Greatest Hits, No. 17: China to finance Egypt’s $45 billion capital city in the desert

Greatest Hits, No. 17: China to finance Egypt’s $45 billion capital city in the desert

by WorldTribune Staff, September 30, 2016 Egypt’s plan to build a glittering new capital city in the desert was written off by many as nothing more than a dream for a country with a struggling economy. That dream, however, appears headed for reality after China stepped in to bankroll much of the $45 billion project. […]

Greatest Hits, No. 18: N.C. publisher sickened by his survey of 2016 campaign coverage

Greatest Hits, No. 18: N.C. publisher sickened by his survey of 2016 campaign coverage

Special to WorldTribune.com, August 28, 2016 For just one week, I perused 14 newspapers and found 119 anti-Trump articles – 25 from the New York Times, 16 from The Wall Street Journal, 22 from The Washington Post, 19 from USA Today (7 in one paper), 9 from the Los Angeles Times, and 8 from The […]

Greatest hits, No. 19: Lack of outrage noted as Western rancher shot down by Feds

Greatest hits, No. 19: Lack of outrage noted as Western rancher shot down by Feds

Special to WorldTribune.com, Feb. 4, 2016 I.M. Justice, Asheville Tribune Whatever the purpose of the protest, which I can guarantee you does not come out of empty paranoia but from very real and experienced knowledge of how vulnerable we are to federal power, I am shocked at how little courtesy a western rancher is shown. […]

Analyst: Why Trump was right on ‘out of control’ F-35 costs

Analyst: Why Trump was right on ‘out of control’ F-35 costs

by WorldTribune Staff, December 23, 2016 President-elect Donald Trump “can recognize when he is being scammed” and the Pentagon was doing just that by telling him the U.S. could get F-35s “for two to four times what they originally advertised,” security analyst Winslow T. Wheeler said on Dec. 22. Trump had tweeted on Dec. 12 […]

Yankee go home, Yankee hang around: Mixed messages from East Asia

Yankee go home, Yankee hang around: Mixed messages from East Asia

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is riding a populist wave with his declarations that he doesn’t need American military or commercial aid or agreements for U.S. forces to advise and assist the armed forces of the Philippines. He seems to want to reverse careful efforts on both […]

Greatest Hits, No. 20: America rejects the ‘coastal elites’: Trump won 3,084 of 3,141 U.S. counties

Greatest Hits, No. 20: America rejects the ‘coastal elites’: Trump won 3,084 of 3,141 U.S. counties

by WorldTribune Staff, December 2, 2016 That the Democrats have become the party of coastal elites is now backed up by hard data from the Nov. 8 election. President-elect Donald Trump won 3,084 of the 3,141 counties in the United States. Hillary Clinton won just 52 coastal counties and five “county equivalent” cities stretching from […]

Iran-backed Hizbullah forces in Syria using U.S. military vehicles, Israel says

Iran-backed Hizbullah forces in Syria using U.S. military vehicles, Israel says

by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 Hizbullah fighters in Syria are using American armored personnel carriers originally supplied by the U.S. to the Lebanese army, a senior Israeli military officer said. In an intelligence briefing to foreign reporters in Tel Aviv on Dec. 21, the senior officer showed a photograph of Iran-backed Hizbullah military vehicles, […]

Report: ISIL expanded on Al Qaida’s appeal, attracting fighters and adherents from 50 nations

Report: ISIL expanded on Al Qaida’s appeal, attracting fighters and adherents from 50 nations

by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 From the time of its founding by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) presented itself to potential jihadists as a more appealing version of Al Qaida. In a new report, the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, examined actual personnel […]

Assassin of Russian ambassador had guarded Turkey’s President Erdogan

Assassin of Russian ambassador had guarded Turkey’s President Erdogan

by WorldTribune Staff, December 22, 2016 The assassin who gunned down Russia’s ambassador to Turkey had served on security details to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan several times prior to the Dec. 19 assassination of Andrei Karlov. Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, served on police details backing up Erdogan’s personal body guards eight times since the […]

Russian woman convicted of trying to join ISIL

Russian woman convicted of trying to join ISIL

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A Russian court has found a former Moscow State University student guilty of trying to join the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and sentenced her to 4 1/2 years in prison. The Moscow Regional Military court convicted Aleksandra Ivanova — better known […]