FPI / February 21, 2020 By Paul Crespo Ostracized and considered illegitimate by the United States and most of Latin America and Europe, Venezuela’s Maduro regime has had one constant supporter — Russia. This support has included everything from symbolic visits by Russian bombers to reported security assistance via Russian state-connected mercenaries from the Wagner […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Roger Stone on Thursday was sentenced to more than three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the up to nine years originally sought by federal prosecutors was excessive. Still, the judge’s sentence was far more than the probation sought by Stone’s defense and, analysts […]
FPI / February 20, 2020 By Lee Cohen The Trump administration sees India as an important strategic ally in the region, particularly useful in pushing back against China’s Asian reach. While the past several years have yielded little significant progress in trade relations, the bilateral economic and defense relationships between the U.S. and India are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Is no one really above the law, as Democrats so often contend? Or is there indeed a two-tier system of justice favoring them? Consider the Logan Act, a federal law that prohibits unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments that are having a dispute with the United States. In 2017, Democrat […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2020 How dare he! (Insert finger wag). A report last week noted that the United States on President Donald Trump’s watch leads the world in reducing carbon emissions. In news that no doubt triggered climate change alarmists who so thoroughly revile the U.S. president, the International Energy Agency (IEA) […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2020 Democrats and their leftist media allies had a “stop-the-presses” moment Tuesday when reports surfaced that Attorney General William Barr was fed up with President Donald Trump’s tweets and was ready to quit. For proper context media consumers had to consider the sources of the Barr rumors — The Washington […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 18, 2020 President Barack Obama ordered the FBI to investigate someone after leftist billionaire George Soros had asked for the investigation, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz said. “I have some information as well about the Obama administration – which will be disclosed in a lawsuit at some point, but I’m […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 18, 2020 In a May 2019 interview, Attorney General William Barr noted that U.S. intelligence agencies have come to identify “the national interest with their own political preferences.” Feeling that “anyone who has a different opinion” is somehow “an enemy of the state,” Barr said, adding that the agencies now […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2020 Attorney Sidney Powell has fired several legal broadsides since she took up the case for retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. But it was the first salvo she fired which alerted Attorney General William Barr that Flynn may have been railroaded, a report said. In the first paragraph of […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, February 17, 2020 In typical end-of-the-week news dump fashion, the Department of Justice announced on Friday that disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe would not be charged over false statements he made regarding an unauthorized leak to the media. McCabe was fired in March 2018, shortly after a report by […]
