Opposition research firm behind discredited Trump dossier desperate to conceal who paid for it

Opposition research firm behind discredited Trump dossier desperate to conceal who paid for it

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2017 Fusion GPS, which funded the discredited Trump dossier by a former British spy, is pulling out all the stops to keep a House committee from discovering who hired them. The firm says that a House Intelligence Committee subpoena seeking its bank records could ruin its business and put the […]

CIA’s Pompeo: ‘If Kim Jong-Un should vanish? … I’m not going to talk about that’

CIA’s Pompeo: ‘If Kim Jong-Un should vanish? … I’m not going to talk about that’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2017 CIA Director Mike Pompeo said that the Trump administration is intent on preventing North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un from reaching the “end state” of “having the capacity to hold the United States at risk with a nuclear weapons system.” Does preventing the “end state” include regime change in Pyongyang? […]

EU unites against Trump and for Iran deal as key to saving ‘norproliferation architecture’

EU unites against Trump and for Iran deal as key to saving ‘norproliferation architecture’

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty European Union foreign ministers have closed ranks in support of the Iran nuclear agreement, warning that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to abandon the multinational accord jeopardize efforts to find a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff with North Korea. “At a time of acute nuclear […]

Blackwater founder calls on DOJ to investigate unmasking by Obama administration

Blackwater founder calls on DOJ to investigate unmasking by Obama administration

by WorldTribune Staff, October 15, 2017 Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater security firm, is calling for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to launch a formal investigation into the Obama team’s “incidental” surveillance of Americans who met with foreign officials. Erik Prince told The Daily Caller News Foundation that the Obama administration’s unmasking of him […]

Running with the nuclear football: Is acting crazy the best way to deal with Kim Jong-Un?

Running with the nuclear football: Is acting crazy the best way to deal with Kim Jong-Un?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Donald Trump at times engages in such flights of rhetorical fancy that a lot of people think he’s crazy or anyway unpredictable. How can you be sure of a president who talks about destroying North Korea, who holds out “the military option” ― but professes to want to avoid […]

Dangerous linkage: Iran will act on lessons learned from U.S.-North Korea showdown

Dangerous linkage: Iran will act on lessons learned from U.S.-North Korea showdown

Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct After vowing at the United Nations to “completely destroy” North Korea if necessary and following that verbal brinksmanship with the harshest economic sanctions ever imposed by the United States government, President Donald Trump has set U.S. policy on a seemingly inevitable collision course with the Hermit Kingdom. […]

IRGC threatens missile strike on U.S. forces in Mideast as Iran nuclear deal decision nears

IRGC threatens missile strike on U.S. forces in Mideast as Iran nuclear deal decision nears

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has suggested that U.S. military forces in the Middle East could be in danger of an Iranian missile attack if Washington imposes new sanctions against Teheran. Jafari’s comments on October 8 follow several media reports saying that […]

U.S. steps up reconnaissance of North Korea after alerts pointing to action on Oct. 9 or 10

U.S. steps up reconnaissance of North Korea after alerts pointing to action on Oct. 9 or 10

by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2017 The United States has increased U-2 reconnaissance operations over the Korean peninsula after ominous warnings from North Korea watchers in several nations and a first-hand report from Pyongyang. Anton Morozov, a member of the Russian lower house of parliament’s international affairs committee, revealed North Korea’s plans after he returned […]

All-out legal assault on Manafort called standard procedure for Mueller’s pro-Obama prosecutor

All-out legal assault on Manafort called standard procedure for Mueller’s pro-Obama prosecutor

by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2017 A ferocious government prosecutor and Obama donor has onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in his sights. Andrew Weissmann, who has been reunited with special counsel Robert Mueller, his old boss at the FBI, “has an operational history of going after the relatively small to snare the big,” Rowan […]

FBI investigating hack attack on law firm defending top target of Chinese regime

FBI investigating hack attack on law firm defending top target of Chinese regime

by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2017 A law firm that was representing a major dissident who has exposed corruption at the highest realms of the Chinese Communist Party was targeted in a cyber attack, a report said. The FBI is investigating the alleged hacking this month at the Clark Hill law firm, which had been […]

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