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AMCD Meets with General Ernest C. Audino
April 11, 2022 General Ernest C. Audino serves as District Director for Congressman Michael Walz (Fl. 6). He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1983 and retired from the Army in 2011. He served multiple assignments in armor, cavalry, infantry and Stryker units. Other key assignments include service as an…
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AMCD Praises American Accountability Foundation’s Lawsuit Against Voice of America
March 30, 2022 The American Accountability Foundation (AAF) filed a lawsuit accusing the Voice of America of withholding communications that demonstrate the broadcasting service’s role in disseminating “messages opposed to American interest” after the VOA ignored over sixty Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests from the watchdog group. AAF alleges: “VOA has been infiltrated by anti-American, pro-Islamic state…
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AMCD Meets with Hung Cao, Candidate for Congress in Virginia’s 10th District
On March 24, members of AMCD met with Mr. Hung Cao, who is running for Congress in Virginia’s 10th district. Mr. Cao came to America at age four after the fall of Saigon. His father had been Deputy Administrator of Agriculture for the government of South Vietnam and after emigrating to the US, he traveled…
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AMCD Issues Statement on Ukraine
While it is commendable for the US to be cautious concerning entering a possible nuclear conflict with Russia, the American Mideast Coalition for Democracy encourages a more forceful response on the part of the Biden administration to force Russia to the negotiating table to save as much of Ukraine as is possible. “Putin demonstrated his…
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Newsletter October – December 2021
October On October 7, 2021, members of AMCD met with Guila Fakhoury, daughter of Amer Fakhoury, an American citizen who was lured back to Lebanon, detained and tortured in September of 2019 on the orders of Hezbollah. The Trump administration succeeded in obtaining his release, but he died not long afterward. The family then created the…
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AMCD Meets with Kyle Lyebyodyev on Ukraine
March 15, 2022 On March 11, 2022, AMCD members met with Kyle Lyebyodyev who is an ethnic Russian born and raised in Ukraine. His father was in the Russian military and stationed in Ukraine before the fall of the Soviet Union. Mr. Lyebyodyev said he never experienced any discrimination or repression as a native Russian…
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AMCD Meets with Valeriy Goloborodko, Honorary Consul of Ukraine for Washington and Oregon States
March 8, 2022 On March 3, 2022, members of the American Mideast Coalition for Democracy met with Honorary Consul of Ukraine, Valeriy Goloborodko who briefed the group on the latest news coming from inside Ukraine. He believes the Russian army, whose conscripts were not expecting the fierce resistance they have encountered, is demoralized. Ukrainians, on…
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AMCD urges Congress to reject Iran’s Insistence that Congress commit to Iran Deal Before it is Negotiated
February 16, 2022 Iran is urging US Congress to issue a “political statement” that Washington will stay committed to a possible agreement in Vienna talks to restore the 2015 nuclear deal, which would bind the US to an agreement that has not yet been negotiated. “This sounds like another Iranian ploy to play for time…
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Walid Phares on the EU’s failures dealing with Jihadism (in French)
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John Soloman interviews Walid Phares on Ukraine
AMCD advisor Walid Phares gives an enlightening interview regarding Ukraine and US-Russia relations. Watch here.