In push to accelerate, protect AI applications, President Trump signs national-security memo

In push to accelerate, protect AI applications, President Trump signs national-security memo

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 12, 2026 Geostrategy-Direct, June 9, 2026 President Donald Trump on June 5 signed a national-security memorandum aimed at accelerating and securing advanced artificial intelligence (AI) applications for U.S. military and intelligence purposes. The National Security Presidential Memorandum “reflects a growing view inside the White House that U.S. security agencies are moving […]

Unexpected: The rising strategic attractiveness of nuclear North Korea

Unexpected: The rising strategic attractiveness of nuclear North Korea

Special to CosmicTribune.com, JUne 9, 2026 If China’s state news agency Xinhua is to be believed, and it should not, President Xi Jinping’s visit to resource-rich North Korea on June 8, 2026, is a much bigger event than the recent state visits to Beijing by U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Seoul-based […]

Remembering Tiananmen on June 4, 1989 and the young protesters in Hong Kong

Remembering Tiananmen on June 4, 1989 and the young protesters in Hong Kong

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 4, 2026 On June 4, 1989, communist Chinese military troops and tanks stormed Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, violently crushing a student-led pro-democracy movement. The armed assault resulted in thousands of deaths and injuries. Lee Faulkner noted in a post to LinkedIn: This is what Hong Kong used to look like on the […]

Is Christianity the only hope for ‘eternity’ of peace in Middle East?

Is Christianity the only hope for ‘eternity’ of peace in Middle East?

Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 3, 2026 [The latest developments in Iran and Israel call into question the region’s eye-for-an-eye theological consensus as Christians remain an endangered or marginalized minority in the nations that saw Christianity’s birth. Jesus Christ taught followers to “love your enemies,” Matthew 5:43-44.] Writing for Christianity Today in March, Russell Moore noted: […]

CCP’s cognitive war: Ten big lies about Trump-Xi summit

CCP’s cognitive war: Ten big lies about Trump-Xi summit

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 29, 2026 Taking note of the abundant analysis following the recent Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, Miles Yu, director of the China Center at the Hudson Institute had a modest suggestion: “Only clear-eyed realism, not summit theater, can preserve peace and freedom in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.” “Illusions do not preserve peace; […]

Caribbean sunset; CIA director to Havana in geopolitical melodrama

Caribbean sunset; CIA director to Havana in geopolitical melodrama

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 28, 2026 By John J. Metzler, May 26, 2026 Admittedly it looks a lot like a movie plot. A political thriller where the intelligence Director of the chief adversary state, comes into the nervous capital city and meets with regime leaders to tell them their days in power are numbered. Unless […]

The cognitive war and President Trump’s ‘Weaponization Fund’

The cognitive war and President Trump’s ‘Weaponization Fund’

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 26, 2026 The same Republican-led Senate that refuses to press for the SAVE America Act, which an overwhelming majority of Americans approve of, are now holding up funding of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reportedly over the Trump Administration’s establishment of the “Anti-weaponization Fund.” Angry Senate Republicans are among critics who […]

Missing now but not then: Spirit of sacrifice made this nation exceptional

Missing now but not then: Spirit of sacrifice made this nation exceptional

Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 25, 2026 By John McNabb The following Memorial Day reflection, was originally published on May 28, 2018. When I think about this day, I think about something of a rarity in our country today — sacrifice. America today is all about “me”. The politicians and bureaucrats, celebrities, social justice warriors, identity […]