Geostrategy-Direct Widespread anti-government protests that broke out in Iran early this year were fueled in part by what protesters say is the government’s failure to monitor and manage the country’s sparse water resources. While anger over government corruption sparked demonstrations in major cities, lack of access to water was the main point of contention in […]
Geostrategy-Direct U.S. President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement last week that U.S. special forces would soon pull out of Syria comes as Islamic State (ISIS) has re-grouped and re-emerged in Syria and Iraq, reports say. “We’re knocking the hell out of ISIS. We’ll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon,” Trump said. “We’ve got to […]
Geostrategy-Direct The day North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un paid a surprise visit to Beijing, the South Korean government conducted a large ceremony at the Incheon International Airport to return the remains of 20 Chinese communist soldiers killed during the Korean War nearly 70 years ago. On March 26, South Korea’s Defense Minister Song Young-Moo presided […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration has no “clear endgame” in Iraq, said a Democratic congressman and former Marine who served four tours in Iraq. Rep. Seth Moulton, Massachusetts Democrat, blasted President Barack Obama’s strategy against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and slammed Obama’s refusal to say American troops deployed to Iraq are […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A majority of Germans now say Islam does belong in their culture, a significant rise sparked by the refugee crisis, terror fears and the mass sexual assaults by Arab men on New Year’s. A poll by Infratest dimap published on May 12 showed 60 percent of Germans saying Islam does not have […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Jihad is escalating into Europe. The mid-November 2015 jihadist strike at the heart of Paris, the late-March 2016 jihadist strike at the heart of Brussels, as well as the host of smaller “incidents” such as the mid-May 2016 stabbing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Inside China, EastAsiaIntel.com While China’s 700 million netizens are blocked from Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) English-language propaganda machine is harvesting social media fans around the world. Following top-down orders from president Xi Jinping to “tell China’s story” to the world, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are now rife […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 13, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Trump: Bezos using his Washington Post against me and to save Amazon from anti-trust action … Zuckerberg wants to talk to conservatives … rolodex anyone? Billionaires flock to New Zealand Americans over 65 still working when possible … only the wealthy have retirement resources
Special to WorldTribune.com Spoiler alert: Actually, it’s no secret that Facebook makes clear to mostly left-leaning publishers what it wants on its mostly left-leaning News Feed. Peter Kafka, writing for recode.com, presented the “real Facebook media influence story.” Related: Former Facebook ‘journalist’: We routinely suppressed news favoring conservative values, May 9, 2016 The post included […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Hizbullah’s military commander, a main suspect in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Syria, Arab media reported on May 12. Mustafa Badr al-Din died after what was called “a major explosion” at a Hizbullah facility near the Damascus airport. Israel Defense Forces […]
