Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration paid Iran $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds after three years of secret talks over legal claims Iran filed against the U.S. More payouts to Iran are likely in the future, according to a letter issued by the State Department and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon. The administration confirmed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the United States should significantly cut spending on the NATO military alliance. “We certainly can’t afford to do this anymore,” the GOP frontrunner told The Washington Post on March 21. “NATO is costing us a fortune, and yes, we’re protecting […]
Special to WorldTribune.com One of the few Democratic senators to go against President Barack Obama’s feverish pitch for a nuclear deal with Iran says he will continue to speak out against what he believes is a seriously flawed deal. In remarks at the annual AIPAC policy conference on March 22, Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders There are important lessons for the U.S. in the apprehension in Belgium, after four months, of one of the chief perpetrators of the Nov. 13, 1915 Paris massacre which took the lives of 130 innocents. This security lapse has its parallel in the current state of relations between […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s former president who is facing a litany of charges including high-treason, left the country on March 18 three years after returning from exile and vowing to regain power. Musharraf, who took power in a 1999 coup and a staunch U.S. ally after the 9/11 attacks, was removed from the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Days before President Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba, the Havana government said any attempt by the U.S. leader to call for the communist island to “change” would be a waste of time. The White House, meanwhile, said Obama still plans to deliver a pro-democracy message directly to Cubans. Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Republican senators on March 17 introduced legislation aimed at requiring the Obama administration to impose stricter sanctions on Iran for continuous defiance of international sanctions on its ballistic missile program. The bill, introduced by Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, is the GOP’s response to what it says has been President Barack […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A Saudi royal ripped into U.S. President Barack Obama for “insulting” the kingdom by “telling us to share our world with Iran.” Prince Turki al-Faisal, the kingdom’s former intelligence chief and envoy to Washington, slammed Obama’s recent comments to The Atlantic magazine in which the president said the Saudis need to “share” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Hillary Clinton’s reasons for pushing for U.S. intervention in Libya was more about money and oil than humanitarian assistance to a populace brutalized by longtime dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi, emails in an FBI investigation reveal. Newly-released emails from the then-secretary of state’s private server reveal a completely different agenda behind the intervention […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Obama administration’s newly-appointed anti-ISIL czar plans to take a page out of Amazon and Google playbooks to target the terror organization’s online propaganda network. Michael Lumpkin said on March 14 he plans to target potential jihadi recruits much the same way Amazon or Google sends netizens shopping suggestions based on their […]
