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We make fun of North Korea quite a bit — it’s the whole point of this series. And it’s easy to mock the North Korean regime, they’re ridiculous. But the…

Wannabe Soviet dictator Vladimir Putin spent over $50 billion-with-a-“b” on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. All he got out of it was international derision, a crumbling, empty, never-completed Olympic…

Back in 2011, in a rare display of bipartisan cooperation that split both Republicans and Democrats, the Senate passed a bill aimed at addressing China’s currency manipulation. The 63-35 vote…

Sabers are rattling again in the ongoing joust between China and the United States. The latest thrust arrived this week, with five officers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army indicted by…

In the wake of the success of the #BringBackOurGirls Twitter hashtag campaign, the mainstream media are now giving more time to the ongoing tragedy in Nigeria. The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram…

In the psychotic prison state that calls itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, nothing is what it seems, and everything is a secret. The entire country is essentially a 47,000…

While Russian troops camp out on the Ukrainian border, pro-Russian insurgents inside the Eastern European nation are seizing town  after town, this week claiming the eastern city of Luhansk. Obama…

Those of us waiting for North Korea’s fourth big underground nuclear test, to be timed to coincide with Barack Obama’s trip last week to Seoul, were disappointed this weekend when…

The talk of the weekend was the alleged recording of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. On the tape, the person identified as Sterling makes a series of virulently racist…

Welcome to Situational Awareness, a weekly roundup of news from last week that will likely be causing sleepless nights in the future.   SOMALIA OR BUST:  A Hawaii-based ground crew…