The other, non-Korean nuclear threat: Israeli strike called only way to stop Iran

The other, non-Korean nuclear threat: Israeli strike called only way to stop Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2017 An Israeli military strike may be the only option left to effectively derail Iran’s nuclear program, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said. Decades of failed U.S. diplomacy with Iran, including the Obama administration’s nuclear accord, actually paved the way for the Israeli option, Bolton told the […]

15 Turkish officials indicted for attacks on protesters during Erdogan visit to U.S.

15 Turkish officials indicted for attacks on protesters during Erdogan visit to U.S.

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 A grand jury in Washington, D.C. has indicted 15 Turkish security personnel for attacking demonstrators who were protesting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Washington on May 16. A total of 19 people have been indicted and all were charged with conspiracy to commit a crime of violence, […]

Who is ‘running the FBI’? Agency keeps lid on Clinton records, cites lack of ‘public interest’

Who is ‘running the FBI’? Agency keeps lid on Clinton records, cites lack of ‘public interest’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 The public just isn’t interested enough in Hillary Clinton’s FBI files to have them released, the agency said in rejecting a lawyer’s open-records request. “You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told lawyer Ty […]

Some blunt questions for the authors of our new Afghanistan strategy

Some blunt questions for the authors of our new Afghanistan strategy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Washington staff, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs U.S. President Donald Trumps was fully aware that his Aug. 21, 2017, speech on a supposedly new U.S. “strategy” on Afghanistan — his first major prime time policy speech since taking office — was neither his speech nor his policy. Neither was it, in any […]

Mossad turns over photos said to show Iran violated nuclear agreement

Mossad turns over photos said to show Iran violated nuclear agreement

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2017 Israel’s spy agency is said to have delivered evidence to the United States that shows Iran is in violation of the nuclear deal. Mossad director Yossi Cohen, who headed an Israeli delegation to Washington, D.C. last week, is said to have provided the Trump administration and Congress with photographic […]

U.S. report: N. Koreans who practice religion still subject to ‘executions, torture, …  arrests’

U.S. report: N. Koreans who practice religion still subject to ‘executions, torture, …  arrests’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2017 North Korea continues to brutalize those who practice religion in the country, the U.S. State Department said in a report. The Kim Jong-Un regime “continued to deal harshly with those who engaged in almost any religious practices through executions, torture, beatings, and arrests,” the 2016 Annual Report on International […]

Sebastian Gorka’s resignation letter in full

Sebastian Gorka’s resignation letter in full

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2017 Sebastian Gorka, who since January has served as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, resigned from the White House on Aug. 25. Full text of his resignation letter: Dear Mr. President, It has been my high honor to serve in the White House as one of your Deputy Assistants […]

Bannon in the House? Trump reportedly blasts ‘globalists’ in Oval Office meeting

Bannon in the House? Trump reportedly blasts ‘globalists’ in Oval Office meeting

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2017 Globalists may not have the grip on the White House that many observers foresaw after the departure of Steve Bannon, a report said. Details have emerged of a small Oval Office meeting in which President Donald Trump slammed senior staff as they pushed back “against his hawkish trade war […]

Death by suicide: ‘Drain the swamp’ talk won votes, seals doom of the Republican Party

Death by suicide: ‘Drain the swamp’ talk won votes, seals doom of the Republican Party

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2017 After President Donald Trump’s election victory, Republicans had control of the House, Senate and White House and the opportunity to do all they promised “with a snap of the fingers,” a prominent conservative said. The GOP “now had the power to enact every single spending cut they’d ever solemnly […]

Counterterror expert Gorka exits White House under a cloud generated by the Left

Counterterror expert Gorka exits White House under a cloud generated by the Left

by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2017 Having departed the White House amid constant smears from the Left, national security and counterterrorism expert Sebastian Gorka told President Donald Trump in a resignation letter that supporters within his administration of the “Make America Great Again” credo have been systematically eliminated or silenced. News of Deputy Assistant to […]