On the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb attacks, the world stands in grave danger of nuclear warfare again breaking out—particularly in light of the pattern of Israeli aggression in the Middle East and the perpetuation of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In the U.S, all mechanisms of diplomacy...

King Abdullah II made a pact with the devil in exchange for more than a billion dollars in annual U.S. support that helps secure his family’s tyrannical rule In early August, Jordan’s King Abdullah II—who has ruled Jordan since 1999—announced his latest Cabinet reshuffle. Growing popular disaffection with his rule...

It has become a cliché that award ceremonies serve the award givers more than the laureates. Admittedly, there are many worthy laureates who genuinely care to make sure the prize recipients get merit Recognition, and who could make good use of research and development’s financing. Nonetheless, it is manifest that most...

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...

The CIA has been implicated in many of the murkiest incidents of the latter half of the 20th century. From the Kennedy assassination and Project MK-ULTRA, to what Wikipedia dubs the “alleged” Operation Mockingbird, a clandestine program which recruited prominent American journalists into a CIA propaganda network funded by...

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...