L. Todd Wood

Ask ASKfm - Is Crypto worth dying for?

This past May, in order to pump up its new initial coin offering, or ICO, social media giant ASKfm sponsored four experienced Ukrainian climbers to scale Mount Everest and leave behind a wallet containing one million ASKT coins that the company valued at $50,000.

Pro-Iranian Hezbollah uses Beirut airport as smuggling point

According to reports, the Lebanese are corrupting the Beirut airport and facilitating the smuggling of weapons and drugs, and enabling the transition of pro-Iranian fighters to other countries from the civil wars in the Middle East.

How and why Trump got it so right about Jerusalem

Anyone who has visited the Temple Mount in the center of the old city of Jerusalem in the last decade must acknowledge the obvious: Jerusalem is the indisputable capital of Israel.

China pulls missiles from South China Sea island in possible nod to Trump

Satellite imagery and new analysis from Israeli intelligence firm ImageSat International (ISI), dated June 3, suggested the Chinese surface-to-air missile systems on Woody Island, in the Paracel Islands, may have been removed or relocated, The South China Morning Post reported.

In rogue regimes, inequality provides U.S. a target of attack

As the world deals with rampant totalitarianism after the foreign policy failures of the disastrous Obama administration and the undermining of American leadership, it is becoming all too common to see dictatorships use religion or rabid nationalism to hide their real agenda.

U.S. calls Taliban ‘desperate,’ Afghan disputes Pentagon

The Afghan government declared this week that Taliban operations span the entire country, contradicting a recent briefing by Gen. John Nicholson, the outgoing commander of Resolute Support and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan.

Russia frets as Trump orchestrates the mother of all deals

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was in Pyongyang Thursday, greeted with much fanfare on his way to talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. It's a little drop-by that reveals many things about Russia, its priorities in Northeast Asia and its approach to the crisis on the Korean peninsula.

CROSSTALK: Trump-Putin war narrative won’t work

Yes, the American security services attempted to use the "Russia collusion" narrative to unseat a duly elected American president; in other words, a coup

Turkey wants to buy Russian SU-57s

It's time to tell the truth about Turkey. Under the Islamist government of Recep Erdogan, Turkey is no longer an ally of the United States. It's membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a fraud. Turkey cannot be trusted.

George Soros’ snake oil bad medicine for struggling Ukraine

As President Trump takes on the globalist scourge that has savaged the American middle class, it is instructive to look at other areas of the world where the so-called "Soros prescription" is alive and well.

Obama media is a domestic enemy

In the oath of office given to an officer of the U.S. military, he is required to defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Botswana must recommit to the rule of law

As the battles between world powers over the African continent heat up, African nations themselves are going to have to choose. Do we attempt to establish democracy and follow the rule of law, or do we go down the path of emulating and colluding with totalitarian nations?

Obama administration was corrupt, more and more evidence reveals daily

There was so much hope in January 2009 when Barack Obama took office.

Vladimir Putin crosses a bridge too far in writing off West

The decision to seize "Krim," as it is pronounced in Russian and Ukrainian, marked the beginning of the end of any faint hopes the Putin government wanted a relationship with the West.

Media lies regarding Gaza violence are diabolical

Russia is a devious adversary, but threat to the republic is coming from corrupt, power-hungry Dems

I have no doubt that Russia used cyber warfare against the United States during the 2016 U.S presidential election. I mean special counsel Robert Mueller indicted them and all, so it must be true. But, so did China, North Korea and Iran over the last decade.

A battle of wills over Polish courts exposes EU bullying

The European Union has long criticized its East European members — the former Soviet satellites Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic — for alleged "authoritarian" tendencies. The George Soros-backed, open-borders policy favored by Western European leaders has long been a sore point between East and West, with East European leaders refusing to admit millions of economic migrants from the Middle East and other world crisis spots whom they see as a threat to their security, culture and identity as a people.

Trump unravels Obama’s legacy

The seething rage coming from Obamaland is palpable -- President Trump has withdrawn from the Iran deal, Barack Obama's signature achievement.

Russia investigation isn’t really about Trump, but giving cover to Obama and Hillary

The Russia probe is not about Trump. It is about shielding the public from knowing the extent to which Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton weakened the country and profited in the process.

Russians fleeing a bad situation

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported this week asylum applications by Russian citizens in the United States hit a 24-year high in 2017, jumping nearly 40 percent from the previous year and continuing an upward march that began after Vladimir Putin began his second run as president in 2012.