August 13, 2026: Currently, Poland ranks 9th in Europe by GDP at $1.13 trillion. Germany is the highest at $5.45 trillion, while Russia is 5 th with $2.09 trillion. In 1939, before Germany and the ...

August 13, 2026: Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Kokorich founded Russia’s first non-government space company and is now designing inexpensive long-range drones for Ukraine. Kokorich founded Destinus, a ...

Flock Surveillance cameras were first used in 2019 by the Atlanta, Georgia Police Department. The cameras were used for collecting license plate information, especially the numbers of stolen cars or ...

The American government is seeking to eliminate or greatly reduce the use of burner phones. These are cheap, disposable phones that are often purchased by criminals and discarded after a crime is ...

How China Became “Red” Of all faults in Frank Dikötter’s Red Dawn Over China, the most obvious is his insistent focus on the hypocrisy, violence, and brutality of the Chine ...

August 11, 2026: Between April and June, the Chinese economy expanded more slowly than it had since 2022. The cause of this was declining household consumption, which blurred manufacturing efforts ...

There was another outbreak of Ebola, a viral disease found mainly in African countries south of the Sahara Desert. In untreated cases, the mortality rate is about 90 percent. With treatment, the ...

In order to fulfill the requirement for MIRC/Medium-Range Intercept Capability air defense, Marine forces operating in the Western Pacific now have Iron Dome batteries. Testing and training have been ...

Ukraine recently won a significant victory in the Black Sea. This took place in the Sea of Azov, an extension of the northeastern Black Sea. Last month, Russia assembled 38 tankers in the Sea of Azov ...

The Deliver was using falsified or meaningless documents and, like so many other Shadow Fleet tankers, was either underinsured or uninsured and operating under a false flag. Delivery purported to be ...

This is not a new policy, for in World War II Josef Stalin ordered the formation of Penal Battalions in 1942, and these men, called shtrafbats, were encouraged by a secret police machine-gun emplaced ...

August 5, 2026: Currently, the Houthi rebels are again attacking ships, including a Saudi tanker, in the Red Sea. Off the Yemen coast, an Indian cargo ship was sunk, and the crew was rescued. There ...