Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON — The Chinese remain the great enigma when it comes to figuring out whether they’re friend or foe, honorable adversaries or dangerous rivals for power and influence from the Korean peninsula to the South China Sea and beyond. Nobody believes they’re doing much to discourage North Korea’s nuclear […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Presidents, Prime Ministers and Kings will convene in New York next week for the opening of the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations. The annual Autumn session meets amid trying to solve or at least contain growing conflicts, a surge in refugees, terrorism and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2016 Warning of the global consequences of China’s “rule bending” in the South China Sea, Japan’s defense minister said Tokyo will increase its joint patrols with the United States. Japan also will increase bilateral and multilateral exercises with regional navies, Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said on Sept. 15 in a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2016 The U.S. State Department waited over a year before producing emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server despite 17 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, “in August 2013, State Department officials were aware of 17 FOIA requests relating […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2016 Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is fighting the Obama administration’s decision to give up U.S. control of Internet domain names to a global agency. The U.S. is set to allow its contract overseeing ICANN, a California-based nonprofit charged with how Web addresses and domain names (including “.gov,” “.com” and “.edu”) […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2016 Most attendees at a secretive gathering of political and business honchos regarded Donald Trump to be a “disaster” and won’t vote for him, according to an email hacked from former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Gmail account. Powell wrote that he had just returned from the Bohemian Grove — […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2016 The decisions by the NCAA and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) to pull their sports championships out of North Carolina over House Bill 2 (HB2) amounts to “sexual bullying” by “moral hypocrites”, influential supporters of the bill said. North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest said in a statement on Sept. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2016 The director of U.S. intelligence decided against conducting an assessment of the damage done to national security by Hillary Clinton’s sending and receiving of classified information on her private email server. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper agreed with intelligence officials “who argued against the need to carry […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 U.S. President Barack Obama’s micromanagement of American airstrikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Iraq, Syria and Libya has “put handcuffs on air power” and allowed the terror organization to survive, a group of admirals and generals supporting Donald Trump said. According to U.S. Central Command, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 15, 2016 George Soros’s deep-pocketed posse is now gunning for the toughest sheriff in America. A group called Maricopa Strong, funded by the liberal hedge fund tycoon, is seeking to prevent Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio from winning a seventh consecutive term. Soros has been picking, and winning, several fights […]
