by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Russia has unleashed a torrent of hackers, Internet trolls and fake news reports aimed at undermining American democracy and the U.S. has done little to defend against it, cyber intel specialists said during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. Eugene Rumer, former U.S. national intelligence […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution,, March 28, 2017 The cadres of the global commentariat often discuss the intricate relationships among the world’s most meaningful triumvirate, namely the United States, Russia, and China. Less often analyzed, however, are the very potent and peculiar interactions between Moscow and Beijing. It is the ghost […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2017 Democrats, who just over four years ago mocked GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s warning on Russia, are now pushing the narrative that Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election was an “act of war.” “I think this attack that we’ve experienced is a form of war, a form of war […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2017 In questioning FBI Director James Comey and NSA chief Mike Rogers, several Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee on March 20 referenced the so-called “Trump dossier” which has been widely dismissed as a subsidized work of fiction. The dossier by former British spy Christopher Steele suggested the Russians had […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Jonathon Moseley, Fairfax Free Citizen I attended the March 20, 2017, House Intelligence Committee hearing, led by Congressman Devin Nunes, hearing from “Defenders of the Establishment” Admiral Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency, and James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Speaking for myself, I went away […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 Like most U.S. pollsters and pundits, the Russians apparently felt Donald Trump had no chance of winning the presidency so set out to undermine Hillary Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said on March 20. “Late in the summer they concluded based on the polling that a lot of people […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Japan and Russia have pledged closer economic and security cooperation in so-called “two-plus-two” talks as they look to end a decades-long dispute over a small chain of islands. The one-day meeting of foreign and defense ministers in Tokyo on March 20 was the first of its […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2017 Russia said it summoned Israel’s ambassador over Israeli airstrikes that hit close to Russian forces near the Syrian city of Palmyra. Deputy foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov told Interfax news agency that Ambassador Gary Koren was summoned on March 17 and “asked about” the strikes. Russia said earlier this month […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2017 The father, maternal grandfather and father-in-law of former President Barack Obama’s closest aide “were hardcore communists under investigation by the U.S. government,” according to a government watchdog group. Valerie Jarrett, who served as President Obama’s senior adviser and as director of the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2017 Russia is said to have deployed special forces near the Egypt-Libya border, likely in support of Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, U.S. and Egyptian diplomatic sources said. Haftar, who commands the eastern-based Libyan National Army, opposes the UN-backed government in Tripoli. The American sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, […]
