September 19, 2022 by Walid Phares It has become increasingly clear that since the Biden administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago and the transfer of power to the Taliban, what one might coin as “wars out of control” could spread in the Greater Middle East, causing danger to U.S. interests, national security and the…

September 10, 2022 On September 1, 2022, members of AMCD met with the Republican nominee who is poised to flip Washington state’s 8th Congressional district back to red. Mr. Larkin began by decrying the number of professional politicians in office and wants to see more businessmen who have experience making payroll and balancing a checkbook.…

September 8, 2022 The Libyan National Army (LNA) headed by Field Marshall Khalifa Haftar announced it has successfully completed an operation to kill or capture the jihadist mastermind of the mass beheading of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christian workers and one Ghanaian Christian whom the jihadists had kidnapped in the Libyan city of Sirte on February…

April On April 11, AMCD members met with General Ernest C. Audino who spent many years working in Iraqi Kurdistan. General Audino believes that US national interests have not been sufficiently defined and/or that our leadership has been dishonest about our objectives during recent conflicts. Members had a wonderful discussion with the General about US foreign…

January On January 20, AMCD members met with Bahman Maalizadeh of the Norooz Foundation and Erica Saghar Kasraie to discuss what is happening with refugees from Afghanistan who fled to Tajikistan to escape the Taliban. Our membership was still reeling from the disastrous withdrawal and many volunteered to help the refugees any way we could. There is no…

August 16, 2022 On August 11, 2022, members of AMCD met with the Republican candidate for Attorney General for Arizona, Abraham Hamadeh. Mr. Hamadeh explained that he is the son of Syrian immigrants who came to the US in the 1980s. HI family first came to Chicago and then by chance, his father won the…

August 15, 2022 by Rebecca Bynum During the Obama administration, the Muslim Brotherhood first gained and then lost control in Egypt because the people rose-up against the iron-fisted cruelty with which the Brotherhood tried to run the country. Today, the Ikhwan is desperately trying to gain control of the country next door, Libya, where a…

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,…