White House ‘right-sizing’ NSC after ‘coup attempt’ by Obama holdovers

White House ‘right-sizing’ NSC after ‘coup attempt’ by Obama holdovers

by WorldTribune Staff, January 2, 2020 The Trump administration is significantly downsizing the White House National Security Council not only to improve efficiency but, analysts say, to rid the NSC of Obama-era holdovers suspected of leaking President Donald Trump’s conversations with foreign leaders. White House national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien said in a recent […]

GREATEST HITS, 4: Secret Service finally releases Obama family’s travel receipts: $105.66 million

GREATEST HITS, 4: Secret Service finally releases Obama family’s travel receipts: $105.66 million

CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2019 by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2017 Government travel expenses for President Barack Obama and his family totaled $105,662,975, according to records obtained from the Secret Service by a government watchdog group. One trip to Martha’s Vineyard, in August 2016, racked up $2,512,380.88 in hotel bills, […]

Report: Hunter Biden involved in ‘massive’ counterfeiting scheme

Report: Hunter Biden involved in ‘massive’ counterfeiting scheme

by WorldTribune Staff, January 2, 2020 A private investigation firm said it has “lawfully” obtained documents which show Hunter Biden’s involvement in a $156 million “counterfeiting scheme,” Fox News reported on Dec. 30. The private investigation firm was hired by a woman in Arkansas who is suing Hunter Biden over the paternity of her child. […]

Environmentalists declare war as Bureau of Land Management exits swamp

Environmentalists declare war as Bureau of Land Management exits swamp

by WorldTribune Staff, January 2, 2020 Leftist environmentalists and other so-called progressive groups who are outraged over the Trump administration’s decision to move the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) out of Washington, D.C. are now demanding that the agency’s director step down. By moving the agency to Grand Junction, Colorado, the Trump administration “seeks to […]

Leader of raid on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad attended White House meeting with Obama

Leader of raid on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad attended White House meeting with Obama

by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2020 Several pro-Iranian faction leaders were among those leading the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Dec. 31. One of them, Hadi al-Amiri, met with President Barack Obama in the White House in 2011, reports say. Amiri, a member of the Iraqi parliament, was formerly head of the […]

Media bias: NBC’s Chuck Todd shares his belief system and that of his staff

Media bias: NBC’s Chuck Todd shares his belief system and that of his staff

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2020 Media personality Chuck Todd’s contempt for President Donald Trump and his supporters has been well established. During Sunday’s broadcast of Meet the Press, Todd threw in a “twist of anti-Christian bigotry” for good measure. Todd devoted the Dec. 29 show to what he called “Alternative Facts: Inside the […]

GREATEST HITS, 5: Media silence as gang rape survivor from northern Iraq wins Nobel Peace Prize

GREATEST HITS, 5: Media silence as gang rape survivor from northern Iraq wins Nobel Peace Prize

CELEBRATING 21 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Countdown: Top stories of 2019 by WorldTribune Staff, October 17, 2018 News that Yazidi sex slave survivor Nadia Murad was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war barely registered on the American media radar screen. Murad was […]

President Trump puts Iran on notice: ‘Not a warning, a threat’

President Trump puts Iran on notice: ‘Not a warning, a threat’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2020 Iran will pay a heavy price for its role in the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, President Donald Trump said on Dec. 31. Later in the day, the president said that price will not likely include war with Iran. “The U.S. Embassy in Iraq is, & […]

YouTube revolution: Koreans who remember the war tune out mainstream media

YouTube revolution: Koreans who remember the war tune out mainstream media

by WorldTribune Staff, January 1, 2020 Distrust in the mainstream media is not limited to the U.S. but is said to be more intense in South Korea which lacks conservative alternative media and is facing what earlier would have seemed impossible: the threat of a left-wing dictatorship. For many, YouTube is the only platform for […]

Cornered: Sanctions cost Iran ‘$200 billion surplus income’, proxies storm U.S. compound in Iraq

Cornered: Sanctions cost Iran ‘$200 billion surplus income’, proxies storm U.S. compound in Iraq

by WorldTribune Staff, December 31, 2019 Since President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear deal in 2018 and re-imposed sanctions, Iran has lost 90 percent of its oil exports, the value of its currency has fallen sharply and inflation has surpassed 40 percent. “Iran would have earned $200 billion surplus income…if […]