Category: The Wide Angle

Is China’s Investigation of the ‘Chained Woman’ Set to Do Her More Harm Than Good?

Parents in China understand the need to keep a close eye on their children: to prevent them from wandering off, as there is an ever-present risk of child abduction. Over there, the idea of children being stolen, sold, and enslaved is not an abstract notion or an isolated circumstance—it’s a day-to-day reality. In 1995, a…


Gen. Robert Spalding: The Rise of Tech-Tyranny Amid Trucker Protests, COVID-19

Lil Miquela is a 19-year-old, Brazilian-American model, musical artist, and influencer with 3 million Instagram followers. The clincher is that she’s not a real person. She’s an AI personality who has earned major money for her Los Angeles-based designers. But, behind the CGI glitz and glamor, there’s an undertone of eeriness to what Lil Miquela’s…


Trudeau to Use ‘Terrorist Financing Act’ to Target Trucker Protests; Putin—To Invade or Not to Invade Ukraine.

Not so long ago we were hearing from corporate (mainstream) media of swastikas and confederate flags flying high among the trucker protestors assembled in Ottawa. Symbolic depictions by the protesters of vaccine mandates being Nazi-like were distorted by the press to paint the protesters themselves as Third-Reich fascists. And as if that devastating association wasn’t…


Chinese Military-Linked Firm Gathers American DNA, Provides COVID Tests—Feat. Dr. Antonio Graceffo

In 1936, Nazi Germany, already gaining world notoriety for its authoritarian, xenophobic culture, hosted the Summer Olympics. Some 85 years on, the despotic Chinese Communist Party—with its doctrine of “unrestricted warfare” against America and the Western world—is charged with hosting the Winter Olympics. Closer to home, there is an alarming trend—recently reported on by China…


Why Are America’s Athletes Defecting to China? Red China’s Hidden Olympic Agenda

For this special two-part edition of The Wide Angle, I’m joined by China economics professor Antonio Graceffo—a graduate of the Shanghai University of Sport. I garner his insights into two pivotal U.S.-China issues: American-born athletes starring on the China Olympic team; and China’s startling high-volume investment in U.S. biopharm and genomics companies. While seemingly unrelated,…


Hidden Dangers of the Metaverse and How We Defend Ourselves Against Cyber Crime. Feat. Casey Fleming

Blackops Partners Chairman and CEO Casey Fleming has been in the business of countering info-security threats for well over a decade. In this episode of The Wide Angle he reveals the “dark side” of the rapidly manifesting #Metaverse. What can #wethepeople do to defend ourselves in an ever-expanding tech world with correspondingly expanding data exposure?…


Media Is Spinning Canada’s Freedom Convoy as a Hotbed of ‘Extremism’—Is That Really What’s Going On?

“Trucker protest may warrant military intervention,” a recent headline reads. Words like “far-right,” “extremist,” and “Nazi symbolism” have punctuated much of the reporting on this protest, which started with Canadian truck drivers standing against a new vaccine mandate imposed by the government. But do these labels really reflect the nature of what’s taking place outside…


What China’s Rocket Expert Defection Means for US? US Diplomats Want Out of China

What would you do if the government stood to separate you from your child for COVID-19 quarantine? This is just one of the fears currently facing U.S. diplomats in China amid the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) severe “zero-COVID” measures. Meanwhile, according to Reuters, sources familiar with the issue say the U.S. Embassy in China is…


Three Reasons Why Putin Won’t Invade Ukraine; Putin Wants ‘To Be Respected’—German Navy Chief

Are things really as they seem to be on the surface of the Russia–Ukraine crisis—with Vladimir Putin the aggressor, poised to take Ukraine, unless his “hefty” demands are met by the United States and NATO? Germany’s Navy Chief Kay-Achim Schönbach had a different take on things, before he promptly apologized and “voluntarily” submitted his resignation….


FBI Raids on Outspoken Public Figures; Biden Says That Without Voting Bill, Midterms Could Be ‘Illegitimate’

Democrat Senator Kyrsten #Sinema is being censured by her Party for voting independently and against a bill aimed at easing the passage of Biden’s voting reforms. The Democrat’s attempt to “nuke the filibuster” that is blocking Biden’s reforms went down in flames on Jan. 19. What’s the glaring inconsistency in Biden’s claim that the midterm…