In May 2025, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a timely report titled “Beijing’s Air, Space, and Maritime Surveillance from Cuba: A Growing Threat to the Homeland.” The report confirmed China’s construction of a new signals intelligence…
The island of Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States after the Spanish-American War. Although the usual narrative is the war was precipitated by an explosion on the naval vessel Maine in Havana harbor, the truth is that the…
NextGen Marxism: What It Is and How to Combat It By Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka (Encounter Books, 328 pages, $22) It is a sad state of affairs that Marxism and socialism have reached new heights of popularity and power…
I was reporting for VOA from Europe when the Covid pandemic hit in 2020. Immediately concluding that it was a lab created virus produced by Chinese bioweapon research, I filed the following piece. Subsequently, I got an email from the…
My mother died last week at the age of 92. For the rest of my life, every Ash Wednesday will evoke her memory. Not that I’ll need a Holy Day of Obligation to always remember her. She was not only…
Since the fall of 1917, when Lenin seized power in Russia, the evils of communism have been exposed by courageous witnesses, some of whom emerged from “penal” and forced labor camps that Alexander Solzhenitsyn described as the essence of communism….
HAVANA, CUBA — Three years ago this month, Cuba erupted in its first widespread anti-government protests in decades, as thousands of Cubans took to the streets to express their frustration with the country’s spiraling economy and deepening political dysfunction. In…
Vladimir Putin has brought his war on Ukraine to America’s Caribbean underbelly by deploying nuclear capable, missile carrying warships that docked in Cuba last week for prolonged exercises with local allies in the region that are expected to continue well…
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington cruised through the south Atlantic last week in the first joint U.S. naval exercise with Argentina in more than 30 years. Leftist Peronistas who governed the country during much of those decades gave bases…
