by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) warned earlier this week it planned terror attacks in Florida and issued a list of names of Florida residents it intended to kill, according to a report. Shoebat.com reported on the threat on June 9. The report said ISIL released a “hit […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Israel just celebrated its 68th birthday. Since President Harry Truman overrode the entire foreign policy community of his day, inside the government and outside, and recognized the new State of Israel, the United States has been Israel’s external sponsor of last resort. There is nothing unusual in this — […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2016 A dust-up over his role at the funeral of boxing legend Muhammad Ali prompted Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to leave the proceedings early and fly back to Turkey. Erdogan and other government representatives left for Turkey on Feb. 9 without participating in the full funeral ceremony in Louisville, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 10, 2016 On the same day President Barack Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton to succeed him, the White House for the first time referred to the probe into the former secretary of state’s emails as a “criminal investigation.” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest used the term at his June 9 briefing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 Sen. Ted Cruz is spearheading new legislation aimed at stopping U.S. museums from “waiting out the clock” in a bid to keep high-priced artworks looted by Nazis from being returned to Jewish Holocaust victims. “Over 70 years later — we are still trying to cope with the consequences of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 9, 2016 Hillary Clinton, in a June 8 interview with PBS, claimed no American lives were lost in the U.S. intervention in Libya and hinted that “pre-existing rivalries” were the primary cause of the chaos that followed. “After due diligence, we came up with a way of supporting their efforts that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 The campaign swimming in cash from Wall Street and Big Oil is now decking out its candidate in Giorgio Armani. Hillary Clinton recently donned a $12,495 Armani tweed jacket while giving a speech on income inequality. The day coat, made of “napa lambskin cut into strips and woven on […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 8, 2016 Three Republican congressmen who voted against Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers have been denied visas by Teheran. Calling their request to monitor the nuclear deal a “publicity stunt,” Iran on June 7 said it would not grant visas to Reps. Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey, Mike Pompeo of […]
The program for this week’s secretive meeting of “political leaders and experts from industry, finance, academia and the media” lists as agenda items: China, cybersecurity, migrants, Russia, technology, etc. Others guess the real agenda includes Donald Trump and the spread of populist movements worldwide feeding on growing distrust of global elitists of the type slated […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2016 National Security Advisor Susan Rice scolded Israel while at the same time pledging a record U.S. military aid package to the Jewish state. Rice, in an address to the American Jewish Committee’s Global Forum on June 6, said that “even in these days of belt-tightening, we are prepared to […]
