Geopolitics

Analyst: Hamas tunnels 'greatest homecourt advantage'

In 2021, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) completed its defensive “smart wall” between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Equipped with cutting-edge technology, the wall was designed to detect any security breach. Read More.

Xi forces Marxist ideology on all facets of religious life

The Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of religious belief, at least on paper. A report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) says communist authorities in China have instituted new regulations forcing state-controlled religious organizations to incorporate communist ideology into every facet of religious life. Read More.

Alejandro Arcos Catalan: Life and death of a Mexico mayor

On Oct. 1, Alejandro Arcos Catalan became the mayor of Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state. It’s a city plagued by two rival drug gangs: the Ardillos and the Tlacos. On Oct. 6, the new Mayor Arcos was found decapitated, his head atop a vehicle, with his body on the front passenger seat. Read More.

PLD Space: Spain follows the Elon Musk template

Consider this proven formula for private sector business success in space: 1) Find a motivated, charismatic leader; 2) Develop a family of modular and reusable space launch vehicles (SLVs) to reduce production/launch costs and generate public and private sector business; and 3) Set your sights on sending people and cargo to the Moon and Mars to motivate increasing government support. Read More.

Kamala Harris touts $157 million in aid ... for Lebanon

In a post to X on Saturday, Kamala Harris spoke of people who are "facing an increasingly dire humanitarian situation." The Democrat presidential candidate said she was "concerned about the security and well-being" of those people. Read More.

UN Assembly : No answers for perfect storm of conflict

Powerful thunderclaps from the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan rumbled as a dire greeting to the opening UN General Assembly session in New York. Winds from ongoing but unresolved humanitarian crises the world over from Sudan to Syria and Somalia swirled. And a nervous atmosphere of widening conflicts, some still yet to happen, settled over assembled delegates. Read More.

Disastrous: Assessing Joe Biden’s geostrategic legacy

President Joe Biden’s weak foreign policy decisions have “encouraged the advance of U.S. adversaries across the globe,” according to a devastating assessment on Sept. 23. Read More.

China seen as top foreign threat to 2024 U.S. election

While U.S. legacy media and Biden administration officials are caught in a Russia election interference time warp, former and independent intelligence analysts see China as the major external threat to the epochal 2024 U.S. showdown. Read More.

Putin warns: Biden-Harris has U.S. on brink of war

After weeks of warnings from former President Donald Trump that the Biden Administration has the world on the brink of nuclear war, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reportedly is set to announce that Ukraine has been given the green light to strike deep inside Russia using Western made Storm Shadow missiles. Read More.

Winds of war: Russia, China, Iran sense U.S. weakness

The world is entering a new more dangerous security phase; the winds of war which have been lashing parts of the planet for the past few years could well go to gale force and bring us to the verge of a global conflict. Though both the major land clashes in Ukraine and Gaza appear to be largely locked in bloody stalemate, these conflicts could easily escalate and spillover regionally. Read More.

China-Russia-N. Korea nuke alliance gets Biden's attention

It has been building before the eyes of most observers for over a decade, but only this past March did President Joe Biden sign a highly classified “Nuclear Employment Guidance” document that directs the Department of Defense to respond to “possible coordinated nuclear challenges from China, Russia and North Korea,” according to an Aug. 21 New York Times (NYT) article. Read More.

Taiwan president: Why has CCP not taken land ceded to Russia?

Instead of "liberating Taiwan" in the name of national territorial integrity, why has the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) not attempted to retake its lost territories that were seized by Russia, Taiwan's president asked. Read More.

Weak U.S. enables CCP to control South China Sea

China is on its way to securing control of the South China Sea, which would be an utter disaster for the democracies and not just for the obvious reasons. Read More.

Biden China legacy: Surrender in guise of ‘engagement’

With the rushed “coronation” of Vice President Kamala Harris as the new Democrat Party presidential candidate following Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, he is now effectively a Lame Duck president, so it is fair to begin to consider his legacy regarding U.S.-China relations. Read More.

How is communist China's commercial space sector doing?

An article in the June 2024 issue of the Chinese journal Aerospace China offers a review of China’s growing commercial space sector focusing on space launcher and mega satellite constellation makers, but it offers fewer insights into potential commercial manned space efforts. Read More.