Rare survivors recalled Hiroshima’s ‘day of hell’

Rare survivors recalled Hiroshima’s ‘day of hell’

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 […]

Despite nuclear threats, Russian state media promote space cooperation with U.S.

Despite nuclear threats, Russian state media promote space cooperation with U.S.

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The roller coaster of United States-Russia relations hit a dangerous curve this past week, making curious Russia’s simultaneous public gesture that it desires continued space cooperation with the Washington. President Donald Trump campaigned promising to seek an early end to Russia’s horrific war against Ukraine […]

The CCP’s obsession with Taiwan: A ‘sacred ideological mission

The CCP’s obsession with Taiwan: A ‘sacred ideological mission

Special to CosmicTribune.com, August 6, 2025 Why does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regard the conquest of Taiwan as essential to its quest for global dominance? That the regime sees the island nation and democracy as an existential threat is poorly understood outside of the mainland and China-focused think tanks, an analyst wrote. “Although Western […]

50 years after Apollo-Soyuz, the myth of Peace-In-Space endures on Earth

50 years after Apollo-Soyuz, the myth of Peace-In-Space endures on Earth

Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 23, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The myth that Peace-in-Space can lead to, or even influence the possibility of Peace-on-Earth rests in part on the historically brief but emotionally enduring impact of the first international mission in space, the July 17, 1975 docking of the United States-Soviet Union Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. […]

Iran regime signals endorsement of ‘Blood Covenant’ bounty on President Trump’s head

Iran regime signals endorsement of ‘Blood Covenant’ bounty on President Trump’s head

Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 16, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Two death warrants against President Donald Trump issued within Iran, and broadcast on state media have morphed into a “Blood Covenant” in which more than $40 million has reportedly been raised as a bounty on the U.S. president. Iran’s senior religious clerics made it clear that “every cell […]

The ‘ghost’, Epstein and the president who finally ‘pulled the plug’

The ‘ghost’, Epstein and the president who finally ‘pulled the plug’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 15, 2025 It is President Donald Trump, not Attorney General Pam Bondi, who wants to “move on” from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as made clear by his recent statements following the press release from the Department of Justice. Is he continuing a coverup apparently favored by the Democrat Party to protect […]

China watcher: ‘Regime change’ is only strategic response to CCP existential threat

China watcher: ‘Regime change’ is only strategic response to CCP existential threat

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 26, 2025 Is “regime change” unacceptable terminology? It “has been demonized in popular discourse, slandered as reckless adventurism or imperialist hubris,” wrote  Miles Yu, director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute. However, “when America confronts autocratic regimes that threaten the very fabric of its national existence, regime change is a […]

Iran’s overlooked role: Mideast proxy of the Chinese Communist Party

Iran’s overlooked role: Mideast proxy of the Chinese Communist Party

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct, June 18, 2025 By Richard Fisher Israel’s “Rising Lion” strike campaign that began on the night of June 12, bombing hundreds of nuclear related and military targets in Iran, and then special operations that decapitated the leadership of the most militant Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was not just a […]

China’s high priority cognitive warfare shifts focus from kinetic to human brain

China’s high priority cognitive warfare shifts focus from kinetic to human brain

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 12, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct People’s Liberation Army (PLA) researchers’ approach to cognitive warfare is in tune with ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s belief that subduing the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. They are developing advanced warfare capabilities that combine high-technology hardware with biotechnology research focused on the human […]

SpaceX, and therefore Elon Musk, are key to U.S. space success

SpaceX, and therefore Elon Musk, are key to U.S. space success

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 11, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher As the colorful political alliance of President Donald Trump and the world’s wealthiest man Elon Musk was historic in its scope and had a clear impact on the early space policy of Trump’s second term, their first week of June 2025 titanic political bust-up must […]