Special to CosmicTribune.com, Jund 19, 2026 At the candlelit closing dinner of the G7 summit at the palace of Versailles, world leaders reflected on the advantages of apocalyptic regimes not having access to weapons of mass destruction which raises the question: Which is worse, a potentially nuclear-armed Islamist leader longing for the end of the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 3, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While it appeared to be a significant setback, the May 28 spectacular explosion of Blue Origin’s New Glenn reusable space launch vehicle (SLV) may not result in a huge delay in the Moon Base building plans of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). On […]
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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 5, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the Trump Administration maneuvers to block the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) quest for hegemony on Earth — attacking its proxies Iran and Venezuela while arming Taiwan — in January 2026 is its becoming clear that the United States and China are also locked in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, December 15, 2025 Because the U.S. “has skin in the game” with citizens living in Guam and the Northern Marianas, America can be considered an Indo-Pacific nation, retired Army Gen. Charles Flynn said on Thursday. “We can’t forget about this part of the homeland,” Flynn said in an address to the Gold […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, November 5, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Oct. 30, 2025 the world was treated to a split-screen of the United States-China race back to the Moon in two press events: • A China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) press conference and then, released that same day, • An update on its […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 26, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In 2024 China exported about 1.3 million electric vehicles (EVs) or about 40 percent of the world market for EVs. One major Chinese EV manufacturer, Geely, via its subsidiary Geespace, is populating its GEESATCOM broadband-communication satellite constellation, that in an Aug. 10, 2025 press release […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 17, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China and Russia are pushing ahead with complimentary, perhaps competitive global space alliance structures that leverage their respective investments in proto-alliances, like the 2001 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the 2009 Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) organization. Though it began in 2021 as […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The second race to the Moon, this time between the United States and China, saw another step in China’s favor on Aug. 6, 2025, when a full-scale powered version of China’s manned Moon lander called Lanyue (for Embracing The Moon) reportedly achieved its first powered […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Robert Morton, August 6, 1978 [Forty-seven years before the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, a Tokyo-based correspondent visited the family and neighbors of former journalist Yuji Yokoyama and filed this report.] HIROSHIMA, Japan — Thirty-three years ago today, this city experienced hell as it had […]