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L. Todd Wood

L. Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is "Currency." Todd is a contributor to Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, the New York Post, the National Review, Zero Hedge and others. For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.

Articles by L. Todd Wood

Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James answers questions during the NBA basketball team media day, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017, in Independence, Ohio. (AP Photo/Ron Schwane)

Black America blames white America

I know of no white person alive today in the United States who has ever legally owned a black slave, or any slave for that matter.

September 26, 2017
In this Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, photo distributed on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivers a statement in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's speech to the United Nations, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP) ** FILE **

Iran missile can reach Israel

Iran has long threatened to "wipe the Jewish state of Israel off the map." Now it seems it may have the capability to do so.

September 22, 2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during his meeting with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar in the Kremlin, in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Is Russia losing its hold on Moldova?

Four years ago, 20 percent of the banking assets of the tiny, landlocked nation of Moldova simply disappeared. In Europe's poorest country, this was a lot of money and a very big deal. The loss of the money to an intricate looting scheme angered ordinary Moldovans who marched in the streets and put the blame squarely on the shoulders of the pro-European Union government.

September 21, 2017
Dick Morris

Dick Morris: No impeachment for president with 60% approval rating

During a speech at the Metropolitan Republican Club in Manhattan to highlight his new book, "Rogue Spooks: The Intelligence War on Donald Trump," political operative and commentator Dick Morris outlined the Deep State's attempt to unseat duly elected President Donald Trump from power and the strategy Trump seems to be using to combat Obama operatives in our intelligence agencies.

September 20, 2017
In this June 21, 2017, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, departs Capitol Hill following a closed-door meeting in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

For a real Russia collusion story, follow a different trail

With Special Counsel Robert Mueller now moving into tax and money laundering issues, the Russian-Trump collusion theory having proven a dry hole, it would make sense that Congress take a look at real collusion by the Russians and American politicians over the last decade, if the current hysteria over the issue is sincere.

September 14, 2017

Oleksandr Onyshchenko Ukraine dissident

Oleksandr Onyshchenko was forced to leave Ukraine after being exposed as an opposition supporter. Charges and arrest warrants were issued as a result of Onyshchenko revealing audiotapes that exposed high level corruption in President Poroshenko's inner circle.

September 13, 2017
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a plenary session titled "The Russian Far East: Creating a New Reality" at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, on Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017. Russian President Putin says he believes President Donald Trump's administration is willing to defuse tensions on the Korean Peninsula. (Sergei Bobylev/TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP)

Russia supplying N. Korea, evading sanctions

We have long reported that Russia was increasing its trade with North Korea as China began to reduce flows per the request of President Trump in the face of Kim Jong-un's nuclear weapon development and ballistic missile tests. Now it seems that Russian companies are ramping up illicit trade with the North to help it evade sanctions.

September 12, 2017
In this July 17, 2016, file photo, then-Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Anonymous media sources threat

It's no secret that the media has lost a great deal of credibility over the last election cycle. Part of the reason for this is the use of anonymous sources to besmirch the character of politicians or other public figures to support a political agenda, or to conjure up a scandalous story to attract readers.

September 7, 2017
This image obtained by The Associated Press in September 2015 shows a portion of a computer networking diagram for Calpine Corp.'s Baytown Energy Center in Baytown, Texas, dated February 2002. Calpine spokesman Brett Kerr said the company's information was stolen from a contractor that does business with Calpine. He said the stolen diagrams and passwords were old and presented no threat, though some outside experts disagreed and said skilled hackers potentially could have used the diagrams and other data to shut down generating stations. (AP Photo)

Russia hacking US power plants

There have been more than 100 cyber attacks on power plants around the world this year, with over half of them in the United States. This is a very serious threat.

September 6, 2017
This picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Saturday, July 22, 2017, shows Sayyad-3 air defense missiles during inauguration of its production line at an undisclosed location, Iran, according to official information released. Sayyad-3 is an upgrade to previous versions of the missile. Writing on the banner at right reads in Persian: " We are fighters as long as we are alive". (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)

Iran to increase missile power, threaten neighbors, the world

After signing a nuclear "deal" with world powers which allows the Islamic Republic of Iran to eventually get nuclear weapons in a period of years, today Iran said its priority is to increase its missile power, and export these weapons to clients in the Middle East, to further threaten Israel, and American allies in the region.

September 2, 2017
On Thursday, the State Department ordered the closure of the Russian Consulate in San Francisco and the reduction of services at other diplomatic sites in an escalating tit-for-tat between the two powers. (Associated Press/File)

Russia war plans laid for years

For a long time now, dating back to the early days of the Obama administration, things have just seemed not quite right.

August 31, 2017
Enforce Nuclear Nonproliferation Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Iran supports Hamas once again

After falling out of favor with each other in 2012 over the use of Hamas during the Syrian civil war, Iran is once again the main benefactor of the terrorist group Hamas, based in the Gaza Strip in Israel.

August 30, 2017
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, right, speaks with Lithuania's Minister of Defense Raimundas Karoblis prior to a military parade to celebrate Independence Day in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

CROSSTALK: Trump, Putin, Ukraine, Reagan, Obama

I wrote an article three years ago that basically stated Ukraine was not our fight, no matter how much we want to support people who are fighting for freedom from Russia

August 29, 2017
South Korean protesters stage a rally against the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017. North Korea fired several rockets into the sea Saturday in the continuation of its rapid nuclear and missile expansion, prompting South Korea to press ahead with military drills involving U.S. troops that have angered Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

N. Korea threatens Britain with destruction

The United States and South Korea have for decades conducted huge exercises in the South to prepare for an inevitable conflict with the North Korean regime.

August 28, 2017

North Korea should follow Kazakhstan’s lead

After threatening to destroy the U.S. territory of Guam with nuclear weapons, Kim Jong-un appears to be backing down in the face of threats from President Trump, and, more likely, back-channel arm-twisting from China and Russia.

August 24, 2017

China may have new long-range Quantum sub detector

China may have accidentally announced a new breakthrough in submarine detection when the Chinese Academy of Sciences temporarily posted news of a new quantum, magnetometer breakthrough. The information was quickly removed after a journalist pointed out its military applications.

August 22, 2017
Illustration China in Afghanistan by John Camejo for The Washington Times

Russia Trump Afghan policy China

The Kremlin and the Trump White House continue to negotiate and trade barbs through the media, where each is trying to spin the narrative in its favor, as only two major players in the great game can do.

August 21, 2017
Hillary Clinton and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kostyantyn Gryshchenko laid flowers at a memorial in Kiev in 2010. Recent news suggests the Ukrainian government and the Democratic National Committee planted seeds to try to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidential election. (Associated Press/File)

Hillary Clinton, Ukraine collusion story in fake news shadows

The "Trump colluded with Russia" narrative is alive and well in the United States. With the media and the Marxist left lacking any facts to support this falsehood, they have now resorted to guessing what evidence hackers overseas may provide to resuscitate their attempt to unseat a duly elected U.S. president.

August 17, 2017