Reporter: Susan Rice scoop not from intel sources but newsroom informants

Reporter: Susan Rice scoop not from intel sources but newsroom informants

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 The writer who broke the story on Susan Rice being behind the unmasking of Trump associates who were surveilled during the 2016 campaign said he got the information from his own newsroom spies. “I didn’t get it from the intelligence community,” Mike Cernovich said. “Everybody’s trying to figure out […]

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Russia has unleashed a torrent of hackers, Internet trolls and fake news reports aimed at undermining American democracy and the U.S. has done little to defend against it, cyber intel specialists said during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. Eugene Rumer, former U.S. national intelligence […]

Meadows stood up to ‘master negotiator’ Trump, but sees compromise by Easter

Meadows stood up to ‘master negotiator’ Trump, but sees compromise by Easter

Special to WorldTribune.com By Pete Zamplas, Asheville Tribune Freedom Caucus Chairman U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows sees the health care stalemate unlocked by Easter, easing off from a demand for a full Obamacare repeal that made national waves after he stood toe to toe with President Donald Trump. But the congressman still firmly seeks to undo […]

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 The world now knows spies infested every part of the 2016 U.S. election and its aftermath. But which intel-scam has the most serious ramifications for U.S. national security? The spotlight is now shifting from the major stars of the drama such as FBI Director James Comey to his deputy […]

Trump’s omnipresent son-in-law now in Iraq

Trump’s omnipresent son-in-law now in Iraq

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 President Donald Trump can’t be everywhere even when his twitter feed can. But sometimes, in 2017, he has to try. That’s where his favored son-in-law is becoming a major factor. From pulling the strings in the U.S.-Mexico relationship to helping solve the nation’s opioid addiction problem and draining the […]

Fallout from Iran ‘nuclear deal’: Saudis seen becoming ‘more active’ in developing WMD

Fallout from Iran ‘nuclear deal’: Saudis seen becoming ‘more active’ in developing WMD

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 Saudi Arabia is expected to actively seek nuclear weapons capability to counter Iran, which continues to advance its own nuclear program despite the nuclear deal with world powers, a report said. “Saudi Arabia is in the early stages of nuclear development” and will only become “more active” in seeking […]

‘Londonistan’: 423 new mosques, 500 closed churches

‘Londonistan’: 423 new mosques, 500 closed churches

by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2017 Britain’s capital city is now “more Islamic than many Muslim countries,” a leading Shia scholar said. By 2020, estimates are that the number of Muslims attending prayers will reach at least 683,000, while the number of Christians attending weekly services will drop to 679,000. The scholar, Maulana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi, […]

The last time nation was this divided the issue was real events, not false narratives

The last time nation was this divided the issue was real events, not false narratives

by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2017 Events that unfolded in the United States in 1968 were staggering, unprecedented, tragic – and real. America was on edge after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. There were riots in the streets of Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. There were widespread demonstrations against […]

Turkey’s April 16 referendum and Erdogan’s transit from irritant to threat

Turkey’s April 16 referendum and Erdogan’s transit from irritant to threat

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Ankara There were, by the end of March 2017, growing indications that Turkish President Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan had concrete plans to unleash a new wave of undocumented migrants into the European Union if he failed to win the absolute power he was seeking in the April 16, […]

Time to once and for all solve Syria as the bloodshed enters seventh year

Time to once and for all solve Syria as the bloodshed enters seventh year

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Syria’s bloody conflict has entered its seventh year with unrelenting killings, displacements and bombardments being “one of the largest man-made humanitarian and protection crises in the world.” As the UN Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien told the Security Council, “Hundreds of thousands of people have been […]