Geopolitics

Obama's CIA chief 'suppressed facts' on Russia and Hillary in 2016

Newly declassified documents show that Obama-era CIA Director John Brennan "suppressed" intelligence that Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election. Read More.

Report: Reappearance of Kim Jong-Un reportedly a rush job

Kim Jong-Un’s long-awaited and much-publicized return to the public eye on May 1 was reportedly cobbled together on very short notice. Read More.

North Korea's Kim: Dead or alive? Flip a coin

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has dodged a bullet, meaning the onslaught of speculation about whether he was dead or alive, ill or just avoiding the coronavirus. Read More.

Stanford, other U.S. universities still partner with China institute

Stanford University, the University of Kentucky and Colorado State University are just a few of the dozens of U.S. colleges and universities which have continued their partnerships with communist China's Confucius Institute despite increasing controversy about the program. Read More.

German intelligence: China pressed WHO to stall on virus

Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping made a personal plea to the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) to delay the release of critical information regarding the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, German intelligence reported. Read More.

No, China does not have the U.S. economy over a barrel

Anytime China is brought up in mainstream dialogue, the general messaging tends to be as follows: China is an adversary and a problem, we know they lie, break laws, and outright steal from the U.S. and its companies. Read More.

Win by Left in Korea called warning on new voting tech

Suspicions of election fraud arose last month after South Korea’s general election, a report said. Read More.

No lockdown in Syria as conflict that killed 500,000 continues

Syria’s devastating conflict continues despite the spread of coronavirus and calls by the international community for a ceasefire to stop the fighting which has continued for over nine years and killed more than 500,000 people. Read More.

Analyst: China using coronavirus as strategic distraction

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using the Wuhan coronavirus to advance its geostrategic position, an analyst said. Read More.

China destroyed lab evidence, 'Five Eyes' Intel report states

Amid the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak in December and January, China destroyed laboratory evidence and silenced whistleblower doctors, an Australian newspaper reported, citing a Western intelligence report. Read More.

Trump points to the Wuhan Institute of Virology

President Donald Trump on May 3 suggested that his administration will soon release “conclusive” evidence that the coronavirus originally leaked out of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. Read More.

Sweden responds to China threats by closing 'Confucius Institutes'

While communist China has long touted its alleged “peaceful rise” as a global power, its increasingly brutish and bullying behavior toward less powerful countries has shown a harsher reality. Sweden is just the most recent example. Fortunately, Sweden is pushing back. Read More.

Warring U.S. parties agree: End medical imports from China

Americans of all political stripes believe the U.S. relationship with China has to change amid the communist nation's negligence in its response to the Wuhan coronavirus. Read More.

Kim Jong-Un is back but 'he doesn't look well'

Photos and video released on May 1 by official North Korean media show dictator Kim Jong-Un appearing at a ceremony at a new industrial complex. But doubts that things were back to normal in the far-from-normal "hermit kingdom" were punctuated by gunfire from the North at a South Korean guard post on the DMZ. Read More.

FBI notes on Flynn ambush reveal plan ‘get him fired’

Internal FBI documents unsealed on April 29 show that top bureau officials said their motivation for interviewing then-national security adviser Michael Flynn in the White House in January 2017 was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired." Read More.