Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs A major new crisis, with potentially long-term ramifications, has begun between “the West” (essentially the UK, U.S., and European Union) and Russia without any major questioning as to the logic or causes of it. The “crisis” centered around the assassination attempt in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump has used an annual message to Iranians and others celebrating Norouz, the Persian New Year, to sharply criticize Iran’s government and the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). “I wish a beautiful and blessed Norouz to the millions of people around the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2018 High-ranking government officials not only plotted to make sure Hillary Clinton was not indicted, but had a “backup plan” to “basically frame” President Donald Trump for Russian meddling in the 2016 election, a former FBI official said. “I think we have ample facts revealed to us during this last […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2018 An unelected “deep state” that a new poll finds most Americans believe is “pulling the levers of power” in Washington, D.C. China has acted to penalize “untrustworthy” citizens via their digital social credit scores. And “ballot rigging” has been caught on camera in Russia. Welcome to 2018. A new […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The fate of three American citizens still imprisoned in North Korea is on the line in a flurry of talks between North Korean and Swedish diplomats in the run-up to next month’s summit between North Korea’s leader KimJong-Un and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In and then the summit in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 President Donald Trump on March 16 signed legislation which calls for the U.S. government to support expanded official visits to and from Taiwan “at all levels.” China voiced its displeasure with Trump’s signing of the Taiwan Travel Act, saying that it “severely violates the one-China principle, the political foundation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 An FBI agent who was removed from the team of special counsel Robert Mueller over anti-Trump texts he exchanged with his FBI lawyer mistress was close friends with a judge who recused himself from the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, newly released documents show. Text messages […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 North Korea dispatched top diplomats separately to Sweden and Finland for what observers say were meetings to lay the groundwork for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Choe Kang-Il, deputy director-general for North American affairs at the North’s foreign ministry, headed to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has accused Iran of “mucking around” in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, in which Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is seeking another term in office in May. “Iran is following Russia’s example of mucking around in Iraq’s elections,” Mattis told reporters as he returned […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2018 An article on alleged Russian intelligence communications with the Trump campaign that helped The New York Times win a top journalism award was complete “bulls—,” according to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The February 2017 report detailed how U.S. intelligence had acquired numerous intercepts and phone records of Trump campaign officials […]