by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2017 “With four big hurricanes, a powerful earthquake and wildfires, it seems that nature recently has just gone nuts,” an AP writer surmised. There can be no denying that the late-August, early-September series of natural disasters have riveted a nation’s attention, even distracting attention from the crisis in North Korea. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2017 Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, has just published “Citizen Newt”, which sheds light, he said, on the reasons former Speaker Newt Gingrich has influenced President Donald Trump. “Trump respects Gingrich, I suspect, because he utterly routed the shallow Washington culture” during his years in Congress, Shirley told Paul Bedard of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin Sept. 6, 2017, began taking the initiative to control the “crisis” over North Korean strategic weapons, because Russia had more at stake in resolving the issue than perhaps any other nation-state. There was strong evidence that President Putin was working to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Donald Trump doesn’t get it. He warns South Korea about “appeasement,” but who’s appeasing whom? Yes, President Moon Jae-In, hero of the candlelight protests that lofted him as the liberal darling into the presidency after the ouster of the conservative Park Geun-Hye, would love to go down in history […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Trump may have just committed political suicide. He announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, will be rescinded, but only after a six-month delay. The reason: Trump wants to give Congress the opportunity to pass a legislative amnesty for the so-called “Dreamers.” This […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct An increasingly paranoid Kim Jong-Un has hired about a dozen ex-Soviet KGB agents to stave off what the young dictator believes are constant U.S. plots to assassinate him. Apparently, Kim does not fully trust his personal bodyguards, who were plucked from “Office Number 6” of the Guard Command that protects […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against “driving North Korea into a corner” over its nuclear weapons program and missile tests. Putin spoke on September 6 after meeting South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of the Russian-hosted Eastern Economic Forum in the Pacific coastal […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy It was like deja vu. August 2017. Paris. A rocket launcher was found in a No-Go Zone suburb. A few weeks before, the same launcher was found in Lyon, near the madrassa in the Muslim quarter … The media is silent. Human rights defenders are against Islamophobia. … Gaza. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on August 31 that Iran is showing its “true colors” by renewing ties with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and providing it with arms. Yahya al-Sinwar, the new head of Hamas, said this week that Iran has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russia said on September 1 it would respond harshly to any U.S. moves meant to hurt it, a day after the United States told Moscow to close its consulate in San Francisco and locations in Washington and New York. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said […]