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Venezuela and Trump's Grand Strategy
Rod Martin & Frank Gaffney discuss the unfolding global ramifications of Trump's remarkable Venezuela operation: Iran, Cuba, Greenland, China, Russia…
Jan 12
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Astropolitics: China's Plan to Lock America Out of the Future.
Rod Martin & Frank Gaffney on China's plan to extend its South China Sea strategy offworld, creating a "First Island Chain" around America and…
Dec 29, 2025
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Will China Turn the Moon Into Its Next South China Sea?
Beijing’s playbook for sovereignty is as bold as it is simple: claim big, build fast, dare the world to stop it. Now it means to take that strategy…
Dec 23, 2025
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Thanksgiving and Puritan Geopolitics in the Americas
Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay and the little-known colony of Providence Island in the Caribbean were part of a broader Puritan geopolitical strategy to…
Nov 28, 2025
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Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
Remembering how the Iroquois treated missionary Isaac Jogues and his companions.
Oct 13, 2025
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Christopher Columbus and the Birth of the Modern World
Far from the monster of Marxist myth, Columbus was a Christian visionary whose courage, faith, and genius ended the Middle Ages and made the modern…
Oct 13, 2025
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Earth-to-Earth Starship: How SpaceX Is About to Revolutionize Travel and Shrink the World
Starship will transform not just Space, but Earth, in exactly the same way that airliners and automobiles changed a world of steamships, trains, and…
May 29, 2025
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This Memorial Day, Better a Shield Than a Sword
Our heroes and their descendants deserve more than just our remembrance. Golden Dome is a beginning.
May 26, 2025
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The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
From 1893, the single most influential essay by an American historian tells us why America is exceptional, why it has changed the whole world, and…
May 17, 2025
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The Geopolitics of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
The intrepid explorers set out on this date, more than two centuries ago. Few moderns appreciate the magnitude of that endeavor.
May 14, 2025
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Futurism and Traditionalism
In looking to the future, do we also need to look to the past?
Apr 12, 2025
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Peter Hague
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The Cautionary Tale of Zheng He
China should have discovered Europe, not the other way around. But it didn't. It's still paying a 600-year price for that mistake.
Dec 3, 2024
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