Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The conviction of a former Dutch diplomat has exposed a wide net of Russian espionage against the West that traces its roots back to the Soviet KGB era. On April 23, a three-judge panel in the Hague sentenced Raymond Poeteray to 12 years in prison for having […]
Sol W. Sanders The President of the United States and his administration are jeopardizing national security by rejecting the obvious ties between jihadist terrorism and Islam. By refusing to identify the terrorists as a part, however pernicious, of the overall Muslim community, he makes it difficult if not impossible for the kind of counterintelligence […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey The current issue of “The Economist” has a cover picture of people being discharged into a trash dump, with the headline “Generation Jobless” and the subtitle “The Global Rise of Youth Unemployment”. In the article inside the magazine it points out that global youth unemployment, as reported by official […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com NEW DELHI — Chinese forces have staged an “intrusion” into Indian territory that would have been top world news had they been North Korean troops straying across the DMZ into South Korea. On China’s outer fringes, a few dozen Chinese troops huddled in tents at an altitude of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The claim that the Russians somehow “warned” the U.S. about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic connections has been accepted by most news organizations and commentators as established fact. But while U.S. intelligence agencies have a lot to explain, the Russian security services have been treated with kid gloves and even […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com Willy Lam is traveling. The Chinese government on April 16 published the much anticipated document called “The Diversified Applications of China’s Armed Forces,” commonly known as the Chinese Defense White Paper. The report details the communist country’s defense policy, strategic outlook, services strength, and weapons development. The Chinese […]
