Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 23, 2023 COSMIC VIEW Today’s headline: ‘India is on the Moon’: Success following Russia’s crash landing puts pressure on China Is India’s space vehicle really on the moon and did live Americans really shuffle through lunar dust with their boots? Real journalists are obliged to independently verify information they publish. How […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 22, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher On Aug. 19, Russia’s Luna-25 unmanned Moon exploration vehicle crashed into the Moon and was destroyed, dashing what was to be the first element of the China-Russia International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), raising the stakes for China’s unmanned Moon probes to begin to populate the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 17, 2023 Commentary by Joe Schaeffer Perhaps it’s not a coincidence given the close ties President Joe Biden, Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and numerous other leading figures of the ruling U.S. political establishment have to China. Or perhaps it’s simply a matter of an emerging Western-based authoritarian monolith mimicking the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 16, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Russian dictator Vladimir Putin needs to produce some good news for the Russian people, at least to offer some contrast with his disastrous war against Ukraine that has isolated Russia from most of the civilized world. Putin’s war has resulted in painful economic embargoes with […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 8, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The United States plans its manned return to the Moon, in 2025 or 2026, to be followed by China’s astronauts in 2029. One key to their respective abilities to build lunar facilities as the basis for dominating choice strategic locations on the Moon will be […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 3, 2023, 2023 On one of his final broadcasts, conservative radio legend Rush Limbaugh warned that the Democrat regime in the D.C. Swamp would move to indict former President Donald Trump to stop him from a 2024 election victory and a return to the White House. On one of Rush’s final […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher To its credit, the Biden Administration is using space diplomacy on Earth to upset China’s plans for global and space hegemony. On July 27, as Chinese Politburo Member Li Hongzhong was celebrating China’s proliferation of nuclear weapons to North Korea as a star guest in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 19, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher July 18, 2023 Since 2009 China has been Africa’s largest trading partner. All but one of Africa’s 54 states are in the China-led Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) formed in 2000 and over 50 African countries joined the 2019 and 2022 China-led China-Africa Peace and […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 28, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since India its gained independence from Britain’s colonial rule in 1947, American leaders have been trying to convince the leaders of the world’s largest democracy to join in longstanding efforts to advance freedom, or to even combat its dire enemies. But on Earth as in […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 21, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China is advancing two architectures it could employ to increase its control of the Moon. ILRSCO First, China is announcing early members of its International Lunar Research Station Cooperation Organization (ILRSCO). It was first announced in April at a conference in Hefei of the China […]