Leo Timm

On Nov. 5, the U.S. government re-imposed what, a few days earlier, the White House termed “the toughest sanctions regime ever” on Iran’s theocratic government, mainly targeting the country’s petroleum exports.   The sanctions also...

While the November 6 U.S. midterm elections saw the Republican Party lose control of the House of Representatives, the upheaval is unlikely to derail America’s evolving policies on China and its communist regime. In the...

In November 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, overthrowing the legal Russian government and establishing the world’s first communist regime. [caption id="attachment_125769" align="aligncenter" width="322"] In November 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s revolutionaries...

In October 2012, Julie Keith opened a Halloween decoration that she had bought for her daughter, and in it found a letter written by an inmate imprisoned for his beliefs at Masanjia, one of China’s...

During and following the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the public was heavily focused on the possible effects of Russian state interference in the outcome. But that narrative has overshadowed the existence of China’s operations —...

President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill combating the nation’s opioid epidemic, which he last year called a public health emergency. The bill provides funding for federal agencies and states to prioritize access...

In its first update to the list of America’s most dangerous volcanoes since 2005, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has listed the Washington state mountains of Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier as posing...

A recent study that included a poll with 8,000 respondents suggests that 80 percent, or one in five Americans, consider political correctness to be a problem, with objections being reflected even more strongly among ethnic...

On Oct. 20, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to end a Cold War-era treaty that was designed to make nuclear war less likely by eliminating intermediate ballistic missiles (IRBMs) from the American and...

The U.S. unemployment rate has recently reached a low of 3.9 percent, with over 200,000 new jobs added in August alone. But across the Pacific, China is struggling with a massive, yet hidden crisis. Due...

While Washington and Tokyo prepare for talks on a bilateral free trade agreement between the world’s first and third largest economies, the Chinese communist regime is trying to appeal to Japanese officials and businessmen in...

The Chinese private sector, having grown extensively in the last several decades, is now on the verge of collapse as China’s communist authorities squeeze companies for profits, and as Beijing maintains an unyielding stance in...