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Thursday, January 22, 2026

"Emboldened by the US ouster of Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro, the Trump administration is searching for Cuban government insiders who can help cut a deal to push out the Communist regime by the end of the year." read more


The Justice Department seized two mission crew trainers (MCTs) that were interdicted in transit from the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). The mission crew trainers (MCTs) are mobile classrooms intended to assist the PLA to train personnel on the use of airborne warning and control systems and antisubmarine warfare (ASW) aircraft.

Seized MCTs


Wednesday, January 21, 2026

These actions, together with previous arson attacks and a large-scale disinformation campaign, fly in the face of the ruling in October by the International Court of Justice, which restated that Israel is obliged under international law to facilitate UNRWA's operations, not hinder or prevent them. The court also stressed that Israel has no jurisdiction over East Jerusalem. There can be no exceptions. This must be a wake-up call. What happens today to UNRWA will happen tomorrow to any other international organization or diplomatic mission, whether in the Occupied Palestinian Territory or anywhere around the world. International law has come under increasing attack for too long and is risking irrelevancy in the absence of response by Member States. read more


Karen Budd-Falen, a top Trump administration official, has failed to disclose her connections to a massive lithium mine in Nevada has a history of navigating financial entanglements while serving in top positions at the Interior Department that don't require Senate confirmation.

US National Resources in Peril


Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The leaders of all 27 European Union nations will meet for an "extraordinary meeting" later this week in response to US President Donald Trump's escalating pressure campaign to acquire Greenland. read more


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Seized MCTs

"The Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) masquerades as a civilian flight-training academy when in fact it is a significant enabler of the Chinese air and naval forces and a pipeline for transferring NATO aviation expertise, operational knowledge, and restricted technology directly to the People's Liberation Army."

"The MCTs' layout was modelled after the P-8 Poseidon, which is manufactured by Boeing and serves as the US' primary anti-submarine warfare maritime patrol aircraft. The MCTs were designed to run software specially designed by TFASA for Project Elgar. The software used a basic flight simulator program designed and marketed by a US company, which TFASA software engineers then enhanced using technical data relating to Western anti-submarine warfare aircraft, including the P-8 Poseidon. Former NATO aviators with training in anti-submarine warfare techniques were part of TFASA's Project Elgar team."

"This interdiction is the latest instance implicating TFASA in its role as a primary trainer of the PLA. In June 2023, the Department of Commerce added TFASA and numerous of its subsidiaries and affiliates in South Africa and elsewhere to the Entity List "for providing training to Chinese military pilots using Western and NATO sources," which the Department of Commerce noted was "contrary to US national security and foreign policy interests."


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Former USMC pilot Daniel Duggan appealed his extradition from Australia to the US over allegations that he illegally trained Chinese military aviators more than a decade ago. Duggan is accused of training Chinese military pilots while working as an instructor for the Test Flying Academy of South Africa (TFASA) in 2012.

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China has the third most powerful military in the world according to the Global Firepower Index (GFI). Besides spending money on R & D, Beijing also steals technology at an industrial scale, saving them billions of dollars in costs. Treacherous collaborators and spies in the West are selling out their countries and fellow soldiers for 30 pieces of silver in the event of a future conflict with China over Taiwan, Japan, the Koreas, or the Philippines.

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USMC Pilot Trained PLA

Russian and Chinese attack submarines began conducting joint patrols in the Pacific Ocean last year.


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