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 […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While it could still be transferred to and operated by a consortium of “private” companies, it appears that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to end its operation of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030, and to thereafter begin operations to deorbit […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 22, 2025 What is happening in the battle for AI’s soul? In the latest “Try That in a Small Town Podcast”, Larry Ward, a digital marketing pioneer with three decades of experience, pulls back the curtain on Silicon Valley’s longstanding bias against conservative voices and the existential threat posed by unregulated […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, July 8, 2025 Both Grok, Elon Musk’s X platform AI, and the AI-powered Perplexity search engine blamed President Donald Trump for the devastating flooding in Texas. When ChatGPT was asked about rioting in Los Angeles, it blamed Trump, claiming his deployment of National Guard troops and Marines to assist Immigration and Customs […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 24, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In another setback to the United States Moon and Mars programs, on June 18 at the SpaceX “Starbase” in Boca China, Texas, the 36th SpaceX Starship for what would have been its 10th launch attempt, experienced a launch-pad Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) or massive explosion […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, June 4, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While advanced Americans space companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin may now be leading the world in the development of advanced reusable heavy-lift space launch vehicles (SLVs), China is investing heavily in the development of similar reusable heavy lift SLVs, meaning […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 28, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher China’s first asteroid sample return mission on May 29, 2024, is set to begin a much larger program of asteroid exploration-exploitation to assist military-space ambitions. The program would also assist longer range Chinese ambitions to create outposts into the Solar System. On May 29, from […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 21, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Chinese Propaganda Axiom: Always accuse your enemy of the offensive behavior or even crimes that you are committing while refusing to talk/negotiate with your enemy. In 2006 the United States accused China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of testing ground-based laser weapons against U.S. satellites, for […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 14, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher The United States faces major technical and political challenges in its race with China and Russia to create sustainable manned bases on the Moon. However, it is also assuring that this is not just a geostrategic competition — as important as it is that the […]
Special to CosmicTribune.com, May 7, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Thirty years ago in early 1995, Chinese paramilitary naval forces began a crucial phase in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) objective to impose its control over the South China Sea, clearing the way to secure global hegemony and also, hegemony in space. In those early […]
