Geopolitics

Intelligence alerted U.S. forces of imminent missile attack

U.S. intelligence services exposed Iran’s plan to retaliate for the killing of Qasem Soleimani and alerted the White House hours before Iran fired over a dozen missiles at targets in Iraq, reports say. Read More.

Ukrainian airliner goes down; Stressed Iran won’t release black box

Iran is refusing to hand over the black boxes from a Ukrainian passenger jet which crashed minutes after takeoff from Teheran on Tuesday. Read More.

Norwegian library defies China on Falun Gong book

Citing the country’s free speech rights, a library in Norway is refusing to give in to communist China’s demands to remove a book that is censored in China, a report said. Read More.

President 'a spy': Seoul accused of bowing to China, North Korea

As critics continue to protest what they say is a major power grab and threat to national sovereignty by the leftist South Korean government, citizens have even resorted to calling an emergency espionage hotline to report President Moon Jae-In as a spy, a report said. Read More.

Personal: Iran official posts link listing Trump properties

After Iran vowed retaliation for the U.S. drone strike which killed its top military commander, an Iranian official linked to an article which lists President Donald Trump’s properties, including the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida which the president has referred to as the “Southern White House.” Read More.

2020 defense bill finally puts EMP on the U.S. strategic grid

The recently-passed 2020 National Defense Authorization Act includes President Donald Trump’s executive order to assess the risks of a man-made or natural electromagnetic pulse (EMP) hit on the United States. Read More.

In review: Multinationals' stunning radicalism

It's frankly been nothing short of stunning to follow the thousands of threads available and track just how strongly committed well known corporate brands are to some of the most destructive agendas threatening America today. Read More.

President puts Congress, Iran on notice

The United States will respond with “major retaliation” should Iran attack U.S. interests in the wake of the killing of the regime's top strategist and terror chief Qasem Soleimani, President Donald Trump said. Read More.

Kim Jong-Un lowers profile after Soleimani strike

In the wake of the U.S. killing of Iranian terrorist chief Qasem Soleimani, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un may take a page from his father’s playbook and disappear from the public eye out of fear of a possible assassination attempt, analysts say. Read More.

GREATEST HITS: ‘They don’t even try’: Hungary’s border ‘success’

Skeptics who believe a border wall will not stop illegals from entering the United States may want to look at what's happening in Hungary. Read More.

Iranians on social media challenge 'mourning period'

Iranian social media users have expressed mixed reactions to the killing of Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, in a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on January 3. Read More.

U.S. strike takes out Iran’s strategic mastermind

Qasem Soleimani, one of Iran’s top military commanders who U.S. officials say was responsible for the killing of hundreds of American service members and wounding of thousands more, was killed in a Jan. 2 airstrike ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More.

NSC right-sized after ‘coup attempt’ by Obama holdovers

The Trump administration is significantly downsizing the White House National Security Council not only to improve efficiency but, analysts say, to rid the NSC of Obama-era holdovers suspected of leaking President Donald Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders. Read More.

U.S. struck pro-Iran forces; Japan sends warships to Gulf

The United States will continue to confront Iran and its proxies for its attacks on American forces in the Middle East, Trump administration officials warned. Read More.

Pro-Iran leader of U.S. embassy raid met Obama at White House

Several pro-Iranian faction leaders were among those leading the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Dec. 31. Read More.