Russia vetoes UN resolution on Syria; Assad calls chemical attack a U.S. ‘fabrication’

Russia vetoes UN resolution on Syria; Assad calls chemical attack a U.S. ‘fabrication’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 13, 2017 In vetoing a draft resolution condemning Syria for the April 4 chemical weapons attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Russia “said no” to resolving the Syrian conflict, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said. “Today’s vote could have been a turning point,” Haley said on April 12. “Once more, […]

Trumped: What the Mar-a-lago summit revealed about the limits of Chinese power

Trumped: What the Mar-a-lago summit revealed about the limits of Chinese power

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Chinese President Xi Jinping appears not only to have underestimated U.S. President Donald Trump, but also to have exposed Beijing’s weaknesses for the world to see. Trump’s ordered missile strikes on a Syrian airbase on April 6 occurred while conducting a critical summit meeting with Xi at the U.S. president’s […]

U.S. missile strike on Syrian air base signals dramatic shift in Middle East policy

U.S. missile strike on Syrian air base signals dramatic shift in Middle East policy

Special to WorldTribune.com Special Report by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct.com President Donald Trump has backed up remarks about his revulsion at the Syrian military’s use of sarin gas that killed some 100 civilians and injured scores more by ordering a large cruise missile attack against the Syrian air base from where the attack was launched. […]

Susan Rice and all the president’s men: The unmasking of Barack Obama

Susan Rice and all the president’s men: The unmasking of Barack Obama

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Susan Rice must be indicted. And she should spend years in prison. Former President Obama’s national security advisor is in the middle of a political firestorm. Numerous media outlets report that Rice oversaw a spying operation on Donald Trump that lasted for nearly a year beginning in January 2016. […]

China continues to fuel growing Korean crisis; Misled world on coal imports

China continues to fuel growing Korean crisis; Misled world on coal imports

Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea will figure prominently in President Donald Trump’s summit in South Florida this week with China’s Xi Jinping. By Geostrategy-Direct China is once again abrogating its promises and obligation to implement international sanction regimes against Pyongyang. Beijing has continued its illicit trade with North Korea, allowing the Kim regime to obtain […]

Corporate media cover up: Turns out there was a government interfering in the election — ours

Corporate media cover up: Turns out there was a government interfering in the election — ours

Special to WorldTribune.com Excerpts from the Rush Limbaugh show, April 4. RUSH: It is fascinating to watch an entire industry disintegrate before our very eyes. So much of what we call the news business is literally eating itself alive and I guess they’re willing to do it. I have never in my life seen such […]

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Fresh evidence of the Obama administration’s political influence operations emerged on April 3 with the news that then-national security adviser Susan Rice was behind the unmasking of Trump associates. “Rice certainly wasn’t politically naive about the political uses of intelligence information,” the New York Post noted in an editorial. […]

Report: Susan Rice ordered detailed intelligence spreadsheets on Trump associates

Report: Susan Rice ordered detailed intelligence spreadsheets on Trump associates

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Susan Rice, national security adviser under former President Barack Obama, requested intelligence agencies to provide her detailed lists of phone calls involving Donald Trump and his associates during the 2016 presidential campaign, a former U.S. attorney said. “What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. […]

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Russia has unleashed a torrent of hackers, Internet trolls and fake news reports aimed at undermining American democracy and the U.S. has done little to defend against it, cyber intel specialists said during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. Eugene Rumer, former U.S. national intelligence […]

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 The world now knows spies infested every part of the 2016 U.S. election and its aftermath. But which intel-scam has the most serious ramifications for U.S. national security? The spotlight is now shifting from the major stars of the drama such as FBI Director James Comey to his deputy […]