Another war, more spending for war, conventional… and nuclear. The US is top of the world in war spending and the US president now wants 50% more for the War Department. Truth is, we have a need to know the deeper costs of war ….
Another War
Author: Strategic Demands Online
Meanwhile, the Data, the Physics of Climate
Geopolitics is the word of the day — a US neo Colonialism (imprinted in Marco Rubio’s ‘New Western Century’ speech at the Munich Conference) confronts a China Belt and Road Initiative (see the all-continent BRI footprint) that is supported and accompanied by a Russian Federation attempting to restore lost imperial power…
The Nuclear Clock’ & Sands of Time
Grains of Sands & A Nuclear Clock The Nuclear Clock of the Atomic Scientists is now another four seconds closer to midnight. The clock is now the closest to midnight since its introduction in 1947. “The Doomsday Clock’s message cannot be clearer,” Alexandra Bell, president and CEO, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said. […]
Trump says he needs another $500 (or $600) billion
On the Donald J Trump ‘Truth Social’ site, this past week the US President announced he would be calling for a vastly expanded military budget. He explained that he wants to build a ‘Dream Military’ … Here at Strategic Demands we say ‘no’ to billions and billions more for new conflicts, wasteful spending, and misdirected […]
Jack Smith, a Simple Name
Jack is a prosecutor, a federal prosecutor at the center of the US Department of Justice case against US President Donald J. Trump. Now, nearly a year after the 47th US president took office and a New Year commences, Jack Smith’s deposition is released…
National Security Strategy of the United States (2025) – Responses
How does the world begin to respond to the 2025 National Security Strategy of the United States? How do we gauge the resulting shocks and disconcerting reversals of US defense of human rights and democracy?
National Security Strategy of the United States (2025)
National Security Strategy of the United States of America November 2025
A Moment for a Quote, Science360 & Geopolitics
“It’s clear that the United States is falling apart; its president is destroying everything that made America great.” — Reinhard Genzel
No Kings Protests
In Washington DC On a weekend before a new golden Ballroom planned by the president to attach to the White House begins construction with demolition at the East Wing building, a nationwide series of “No Kings” protests takes place across the nation. Estimates of between 7 and 8 million people demonstrated peacefully, exercising constitutionally […]
No to the War Department
It’s a Pass … The US press response to the demand of the newly named ‘Department of War’ — No, we won’t agree to do only reporting of ‘official information’ … Now Secretary of War Hegseth will have to move on to ‘Plan B’ Read the story as reported by The Guardian ◊ […]
Another Executive Order, a “Department of War”
By order of the President of the United States, an updated name, the “Department of War”, was officially recognized today via Oval Office ceremony… The new “Secretary of War”, Pete Hegseth, explained prior to the signing that “lethality” is the intent of the re-naming…
August and Talk of a “Golden Age”
As summer winds come upon Washington DC, a president who learned the Hollywood ways of showmanship as a TV “You’re fired!” host of the “The Apprentice”, is now re-decorating the White House. Gold is the motif, backdrop for public visits and viewing, media recorded events and lines delivered from “Golden Age” set stages at 1600 […]
July 2025
June was a ride, July is an acceleration. Here’s a wayward sampling of screeching screenshots, a month of headlines in the US of A. Hold on, it’s not over, a multiverse of events swirl on quantumesquely… ominously
What a Month
In the Northern Hemisphere, June brings summer and a summer solstice, the day with the most daylight hours. This year it brought, it seemed week after week, a fading of encompassing light
Musk v Trump, Real-time Untethering
June 5th delivered a charged, social media storm to the United States and simultaneously to a worldwide, international internet audience. The event was time-stamped history. The ‘richest man in the world’, Elon Musk, confronted president Donald Trump. Online sparks turned hot as we watched
Memorial Day USA
Memorial Day 2025
A New Pope for the Catholic Church
May 8, 2025 A New Pontiff after Pope Francis The questions being asked, will the new Pope continue moving a doctrinaire Church into facing the challenges of the modern world….
