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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

The seven-headed dragon of the mafia government in Iran

The Islamic Republic's scandal drum is beating hard and has turned into an international scourge.

July 29, 2018

‘Toxic masculinity,’ gender dynamic, China’s agenda

I've often wondered at the genesis of the "toxic masculinity" movement and the agenda to emasculate American males.

July 27, 2018

On Iran, Trump must be strong where Obama was weak

The Western media have made a big deal about the threat from Vladimir Putin's Russia. But as I've written before, even though it could, it's not Moscow that is threatening to destroy the United States and Israel. It's Iran.

July 26, 2018

Kazakhstan moves toward spiritual revival instead of ‘multiculturalism’

We in the West have witnessed first hand the destructive power of "multiculturalism," which undermines our understanding and knowledge of who we are and where are we going. Before you start screaming, I'm not talking about multi-ethnicity. There is a huge difference.

July 25, 2018

CROSSTALK: Trump should hold firm post-Helsinki

POTUS should not change his strategy after the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki. He should not change his stance because at the end of the day, the summit was not about Russia.

July 24, 2018

Democrats are not patriots, they are criminals

I was talking to a Russian a few years ago regarding the corruption in Moscow, and their comment was, "All politicians want to do is get the power, then they can just steal anything they want."

July 22, 2018

When it comes to Trump-Russia, just the facts please

I've written many times before about how you have to look at the consequences of a politician's actions and policies to judge his priorities, not his oratory.

July 19, 2018

Iran sends representatives abroad to find a way out from looming sanctions

With U.S. efforts to impose massive sanctions on Iran, Iranian officials and the Supreme Leader's confidantes are seeking solutions to counter the increasing isolation of their regime.

July 14, 2018

Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin to sideline Iran

With the Helsinki summit approaching between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the situation on the ground in the Middle East is remarkably different than it was just a very short time ago.

July 12, 2018

Alexander Adamescu tangled in Romanian corruption case

I have written a lot about the fight against corruption in Eastern Europe, and Western Europe for that matter.

July 9, 2018

Trump Resistance has to be defeated

We are once again at a turning point in American history. This is as big of a fork in the road as the Civil War, the wars of the twentieth century, or even the American Revolution.

July 8, 2018

Shameless Iran, tone-deaf Europe and the death knell for the regime in Tehran

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's visit to European capitals went forward this week, despite the brazen incident, in a bid to save the 2015 nuclear accord with Europe and the lucrative business deals Tehran hopes go along with it.

July 5, 2018

U.S. really did have Manchurian Candidate in White House

After returning from a tour of some of the war zones in the Middle East -- which ended with the Free Iran Gathering 2018 in Paris -- I am struck by the realization that America really did have a Manchurian Candidate in The White House for eight years.

July 1, 2018

Iranian resistance heard in Paris amid calls for Europe to stop appeasing and funding Tehran

After the U.S. withdrawal from the nuclear deal with Iran, despite the fact that some European countries have shown a tendency to stay in the JCPOA, events now transpiring show that Europe will have to choose between the United States and the real Islamic state, Iran, which is drowning in civil unrest amid an economic crisis.

June 30, 2018

Free Iran Gathering highlights alleged Iranian corruption of European officials

In the leadup to the Free Iran Gathering of 2018 on June 30 in Paris, several Iranian dissident groups put together panels to discuss the situation in the Islamic theocracy and the eventual collapse of the regime in Tehran.

June 29, 2018

For Iranian exiles, Donald Trump’s hard line pays off

This Saturday, some 100,000 Iranian exiles will descend on Paris for the annual Free Iran Gathering, sponsored by the National Council of Resistance of Iran. The delegates are gathering at a time when every measure of the coming end of the Iranian regime is moving in the right direction -- in numbers, effectiveness, attention and even the gravitas of the speakers.

June 28, 2018

Iran’s mass protests rock Tehran, elsewhere

The protest that shook the world on Dec. 28 in Mashhad, Iran's second-largest city, and quickly spread throughout the country has picked up steam in the last few days -- this time in Tehran.

June 26, 2018

CROSSTALK: China, not Russia, is U.S. existential threat

Many conservative comedians and commentators love to walk up to ignorant, American social justice warriors on campus and video tape them railing against a supposed Trump policy that was really Barack Obama's. Their ignorance, however, is really not that funny; it's sad.