Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 25, 2025 If the Trump train is changing the game in Washington, D.C., it has upended a decades-long marriage of convenience with many nations in western Europe. “The United States-Europe relationship must fundamentally change if it is to endure,” Henry Olsen wrote in a Feb. 17 analysis for the Brussels Signal […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 24, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23 ■ Have you ever seen Canopus, the second-brightest star after Sirius? It lies almost due south of Sirius, by 36°. That’s far enough south that it never appears above your horizon unless you’re below latitude 37° N (southern Virginia, southern Missouri, central California). […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 19, 2025 Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a “dictator” who played Joe Biden “like a fiddle” and talked him into sending $350 billion to Ukraine for a war “that could not be won,” President Donald Trump said on Wednesday. This message was not in synch with the formerly dominant political-media narrative […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 19, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A December 2024 discovery of a new large asteroid heading our way — even though it has a 99 percent chance of missing the Earth — is nevertheless providing an excuse for China to assemble a “Planetary Defense Force” that could justify China’s building of […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 17, 2025 WORDS OF LIFE Matthew 28 16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 16, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16 ■ The waning gibbous Moon rises around 10 p.m. tonight, with Spica following it up just 2° or 3° below it (for North America). The Moon will draw closer to Spica through the night, to pass only about 1° under it around dawn […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Analysis by Lt.-Gen. (rtd.) Lazaros Kampouridis, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Bureau Chief, Eastern Mediterranean The dismissal by early February 2025 of five young Turkish second lieutenants and three senior officers of the Military Academy continues to reverberate and reinforce trends within the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF), highlighting the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 13, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 oath to “…plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars” has not gone unnoticed in Russia — and very likely also in China. On Feb. 7 Russian dictator Vladimir Putin touted Russia’s longstanding Mars ambitions even though his space […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 10, 2025 The clock for presidential terms getting off to a good start has in the past been set at 100 days. President Donald Trump set off the alarm in just 100 hours. And in the process he has upended the real power in the “Swamp” which is what some call […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, February 10, 2025 Excerpts from weekly Sky&Telescope report. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10 ■ After dinnertime Sirius the Dog Star blazes in the southeast, the brightest star of Canis Major. Look below Orion. Every February, the Moon is full or nearly so when it crosses Gemini. This February Mars greets it there. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 ■ Full Moon […]
