Geopolitics

Showdowns loom in the new year as New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has been nominated to serve as United Nations Ambassador by President-elect Donald Trump. Read More.

Is the lamest of lame ducks intent on starting World War III in the two months he has left in office? Read More.

Following the election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United Stats, Hamas leadership says it wants an "immediate" end to its war with Israel. Read More.

Early on Oct. 31, North Korean time, dictator Kim Jong-Un directed the first test of the Hwasong-19, now the world’s largest mobile solid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Read More.

A judge in the Netherlands ruled on Oct. 16 that Bill Gates is one of several defendants who must face a lawsuit filed by seven individuals who were injured by the Covid shots. Read More.

The apparent dispatch of elite North Korean military units to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine appears at first surprising but actually is quite logical given the historic and comradely ties between Pyongyang and Moscow. After all, North Korea’ s isolated Kim Jong-Un regime has forged increasingly close ties with Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the cash-strapped North Koreans have shipped more than eight million 122mm and 152mm artillery shells to Russia in the past year. Read More.

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.

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.

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.

Communists murdered about 100 million people — all noncombatants and all innocent. Read More.

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.

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.

Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and potentates are converging in New York for the 79th annual General Assembly of the United Nations. As the 193 member states meet amid the pomp, splendor and promise of a renewed challenge to settle conflicts and solve humanitarian crises, which have stubbornly eluded diplomats over this past year of widening strife, there remain deep political divisions along historic, East/West, and emerging North/South geopolitical fault-lines. Read More.

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.

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.