In March, the House of Representatives passed a measure to ban the online app TikTok unless its owners found a new buyer. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) accused TikTok of being “an espionage tool of the Chinese Communist government,” though The Intercept reported that U.S. intelligence had produced “no evidence that...
Expiry of New START is set to trigger dangerous new nuclear arms race On February 5, the Trump administration allowed the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) to expire, leaving the U.S and Russia with no agreements for the regulation of nuclear weapons for the first time in more than...
The Justice Department’s China Initiative Was Established by the Trump Administration to Crackdown on Chinese Economic and Scientific Espionage However, its primary targets have been academics prosecuted for failing to properly disclose their connection to Chinese universities on grant forms and it has led to numerous miscarriages of justice On the...
Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war. In May 2022, Henry Kissinger gave a remarkable speech at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, where he urged the Biden administration to seek a peace agreement in Ukraine...
Millions of people around the world breathed a sigh of relief with the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 U.S. election and victory of the Biden-Harris ticket. Joe Biden’s victory speech exuded a feeling of optimism in its call for a new era of bipartisanship and decency in politics. However,...
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Bill Browder, who was convicted in absentia for tax evasion in Russia, has suspected links to British and/or American Intelligence After the death of Alexei Navalny in late February, The New York Times ran an article quoting from William F. Browder, “an American-born British financier who has campaigned against human-rights...
Australian Labor Party a pale shadow of what it was in the 1970s under Gough Whitlam—who was overthrown in a CIA-backed coup On May 21, Australians elected as their new prime minister Anthony Albanese of the Labor Party, who defeated conservative Scott Morrison. CNN reported that Australians had delivered a...
The days of unchallenged U.S./NATO dominance are over For some reason, in the aftermath of this month’s failed talks among the Russian, American and NATO representatives in Geneva, everybody is talking as though they believe Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is imminent. From the officials of the U.S. State Department, Pentagon...
The tiny pacific island nation of Kiribati, which was the scene of horrific carnage during the Pacific War, has emerged as a battleground of the new Cold War. Before October 25 elections, the U.S. appears to be using Taiwan to try and undermine President Taneti Maamau who has aligned Kiribati...
Relationship Can Be Rekindled Today, Even in These Darkest of Times There was a time in the intelligence and diplomatic communities of the United States, when “intelligence” required study of the history and culture of other nations, and their historical relationship with our own country. The current conflict between the...