As China fails North Korea test, Trump approves major arms sales to Taiwan

As China fails North Korea test, Trump approves major arms sales to Taiwan

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration on June 29 notified Congress that it had approved a major arms sales package for Taiwan to beef up the island democracy’s self defense against an aggressive Chinese military threat. According to Heather Nauert, the spokesperson for the State Department, the package is worth $1.42 billion and […]

Trump vs the ‘Deep State’: To win, he must send out the pink slips

Trump vs the ‘Deep State’: To win, he must send out the pink slips

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2017 President Donald Trump is battling a “Deep State” that is hellbent on “preserving their own privileges, positions and power” and taking the president down at any cost. It will take a Herculean effort, but Trump can win the battle, analysts say, if he is willing to send unelected […]

Tillerson: Russia will decide Assad’s fate in post-war Syria

Tillerson: Russia will decide Assad’s fate in post-war Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, July 5, 2017 The United States will focus on defeating Islamic State (ISIS) and defer to Russia when the time comes to decide Syrian President Bashar Assad’s fate, a report said. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres during a private State Department meeting last week that Russia is […]

Talk, talk, launch: S. Korea’s Moon huddled with Obama three days after meeting Trump

Talk, talk, launch: S. Korea’s Moon huddled with Obama three days after meeting Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, July 4, 2017 North Korea celebrated America’s Independence Day with the morning launch of what it announced was its first ICBM. Meanwhile, just a short cruise missile flight south of the DMZ, former President Barack Obama debriefed South Korea’s new President Moon Jae-In on Moon’s meetings three days earlier at the White […]

Benghazi report: Obama team had real time awareness of attacks that killed Americans

Benghazi report: Obama team had real time awareness of attacks that killed Americans

by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2017 The White House, State Department and Pentagon were watching in real time when a mortar strike killed two Americans at the CIA’s annex in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012, the House Select Committee on Benghazi said last week. The terrorists’ mortar strike killed CIA contract security officers Tyrone Woods […]

On July 4 weekend, Obama critiques his ‘aggressive’ successor

On July 4 weekend, Obama critiques his ‘aggressive’ successor

by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2017 As Americans were set to celebrate Independence Day, former President Barack Obama was in Indonesia warning against nations that had adopted “an aggressive kind of nationalism” while also taking a shot at his successor. “It’s been clear for a while that the world is at a crossroads. At an […]

France’s Total signs $4.8 billion natural gas project with Iran

France’s Total signs $4.8 billion natural gas project with Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The French energy firm Total says it has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement with Iran on the development of an Iranian offshore natural-gas field — the first major Western energy investment since international sanctions were lifted against Tehran under its nuclear accord with world powers. The agreement […]

Report: Taxpayers funding animal tests for homemade abortions

Report: Taxpayers funding animal tests for homemade abortions

by WorldTribune Staff, June 29, 2017 U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for animal tests using substances that are widely known to be used as a way to induce “herbal abortions,” a report said. The watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, citing government data from the National Toxicology Program (NTP), said two herbs on the […]

Team Trump has many reasons to cheer as Independence Day arrives

Team Trump has many reasons to cheer as Independence Day arrives

by WorldTribune Staff, July 3, 2017 After a string of agenda victories and a Mainstream Media admission that its Russia narrative is a “nothingburger”, President Donald Trump has much to celebrate on his first July 4th in the Oval Office. Though the Democrat-media-academy culture continues its non-stop assault on the president’s legitimacy, even Trump critics […]

‘Chemistry’ between two leaders called ‘win-win’ for U.S.-India ties

‘Chemistry’ between two leaders called ‘win-win’ for U.S.-India ties

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to the USA not quite knowing what to expect from planned summit meetings with President Donald Trump. After all while both leaders are known as brash and outspoken figures, the visitor from New Delhi was particularly nervous over trade […]