By: Kinling Lo  – scmp.com – May 16, 2019 The trade talks between China and the United States collapsed because Beijing removed details outlining the obligations it was required to meet as part of reaching a deal to end the trade war, according to a former senior US official. Susan Thornton, former acting assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific...

By: Kim Hjelmgaard – usatoday.com – May 15, 2019 The U.S. military put its forces in Iraq on high alert, and the State Department ordered all nonemergency employees Wednesday to leave the country immediately amid escalating tensions with Iran. Some U.S. allies have expressed skepticism about the Trump administration’s claims that Iran poses a growing threat. Navy Capt. Bill Urban, a spokesman at the U.S. military’s Central Command, said...

By: Jacqueline Thomsen – thehill.com – January 29, 2019 U.S. intelligence leaders said Tuesday they believe China currently poses the most dangerous and complex counterintelligence threat to the nation. “As I look at the landscape today and over the course of my career … the Chinese counterintelligence threat is more deep, more diverse, more vexing, more challenging, more comprehensive and...

By: James Stavridis – bloomberg.com – February 21, 2019 A Defense Department report warns that China’s military buildup is reaching the point where it can attempt to “impose its will on the region and beyond.” Visiting recently with senior officials from two U.S. allies in the region, Japan and Singapore, gave me a visceral feeling of how things look on the ground...

By: Lingling Wei in Beijing & Bob Davis – wsj.com – May 9, 2019 The new hard line taken by China in trade talks—surprising the White House and threatening to derail negotiations—came after Beijing interpreted recent statements and actions by President Trump as a sign the U.S. was ready to make concessions, said people familiar with the thinking of the Chinese side. High-level negotiations...

By: Louis Casiano, Stephen Sorace, Lucia I. Suarez Sang – foxnews.com – April 21, 2019 A pair holding U.S. and British nationalities were among the 11 foreigners killed after a series of explosions struck three churches and three luxury hotels in and just outside of Sri Lanka’s capital Easter Sunday, leaving at least 207 people dead and 450 others injured, officials said....

By: Staff – orlandosentinel.com – April 18, 2019 The report on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is available to the public. To see the 448-page report in pdf format click here or go to https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf The partially redacted version of the report prepared by special counsel Robert Mueller was released today by Attorney General William Barr....

By Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – April 13, 2019 Prior to the publication of the stolen Democratic-party emails and internal documents, Julian Assange and WikiLeaks exhorted Russian government hackers to send them “new material.” That is what we are told by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Russian intelligence officers. (I won’t offend anyone by calling them “spies” — after...

By: Debbie D’Souza – prageru.com/video – Aug 28, 2017 Venezuela is falling apart. Its economy? Ruined. Its people? Hungry. Its government? Corrupt. What happened? In a word, socialism. Debbie D’Souza, a native Venezuelan and political activist, explains. To see this video, click read more. Source: How’s Socialism Doing in Venezuela? | PragerU

By: Lou Weiss – wsj.com – March 21, 2019 Anti-Semites on the hard right and the hard left love to decry the power of the “Jewish lobby.” In one sense they’re right. Israel does exert a profound pull on the American soul. The two nations share deep commonalities, interests and profound respect. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or Aipac, gains its...