Special to WorldTribune.com By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Critics have complained for years of the appearance of cooperation between Iran’s state-controlled television and its hard-line security structures, citing smears against activists and the broadcast of prisoner confessions thought to have been extracted under duress. But lawyers for the family of a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The war between the urban globalists and the regional nationalists in the United States has moved into a second year, and a second phase. Superficially, the ongoing skirmishes between U.S. President Donald Trump and the combined forces of the Democratic Party and much […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Ivanka Trump’s upcoming weekend in South Korea is sure to set off another round of intense speculation while the vice chairman of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party leads a delegation south at just about the same time. The big question is whether the presidential daughter […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Much too much is being made of the naming of Russian agents operating in the U.S. and their ostensible efforts to thwart our electoral process. There is a suspicion that part of the hullabaloo is an attempt to draw attention away from more important scandalous matters, including the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 18, 2018 In her last year as U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power reportedly “unmasked” more than 260 Americans as part of an effort to track associates of Donald Trump although she later testified the requests were made not by her but in her name. A government watchdog group has […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 15, 2018 The directors of the CIA, FBI and NSA are recommending that U.S. citizens avoid buying smartphones from China’s tech giants, who may be “maliciously” modifying the phones. The intelligence officials told the Senate Intelligence Committee that it was not a good idea for Americans to buy Huawei or ZTE […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk American policy-makers appear highly uncertain and divided among themselves as to moves toward negotiation between North and South Korea in the wake of the Winter Olympics. The view from the White House, is that President Donald Trump has succeeded in forcing the hand of Kim Jong-Un, compelling him to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 14, 2018 The Republican chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has singlehandedly blown the lid off abuses in the investigation of alleged Trump-Russia collusion. Rep. Devin Nunes has been so effective, it seems, that one liberal pundit actually accused him of being a Russian spy. “Is it possible […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The revelation that former British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) officer Christopher Steele may have been illegally recruited by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation could have major ramifications for the UKUSA Accord (“Five Eyes”) signatory countries with the U.S.: the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 7, 2018 A September 2016 text message between FBI agents Lisa Page and Peter Strzok said that then-President Barack Obama wanted “to know everything we’re doing.” The message from Page to Strzok discussed talking points that were being prepared for then-FBI Director James Comey to give to Obama. The texts were […]
