Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk In the excitement over impending summits, we may have forgotten one other solution everyone was talking about, oh, just a month or two ago. Whatever happened to all the enthusiasm for forcing Kim Jong-Un out of his job by internal upheaval, external attack, or maybe just a plain old […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2018 CIA Director Mike Pompeo, U.S. President Donald Trump’s choice to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, is an Iran hawk who, as a congressman, opposed the Iran nuclear deal. Trump has called it “the worst deal ever” and cited it on March 13 in explaining why he fired Tillerson. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants the U.S. military to create a new “space force” that would be separate from the Pentagon’s current army, navy, and air force. Trump told troops at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station near San Diego on March 13 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2018 A group of Obama administration officials have formed a think tank that aims to organize a “relentless, and national response” to what it calls the Trump administration’s “dangerous approach to national security.” National Security Action (NSA) is co-chaired by President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2018 Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is selling his house in Virginia to help pay his legal bills, family members say. Flynn’s 13-year-old, three-bedroom townhouse in Old Town Alexandria outside Washington was listed for sale in December with an asking price of $895,000, money which will go to his […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tariffs are in a sense like other taxes; easy to impose, hard to roll back, and usually employed for the “greater good.” Thus triggering tariffs creates a feel good solution, a political sugar rush, but often later a bitter backlash to those ordering them. I […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 While the proposed meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has been the subject of banner headlines worldwide, it has garnered no official media coverage in the reclusive North. North Korea has yet to issue any official response to Kim Jong-Un’s agreement to hold […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 The United States this week will seek to mobilize a global response to the opioid crisis, the U.S. State Department said on March 12. The State Department said the U.S. delegation to the 61st UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), to be held March 12-16 in Vienna, Austria, “will […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 South Korea’s national security adviser has said that U.S. President Donald Trump has been fully engaged since the beginning in negotiating with North Korea. For all those hours of engagement, however, it took only about half a minute on Thursday (March 8), for Trump to set in motion a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 The signing of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 opened the floodgates for all Mideast regional powers to pursue their own nuclear programs, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Under the deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), “Many countries in the Middle East are […]
