Episodes
Monday Apr 15, 2013
Roger Noriega, Dr. Henry Sokolski, Gordon Chang, Richard Fisher
Monday Apr 15, 2013
Monday Apr 15, 2013
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ROGER NORIEGA analyzes the presidential election that took place in Venezuela yesterday, expressing doubts that Chavez’s hand-picked successor, who won by a “razor thin” margin, had legitimately claimed victory. Dr. HENRY SOKOLSKI, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, critiques the U.S. government’s response to the North Korean threat, and argues that an effective measure against the corrupt regime would be to go after its ability to get hard currency through illegal means, such as by trafficking drugs, people, and exotic animals. What tools of foreign policy does the U.S. have in the financial category to deal with North Korea? GORDON CHANG of Forbes.com lays out the strategic landscape in Asia and clarifies where the Chinese really stand in relationship to North Korea. Can Chinese military power be measured accurately? With strategic deception as a pillar of Chinese military doctrine, beliefs of Western policy makers are subject to great confusion. RICHARD FISHER of the International Assessment and Strategy Center brings expertise to bare on the matter.
Friday Apr 12, 2013
Roger Noriega, Michael S. Smith II, Christian Whiton
Friday Apr 12, 2013
Friday Apr 12, 2013
How well informed is U.S. President on Venezuela, it’s significance, and that of the U.S. role in Latin America? Former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, ROGER NORIEGA, helps us discover why the unrest and suffering in Venezuela is a symptom of Cuban influence and U.S. indifference to it. MICHAEL S. SMITH II, of Kronos Advisory LLP, examines the historical relationship between Iran and al Qaeda, and why that relationship is souring as al Qaeda desperately tries to stay relevant in a world more preoccupied with the political revolutions of the "Arab Spring." In a special two-part interview, former US State Department senior adviser and principal at DC International Advisory LLC CHRISTIAN WHITON goes into an in-depth analysis of North Korea. Topics discusses include the regime's relationship with China, what is behind the dictatorship's extreme hostility towards religion, and how the U.S. might be able to better relations with the country by changing its rhetoric.
Friday Apr 05, 2013
Fred Grandy, Roger Noriega, Bill Gertz, Mark Langfan
Friday Apr 05, 2013
Friday Apr 05, 2013
Provocative weakness - A neglected nuclear deterrent; Hagel’s announcement of more defense cuts; and an administration that ideologically opposes missile defense and favors unilateral arms reduction: How have the signals coming out of Washington emboldened the resolve of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un? BILL GERTZ of the Washington Free Beacon reports on intermediate range missile tests by North Korea, U.S. bomber flights, the state of play, and the strategic context.
Former U.S. Senator from Iowa FRED GRANDY explains his belief that Kim Jong Un is crazy in a cunning way, and why the U.S. is right to be worried about North Korea.
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Hemisphere Affairs ROGER NORIEGA gives an update on the upcoming Venezuelan presidential election, particularly how candidate Nicolas Maduro is failing--hilariously--to convince voters that he will be a new Hugo Chavez.
MARK LANGFAN lays out the tactical realities of the threat to Israel of Katusha rockets fired from Gaza and Lebanon. A strategic reality follows that if the West Bank is left to a Palestinian authority to police, the smuggling of Katusha mimicked there would put Israel’s major population centers vulnerable to chemically armed Katusha rockets at a rate which the current Iron Dome system could not sustain a desirable success rate.Friday Mar 29, 2013
Fred Grandy, Joseph Connor, Michael Duncan, Roger Noriega, Bill Gertz
Friday Mar 29, 2013
Friday Mar 29, 2013
Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow FRED GRANDY breaks down the week's foreign policy events from the Morsi government's crack down in Egypt to the President's warming rhetoric for Israel. Authors JOSEPH CONNOR and MICHAEL DUNCAN discuss their new book The New Founders and how U.S. Founding principles continue to have a bearing on U.S. national security. Former Ambassador to the Organization of American States ROGER NORIEGA discusses that organizations lack of U.S. influence, the state of the Cuban regime, and current flux in Venezuela. Washington Free Beacon editor BILL GERTZ reports on Chinese espionage in it's various forms as well as a renewed diplomatic offensive by the Russians and Chinese to further the diminished U.S. missile defense program.
Thursday Mar 21, 2013
Matthew Continetti, Henry Nau, Roger Noriega, Fred Fleitz
Thursday Mar 21, 2013
Thursday Mar 21, 2013
The Washington Freebeacon editor in chief, MATTHEW CONTINETTI explains the structural conundrum of the Republican party and their failure to attract groups who share their values. Professor HENRY NAU of the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University illustrates the myriad correlations between the Obama administration’s foreign policy and increasing global unrest. Former Ambassador to the Organization of American States, ROGER NORIEGA, just back from his testimony before Congress, reports on the strategic position of Hezbollah in the Americas. FRED FLEITZ, director of the Langley Intelligence Group Network, spends his weekly visit with Frank discussing key new, unique, and significant developments in both the North Korean and Iranian nuclear threats.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013
Roger Noriega, Robert McFarlane, Joel Rosenberg, Diana West
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013
Wednesday Mar 06, 2013
ROGER NORIEGA, founder of Inter-American Security Watch, analyzes what's happening in Venezuela following the death of Hugo Chavez yesterday, discussing Cuba's involvement in determining whether secession will be constitutional or not, and suggesting ways America can help to fulfill its interests there. From the Partnership for a Secure America, ROBERT McFARLANE reveals the benefits that America could receive if it were to allow market forces to control the oil trade instead of allowing OPEC to set the prices for oil, including oil independence for America and her allies, more jobs for Americans, and cheaper prices at the pump. JOEL ROSENBERG, author of Damascus Countdown, explains the quasi-war game setting of his latest novel which explores what would happen if Israel were to preemptively strike a nuclear Iran against the wishes of an American administration. Syndicated reporter and author of upcoming American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character, DIANA WEST criticizes the GOP's non-strategy for dealing with presidential nominations in reference to issues that needed to be raised but weren't in Chuck Hagel's, John Kerry's, and upcoming John Brennan's Senate hearings.
Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Tom Donnelly, Roger Noriega, Fred Fleitz
Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Thursday Feb 28, 2013
Due to technical difficulties, we unfortunately can't upload the Secure Freedom Radio show on podbean today, but you can still listen to it at our main site here: Center for Security Policy. REP. DANA ROHRABACHER (R-CA), on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, reports on his recent diplomatic trip to Asia, and brings to light the plight of Dr. Shakil Afridi who, after playing an essential role in helping U.S. forces find Osama bin Laden, has been languishing in Pakistani prison, abandoned by the country that he aided. AEI Co-Director of the Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, TOM DONNELLY details Al Qaeda 2.0, how the terrorist organization is far from dead, but morphing and growing to new regions, and explains how a lack of bi-partisanship in Washington has led to tomorrow's pending budget cuts. ROGER NORIEGA, the founder of interamericansecuritywatch.com, reports on Chavez's return to Venezuela, the communist regime in Cuba, and finally on Hatian President Martelly's request to stop financial aid to Haiti. From lignet.com, FRED FLEITZ reveals the inside scoop on Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, and analyzes how nuclear talks with Iran in Kazakhstan are only buying time for the Iranian regime to further develop its nuclear program.
Tuesday Feb 12, 2013
Adm. James "Ace" Lyons, Barry Rubin, Roger Noriega, Andy McCarthy
Tuesday Feb 12, 2013
Tuesday Feb 12, 2013
ADM. JAMES "ACE" LYONS, President and CEO of Lion Associates LLC, warns of the impending threats that are China and North Korea, and describes the greatly reduced state of our military if sequestration were to take effect. BARRY RUBIN, the director of the GLORIA center, reports on the State of the World over the past four years, and reveals how the current administration has helped create and sustain Islamist, anti-American regimes in several countries all over the Middle East. From the founder of Inter-American Security Watch, ROGER NORIEGA exposes how Iran has infiltrated the Western hemisphere with close relations in Argentina and Venezuela, and marvels at how the Obama administration could deny America oil independence if they don't approve the Keystone pipeline through Canada, one of our most trusted allies. ANDY McCARTHY, from the National Review Online and author of Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy, describes the dereliction of duty that contributed to the Benghazi crisis, and wonders why we even bother with Senate appointment hearings when even the most incompetent of nominees, Chuck Hagel, can still get approved despite betraying his lack of qualifications.
Thursday Feb 07, 2013
Representative Mike Turner, Roger Noriega, Mark Krikorian, Fred Fleitz
Thursday Feb 07, 2013
Thursday Feb 07, 2013
Congressman MIKE TURNER of Ohio explains the effects that Chuck Hagel's policies advocating the reduction of America's nuclear arsenal would have on America's safety and security were he to be nominated for Secretary of Defense. Former Ambassador to the OAS, ROGER NORIEGA, covers a litany of intrigue in the Americas including the Mexican struggle against the cartels, Chinese economic influence in Latin America, and Iranian Venezuelan money laundering.
Monday Jan 28, 2013
Roger Noriega, Stephen Hunter, Claudia Rosett, Gordon Chang
Monday Jan 28, 2013
Monday Jan 28, 2013
ROGER NORIEGA, from the American Enterprise Institute, explains the effects that upcoming immigrant legislation will have, interprets Venezuelan vice president Maduro's assassination claims, and critiques current negotiations between Colombian authorities and narco-terrorists. STEPHEN HUNTER, Pulitzer Prize winning author of the upcoming The Third Bullet, offers exclusive insight into the creation of the conspiracy theory in his new book, and condemns the politicians that "pirouette on the political platform" raised from the tragedy of the Sandy Hook shootings. CLAUDIA ROSETT, the journalist-in-residence at Foundation for Defense of Democracy, analyzes the still resounding lack of clarity that Hillary Clinton's Senate hearing left for the American people, and the "pass the buck" mentality that has prevailed in the administration through the whole affair. GORDAN CHANG, columnist at forbes.com, exposes the inclement threat that North Korea's rapidly advancing missile program will have on the US and her allies, and reports on the UN conference that has led to China demanding more than $100 billion a year from the US to clean up their pollution.