Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher It has been a week of momentous space news for the United States, with the March 2 landing of the Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost unmanned Moon lander, the March 6 failure of the second Intuitive Machines unmanned moon lander, and the March 6 spectacular failure […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 4, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Feb. 28 in Islamabad, Pakistan and China signed an agreement for China to begin assisting Pakistan with the selection and training of Pakistani astronauts to visit China’s manned space station. Treated with fanfare by the state media in both countries, the agreement, witnessed by […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, March 5, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct About 600 million people in China are living on an estimated $5 per day. Those people likely suspect but have little credible information about the extreme wealth of top communist party leaders, notably Xi Jinping. That could change with the release of a long-overdue U.S. intelligence report on […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 26, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration and new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Jared Issacman review and reassess the Artemis Moon Program and determine the best way to pursue President Donald Trump’s additional priority to put Americans on Mars, it is also important to keep […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A December 2024 discovery of a new large asteroid heading our way — even though it has a 99 percent chance of missing the Earth — is nevertheless providing an excuse for China to assemble a “Planetary Defense Force” that could justify China’s building of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 oath to “…plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars” has not gone unnoticed in Russia — and very likely also in China. On Feb. 7 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin touted Russia’s longstanding Mars ambitions even though his space […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 3, 2025 The following documentary about still unanswered questions on the origins and possible motivations of the Covid pandemic is more relevant today than ever. Originally broadcast on Sept. 27, 2021, it includes interviews with Donald Trump, John Ratcliffe, Mike Pompeo, Miles Yu and intelligence analysts and focuses on disturbing reports […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 5, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Securing and defending American access to both the Moon and Mars are crucial to the future security of the United States and its democratic allies. Even though during his first term, Trump revived the U.S. manned Moon program in his Executive Order of Dec. 11, […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct New CIA Director John Ratcliffe bluntly criticized the intelligence agency’s penchant the last four years for staying on the “sidelines” during major crises such as the Covid pandemic. “One of the things that I’ve talked about a lot is addressing the threat from China on a number of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 29, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On the way toward fulfilling a campaign promise and beginning a shift of the global strategic balance of power back toward the United States — to include putting defensive U.S. weapons in space — on Jan. 27 President Donald J. Trump signed his executive order […]
