Clifford D. May

Meet the global leadership restrainers: Making America second-rate again

Will the terrorist groups around the world pose more or less of a threat if we "rein in" our efforts to foil their plots? Can you think of an example of diplomats who have been more effective by talking softly and not carrying a big stick?

June 30, 2020

Iran’s rulers (still) seek nuclear weapons

We now have overwhelming evidence that the nuclear weapons development program whose existence Iran's rulers have consistently denied continues to progress.

June 23, 2020

Trump administration finally begins to stand up to the ICC, a hostile international organization

NATO members and Japan depend on American troops to defend them. Yet they both support and fund the International Criminal Court even as it unlawfully targets the American troops putting their lives on the line for them.

June 16, 2020

Did Chinese Communist Party intend for COVID-19 to destabilize a disunited United States?

How different the current situation might have been had China's rulers said early on: "A virus that came from a bat has gotten loose in Wuhan. We're sorry.

June 2, 2020

Communist China’s imperialist dreams of dividing the world with Belt and Road Initiative

A century ago, Vladimir Lenin wrote a book titled "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism." I doubt it occurred to him that imperialism might one day become the highest stage of communism. Yet that day is here.

May 26, 2020

Israel’s daunting decision on drawing permanent borders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his new coalition government now face a daunting decision. The Trump administration has indicated that it would not object if Israelis were to extend sovereignty to parts of the West Bank.

May 19, 2020

An American-led ‘economic prosperity network’ could be a good start to not relying on China

The current global health and economic crisis reveals -- to those with eyes that see -- the startling extent to which the weeds and wild critters have overrun the fruits and flowers.

May 12, 2020

Terrorist organization Hezbollah permits Lebanon to be rescued by the IMF

The United States, Germany and other major contributors to the IMF ought to demand that before any checks are written, Hezbollah disarms -- that, from now on, it seeks power based on the ballots it can garner rather than the bullets it can fire.

May 5, 2020

China, Iran and North Korea stay focused on hostile agendas during COVID-19 pandemic

Communists, revolutionary Islamists and other proponents of despotic ideologies consider life and death no big deal. After all, they kill people all the time -- civilians and their own subjects very much included.

April 28, 2020

China’s Communist rulers made the world sick, with help from, you know, WHO

It now seems unlikely that the virus destroying lives and livelihoods around the world began in a wildlife-for-supper market in Wuhan. More plausible: That it began in a laboratory in that same Chinese city.

April 21, 2020

Obama holdovers run U.S. global media, and they’re not giving it up

The White House website, www.whitehouse.gov, featured an odd article last Friday. Its headline: "Amid a Pandemic, Voice of America Spends Your Money to Promote Foreign Propaganda."

April 14, 2020

Xi Jinping’s Wuhan virus has the power to change the course of history

Microbes are changing our lives, our economy, our culture. You should know -- though it will provide no consolation -- that it has ever been thus.

April 7, 2020

Lifting U.S. sanctions against Iran’s regime won’t stop the terrorism or oppression

If Iran's rulers want support from the "international community," they ought to become members in good standing of that community -- or at least stop their most destructive activities.

March 31, 2020

International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda puts American soldiers in her crosshairs

In 2017, Fatou Bensouda announced her intention to investigate alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan. This month, after drawn-out deliberations, the ICC announced that the investigation would go forward.

March 24, 2020

Iran’s Hezbollah virus infects Lebanon while attacking the world

Terrorists, criminals, and their neo-imperialist patrons in Tehran have been bringing death and destruction to Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza -- whomever and whatever they touch

March 17, 2020

How the United States and our allies should deal with enemies

David Kilcullen devotes much of his book to exploring how the dragons (Moscow and Beijing) and the snakes (Tehran, Pyongyang and non-state jihadi groups) have learned from each other, and become more dangerous in the process.

March 10, 2020

U.S. must demand that China release freedom fighter Jimmy Lai

Jimmy Lai was arrested last week. Conviction could mean five years in prison. Or more: "We have every reason to believe that the trial of traitors like Lai has only just begun," threatened an editorial in China's official Xinhua News Agency.

March 3, 2020

The Trump plan for Afghanistan is an investment in America’s national security

The goal is to reach a "political settlement to end the war in Afghanistan, reduce United States and Allied Forces presence, and ensure that no terrorist group ever uses Afghan soil to threaten the United States or our allies."

February 25, 2020

United Nations Human Rights Council’s blacklist delegitimizes Israel

Last week, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, published a blacklist of 112 companies operating in the West Bank, 94 of them Israeli, six American and 12 from other countries.

February 18, 2020

President Trump finds bipartisan support for a pro-U.S. Venezuelan leader Juan Guaido

The day after the State of the Union, President Trump met with Juan Guaido to discuss how "to expedite a democratic transition in Venezuela that will end the ongoing crisis," according to a White House press statement.

February 11, 2020