by Jim Heath | Oct 17, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
China secretly tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile which orbited the globe before returning to Earth to strike its target in a technological development that would overcome US anti-ballistic missile systems. A report from the Financial Times, which cited five...
by Jim Heath | Sep 17, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Biden this week unveiled a new effort to help Australia acquire nuclear-powered submarines, a major step toward countering China as he works to build international backing for his approach to Beijing. The announcement came as part of a new trilateral...
by Jim Heath | Aug 31, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
After 13 U.S. service members were killed in the August 26 suicide bombing at Kabul airport, Republicans and conservatives started circulating incorrect information on social media about how many troops died in Afghanistan under former President Trump versus President...
by Jim Heath | Aug 31, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
After 20 years, the U.S. military experiment in Afghanistan has ended. It was an end marred by chaos and death as the Biden administration rushed to evacuate thousands of people fleeing Taliban rule and terrorists seized on the disorder to kill nearly 200 Afghans and...
by Jim Heath | Aug 30, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Brad Snyder, a gold medal-winning US Paralympian who was blinded while serving with the Navy in Afghanistan, is applauding the withdrawal from the country. ‘It plagues me, it keeps me awake at night and I think about it a lot, especially being a person whose...
by Jim Heath | Jul 12, 2021 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
The biggest mass demonstrations for three decades have rippled through Cuba, as thousands took to the streets in cities throughout the island, demonstrating against food shortages, high prices and communist rule. The protests began in the morning, in the town of San...
