Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct A report in Beijing’s state media said China’s increasing military “competitiveness” is making the United States “uneasy” and is contributing to the Americans’ need for more muscle flexing, namely the deployment of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea. The U.S. carrier group, which includes […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 27, 2018 A group of Muslim scholars is calling for a “popular uprising” against the United States over its decision to open its Israeli embassy in Jerusalem this May. Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem is “a declaration of war against the Muslims and a step that will establish the illegal […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Artillery fire and indiscriminate air strikes pound and batter the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Civilians, mostly children, are being killed and maimed. The Security Council wrings its hands in pleading for a humanitarian respite in a ongoing horror. And the world community politely averts its […]
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 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 26, 2018 Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto called off his tentatively planned visit to the White House after a phone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump in which Trump refused to yield on his stance that Mexico pay for a proposed border wall. During a 50-minute conversation on Feb. 20, Pena […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 25, 2018 The newly released rebuttal memo by Democrats shows the only collusion with Russians in the 2016 presidential campaign was on the part of Democrats and the Hillary Clinton campaign, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said. The Democrats’ rebuttal memo was released on Feb. 24. Earlier this month, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 25, 2018 Following Vice President Mike Pence’s lead from the opening ceremony, Ivanka Trump did not acknowledge the North Korean delegation at the closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics Sunday. The body language is seen by some analysts as signalling Washington’s anger at Seoul’s appeasement moves blasted by South Korean […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 25, 2018 The U.S. State Department on Feb. 23 announced the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem will open this May. The significantly accelerated time frame for the opening is meant to “coincide with Israel’s 70th anniversary,” State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said. Israel proclaimed independence on May 14, 1948. Previously, Vice President […]
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 […]
