The Trump report targets Hillary Clinton’s Justice Department

The Trump report targets Hillary Clinton’s Justice Department

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 @realDonaldTrump on Twitter on June 15: Crooked H destroyed phones w/ hammer, ‘bleached’ emails, & had husband meet w/AG days before she was cleared- & they talk about obstruction? Why is that Hillary Clintons family and Dems dealings with Russia are not looked at, but my non-dealings are? You […]

Iran boat beams laser at U.S. helicopter over Strait of Hormuz

Iran boat beams laser at U.S. helicopter over Strait of Hormuz

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 An Iranian missile boat shined a laser at a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter flying over the Strait of Hormuz on June 13 in what the U.S. military called an “unsafe and unprofessional” action. The Iranian vessel also turned its spotlight on two Navy ships that the helicopter was accompanying […]

Trump pins obstruction of justice probe to ‘phony story’; Putin mocks Comey

Trump pins obstruction of justice probe to ‘phony story’; Putin mocks Comey

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump says that an investigation touching on whether he tried to obstruct justice stems from what he asserts is a “phony story” about possible collusion between his campaign and Russia. Trump made the remark on Twitter on June 15, a day after The […]

Peace? Or should the conference theme be ‘Long live the brutal Kim dynasty’?

Peace? Or should the conference theme be ‘Long live the brutal Kim dynasty’?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – Christine Ahn, a policy analyst with the Korea Peace Network, had what appeared to be good news as she opened a conference here with the portentous title, “Off Ramps to War: Paths to Building Peace with North Korea.” Otto Warmbier, the University of Virginia student accused of […]

Report: West turning blind eye to Bosnia’s ‘way station’ for ISIS

Report: West turning blind eye to Bosnia’s ‘way station’ for ISIS

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 The West is ignoring the increasing numbers of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists who are returning to “safe havens” provided by Muslim-majority Bosnia and Herzegovina, a report said. Bosnia has “put out the welcome mat to the foreign fighters, making it clear that shelter is available to them,” The Daily […]

AOL profile of Scalise shooter raises the question: Was he a hero?

AOL profile of Scalise shooter raises the question: Was he a hero?

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 A ‘Business Insiderprofile on AOL news of James Hodgkinson, who allegedly carried out the attack on Republican members of Congress at a June 14 practice’  for a charity baseball game, paints the picture of a “very mellow” business owner who “stayed up late” talking politics and whose alleged actions […]

ICC calls for immediate arrest of Gadhafi’s son

ICC calls for immediate arrest of Gadhafi’s son

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 The International Criminal Court (ICC) is calling for the “immediate” arrest of Saif al-Islam Gadhafi after he was granted amnesty by one of Libya’s two competing governments. The son of late leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi was sentenced to death in absentia by a Tripoli court in […]

Geostrategy-Direct.com under cyber attack from unknown origins

Geostrategy-Direct.com under cyber attack from unknown origins

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 Email headline alerts for the weekly intelligence briefing by Geostrategy-Direct.com did not go out as scheduled on Tuesday, June 13, and the site has been down for multiple hours at a time since Saturday June 10, its editors reported. Geostrategy-Direct focuses its reporting on geopolitical hot zones such as […]

Open season on Republicans of all rank: Breakdown of America’s social compact?

Open season on Republicans of all rank: Breakdown of America’s social compact?

by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2017 As a New York theater production of the graphic assassination of the president gets standing ovations, a gunman who allegedly wanted to “kill as many Republicans as possible” opened fire on a field in which GOP members of Congress were practicing for a charity baseball game. Rep. Steve Scalise, […]

Sessions: ‘I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false allegations’

Sessions: ‘I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false allegations’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 14, 2017 Saying he would not be intimidated by “false attacks, innuendo and leaks,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions on June 13 repudiated charges by Democrats that he held improper meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. In his opening statement before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sessions also […]