Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct Gen. Zhang Youxia was purged from his lofty position on China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) because he disagreed with Communist Party chief Xi Jinping on the buildup of the nation’s armed forces by 2027, the deadline Xi set for the military to be ready to use force to […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 12, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher For over a decade SpaceX founder and leader Elon Musk has placed an emphatic corporate priority on developing the means — spaceships and associated habitation technology — to build permanent human settlements on Mars. As the 4-astronaut Artemis-II circumlunar mission prepares for its 10-day journey […]
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, January 29, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In the twenty years since its founding in June 2006, New Zealand-born space engineer and entrepreneur Sir Peter Beck has turned his Rocket Lab company into a world-class competitive and innovative space launch provider, meeting civil and military requirements for economical medium-lift capability. An American […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 22, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher With the potential to greatly increase the utility and value of building a permanent presence on the Moon, on Jan. 20, 2026 Chinese state media lit up with the news that Chinese scientists had discovered naturally occurring carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in lunar regolith samples returned […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 23, 2026 During his speech at the World Economic Forum on Wednesday, President Donald Trump hinted that prosecutions were forthcoming in the “rigged” 2020 election. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” the saying goes which leads to the question: What is it about smoky Georgia? Related: Drip, drip, drip: Fulton County now […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 18, 2026 President Donald Trump on Jan. 17, 2026, escalated his campaign to “acquire” Greenland on behalf of the national security of the United States and its allies. He put on notice Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Finland after reports that several NATO nations had […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Jan.4,2026, Chinese state media reported that a group of 28 Chinese astronauts had conducted a training program in which smaller groups of astronauts would spend six days and five nights training in underground caves in the Chongqing Municipality in Southwest China. The purpose was […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 15, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct John Ratcliffe’s contribution to restoring the CIA’s reputation in the Trump era can’t be understated. The agency, once described by President Donald Trump as the “disgraceful’ employer of “sick people” who spread fake news, is back in favor with the White House under an unlikely spymaster. As Director […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, January 12, 2026 In a Jan. 9 post to X, a Venezuelan security guard loyal to Nicolas Maduro gives a chilling account of how just 20 American soldiers with technologically advanced weapons took out hundreds of Venezuelan security forces and then launched what he described as a “sonic” weapon which knocked the […]
