Beneath the aircraft-carrier ceremony celebrating a “new golden age” in U.S.-Japan relations, ongoing toxic discharges from the Yokosuka naval base reveal a grimmer alliance—one built on secrecy, contamination and a surrender of environmental sovereignty. When President Donald Trump strode onto the flight deck of the USS George Washington at Yokosuka,...

At the final Cabinet meeting of 2025, Donald Trump said that the strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean would continue, and that “We're going to start doing those strikes on land, too”—signaling that a ground invasion of Venezuela and possibly other countries may be imminent...

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has appointed a big-time China hawk to its Board of Directors On November 4, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—a CIA offshoot that finances dissident media and political organizations in countries targeted by the U.S. for regime change—announced the appointment of John...

Some aspects of life are so well known that they are accepted as a given. One of those commonly accepted facts of life is corporate leadership.   Corporate leaders instruct their teams of managers to create a specific atmosphere at the workplace, and this can influence the attitudes of all employees within the company; from...

Shifting Power and Strategic Autonomy In global politics, perception shapes power, but China’s current strategy suggests more than perception management. Its refusal to yield to U.S. tariff pressure marks a deliberate assertion of strategic autonomy. When Washington initiated steep tariffs under the Trump administration, many countries...

One of the ugly features of the U.S. Army genocide directed against Native Americans in the 19th century was the systematic slaughter of the buffalo. Native Americans drew their livelihood from the buffalo by hunting them and using their skins for clothes and other life necessities. They worshipped them in spiritual...

Newly declassified files show President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was monitored for years by James Angleton, the CIA’s infamous veteran counterintelligence chief, right up until the President’s death. In this context, freshly released FBI documents indicating Oswald was removed from Bureau...

On November 20th, a group of six Democratic Senators and Representatives released a video addressing American servicemembers, reminding them that they can and must refuse illegal orders that are given to them...

David Harold Byrd was the Texas oil millionaire who owned the building on Dealey Plaza rented by the Texas School Book Depository—the building that became notorious on November 22, 1963. In all the investigation and speculation about how the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, happened to get a job...

Don Reynolds is a name forgotten to history, though he appears to hold a key to understanding who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On November 22, 1963, the morning that Kennedy was killed, Reynolds was testifying in a closed-door session of the Senate Rules Committee about a...