Geopolitics

Iran-backed Houthis target U.S. ships, Red Sea trade

Amidst the unpredictable arc of crisis shadowing the Middle East persists the systemic and sustained merchant shipping attacks in the Red Sea. The culprits are a shadowy but lethal Iranian proxy force, the Houthis, who use their control of mountainous parts of the Yemeni coast to launch missile, drone and speedboat attacks on vital shipping lanes connecting the Mediterranean with the Gulf of Aden. Read More.

To support Iran's nukes, China convenes 'axis of evil'

United States President Donald Trump is engaged in a high profile-attempt to pressure Iran to give up its ambitions to build nuclear weapons. Read More.

Planes carrying deported gang land in El Salvador

The Trump administration was deporting the gang members to El Salvador, where President Nayib Bukele mocked Judge Boasberg after two flights from the U.S. carrying between 250 and 300 Venezuelan and other gang members landed in El Salvador despite the judge’s emergency order. Read More.

Failed Taliban state: Opium prices soar, women lose rights

The darkening rule of the Taliban regime over Afghanistan continues to dim prospects for Women’s rights as well as any chances for the war-torn country to overcome an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Currently more than 50 percent of the population, some 23 million people in this South Asian land, require humanitarian assistance and that aid is now decreasing. Read More.

Iran backed in corner by secret Trump-Putin deal?

Iran has been adamant about not wanting to open diplomatic channels with U.S. President Donald Trump. But the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be pressed to abandon that stance if Trump works out some kind of deal with one of Iran’s top allies, Russia. Read More.

Trump offers U.S. citizenship for South African farmers

President Donald Trump on Friday ceased all U.S. funding to South Africa and opened a pathway to fast-track U.S. citizenship for farmers who are having their land confiscated by the South African government. Read More.

Covid lawsuit: China ordered to pay Missouri $24 billion

A federal judge on Friday awarded Missouri a $24 billion judgment against China in a Covid lawsuit. Read More.

Overdue: U.S. intel report on hidden wealth of CCP leaders

A U.S. intelligence report required by federal law on corruption and hidden wealth of Chinese leaders must be made public soon, according to a letter organized by Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles, a sponsor of the law. Read More.

BlackRock to buy China-controlled ports at Panama Canal

A BlackRock investors group has agreed to buy majority stakes in Panama Canal ports currently under the control of a Chinese firm, a report said. Read More.

Trump-Zelenskyy: Arrogance or high stakes geopolitics?

Democrats saw an arrogant bully who berated their BFF and then sent him home without lunch. The other side saw a master who is many moves ahead of his opponents on the chessboard of geopolitics. Read More.

Overlooked: Communist China's Moon momentum

As the Trump Administration and new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Issacman review and reassess the Artemis Moon Program and determine the best way to pursue President Donald Trump’s additional priority to put Americans on Mars, it is also important to keep in mind that China is focused on the Moon and is building crucial momentum to reach its goal populating the Moon starting in 2030 or perhaps earlier. Read More.

In one week, communist China terrorized four U.S. allies

While Washington focuses on the accelerating revolution in government unleashed by the second Trump Administration, China is running amok in Asia. Read More.

Google censored content at request of authoritarian regimes

Google has removed millions of content items from public domains at the request of authoritarian regimes in China, Russia, and many others, an investigation found. Read More.

For post-Cold War NATO, moment of truth has arrived

If the Trump train is changing the game in Washington, D.C., it has upended a decades-long marriage of convenience with many nations in western Europe. Read More.

Trump: Ukraine's 'dictator' played Joe Biden 'like a fiddle'

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a "dictator" who played Joe Biden "like a fiddle" and talked him into sending $350 billion to Ukraine for a war "that could not be won," President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. Read More.