Geopolitics

Rohingya still in Burma fact 'risk of renewed genocide'

In a stunningly gloomy presentation, UN human rights experts reviewed the situation in Myanmar/aka Burma, the Southeast Asian country where the government continues to persecute, harass and eliminate members of minority religious groups, especially the Muslim Rohingya. Read More.

Unlike Obama, 'We chose to protect the Ukrainian people'

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his boss and slammed Democrats for a partisan impeachment inquiry which arose from a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s president which was “a matter of policy.” Read More.

Six Gulf states and U.S. announce sanctions on Iran proxies

The United States and six of its Gulf allies on Oct. 30 announced sanctions on 25 entities linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon-based Iranian terror proxy Hizbullah. Read More.

Pompeo on China: 'American people didn’t get the full story'

The Trump administration, unlike past administrations, recognizes and is addressing “the degree to which the Chinese Communist Party is truly hostile to the United States and our values,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Oct. 30. Read More.

How Obama's Intel Community launched its ‘paper coup’

The coup being waged against President Donald Trump by Democrats and their media allies was set in motion by the Obama administration immediately after the 2016 election, author Lee Smith writes in his new book. Read More.

How the U.S. tracked down al-Baghdadi

Some of the key information that led U.S. Special Forces to the hideout of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi came from the wife of an al-Baghdadi aide and one of the couriers the ISIS leader paid in order to avoid using mobile phones and computers. Read More.

Baghdadi buried at sea as U.S.-backed Kurdish forces mop up

In the days following the operation that took out Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria took aim at the remnants of the terror group’s leadership. Read More.

Communism celebrates its centennial, China and AOC

On the 100th anniversary of its founding, Communist International called on its “comrades” around the globe to defeat capitalism and “imperialism”, to resist U.S. President Donald Trump, and to embrace China, North Korea, Cuba and U.S. socialist politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Read More.

Analysis: U.S. has not named enemy in 18-year war on terror

What strategic impact will the death of Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have on the U.S.’s 18-year war on terror? Read More.

New Mideast matrix: Iran, Israel now see war as inevitable

Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Oct. 10 at the memorial for the fatalities of the October 1973 War. He strongly hinted of the possibility of both an Israeli preemptive military strike against Iran and the specter of a major protracted regional war. Read More.

'Whimpering' ISIS leader detonates self, children

After “running into a dead-end tunnel, whimpering and crying and screaming all the way,” Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated his own suicide vest, killing himself and his three children as U.S. Special Forces closed in, President Donald Trump said on Oct. 27. Read More.

Pence clarifies: U.S. ‘stands with’ Hong Kong protesters

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence slammed the NBA and Nike for taking the side of the “authoritarian regime” in communist China over the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Read More.

China's Oct. 1 parade called 'war plan' for Taiwan

China’s massive display of firepower at the Oct. 1 military parade marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party was in part showing off its “war plan” for the CCP’s centennial in 2049, an analyst said. Read More.

Uighur woman tells of life and death in Chinese gulag

The mostly Muslim detainees at China’s re-education camps are subjected to brutal torture, according to a Uighur woman who was detained at one of the camps. They are forced to take drugs which cause memory loss and infertility. Women are raped by guards in front of other prisoners. Read More.

Trump points to ‘great outcome’ in Turkey-Kurds showdown

Turkey has agreed to end its military operation against U.S.-allied Kurds in Syria and the U.S. is lifting sanctions it had imposed on Turkey, President Donald Trump said on Oct. 23. Read More.