Iran warns Saudi Arabia faces ‘divine vengeance’ for executions

Iran warns Saudi Arabia faces ‘divine vengeance’ for executions

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned Saudi Arabia of “divine vengeance” over the execution of an opposition Shi’ite cleric, while Riyadh accused Tehran of supporting terrorism — escalating their criticism of each other just hours after protesters stormed the Saudi Embassy in Tehran. Saudi […]

2016: Light vs darkness, time to solve Syria, opportunity in Latin America, rising China threat

2016: Light vs darkness, time to solve Syria, opportunity in Latin America, rising China threat

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — It’s time to consult the crystal snow globe for a look at both the likely and unexpected events which will shape the New Year. Serious strife both in the Middle East, and Africa to a lesser extent, have expanded leading to a culture of conflict […]

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 6: Special Report: Ready or not, the Paris jihad has begun, and will widen

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 6: Special Report: Ready or not, the Paris jihad has begun, and will widen

Special to WorldTribune.com “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam.” — Barack Hussein Obama (address to the United Nations General Assembly, September 2012) By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Jan. 9: The jihadist murders at the French satirical weekly, Charlie Hebdo, on […]

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 21 – New leader of Free World gives the speech an American president should have made

2015 GREATEST HITS, NO. 21 – New leader of Free World gives the speech an American president should have made

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto Israel will fight Iran alone, if it must. That is the striking message Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to a joint session of Congress, garnering thunderous applause and numerous standing ovations. The historic speech rebukes the appeasement foreign policy of President Obama. It recalls the battle of Chamberlain […]

The Trump ‘chaos’: America needs hope and change now more than ever

The Trump ‘chaos’: America needs hope and change now more than ever

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi What does chaos theory have to do with Donald Trump and are both just what America needs at this moment in history? In his Sept. 29, 2015, article, Mark Leibovich of The New York Times Magazine refers to the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as “a kind of one-man […]

A brief tutorial for The Guardian’s anonymous correspondent in Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (1835-1910) In response to the unnamed Tehran Bureau correspondent of The Guardian and his/her June 17, 2015 article, the following: In a “conceptual” post-Information Age, the anonymous correspondent from The Guardian […]

A brief tutorial for The Guardian’s anonymous correspondent in Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (1835-1910) In response to the unnamed Tehran Bureau correspondent of The Guardian and his/her June 17, 2015 article, the following: In a “conceptual” post-Information Age, the anonymous correspondent from The Guardian […]

New leader of Free World: Netanyahu gives the speech an American president should have made

New leader of Free World: Netanyahu gives the speech an American president should have made

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto Israel will fight Iran alone, if it must. That is the striking message Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered to a joint session of Congress, garnering thunderous applause and numerous standing ovations. The historic speech rebukes the appeasement foreign policy of President Obama. It recalls the battle of Chamberlain […]

#7 — What happened to SEAL Team Six? The most serious scandal of all

#7 — What happened to SEAL Team Six? The most serious scandal of all

TOP 2014 STORIES Special to WorldTribune.com, May 30, 2013 By Grace Vuoto The media is now consistently referring to three scandals engulfing the Obama presidency, even using a shorthand expression such as a “trifecta” of troubling incidents. Yet, there is a scandal brewing that is worse than the Department of Justice violating freedom of the […]

Benghazi e-mail finally answers the basic questions: Who knew what, when?

Benghazi e-mail finally answers the basic questions: Who knew what, when?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The pieces of the Benghazi puzzle are falling into place and the conclusions are damning: America’s intelligence community, our leading military commanders and then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta knew within fifteen minutes of the commencement of hostilities on Sept. 11, 2012 that the American compound in Libya was attacked […]