Secure Freedom Minute: Send All Chinese Students Home

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed Harvard yesterday that it can “no longer enroll foreign students” for “fostering anti-Semitism and violence” and “coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.” The Secretary declared,“Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.” We must hope that this action will lead to…

Secure Freedom Minute: What Did Pope Francis Do in China, and With Whom? What Comes Next?

The Conclave that made Cardinal Robert Prevost Pope Leo XIV was roiled by his predecessor’s betrayal of Catholics and other people of faith in Communist China.  Pope Francis reportedly agreed to a toxic secret deal with the Chinese Communist Party – and ignored the CCP’s intensified efforts to destroy religion – hoping he’d be allowed…

Secure Freedom Minute: At Last, A “Golden Dome” to “Save Lives, Not Avenge Them”

Four decades ago, President Ronald Reagan declared that it would be better “to save lives than to avenge them.” For that purpose, he unveiled a “Strategic Defense Initiative.” Tragically, his vision for protecting our country and its population has not been fully actualized, even though the threat we face from enemy missiles has metastasized dramatically.  …

Secure Freedom Minute: Dimon and Moynihan Underwrite the CCP Threat

Yesterday, Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America raised $4.4 billion for a Pentagon-designated “Chinese military company operating in the United States.” Most Americans might be astonished that there are any such companies – let alone that Wall Street is so indifferent to the national security implications that it is massively enriching one.…

Secure Freedom Minute: A Terrible Time to Lose Michael Ledeen

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  The passing of Dr. Michael Ledeen at any time would be a terrible loss for our country. His myriad brilliant books and countless essays on foreign policy amounted to a national treasure. Surpassingly invaluable were his analyses of the regime that has misruled the people of…

Webinar | Repeal the Deal: A New Pope Must Adopt a New, Pro-Freedom Policy towards the CCP

A JOINT CPDC/STPC WEBINAR Repeal the Deal: A New Pope Must Adopt a New, Pro-Freedom Policy towards the CCP Friday, May 16, 2025 1:00-2:15 pm ET <!– CLICK HERE TO REGISTER –> FULL TRANSCRIPT NOTE: This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may contain grammatical and spelling errors incurred during translation. Please…

Webinar | Repeal the Deal: A New Pope Must Adopt a New, Pro-Freedom Policy towards the CCP

Repeal the Deal: A New Pope Must Adopt a New, Pro-Freedom Policy towards the CCP Friday, May 16, 2025 1:00-2:15 pm ET CLICK HERE TO REGISTER <!– FULL TRANSCRIPT NOTE: This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may contain grammatical and spelling errors incurred during translation. Please refer to the referenced media…

Secure Freedom Minute: Will Pope Leo Answer Prayers for the Church in China

The atheistic Marxist Chinese Communist Party has long sought to destroy religion in China and, most especially, the Roman Catholic Church. In 2018, the Vatican became complicit in the CCP’s crimes against Chinese believers and their clergy, churches and Bible – all of which Pope Francis studiously ignored.   The deal whereby this betrayal was institutionalized…

Secure Freedom Minute: Paging Candidate Trump on Sharia-supremacism

On August 15, 2016, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered perhaps the most clear-eyed speech ever given by such a political figure about the grave threat posed by, and the necessity of countering, “Radical Islamic Terrorism.” He condemned its animating ideology rooted in “Sharia law,” which he promised to use “ideological warfare” to defeat. Mr.…

Secure Freedom Minute: Trump’s Big Bet Requires the Liberation of Iran’s People

President Donald Trump is making a gigantic bet on a remade Middle East. The massive weapons sales he has announced to Saudi Arabia and others that may be in the offing with additional regional states, to say nothing of his termination of sanctions on and possible normalization of relations with Syria might make sense in…

Secure Freedom Minute: Name and Shame – Dimon and Moynihan Endanger Our Security

Overshadowed by news yesterday of progress by the Trump team in securing more reciprocal trade arrangements with the Chinese Communist Party were reports that top Wall Street firms are doubling down on the CCP’s wildly unreciprocated access to our capital markets. At issue is fundraising that Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America…

Inside Track with Frank Gaffney: Iran, China, and America’s Wake-Up Call

In a powerful appearance on Inside Track, national security expert Frank Gaffney delivers a no-holds-barred analysis of America’s gravest threats—from Tehran to Beijing, and the Wall Street boardrooms that empower them. Joined by hosts Bruce Ash and EB Wilkinson, Gaffney argues that America is already at war with Iran, whether our leaders admit it or…

Secure Freedom Minute: Don’t Give Iran a Free Shot at President Trump

Even as the United States was negotiating yesterday with Iranian diplomats to effect their country’s denuclearization, Iran’s regime was putting on a show of its undiminished enmity with mobs chanting “death to America.”  The man most especially, and quite literally, in the mullahs’ crosshairs is President Donald Trump. They have for some time had assassination…

Secure Freedom Minute: Pope Leo XIV or Francis 2?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. The election of Peruvian-American Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV is a fresh start for the Vatican. Or is it?  An early test of whether this papacy will amount to more of the same will be if the new pontiff continues the worst legacy of…

Secure Freedom Minute: Will Europe’s Next Victory be Celebrated by Sharia-supremacists?

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.  Eighty years ago today, the Second World War in Europe ended. Amidst celebrations of the anniversary, there’s widespread cognitive dissonance – psychologists’ term for an inability to perceive what one doesn’t want to see. European elites in particular profess concerns about the possibility of another invasion…

Secure Freedom Minute: Wall Street Titans’ Treacherous Malfeasance

Bloomberg reports that two of Wall Street’s biggest firms have doubled-down on their intention to help raise at least $7 billion dollars for a Chinese military company helping the People’s Liberation Army prepare to kill Americans.  Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan and Brian Moynihan’s Bank of America exemplify the indifference of too many in the U.S.…

Secure Freedom Minute: This is It- Repeal the Deal or Doom the Church

Tonight U.S. time, the cardinals who currently collectively make up the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church will lock themselves away in the Sistine Chapel to make the most fateful decision of their lives – and, arguably that of the spiritual life of their institution.  They will not only be electing a new pope. They…