Subjects Archives: Strategy

February 4, 2025 marked the thirty-third anniversary of the attempted seizure of power by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.

In a globalized world the innovation ability of a country can be measured by the number of global patents it files.

Student suspensions, faculty purges and an all-encompassing surveillance state have become the norm as Columbia falls silent after last spring’s anti-genocide protests.

With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.

The people are living in a situation of chaos and despair, deprived of security and essential resources such as housing, food and medicine. The Congolese people, who have long suffered the horrors of war, bloody conflict and the atrocities of colonization, are plunging into an even darker period.

In this interview, Mamadou Koné, curator at the Musée historique des forces armées du Sénégal, looks back at the long history of the Senegalese riflemen, the African troops employed by the French army during the colonial period.

Doctors Without Borders notes significant increase in settler violence and systematic hindering of healthcare services.

National missile defense advocates live in a world of magic and make-believe.

U.S. imperialism is almost never discussed in depth, critically or intelligently, within corporate media or the educational system.

DeepSeek-R1 is shaking Silicon Valley. Founder Liang Wenfeng: “We’re done following. It’s time to lead.”

Trump has signed an executive order to exert pressure on Iran while also trying to obtain a nuclear deal.

JOHN NEWSHAM draws attention to the uncompromising path of U.S. singer/songwriter CONOR OBERST.

China’s GDP growth of 5.0% in 2024 meant it successfully hit its GDP goal of “about 5.0%” for the year. More significantly for China’s strategic economic development, Figure 1 shows that it means its economic growth continues to be ahead of the target discussed at the time of the adoption of the 14th Five Year Plan of doubling GDP between 2020 and 2035.

As the dust settles in regime-changed Syria, a new reality emerges–one where the victors are not liberators, but former Al-Qaeda warlords restyled in suits, shaking hands with world leaders, and reshaping the state in their own sectarian image.

These funds were delivered during Guaido’s ‘interim government’ as ‘humanitarian aid’ through an NGO that belong to politicians who live without working abroad.

Ottawa has stayed silent on Rwandan aggression while continuing to back Africa’s most ruthless regime led by Paul Kagame.

The executive order “directs implementation of a next-generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missile, and other next-generation aerial attacks.”

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released an AI model called R1 that is comparable in ability to the best models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta, but was trained at a radically lower cost and using less than state-of-the art GPU chips.

The buzz around Xiaohongshu and then DeepSeek has had an unusually high volume of westerners speaking positively about China for the last couple of weeks, which of course means we’re also seeing many westerners falling all over themselves to say “Well actually China is actually quite bad actually” in response.

2025 Doomsday Clock Statement