by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 An FBI agent who was removed from the team of special counsel Robert Mueller over anti-Trump texts he exchanged with his FBI lawyer mistress was close friends with a judge who recused himself from the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, newly released documents show. Text messages […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2018 North Korea dispatched top diplomats separately to Sweden and Finland for what observers say were meetings to lay the groundwork for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. Choe Kang-Il, deputy director-general for North American affairs at the North’s foreign ministry, headed to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has accused Iran of “mucking around” in Iraq’s parliamentary elections, in which Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is seeking another term in office in May. “Iran is following Russia’s example of mucking around in Iraq’s elections,” Mattis told reporters as he returned […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2018 An article on alleged Russian intelligence communications with the Trump campaign that helped The New York Times win a top journalism award was complete “bulls—,” according to FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The February 2017 report detailed how U.S. intelligence had acquired numerous intercepts and phone records of Trump campaign officials […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk In the excitement over impending summits, we may have forgotten one other solution everyone was talking about, oh, just a month or two ago. Whatever happened to all the enthusiasm for forcing Kim Jong-Un out of his job by internal upheaval, external attack, or maybe just a plain old […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 14, 2018 CIA Director Mike Pompeo, U.S. President Donald Trump’s choice to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, is an Iran hawk who, as a congressman, opposed the Iran nuclear deal. Trump has called it “the worst deal ever” and cited it on March 13 in explaining why he fired Tillerson. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants the U.S. military to create a new “space force” that would be separate from the Pentagon’s current army, navy, and air force. Trump told troops at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station near San Diego on March 13 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2018 A group of Obama administration officials have formed a think tank that aims to organize a “relentless, and national response” to what it calls the Trump administration’s “dangerous approach to national security.” National Security Action (NSA) is co-chaired by President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2018 Former national security adviser Michael Flynn is selling his house in Virginia to help pay his legal bills, family members say. Flynn’s 13-year-old, three-bedroom townhouse in Old Town Alexandria outside Washington was listed for sale in December with an asking price of $895,000, money which will go to his […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tariffs are in a sense like other taxes; easy to impose, hard to roll back, and usually employed for the “greater good.” Thus triggering tariffs creates a feel good solution, a political sugar rush, but often later a bitter backlash to those ordering them. I […]
