France’s surprise Western Saharan gamble deals setback to Marxist Polisario Front

France’s surprise Western Saharan gamble deals setback to Marxist Polisario Front

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 9, 2024 PARIS — In what’s described as a thunderclap in French North African policy, the Paris government recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the long disputed Western Sahara, a region long contested by rival Algeria and a lingering subject of endless United Nations deliberations. In a deft and […]

Judiciary report: DHS released 99 on terror watchlist; Immigration judges unaware

Judiciary report: DHS released 99 on terror watchlist; Immigration judges unaware

by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security (DHS), between fiscal years 2021 and 2023, released into American communities 99 individuals who are on the U.S. terrorist watchlist, according to an Aug. 5 House Judiciary Committee subcommittee report. In that time period, a total of 250 illegal […]

North Korean shock: Kim commissions up to 1,000 nuclear capable SRBMs

North Korean shock: Kim commissions up to 1,000 nuclear capable SRBMs

FPI / August 8, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a shocking demonstration of North Korean nuclear power, on Aug. 5 North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un presided over a commissioning ceremony for 250 transporter erector launchers (TELs) for the Hwasong-11D, demonstrating that North Korea may now have 1,000 of these optionally tactical nuclear warhead armed […]

Harris-Waltz cling to Biden media strategy; Stolen valor scandal gains momentum

Harris-Waltz cling to Biden media strategy; Stolen valor scandal gains momentum

by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Big media and the Harris-Walz campaign are reading from the same script without embarrassment having apparently decided that most Americans and the independent media should simply be ignored. Thus Kamala Harris is “stylish” and running mate Tim Walz is “affable.” As far as their positions […]

Stuck in space: Astronauts’ 8-day mission on DEI Boeing’s Starliner prolonged; SpaceX to the rescue?

Stuck in space: Astronauts’ 8-day mission on DEI Boeing’s Starliner prolonged; SpaceX to the rescue?

by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The U.S. astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station in June via Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may end up hitching a ride home with Elon Musk’s SpaceX amid concerns over whether the Boeing craft can safely return the astronauts to Earth. Although Boeing has vouched […]

Election year metrics: Gun sales up, Trump holding lead in polls

Election year metrics: Gun sales up, Trump holding lead in polls

by WorldTribune Staff, August 8, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The combination of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and the anointing of Kamala Harris, who chose leftist gun-grabber Tim Walz as her running mate, has led to an increase in gun sales, industry insiders say. While still high historically, gun sales month […]

Vetting Walz, Day 2: Vance doesn’t hold back; ‘Tampon Tim’

Vetting Walz, Day 2: Vance doesn’t hold back; ‘Tampon Tim’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was demoted and did not retire from the U.S. Army as a command sergeant major as he has long claimed on his biography, the Minnesota National Guard confirmed on Wednesday. While Walz temporarily held the title of command sergeant […]

Fixing 2020? New rule empowers Georgia county election boards to conduct ‘reasonable inquiry’

Fixing 2020? New rule empowers Georgia county election boards to conduct ‘reasonable inquiry’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The Georgia State Election Board on Aug. 6 passed a new rule which will give county election boards the authority to examine election results, including this November’s, before certifying them. In a 3-2 ruling, the board voted to allow county officials in the state’s increasingly […]

China eyes ‘low cost’ space battle station to control Earth-Moon system

China eyes ‘low cost’ space battle station to control Earth-Moon system

FPI / August 7, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher A curious article from the 2023 volume of China’s Journal of Deep Space Exploration (JDSE) appears to compare the merits of two modes of transport to the Moon, direct ascent with a super heavy space launch vehicle (SLV) versus a relay system using a small space […]

FBI flashback: 50 years ago, Richard Nixon resigned after biggest landslide victory in 150 years

FBI flashback: 50 years ago, Richard Nixon resigned after biggest landslide victory in 150 years

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2024 Contract With Our Readers In 1972, President Richard Nixon won re-election in what remains one of the largest landslides in U.S. presidential election history. Nixon won the Electoral College vote over leftist Democrat George McGovern, 520-17. That mark was topped only by James Monroe and George Washington, both unanimous […]