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FPI / March 3, 2019 While much has changed in the region since his final trip to Asia in 1993, former President Richard Nixon’s advice on North Korea may be instructive amid President Donald Trump’s current efforts, a columnist noted. Nixon’s “primary regional concern at the time was, of course, China, around which everything else […]

FPI / March 1, 2019 “Once you give someone something it’s hard to take it away … then you get Venezuela,” Rick Harrison, star of the History Channel hit show “Pawn Stars”, told the CPAC conference on Feb. 28 in a speech on the “stupidity of socialism.” “The majority [of] people in this room know […]

FPI / February 28, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Vietnam with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un collapsed after Kim had demanded sanctions relief in return for shutting down some, but not all, of the North’s nuclear sites. “Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety and we couldn’t do that,” Trump […]

FPI  / March 1, 2019 The U.S. electric grid is an easy target for nuclear and solar attacks, panelists at a recent Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Operations Committee roundtable discussion said. “We are still incredibly vulnerable,” committee chair Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin Republican, said during the Feb. 27 discussion on protecting the U.S. power […]

FPI / February 28, 2019 Pakistan has an opportunity to build relations with a willing Israel to counter India, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said. “There is a need to break the alliance between India and Israel, and Pakistan could do it very easily,” Musharraf said at a recent news conference, according to Karachi-based newspaper […]

FPI / February 27, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher On Feb. 23, Japanese Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) fighters scrambled to intercept a People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) Shaanxi Y-9JZ electronic intelligence (ELINT) aircraft flying over the Tsushima Strait. Thus started a new year of JASDF intercepts of Chinese military aircraft. There were 345 […]

FPI  / February 27, 2019 Several Senate Democrats, 2020 presidential candidates among them, tweeted in celebration after they defeated a bill which would have compelled doctors to provide babies who survive attempted late-term abortions medical care equal to that which would be given to any infant. Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse’s Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection […]

FPI / February 27, 2019 The Obama administration Department of Justice ensured that Hillary Clinton would not be charged for mishandling classified information on her private email server by setting an “unusually high threshold” for prosecution, a report said. In order for Clinton to be prosecuted, the DOJ under then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch “required the […]

FPI / February 27, 2019 While President Donald Trump was focused on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, U.S. corporate media put the spotlight on Washington, where a man who had lied to Congress was again testifying to Congress. Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s testimony […]

FPI / February 27, 2019 The United States is ready to help North Korea reach its economic potential, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 27 as he met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, Vietnam. “I think that your country has tremendous economic potential, unbelievable, unlimited,” Trump said. “And I think that you […]

FPI / February 26, 2019 A clandestine group which says its mission is to assist North Korean defectors said it would issue an “important” announcement this week, a report said. Cheollima Civil Defense, which is believed to have rescued the son of the late Kim Jong-Nam from North Korea’s assassination squads, is set to make […]

FPI / February 26, 2019 India’s government said its fighter jets destroyed a major terrorist camp in Pakistan on Feb. 26. More than 300 people were reportedly killed in the strike on jihadist group Jaish-e-Mohammed’s camp in Balakot, Pakistan. India had not carried out an airstrike in Pakistani territory since the Indo-Pakistan war over Bangladesh […]

FPI / February 26, 2019 A new report counters the Green New Deal’s claim that the U.S. must move quickly to make all of its energy carbon-free or face environmental catastrophe. A report by the CO2 Coalition of scientists said that civilization should take advantage of increased CO2 levels by growing plants and food that […]

FPI / February 26, 2019 After a 65-hour trek across China on his green, bulletproof train, North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un arrived at Dong Dang Railway Station at the Vietnam-China border at around 8:10 a.m. on Feb. 26. Accustomed to complete control of public information back home where the state media dominate, there was excitement […]

FPI / February 25, 2019 By Grace Vuoto Another American institution is in peril: The Oscars. That’s like reporting that apple pie no longer sells well in our supermarkets. How can such a signature American event, watched by millions of viewers at home and abroad, now be so lackluster? This year’s Academy Awards broadcast was […]