NASA launches aggressive Moon launch program, giving Trump more leverage in China

NASA launches aggressive Moon launch program, giving Trump more leverage in China

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 26, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher At the conclusion of his opening for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) epic March 24 morning brief on its Moon program simply titled “Ignition,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman stated: “This is the moment where we should all start believing again. When ideas become […]

Unreported: The case for reparations from China, ‘handmaiden of Iran War’

Unreported: The case for reparations from China, ‘handmaiden of Iran War’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 20, 2026 [Excerpted from an analysis by Richard Fisher in the current edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com As of March 16, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs had not yet responded to Trump’s March 15 Hormuz Straits escort suggestion, telling the Financial Times, “China should help too because China gets 90% of its […]

China as ‘space power’ focuses Five Year Plan on ‘space economy’ and space war

China as ‘space power’ focuses Five Year Plan on ‘space economy’ and space war

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 19, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rolls out five-year plans that present national objectives, sometimes vague and much of it classified; The latest is CCP’s 15th Five Year Plan (FYP, 2026-2030) that has emerged from the annual “Two Sessions” (National People’s Political Consultative Conference and National […]

How the fortune cookie crumbled in 3 short years for CCP ambitions

How the fortune cookie crumbled in 3 short years for CCP ambitions

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 17, 2026 In 2023, during the Biden era, China’s Xi Jinping openly envisioned a future where, along with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and their allies North Korea and Iran, they would dominate the world with help from clients in Venezuela and Cuba. They were “at the height of their power projection,” wrote […]

Obama’s cancellation of Constellation program inspired proposed Chinese lunar site

Obama’s cancellation of Constellation program inspired proposed Chinese lunar site

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 12, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On April 15, 2010, President Barak Obama traveled to Kennedy Space Center to announce his cancellation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Constellation Moon program that was started in January 2004 by his predecessor, George W. Bush. In his speech Obama stated: “We’re […]

Gen. Caine: U.S. SPACECOM among ‘first movers’ in Iran War; New Artemis Moon schedule

Gen. Caine: U.S. SPACECOM among ‘first movers’ in Iran War; New Artemis Moon schedule

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 5, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Isaacman’s Feb. 27 press conference explaining adjustments in President Trump’s Artemis Moon program gave no hint of the war with Iran that started the next day, but in the struggle for global domination being waged by China […]

Iran War seen triggering ‘largest tectonic geopolitical shift since 1989’

Iran War seen triggering ‘largest tectonic geopolitical shift since 1989’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 3, 2026 By John J. Metzler, March 2, 2026 Darkness at Noon has shrouded Iran for nearly half a century. The Islamic Republic of Iran has tried, and somewhat successfully, to turn back the clock in the once secular and prosperous nation. It has since ruined the economy, disenfranchised women, supported […]

‘Commercial’ space companies press China’s dual use infrastructure export drive

‘Commercial’ space companies press China’s dual use infrastructure export drive

Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 25, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher To expand its strategic military reach on Earth and in space, China seeks to export space related infrastructure to advance bi-lateral space relationships, but at the same time seeks military benefits from its “commercial” space sector’s activities. Africa has been especially targeted by China for […]

Their moments in time: The life stories of Alysa Liu and her father

Their moments in time: The life stories of Alysa Liu and her father

Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 21, 2026 Alysa Liu won the gold in the women’s free skate final on Feb. 19, 2026, officially ending a what a Fox News report termed a “20-year medal drought for American women in the event and a 24-year drought for gold.” It was also a major comeback story for Liu, […]

Welcome to the year of the fire horse

Welcome to the year of the fire horse

Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 19, 2026 In Communist China, 2026 would normally have been the Year of the Horse. But, in the eyes of state media, this will not be a normal year for Xi Jin Ping and the nation currently coralled by his regime. China has declared “the Year of the Fire Horse.” Why? […]

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