Special to CosmicTribune.com, Nov. 14, 2025 By John J. Metzler, November 13, 2025 On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall collapsed. On a very ordinary night thousands of East Germans started crossing the dividing barrier between the communist East and capitalist West Berlin after the East German regime had suddenly opened tightly controlled border crossings. […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Nov. 4, 2025 began a heady day in space for the six Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong Space Station, having consumed the first ever “air fried” meal in space of chicken wings. This was followed by the usual propaganda photos of Shenzhou-20 crew (Commander Chen […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher She had only been Japan’s Prime Minister for 18 days before China’s Consul General in Osaka would threaten her with decapitation, but since her election victory as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Oct. 4, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has been subject to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 7, 2025 Zohran Mamdani is not a rags to riches story. He did not come out of nowhere. He’s not the 2025 version of the 1969 New York Mets. There is a definite “deliberate design” behind Mamdani’s rise to mayor-elect of the U.S.’s largest city. The socialist mayor-elect of New York […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 31, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Amid a major purge of top military leaders, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has scaled back military drills this year in what is seen as a campaign to garner greater political loyalty, according to a briefing given to U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The loyalty “rectification” effort […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Combat zones where United States and Chinese military forces are regularly “eyeball to eyeball” include the Taiwan Strait, the East China Sea in defense of Japan, the South China Sea in defense of the Philippines, and increasingly in space, where the U.S. and China are […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During the Cold War there was the perceived “bomber gap” between the United States and the former Soviet Union, followed by a “missile gap.” Decades down the road in the current United States-China Cold War, the U.S. should be planning a response to a looming […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 14, 2025 In a Middle East peace signing ceremony and speeches to the Israeli parliament and Arab leaders, President Donald Trump on Oct. 13, 2025, called on all sides to “put the old feuds and bitter hatreds behind us” and embrace the “golden age of the Middle East.” “It took us […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the 1970s China has assisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapon and nuclear missile buildup that could soon include intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) — according to the former Biden Administration that sanctioned involved Pakistani companies in December 2024. A Pakistani ICBM capability makes little sense in relation […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 22, 2025 Over 100,000 people packed State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona on Sunday for the memorial service honoring conservative youth organizer Charlie Kirk, and many millions more were in overflow areas and watching online worldwide. But the scale of the occasion went far beyond an “old time revival” cited by […]
