The process is the punishment. by Rebecca Bynum Bob Ferguson serves as Washington State’s Attorney General. He was elected in 2012 and came to national media attention in 2017 when he successfully blocked the Trump administration from implementing the Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States act (Executive order 13769), forcing the administration…

August 5, 2022 by AMCD advisor Dr. Walid Phares In the months after the 9/11 attacks, I translated and commented on speeches given by the number two of al-Qaida, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri, trying to bring to the attention of the American people that the ideology of jihadism was not just another abstract set of radical…

August 3, 2022 The American Mideast Coalition for Democracy fully supports Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller after she was the subject of a hit piece by Illinois Public Media reporter Harrison Malkin titled “Congresswoman Mary Miller supports ‘maximum sanctions’ on Iran despite their ‘devastating’ impact.” Malkin also criticized Miller for last April’s meeting with Bryan Leib,…

As usual, using their extensive propaganda machine, a network of Muslim Brotherhood operatives claimed a Virginia court accused Libyan leader, Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libya National Army, of being a “war criminal.” This is completely false. Upon checking the verdict in a civil suit against him launched by pro-Ikhwan individuals, it was…

July 19, 2022 The Maronite community of Lebanon is in an uproar today after the Military Court’s Government Commissioner, Judge Fadi Akiki, ordered the arrest and interrogation of Archbishop Musa al-Hajj, the Archbishop of Haifa and the Holy Land, and the Patriarchal Vicar for Jerusalem, the Palestinian Territories and the Hashemite Kingdom. It is reported that…

July 11, 2022 by AMCD advisor Walid Phares After the Trump administration withdrew from the Iran Deal in 2018 and designated the IRCG as a foreign terror organization in 2019, the “Islamic Republic” was seemingly in open war against the United States, targeting the Trump White House in particular. The Trump policy of “maximum pressures”…

by AMCD advisor Walid Phares June 28, 2022 The Obama Iran Deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) unleashed several disastrous effects in the Mideast, on U.S. Foreign Policy, and even on American domestic politics. But one area, the signing of the JCPOA in 2015 and the subsequent transfer of dozens of billions…

June 27, 2022 Mr. Marchant explained how he watched his country and his state (Washington) spiral out of control due to leftist policies and wanted to find a way to fight back. He decided to fight back in the courts and so co-founded the Silent Majority Foundation with Vincent Cavaleri, attorney Pete Serrano, and Rob…

by AMCD advisor Walid Phares As of early 2021, the Biden administration implemented the so-called “salami slices” method, that is, to release seemingly unrelated streams of cash and allowing the monies to reach the coffers of the regime in Tehran, Iran. The process is sophisticated and avoids an official removal of sanctions. Seen as “confidence building…

On May 26, 2022, members of AMCD met with Mr. Scott Stephenson who is running for the Republican nomination in Washington State’s 8th district. If successful, he will run against incumbent Kim Schrier (D) in the fall in a traditionally Republican seat. Mr. Stephenson has put everything he has on the line, even quit his…