by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 No evidence was ever produced that Richard Nixon approved the Watergate break-in. Likewise President Donald Trump has offered no proof that former President Barack Obama knew of the wiretapping of Trump Tower, media reports say. The Watergate scandal ended in Richard Nixon’s resignation and inspired a generation of adversarial […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 Several journalists, bloggers and video teams who were critical of the Obama administration’s handling of the 2014 Bundy ranch standoff in Nevada and the 2016 confrontation at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon are facing criminal charges. Representatives of major media organizations, such as CNN and CBS, that covered […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Following is the fifth excerpt from a book by WorldTribune and Geostrategy-Direct columnist Donald Kirk and the Korean author Kim Ki-Sam, “How South Korea’s Kim Dae-Jung bought his Peace Prize and financed Kim Jong-Il’s nuclear program”. While the governments of South Korea and the United States helped suppress publication […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 In what may be the ACLU’s version of March Madness, the group is coaching anti-Trump protesters on their rights to vocally oppose the president’s policies – and to remain silent when they get arrested. “We will bring all the lawsuits necessary to defend these rights,” ACLU Executive Director Anthony […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 A second investigation, separate from a FISA warrant issued in October, targeted alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, a national security correspondent said. Citing senior U.S. officials, Sara Carter of Circa News told Fox News host Sean Hannity on March 8 that there were “two instances” of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 The president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate said the Raleigh News & Observer prodded Facebook to censor reader comments on news stories he had posted. “Today The News & Observer had Facebook delete hundreds of your comments on this page – just because they don’t like that we include […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 Two New York University (NYU) professors who undertook an experiment with the intent of showing the gender bias Hillary Clinton faced in the 2016 election were “unsettled” when the outcome was the opposite of what they expected. Professors Maria Guadalupe and Joe Salvatore and audiences of the gender-swap mock […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty About 400 additional U.S. forces have been temporarily deployed to Syria with heavy artillery in preparation for a fight to oust the extremist group Islamic State (IS) from its self-declared headquarters in the northern city of Raqqa. U.S. Air Force Colonel John Dorrian, a spokesman for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 9, 2017 The U.S. Marines have established America’s first artillery base in Syria as the fight to drive Islamic State (ISIS) from its de facto capital at Raqqa intensifies. A U.S. defense official would not speak to the size of the detachment deployed to Syria, but said it included elements of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2017 Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch signed off on both FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance) Court requests to wiretap the Trump campaign, according to reports. All applications to the FISA Court were signed off on by the attorney general, ABC news confirmed. This “means that she chose not to investigate the […]
