McCain backs NSC’s McMaster, ties Bannon backers to ‘Charlottesville’ racism

McCain backs NSC’s McMaster, ties Bannon backers to ‘Charlottesville’ racism

by WorldTribune Staff, August 15, 2017 Sen. John McCain decried what he called the “alt-right” media’s “smear tactics” in coverage critical of national security adviser H.R. McMaster’s purging of conservatives from the National Security Council (NSC). McCain lumped the media outlets which have been critical of McMaster in with the “same purveyors of hatred and […]

Report: ‘Pablo Escobar of Venezuela’ put out hit on Sen. Marco Rubio

Report: ‘Pablo Escobar of Venezuela’ put out hit on Sen. Marco Rubio

by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2017 A high-ranking Venezuelan official who has been engaged in a public feud with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is said to have put out a hit order on the Florida Republican, a report said. Rubio has been guarded by a security detail for several weeks in both Washington and Miami […]

Trump, Xi huddle by phone on Korea; Pyongyang threatens Seoul for aligning with West

Trump, Xi huddle by phone on Korea; Pyongyang threatens Seoul for aligning with West

by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone on Aug. 12 and reached an agreement that North Korea “must stop its provocative and escalatory behavior,” the White House said in a statement. Trump and Xi “also reiterated their mutual commitment to the denuclearization of the […]

Memo that got Rich Higgins fired reveals ‘unprecedented’ war to destroy Trump

Memo that got Rich Higgins fired reveals ‘unprecedented’ war to destroy Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, August 13, 2017 The Trump administration “is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then delegitimize and ultimately remove the president,” said a National Security Council (NSC) official who was recently removed from his post. Rich Higgins, who had been director of strategic planning at the NSC, revealed in a […]

Saluting the ‘doughboys’ who 100 years ago entered WWI, ending American neutrality

Saluting the ‘doughboys’ who 100 years ago entered WWI, ending American neutrality

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler St. NAZAIRE, France — “Lafayette, we are here,” became the clarion call upon the arrival of the American Expeditionary Force to France in 1917. The USA had just entered the hostilities, three years into the Great War, and now the battle hardened U.S. General John Pershing was in […]

Left-wing magazine shoots down premise on which Mueller investigation is based

Left-wing magazine shoots down premise on which Mueller investigation is based

by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2017 The narrative that laid the groundwork for the ongoing Russia investigations and a year’s worth of major media accusations is wrong, according to The Nation magazine. Russia did not hack Democratic National Committee (DNC) email servers, a left-wing publication has concluded after examining evidence from computer analysts and former […]

Seoul: U.S. to give South advance notice of pre-emptive strike on North

Seoul: U.S. to give South advance notice of pre-emptive strike on North

by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2017 The United States has agreed not to pre-emptively strike North Korea without first informing South Korea, the South’s presidential office suggested on Aug. 11. The report cited a telephone conversation between U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster and Chung Eui-Yong, the head of South Korea’s Presidential National Security Office, […]

State Dept. staffers ‘horrified’ by president’s response to Putin on diplomatic staff cuts

State Dept. staffers ‘horrified’ by president’s response to Putin on diplomatic staff cuts

by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2017 After the U.S. slapped new sanctions on Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin called for 755 out of a total of about 1,200 diplomatic positions at the U.S. Embassy and consulates in Russia to be cut. President Donald Trump’s response to Putin was uncharacteristic for the striped-pants set if not […]

Best defense a good offense? Trump isn’t hiring lawyers for a war room as Clinton did

Best defense a good offense? Trump isn’t hiring lawyers for a war room as Clinton did

by WorldTribune Staff, August 10, 2017 The late Roy M. Cohn, the honorary counsel for WorldTribune and an ally of Donald Trump, would no doubt be in the President’s corner were he still among the living. Cohn was known for settling “matters” with a mere phone call. But New York rules are not in play […]

End times: Minister who said God handpicked Trump says President ‘endowed’ to take out Kim

End times: Minister who said God handpicked Trump says President ‘endowed’ to take out Kim

by WorldTribune Staff, August 9, 2017 Astronomical events in August and September and the looming North Korea crisis are giving rise to doomsday theories. But the main question is whether the apocalypse will be an act of God or a man-made event. A pastor with close ties to President Donald Trump said the commander in […]