Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis has arrived in Baghdad for a previously unannounced visit focusing on the effort to defeat Islamic State (ISIS) militants. Mattis’s arrival on Feb. 20 comes a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi announced a new phase in the operation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 The U.S. deployed an aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea on Feb. 18, one day after China completed naval exercises in the disputed waters. The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson along with guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer were sent as part of “routine operations,” the U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 Thousands of agitators tied to a group founded by former President Barack Obama are preparing assaults on GOP lawmakers nationwide. An organizing manual distributed by the network provides cold guidelines for maximizing the perception of widespread opposition. In a new Facebook post, Obama-founded Organizing for Action (OFA) calls on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Following is an excerpt from a book by WorldTribune and Geostrategy-Direct columnist Donald Kirk and the Korean author Kim Ki-Sam, “How South Korea’s Kim Dae-Jung bought his Peace Prize and financed Kim Jong-Il’s nuclear program”. South Korea’s first woman president has been impeached over allegations involving a confidante, but […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shot down a regional peace initiative presented by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a secret meeting last year that included Egypt and Jordan, a report said. The meeting was held on Feb. 21, 2016 in the Egyptian resort town of Aqaba and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 Those who continue to inhabit “the swamp” are in a death struggle against America’s voters for control of the country, a columnist said. “By any historical and constitutional standard, ‘the people’ elected Donald Trump and endorsed his program of nation-state populist reform,” Matthew Continetti, editor in chief of the Washington […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 The White House’s liaison to House Republicans is calling for huge cuts to several agencies and a drastic reduction of the government workforce. Paul Teller, the former chief of staff to Sen. Ted Cruz said he believes the Trump administration can pursue a sweeping agenda in its first budget […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 The New York Post, in a Feb. 16 editorial, took its uptown rival The New York Times to task for “hostile, hysterical” coverage “based on anonymous leaks” and “no hard facts.” “Take a deep breath and realize how precious little substance there is in all the breathless reporting about […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2017 Recent highlights from President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed: Feb. 18 Don’t believe the main stream (fake news) media. The White House is running VERY WELL. I inherited a MESS and am in the process of fixing it. Feb. 17 “One of the most effective press conferences I’ve ever seen!” […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2017 In its coverage of the CIA, The Washington Post has failed to mention that the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, stands to reap huge financial gains from a recently signed $600 million Internet-cloud deal between Amazon, which Bezos also owns, and the intelligence agency. “As Amazon’s majority owner and the Post’s […]
