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FPI / January 30, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct A promising critical step to re-align the Northeast Asia’s power structure has collapsed. On Jan. 22, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan and President Vladimir Putin of Russia held a summit in Moscow to try yet again to move a critical step forward toward the signing of a peace […]

FPI / February 19, 2019 Following are excerpts from the White House transcript of remarks by President Donald Trump at the Florida International University Ocean Bank Convocation Center in Miami on Feb. 18, 2019. Hello, Miami. I am thrilled to be back in the state I love with so many proud, freedom-loving patriots. We’re here […]

FPI / February 22, 2019 As he makes the rounds to promote his book “The Threat”, disgraced ex-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe is allowed to spew his dark vision of the Trump presidency while on friendly turf. McCabe has been allowed to give his assessment of the Russia investigation without ever having to comment on […]

FPI / February 22, 2019 Bookies say that President Donald Trump is the heavy favorite to win the 2020 presidential election. Trump is a 3-2 favorite, according to Dave Mason of BetOnline.ag. His closest rival is Sen. Kamala Harris at 10-1. The entry of Sen. Bernie Sanders this week has not changed the odds, Mason […]

FPI  / February 22, 2019 The threat of terrorism is increasing across Europe as hundreds of jihadists return from Mideast battlefields following the destruction of the Islamic State (ISIS) caliphate, Hungary’s foreign minister warned. “This must be stopped,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Szijjarto cited the “alarming” arrest of former ISIS members in Bosnia-Herzegovina and […]

FPI / February 22, 2019 U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard has voiced concern over Hizbullah’s increasing power in Lebanese parliament and in the new cabinet of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. In a meeting with Hariri on Feb. 19, the U.S. ambassador said she was “very frank with the prime minister about U.S. concern over […]

FPI / February 22, 2019 The U.S. will maintain a “small peacekeeping group” of 200 troops in Syria following the withdrawal of most its forces from the country, the White House said on Feb. 21. U.S.-backed forces on Feb. 22 began to evacuate civilians from Baghouz, the last enclave of the Islamic State (ISIS) in […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously said of Obamacare that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” Democrats don’t even have to read the final report of special counsel Robert Mueller – they intend to proceed pumping taxpayers’ money into myriad investigations […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 The Napa County Sheriff Department on Feb. 20 released body camera footage of the fatal shooting of an armed suspect by one the department’s deputies. The body-cam footage is from a Feb. 17 incident in which Deputy Riley Jarecki checked on a parked car in the southern part of the […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 Former CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan named media leftists who she said were likely to target her after she slammed the media as “mostly liberal.” During a recent Breitbart podcast with host and retired Navy SEAL Mike Ritland, Logan said: “The media everywhere is mostly liberal. But in this […]

FPI / February 21, 2019 Reports say that CNN has hired a former spokesperson for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sarah Isgur Flores has been added to the team that will direct the network’s coverage of the 2020 election. The response was prompt. Melanie R. Newman, Justice Department spokeswoman under Loretta Lynch during the Obama […]

FPI  / February 21, 2019 U.S. national security adviser John Bolton is reportedly headed to Seoul ahead of next week’s summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Citing two Trump administration officials, CNN reported on Feb. 21 that Bolton will travel to South Korea this week for “a round of consultations.” […]

Commentary by FPI  / February 21, 2019 In his “Theses on Feuerbach,” the young Karl Marx proclaimed, “[P]hilosophers have only hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it” (emphasis in original). The mission statements of several preeminent colleges and universities in the United States follow suit, an analyst noted. “Consider […]

FPI / February 20, 2019 The first “coup” in U.S. history in which government bureaucrats sought to overturn an election and to remove a sitting U.S. president has failed, a columnist noted. “Not thugs in sunglasses and epaulettes, not oligarchs in private jets, not shaggy would-be Marxists, but sanctimonious arrogant bureaucrats in suits and ties […]

FPI  / February 20, 2019 The Green New Deal proposed by Democrats calls for the entire United States to be powered by clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources within 10 years. Cities and states which actually have turned to reliance on renewables, tried to institute carbon taxes, or envisioned massive high-speed rail networks often find […]