by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2016 Terrorist Omar Mateen told a police negotiator that his attack on an Orlando nightclub was motivated by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, transcripts made public by police show. The conversations between Mateen, who killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub, and an Orlando police negotiator on June 12 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2016 The unwritten rule in Saudi Arabia’s labor force has long been that private sector employees, in return for lifetime employment, would look the other way as public sector elites collected massive salaries and huge bonuses and enjoyed lavish perks. As the price of crude oil continues to plunge, however, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 28, 2016 Libya has been forced to grant Gen. Khalifa Haftar’s faction prominent representation in the new government, the country’s UN-backed prime minister-designate said. “We have no other choice but dialogue and reconciliation,” Fayez al-Sarraj told AFP in an interview in Paris on Sept. 27. “No one wants an escalation or […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey A recent report from the kingdom indicates that dropping hostility to Israel is part of the Saudi regime’s far-reaching reform plans. Israel should respond. In the Sept. 14 issue of POLITICO magazine, retired U.S. diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad published a report on his most recent trip to Saudi Arabia and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, ‘Inside China’, Geostrategy-Direct.com Propaganda specialists surrounding President Xi Jinping are working overtime to burnish his reputation as a close-to-the-people savior who can best acquit himself of Chairman Mao’s “serve the people” credo. Xinhua News Agency over the weekend released a long dispatch on “the basic reform orientations” of Xi […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2016 Hillary Clinton appealed several times to the “fact-checkers” during the first presidential debate. Observers have been quick to point out on non-Mainstream Media outlets that Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) already had a fact-checker on hand: the debate’s moderator. NBC News’s Lester Holt challenged Trump multiple times […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2016 A group of Afghan nationals undergoing military training in the U.S. went missing this month, including three who went AWOL the weekend of an Afghan-born terrorist’s bombing spree in New York and New Jersey. “During the month of September, seven Afghan students were considered absent without leave (AWOL) during […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 27, 2016 With the exception of CNN, the network that for some reason is regarded as “generic” by doctors offices and airports, nearly all snap polls taken after the first presidential debate showed Donald Trump the clear winner. “Many in the media will probably declare Clinton the winner of last night’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Vladimir Monomakh, Russia’s newest nuclear-armed submarine, has reached its permanent base at Viluchinsk on the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. Russia’s Navy announced on September 26 that the vessel had completed its voyage from the Northern Fleet. Construction on the Vladimir Monomakh began in 2006. It […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2016 The FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information via her private email server was a sham from the get-go, a former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst said. “From the moment the EmailGate scandal went public more than a year ago, it was obvious that the Federal Bureau […]
