Geopolitics

For 40 years, U.S. intel assumed China posed no threat

For the better part of four decades, U.S. intelligence agencies failed to address the emerging threat from communist China and, now, the U.S. is “not prepared intellectually, ideologically, organizationally, nor militarily” to confront that threat, (Ret.) Navy Capt. James Fanell said in congressional testimony on June 26. Read More.

Harassment, discrimination charges rock Schwab's WEF

Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum (WEF) boasts that its mission is to improve the state of the world, and many prominent world leaders have been groomed through WEF's Young Global Leaders Forum. Read More.

Russia-N. Korea defense pact energizes the dictatorship alliance

In the year 2010 North Korea was correctly a pariah state, isolated by layers of sanctions from the United States, the United Nations and other democracies, while its attempts at missile proliferation were intercepted on the high seas. Read More.

China won't rule out AI role in nuclear warfare decisions

Should the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the deployment of nuclear weapons be restricted? Read More.

Ex-S. Korean spy chief confirms North’s role in ‘Gwangju incident’

North Korean special forces were involved in the 1980 "Gwangju incident" in South Korea, a former head of South Korea's intelligence agency has now confirmed. Read More.

Inspector General: Pentagon lost track of funds to Chinese labs

The Pentagon does not know how much funding it awarded to Chinese research labs that could have been used to enhance pathogens with pandemic potential, according to a June 20 report by the Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). Read More.

Before Kim-Putin met, nations had several high-level meetings

In the run-up to the June 18 meeting in Pyongyang between North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the two countries had exchanged more than two dozen high-level government, parliamentary, and other delegations since July 2023, including 18 this year. Read More.

The 'troubled history' of WHO director Tedros

Close ties with China and Bill Gates are about all one needs to be a WHO director these days. But what about Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's ideological qualifications? Read More.

D-Day 80th: The Biden-Macron spectacle at Normandy

The somber but uplifting commemorations of the D-Day landings in Normandy, now eighty years ago, shed light on the historic Allied victory of arms, men and spirit. Read More.

Macron dissolves National Assembly after EU election defeat

President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday dissolved France’s National Assembly after Marine Le Pen’s conservative National Rally party trounced Macron's forces in European Union elections that according to exit polls maintained the momentum of anti-immigration and populist forces in other key EU states including Germany and Belgium. Read More.

Xi’s grand vision: Massive industrial center in Gulf

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping has called for the establishment of a massive industrial center in the Gulf that could produce practically anything for the global market. Read More.

Vax, not infection, casues myocarditis, pericarditis in kids

In a study which evaluated over 1 million English children, researchers at Oxford University found that myocarditis and pericarditis only occur after getting the Covid injection and not after a Covid infection. Read More.

Ex- IDF general: Netanyahu has ‘gone off the rails'

IDF Maj.-Gen. (res.) Itzhak Brik, who has met with Netanyahu six times since the Oct. 7 massacre, said recently that he saw indications in the prime minister’s behavior that indicate “the man has gone off the rails.” Read More.

Rumblings in the South Pacific: New Caledonia, nickel, and China

New Caledonia, a remote French overseas territory in the South Pacific, is not often in the news. It’s even less common when you see the truly unexpected cast of characters placing this small island group into an unwanted limelight. Read More.

With a boost from TikTok, China is winning the cognitive war

China’s military defines cognitive warfare as activities to alter the attitudes and behaviors of people and populations for political purposes by degrading rationality and changing perceptions of reality. Read More.