Geopolitics

Sweden has not seen spike in new covid cases

As the number of coronavirus infections surges across Europe, Sweden has some of the lowest numbers of new cases and only 14 virus patients in intensive care. Read More.

Mossad chief: Mideast peace deals 'game changer'

The importance of the Abraham Accord, in which U.S. President Donald Trump brokered the normalization of relations between Israel and Arab states Bahrain and United Arab Emirates, can't be understated, the chief of Israel's Mossad said. Read More.

Media ignores Trump's historic Mideast peace deal

For the U.S. corporate media the historic Mideast peace deal brokered by President Donald Trump it was not even worth a question at the Wednesday White House press briefing. Read More.

Report: China began producing vaccine in February

China reportedly began producing a vaccine for coronavirus just over a month after Beijing first announced the existence of the virus that causes COVID-19. Read More.

Abraham Accord first peace deal with Arab states since '94

Leaders from Israel, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain gathered with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to sign the Abraham Accords, establishing full, normalized relations between Israel and the two Gulf Arab states. Read More.

Virologist: Research shows covid originated in Wuhan lab

A Chinese virologist said that she will publish research which proves the coronavirus was human-made in a Wuhan, China laboratory. Read More.

U.S. urged to confront S. Korea on ‘suppression of freedom’

The American public is largely unaware of the deteriorating freedoms in heretofore staunch U.S. ally South Korea. Read More.

Suga favorite to succeed Japan’s pro-Trump Prime Minister Abe

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is expected to succeed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has nurtured security alliances in Asia to counter China while boosting Japan's military under the post World War II pacifist constitution. Read More.

CCP outlet refuses to run U.S. ambassador's op-ed

The People's Daily, the main propaganda newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), refused to run an editorial written by U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad, the U.S. State Department said. Read More.

Trump nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in large part due to his brokering of a peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. Read More.

Iran targets citizen journalists for 'distorting reality'

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging the UN Human Rights Council to take measures to defend Iranian journalists and citizen journalists who are being "censored, threatened, detained arbitrarily, mistreated and sometimes tortured" for their journalistic activities. Read More.

Defector describes 'loveless' North Korean hell

North Koreans are not allowed to have friendships or express love. Everyone is only a "comrade." Citizens are required to reserve their devotion for the country's supreme leaders who are venerated not as authority figures but as gods. Read More.

CCP demands Tibetan Buddhists adapt to 'Chinese context'

Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping is seeking to destroy Tibet's unique national identity by demanding Buddhists comply with the Chinese Communist Party's political mandates, the leaders of Tibet's India-based government in exile said. Read More.

Biden's foreign policy adviser: 'Above the fray' or 'Deep Stater?'

An examination of the circles this Deep State apparatchik inhabits reveals not only his staunch globalist ties, but the decidedly radical leftist policy goals his elitist network is pursuing. Read More.

Rogue state web: Iran , China developing Internet system

An Iranian lawmaker says Teheran and Beijing will work together to create a national Internet for Iran as part of a 25-year partnership agreement they are discussing. Read More.