Iran to continue increasing oil production despite Saudi-Russia freeze deal

Iran to continue increasing oil production despite Saudi-Russia freeze deal

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran will continue to increase its oil production until it recovers the market share it lost when international sanctions were imposed due to concerns about Teheran’s nuclear program. Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh’s comments are a blow to a deal struck in February between Russia and […]

Drudge: China uses ‘grid management’ to monitor citizens’ lives

Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — April 4, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com EU returning migrants back across the sea, defying human rights outcry… Mexico tortures migrants, citizens to slow Central American surge… Back to the future: Startup news site in Britain, NEW DAY, has neither website nor app… China reverts to ‘grid management’ to monitor citizens’ lives…Block-by-block […]

Obama rejected CIA plan in 2012 to stop ISIL, ex-officials say

Obama rejected CIA plan in 2012 to stop ISIL, ex-officials say

Special to WorldTribune.com President Barack Obama in 2012 rejected a covert CIA plan to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad that likely would have stopped the rise of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), former U.S. officials say. An upcoming book by a former CIA operative reveals the agency had forged a “muti-tiered plan” to […]

Unreported: The Pakistan time-bomb and a potential solution

Unreported: The Pakistan time-bomb and a potential solution

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Although the Obama Administration may well not recognize it, Pakistan is turning into the number one problem in fighting worldwide Islamic terrorism. The massacre of 79, many of them children, by an Islamic terrorist group aiming at Christians on a community playground on Eastern Sunday – large numbers […]

Hillary loses cool with Greenpeace activist: ‘Sick’ of attacks on her hunger for fossil fuel cash

Hillary loses cool with Greenpeace activist: ‘Sick’ of attacks on her hunger for fossil fuel cash

Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton blew a gasket recently when a Greenpeace activist challenged the Democratic front-runner on her insatiable taste for campaign cash from major fossil fuel companies. At a March 31 rally on the State University of New York at Purchase campus, Greenpeace activist Eva Resnick-Day asked Clinton, “Will you act on your […]

Democrat congresswoman questions Kerry on U.S. boost to Iran banks with terror ties

Democrat congresswoman questions Kerry on U.S. boost to Iran banks with terror ties

Special to WorldTribune.com A Democratic congresswoman has queried Secretary of State John Kerry on the Obama administration’s reported plan to allow Iran access to the U.S. financial system and whether Iranian banks who have supported terrorism will be included in the plan. “Reports that Iran may be allowed access to America’s financial system or the […]

Air France female flight attendants protest head scarves on Iran flights

Air France female flight attendants protest head scarves on Iran flights

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Some female Air France flight attendants have been protesting an airline rule that they must cover their hair when Air France resumes flights to the Iranian capital, Tehran, on April 17. “Every day we have calls from worried female cabin crew who tell us that they […]

Plan would require migrants to pledge acceptance of ‘European values’

Plan would require migrants to pledge acceptance of  ‘European values’

Special to WorldTribune.com Belgian Parliament is expected to pass a law requiring non-EU migrants and refugees to sign a pledge declaring their acceptance of “European values.” The proposal for a “newcomers’ statement” should be passed in the next few months, according to a spokesman for Belgium’s secretary of state for asylum and migration, Theo Francken, […]

Mass grave in Palmyra contained 24 civilians, 3 children

Mass grave in Palmyra contained 24 civilians, 3 children

Special to WorldTribune.com Syrian regime forces made a gruesome discovery after driving Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) from Palmyra. The soldiers uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of 42 people slaughtered by the terror group’s jihadists. The Syrian army “uncovered a mass grave of officers, soldiers, members of the popular committees (pro-regime […]

This Hellfire’s for you: Pentagon launches psychological warfare offensive against ISIL

This Hellfire’s for you: Pentagon launches psychological warfare offensive against ISIL

Special to WorldTribune.com Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steven Warren in Baghdad has put ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on notice. “I hope al Baghdadi watches these press conferences because I want him to know that we are hunting him and we will find him just like we found his mentor, Zarqawi, and killed him, just […]