by WorldTribune Staff, December 28, 2016 In the six months since the failed coup attempt, Turkey has arrested more than 1,600 people and is investigating at least 10,000 others who are accused of supporting terror groups or insulting Turkish officials on social media. Social media access is frequently restricted or cut off in Turkey to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com, September 20, 2016 Jeffrey T. Kuhner Hillary Clinton is illegitimate. Whether or not she wins in November, Clinton has forfeited the political credibility and moral authority to be our next president. Hillary may not know it, but she has already lost. Polls now show Donald Trump is surging; Clinton is plummeting. A […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) will be defeated in Iraq and Syria in 2017, but the driving force behind its bloody ideology, the establishment of a Salafi Sunni Islam Kingdom on earth, will not go away, analysts say. ISIL “is arguably more dangerous and effective than Al […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2016 Turns out liberals, quick to whip up a post and an angry emoticon when it comes to pointing out the alleged intolerance and bigotry of conservatives, are a long way from the altruism they espouse. According to a new poll by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), Democratic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 27, 2016 Rural voters went for Donald Trump by a 3 to 1 margin over Hillary Clinton because the media didn’t do a good enough job informing those voters of how much they were benefiting from President Barack Obama’s policies, the soon-to-be ex-president said. “Tom — Tom Vilsack, my agriculture secretary […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 26, 2016 Israel has “ironclad information” that President Barack Obama pushed the UN resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity, an Israeli official said on Dec. 25. The resolution was passed by the UN Security Council on Dec. 23 due to a U.S. abstention, a decision Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs staff in Ankara and Washinngton, D.C. Turkish President Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan has moved rapidly to recapture U.S. strategic support by wooing the incoming U.S. Administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. President Erdoğan is attempting to stem Turkish economic collapse, Turkish expulsion from NATO, and total rejection of Turkey […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran has said it will only pay half of the price announced for 80 new planes from U.S. firm Boeing. Iran’s official IRNA news agency quoted Deputy Transport Minister Asghar Fakhrieh Kashan as saying the country will only pay half of the $16.6 billion deal because […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 25, 2016 In challenging President Barack Obama’s policies on nuclear weapons, Mideast peace, Iran and China, President-elect Donald Trump is also challenging the notion that America speaks with one voice on foreign policy. Trump’s outspokenness has wrankled the Obama White House and set up a rare and public policy confrontation between […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 Two mysterious deaths, the July 8 murder of a young Democratic staffer, and the Aug. 2 death of a man who served lawsuit papers to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), have stirred up a slew of conspiracy rumors on the web. Shawn Lucas, the man who served papers to […]