Paranoid in Pyongyang: NIS reports wary Kim focused on ‘decapitation’ ops

Paranoid in Pyongyang: NIS reports wary Kim focused on ‘decapitation’ ops

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Kim Jong-Un is not afraid of flying like his late father Kim Jong-Il and he has cultivated an outgoing buoyant personal like his grandfather Kim Il-Sung, Communist North Korea’s founder. But reportedly he shares one trait with his more reserved father: A tendency to check the rearview mirror often when […]

After pushing Russia investigation, key Democrat now wants more time to prepare

After pushing Russia investigation, key Democrat now wants more time to prepare

by WorldTribune Staff, June 21, 2017 In a move Washington observers see as an attempt to ensure the Trump-Russia investigation, which has yet to produce any evidence, drags on for many months, if not years, the top Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said Democrats need more time to prepare their case. […]

The McCain-Soros connection: It started after senator got caught in ‘Keating Five’ scandal

The McCain-Soros connection: It started after senator got caught in ‘Keating Five’ scandal

by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2017 An institute that launched with $9 million in unspent funds from Sen. John McCain’s failed 2008 presidential campaign has been likened to the Clinton Global Initiative and linked to billionaire leftist George Soros. The McCain Institute for International Leadership, intended to serve as a “legacy” for McCain, says it […]

‘How is the Department of Justice being run?’: Senate shifts focus to Loretta Lynch

‘How is the Department of Justice being run?’: Senate shifts focus to Loretta Lynch

by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2017 A spokesman for the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman said it “will become necessary at some point” to have Loretta Lynch testify before the panel after revelations from former FBI Director James Comey of the former attorney general’s alleged attempts to shut down the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Republicans on […]

Swamp justice: A closer look at Mueller’s team

Swamp justice: A closer look at Mueller’s team

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2017 Special counsel Robert Mueller has loaded his team of lawyers with several heavy hitters. This is cause for consternation from some supporters of President Donald Trump who say this shows Mueller is counting on a home run against the administration. If so Mueller shouldn’t be surprised that heavy hitters […]

Nightmare: The hate-Trump campaign hits the 2-year mark as his star continues to rise

Nightmare: The hate-Trump campaign hits the 2-year mark as his star continues to rise

by WorldTribune Staff, June 18, 2017 Two years to the day on June 16 Donald and Melania Trump took the escalator down at Trump Tower where Trump announced he was running for president. For two years, the major media and Trump resisters “have used every weapon in their arsenal to destroy him. And they have […]

Helmut Kohl, 87: Architect of German reunification, U.S. friend

Helmut Kohl, 87: Architect of German reunification, U.S. friend

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Thirty years ago this week in 1987, President Ronald Reagan visiting Berlin, made his famous challenge, “Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall.” Alongside the American President stood German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. A few years earlier I met Helmut Kohl campaigning in his native Rheinland. Kohl, […]

The Trump report targets Hillary Clinton’s Justice Department

The Trump report targets Hillary Clinton’s Justice Department

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2017 @realDonaldTrump on Twitter on June 15: Crooked H destroyed phones w/ hammer, ‘bleached’ emails, & had husband meet w/AG days before she was cleared- & they talk about obstruction? Why is that Hillary Clintons family and Dems dealings with Russia are not looked at, but my non-dealings are? You […]

Congress to request probe of China pressure on VOA; Rubio challenges budget cut

Congress to request probe of China pressure on VOA; Rubio challenges budget cut

by WorldTribune Staff, June 15, 2017 Congress is “putting together a formal request” for an investigation into whether China pressured Voice of American (VOA) to cut off a live broadcast of an exiled Chinese businessman who has attempted to expose what he says is corruption in Beijing’s leadership. The April 19 interview with Guo Wengui […]

Trump pins obstruction of justice probe to ‘phony story’; Putin mocks Comey

Trump pins obstruction of justice probe to ‘phony story’; Putin mocks Comey

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump says that an investigation touching on whether he tried to obstruct justice stems from what he asserts is a “phony story” about possible collusion between his campaign and Russia. Trump made the remark on Twitter on June 15, a day after The […]