Real historians address popular narratives

Real historians address popular narratives

Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 20, 2025 Nov 6, 2024 Hoover Institution at Stanford University billed senior fellows Niall Ferguson, Victor Davis Hanson, and Andrew Roberts as among the most prestigious and popular historians in the world. They appeared together in a public forum for the first time last November. Among the topics they covered: The […]

A matter of strategy: America’s Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) gap with China

A matter of strategy: America’s Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) gap with China

Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During the Cold War there was the perceived “bomber gap” between the United States and the former Soviet Union, followed by a “missile gap.” Decades down the road in the current United States-China Cold War, the U.S. should be planning a response to a looming […]

‘3,000 years to get to this point’; Trump pushes vision of ‘golden age of the Middle East’

‘3,000 years to get to this point’; Trump pushes vision of ‘golden age of the Middle East’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 14, 2025 In a Middle East peace signing ceremony and speeches to the Israeli parliament and Arab leaders, President Donald Trump on Oct. 13, 2025, called on all sides to “put the old feuds and bitter hatreds behind us” and embrace the “golden age of the Middle East.” “It took us […]

Charlie Kirk hit by same kind of bullet that killed Martin Luther King, Jr.

Charlie Kirk hit by same kind of bullet that killed Martin Luther King, Jr.

Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 9, 2025 Both conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were killed by the same type of bullet, a .30-06. In both cases, the bullet did not exit the body, reports say. A 2019 article in the Journal of Vascular Surgery details attempts by doctors to […]

Moon-base race with China: Blue Origin and Apollo’s record are options as Starship delayed

Moon-base race with China: Blue Origin and Apollo’s record are options as Starship delayed

Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 8, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher What part of America’s “race” with China back to the Moon is most important? • That the U.S. demonstrate strong leadership of the democratic coalition of space faring nations by meeting its 2027 plans to return, beating China ‘s plan to get there before 2030? […]

Pakistan buys satellite constellation capable of tracking U.S. ICBMs; Why?

Pakistan buys satellite constellation capable of tracking U.S. ICBMs; Why?

Special to CosmicTribune.com, October 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Since the 1970s China has assisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapon and nuclear missile buildup that could soon include intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) — according to the former Biden Administration that sanctioned involved Pakistani companies in December 2024. A Pakistani ICBM capability makes little sense in relation […]

China’s space-based and earth-bound electric vehicle weapons threat

China’s space-based and earth-bound electric vehicle weapons threat

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 […]

More transparent U.S.-led Artemis could benefit from Russia, China space network rivalry

More transparent U.S.-led Artemis could benefit from Russia, China space network rivalry

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 […]

The race for asteroid Apophis and China’s plans for ‘Planetary Defense’

The race for asteroid Apophis and China’s plans for ‘Planetary Defense’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 10, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher There is now a race involving government funded programs and universities to reach the asteroid Apophis, a 375-meter diameter asteroid only discovered in 2004 but that will reach a nearest distance of 32,000 kilometers (20,000 miles) from Earth on April 13, 2029. But it is […]

Having shed tenets of Christianity, civilization is dying off, East and West

Having shed tenets of Christianity, civilization is dying off, East and West

Special to CosmicTribune.com, September 1, 2025 By Stephen Moore, August 29, 2025 Let’s start with a very simple truism: You can’t have prosperity without people. Human beings are the most valuable resource, because it is human ingenuity that creates, captures and cultivates all other resources. We as human beings are the custodians and protectors of […]