How wrong were the polls? ‘Trump’s path to victory … nonexistent’, the Washington Post announced on Oct. 18

How wrong were the polls? ‘Trump’s path to victory … nonexistent’, the Washington Post announced on Oct. 18

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 Math is hard – just ask The Washington Post. The Post’s pollsters came to the conclusion that it was mathematically impossible for Donald Trump to get to the 270 electoral vote threshold. “Trump’s path to an electoral college victory isn’t narrow. It’s nonexistent,” read the Post’s Oct. 18 headline […]

Nationwide rallies, funded by Soros, counter Trump’s victory; ‘Snowflakes’ melt

Nationwide rallies, funded by Soros, counter Trump’s victory; ‘Snowflakes’ melt

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 As President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton called for Americans to support President-elect Donald Trump, George Soros was sending his minions out to protest free and fair elections. The mass temper tantrums, organized by MoveOn.org, emerged in New York, D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, and other major cities […]

Will Obama do for Hillary Clinton what Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon?

Will Obama do for Hillary Clinton what Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon?

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 Would President Barack Obama grant an unconditional pardon for Hillary Clinton, as President Gerald Ford did for Richard Nixon, before he leaves office on Jan. 20? Clinton has yet to be charged with a crime, but when President Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974 one month after Nixon […]

Make believe war games south of the DMZ, but what if the North is for real?

Make believe war games south of the DMZ, but what if the North is for real?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk An air of unreality pervaded the atmosphere if not the skies over Osan Air Base this week as three of the niftiest warplanes on the planet zoomed off the runway for war games intended to strengthen their ability to work together to defeat a common foe. Circumspectly, officers of […]

Adviser says Trump tsunami will shift U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

Adviser says Trump tsunami will shift U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has “every intention” of keeping his vow to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, a Trump adviser said on Nov. 9. “It was a campaign promise and there is every intention to keep it,” David Friedman told the Jerusalem Post. “We are going to see a […]

Iran’s Rouhani says there is no way Trump can torpedo nuclear deal

Iran’s Rouhani says there is no way Trump can torpedo nuclear deal

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 There is “no possibility” that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump can change Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers, Iran’s president said on Nov. 9. “Iran’s understanding in the nuclear deal was that the accord was not concluded with one country or government but was approved by a resolution of the […]

Syrian opposition appeals to Trump to protect civilians

Syrian opposition appeals to Trump to protect civilians

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2016 The leader of a Syrian opposition group is calling on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to help protect Syrian civilians from the ongoing brutality of the Bashar Assad regime. Riad Hijab, head of the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said on Nov. 9 that Syrian civilians were in urgent need of […]

World leaders hail Trump win; foreign policy elites in denial

World leaders hail Trump win; foreign policy elites in denial

by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 While world leaders were quick to congratulate Donald Trump for his historic victory on Nov. 8, shell-shocked foreign policy types were not so sure the sun would come up on Nov. 9 as President Barack Obama had assured. Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi was the first leaders to phone […]

Saudi indefinitely halts oil shipments to Egypt

Saudi indefinitely halts oil shipments to Egypt

by WorldTribune Staff, November 9, 2016 The rift between Egypt and Saudi Arabia appeared to widen on Nov. 8 when the Saudis indefinitely halted oil shipments to Cairo. Saudi King Salman in April agreed to provide Egypt with 700,000 tons of refined oil products per month for five years but the shipments stopped arriving in […]

Jubilation, concern for Trump’s safety as Russia reacts to ‘great American revolution’

Jubilation, concern for Trump’s safety as Russia reacts to ‘great American revolution’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Tom Balmforth, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty MOSCOW — As the news of Donald Trump’s upset victory in the U.S. presidential election rolled into Russia, there was jubilation among many allies of President Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin — which has demonized Hillary Clinton and seemed to root for the Republican candidate […]