Man of the hour in the North Korea crisis: Vladimir Putin?

Man of the hour in the North Korea crisis: Vladimir Putin?

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin Sept. 6, 2017, began taking the initiative to control the “crisis” over North Korean strategic weapons, because Russia had more at stake in resolving the issue than perhaps any other nation-state. There was strong evidence that President Putin was working to […]

Pax Koreana? In their dreams

Pax Koreana? In their dreams

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Donald Trump doesn’t get it. He warns South Korea about “appeasement,” but who’s appeasing whom? Yes, President Moon Jae-In, hero of the candlelight protests that lofted him as the liberal darling into the presidency after the ouster of the conservative Park Geun-Hye, would love to go down in history […]

President reveals his ‘great love’, but what of the forgotten Americans who elected him?

President reveals his ‘great love’, but what of the forgotten Americans who elected him?

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Trump may have just committed political suicide. He announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, will be rescinded, but only after a six-month delay. The reason: Trump wants to give Congress the opportunity to pass a legislative amnesty for the so-called “Dreamers.” This […]

Office space: Gorka, Bannon to advance Trump agenda, free of White House constraints

Office space: Gorka, Bannon to advance Trump agenda, free of White House constraints

by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2017 Sebastian Gorka, who late last month stepped down as deputy adviser to the president, said he can better serve the winning Trump’s campaign public mandate away from a cramped atmosphere marked by “two different world views.” Gorka told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow last week that he resigned because “people […]

Amb. Nikki Haley: Iran shows ‘true colors’ by providing arms to Hamas

Amb. Nikki Haley: Iran shows ‘true colors’ by providing arms to Hamas

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on August 31 that Iran is showing its “true colors” by renewing ties with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and providing it with arms. Yahya al-Sinwar, the new head of Hamas, said this week that Iran has […]

Obama’s leaked letter to his successor: ‘It’s up to us … to sustain the international order

Obama’s leaked letter to his successor: ‘It’s up to us … to sustain the international order

by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2017 In what would be the last direct communication between the 44th and 45th presidents, Barack Obama left a 275-word hand-written letter to Donald Trump in the top drawer of the Resolute Desk. CNN said it obtained a copy of the letter, written on White House stationery, from someone Trump […]

More than 110,000 sign petition asking White House to declare George Soros a terrorist

More than 110,000 sign petition asking White House to declare George Soros a terrorist

by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2017 A petition posted on the “We the People” section of the White House website asks the Trump administration to declare leftist billionaire George Soros a domestic terrorist. The petition has over 110,000 signatures, which passes the threshold to necessitate a response from the White House. Several petitions that have […]

Moscow blames the Obama administration for ‘undermining Russia-U.S. relations’

Moscow blames the Obama administration for ‘undermining Russia-U.S. relations’

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russia said on September 1 it would respond harshly to any U.S. moves meant to hurt it, a day after the United States told Moscow to close its consulate in San Francisco and locations in Washington and New York. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said […]

Six years after the West toppled Gadhafi, world still coping with a shattered Libya

Six years after the West toppled Gadhafi, world still coping with a shattered Libya

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Libya is a shattered land. Awash in weapons and explosives, riven by tribal and political rivalries, flooded by illegal migrants, and haven to lethal terrorist groups, Libya remains North Africa’s glaring tragedy, six years after an Anglo/French/American military effort toppled the Gadhafi regime. Now with […]

Tit for tat: U.S. closes 3 Russian consular facilities in U.S.

Tit for tat: U.S. closes 3 Russian consular facilities in U.S.

Special to WorldTribune.com By Christopher Sparks, September 1, 2017 The U.S. State Department on Aug. 31 said that, “in the spirit of parity,” the U.S. is closing Russian diplomatic facilities in San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and New York City. The closures will be completed by Sept. 2, a person identified as a senior Trump administration […]