Obama strategy in South China Sea dismissed as ‘nothing but symbolic’

Obama strategy in South China Sea dismissed as ‘nothing but symbolic’

Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration has no coherent policy on China’s pursuit for total control in the South China Sea,” a key U.S. senator said. “We’ve reached a point now where there’s no denying the fact that China has positioned itself as a geopolitical rival to the United States,” Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, […]

U.S. arrest awakens ghosts of Turkey’s Iran-gold scandal that implicated Erdogan

U.S. arrest awakens ghosts of Turkey’s Iran-gold scandal that implicated Erdogan

Special to WorldTribune.com By Charles Recknagel, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Night-time police raids in Istanbul. Reports of shoe boxes stuffed with $4.5 million in cash hidden in the home of a Turkish state bank head, plus a money-counting machine in the bedroom of a government minister’s son. And allegations that state funds are […]

Lawmakers: Pakistan could use F-16s against India, not terrorists

Lawmakers: Pakistan could use F-16s against India, not terrorists

Special to WorldTribune.com Several members of Congress are questioning the “judgment and timing” of the Obama administration’s sale of F-16s to Pakistan, saying the Pakistanis could use the jets to attack India rather than the intended purpose of combating terrorism. The Obama administration plans to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan at an estimated […]

Iran threatens to appeal U.S. Supreme Court ruling at The Hague

Iran threatens to appeal U.S. Supreme Court ruling at The Hague

Special to WorldTribune.com Iran has denounced as theft a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that awarded nearly $2 billion to the victims of terror attacks blamed on Teheran. On April 26, Iran summoned the Swiss ambassador who handles U.S. interests in Teheran. A day earlier, Iran threatened to take the United States to the International Court […]

Commander in Chief Obama’s lone military victory: A liberalized Pentagon

Commander in Chief Obama’s lone military victory: A liberalized Pentagon

Special to WorldTribune.com The U.S. military is more prepared than ever – to fight climate change and allow soldiers to use their gender-identified restrooms. The liberalization of the Pentagon appears to be President Barack Obama’s lone battlefield victory and the nation’s military leaders, with the possible exception of the Marine Corps, are squarely behind him, […]

Large Senate majority calls on Obama to increase aid to Israel

Large Senate majority calls on Obama to increase aid to Israel

Special to WorldTribune.com A large bipartisan majority in the U.S. Senate is calling on President Barack Obama to immediately sign an agreement on a new defense package that includes an increase in aid to Israel. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democrat Sen. Chris Coons penned a letter to Obama that was signed by 51 Republican […]

Dershowitz: Obama meddles in Brexit but shuns Netanyahu on Iran

Dershowitz: Obama meddles in Brexit but shuns Netanyahu on Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com President Barack Obama’s “intrusion” in the UK’s decision on leaving the European Union reeks of hypocrisy, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said. In a column published on April 22, Dershowitz noted “how outraged the same President Obama was when the prime minister of a friendly country, Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke his mind about […]

Iran denounces U.S. Supreme Court ruling as ‘theft’

Iran denounces U.S. Supreme Court ruling as ‘theft’

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran has denounced as “theft” a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Tehran must pay nearly $2 billion in frozen assets to victims and families of those killed in Iran-sponsored terrorist attacks. The court on April 20 ruled 6-2 in favor of relatives of the 241 Marines […]

Barack Obama, the UN and Argentina’s new oceanic claims

Barack Obama, the UN and Argentina’s new oceanic claims

Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Buenos Aires. There is little doubt that Argentina’s new conservative Government, under President Mauricio Macri, wanted a new era of cooperation in U.S.-Argentinean relations — so do most U.S. officials — but that was not necessarily the thrust behind U.S. President Barack Obama’s March 23-25 visit to […]

Mothers of kids killed by illegals give emotional testimony before Congress

Mothers of kids killed by illegals give emotional testimony before Congress

Special to WorldTribune.com Two mothers whose children were killed by illegal aliens told Congress in emotional testimony on April 19 that their children would still be alive if the Obama administration had enforced U.S. immigration laws. Laura Wilkerson – mother of a teenage boy murdered by an illegal alien – said in testimony on April […]