: Is someone covering for state sponsors of terror?

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03/07/2003 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
National Security Advisory Council
The Center's National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) was originally known as the CSP Board of Advisors. While the name has been changed, the organization's function has not: The NSAC serves as a key instrument for the networking, information sharing, paper production and recommendation dissemination that has been the Center for Security Policy raison d'etre.
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03/07/2003 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Members of National Security Advisory Council Take Top Government Posts

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28/01/2003 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Enough already: Ten years without nuclear tests is too long to assure the deterrents' safety, reliability
(Washington, D.C.): Ten years ago last Monday, the United States stopped knowing for sure whether its nuclear arsenal would work as it was supposed to. In the intervening years, many billions have been spent trying to compensate for the fact that the Nation was no longer conducting actual underground nuclear tests and, on the basis of various analyses, modeling, computer simulations and sub-critical experiments, those responsible for maintaining the stockpile's safety, reliability and effectiveness have persuaded themselves that all was well -- or, at least, good enough for government work.
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16/09/2002 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Exiting the A.B.M. Treaty -- A model for dealing with Iraq
(Washington, D.C.): On the eve of what is being billed as a major address to the United Nations, President Bush is being advised to emulate his father's approach on Iraq twelve years ago by making the cobbling together of a broadly based international coalition a precondition to taking on Saddam Hussein. It can only be hoped that -- under today's, very different circumstances -- Mr. Bush will base his diplomacy and actions on a very different model: his recent, hugely successful disentangling of the United States from the 1972 Anti- Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.
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Peoples of the Earth | Martin E. Andersen

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