Official warns Iran will withdraw from nuclear deal if ‘no economic benefit’

Official warns Iran will withdraw from nuclear deal if ‘no economic benefit’

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran has threatened to withdraw from the landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers if there is no economic benefit from it and major banks continue to fail to do business with Tehran. “If the same policy of confusion and uncertainties about the JCPOA [nuclear agreement] […]

Korean chessboard moves into the post-Olympics phase

Korean chessboard moves into the post-Olympics phase

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Now the real games begin; the interplay between North and South Korea and between the U.S. and both Koreas. The players may have shifted some of the pieces around the chessboard during these most political of Winter Olympics, but it’s much too early to know what happens next, much […]

Nunes letter demands answers to 10 questions from top Obama officials

Nunes letter demands answers to 10 questions from top Obama officials

by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2018 House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes is demanding full disclosure from former Obama administration officials on what they know about the unverified Trump dossier. Nunes, California Republican, on Feb. 20 sent letters to (undisclosed) senior members of the Obama administration asking that all 10 questions in the letter be […]

Judge sets terms for Mike Flynn to withdraw guilty plea

Judge sets terms for Mike Flynn to withdraw guilty plea

by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2018 A judge’s revised standing order in the case against Mike Flynn may lead to the former national security adviser withdrawing his guilty plea and reveal additional corruption by the feds, a columnist said. Judge Emmet Sullivan on Feb. 16 set forth his position that, “if material exculpatory evidence is […]

A strong Taiwan and U.S.-backed Asian democracies can counter China

A strong Taiwan and U.S.-backed Asian democracies can counter China

Special to WorldTribune.com By Parris H. Chang For decades Taiwan has enjoyed the widespread bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress, no matter what the stance of the executive branch. When President Jimmy Carter established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC), de-recognized Taiwan’s Republic of China(ROC) or KMT regime, and terminated the U.S.-ROC […]

The Russians are coming! Fortunately, our founding fathers were wise

The Russians are coming! Fortunately, our founding fathers were wise

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 […]

Former Nixon assistant says Obama ‘created the environment’ for DOJ abuses

Former Nixon assistant says Obama ‘created the environment’ for DOJ abuses

by WorldTribune Staff, February 19, 2018 Loyalists to President Barack Obama’s “transformative” agenda to remake America had “everything to lose” if his radical agenda was reversed, analyst Monica Crowley said. “Obama created a climate in which the potentially criminal misuse of the DOJ and the FBI, as currently being unraveled, was not just acceptable but […]

New judge in Flynn case has record of punishing DOJ overreach

New judge in Flynn case has record of punishing DOJ overreach

by WorldTribune Staff, February 18, 2018 The judge now presiding over the case against former national security adviser Mike Flynn has made it clear that he, and not special counsel Robert Mueller, “would be the judge of what evidence should be produced,” a longtime Washington journalists said. On Dec. 12, only a few days after […]

McMaster: Time to act against Iran as its proxies become more capable

McMaster: Time to act against Iran as its proxies become more capable

by WorldTribune Staff, February 18, 2018 Iran must be confronted as it continues to advance its power grab in the Middle East by supplying increasingly destructive weapons to its terror proxies in Syria, Yemen and Iraq, U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster said. “What’s particularly concerning is that this network of proxies is becoming more […]

Lawsuit seeks answers on unusually large number of ‘unmaskings’ of Americans by Samantha Power

Lawsuit seeks answers on unusually large number of ‘unmaskings’ of Americans by Samantha Power

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 […]