Tough diplomacy: U.S. rallies UN on N. Korea sanctions, Tillerson huddles with Russia

Tough diplomacy: U.S. rallies UN on N. Korea sanctions, Tillerson huddles with Russia

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump’s diplomatic team has been operating in overdrive as it tries to ensure new UN sanctions against North Korea will be enforced while confronting Russia over allegations of its meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. on Aug. 7 moved quickly to ensure new UN […]

Obama holdovers at the NSC central to White House war between Bannon, McMaster

Obama holdovers at the NSC central to White House war between Bannon, McMaster

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 National Security Council (NSC) holdovers from the Obama administration have driven a wedge between national security adviser H.R. McMaster and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon that culminated in McMaster’s recent firing of two top aides who were seen as close to Bannon, analysts say. McMaster sacked NSC intelligence […]

Lebanon takes strategic high ground from ISIS along Syrian border

Lebanon takes strategic high ground from ISIS along Syrian border

by WorldTribune Staff, August 7, 2017 Lebanon’s army on Aug. 7 said it had captured several strategic hilltops from Islamic State (ISIS) at the border with Syria. In taking several hills between the frontier towns of Ras Baalbek and Arsal, the army destroyed ISIS fortifications and killed several jihadists, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported. Hassan […]

UN sanctions on N. Korea opens way to new talks about talks

UN sanctions on N. Korea opens way to new talks about talks

by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2017 Yet another American president is enlisting China to put the squeeze on North Korea. And China has again agreed to play along with what the Trump Administration earlier branded as a failed exercise. Therefore on Aug. 6, Beijing called on the Kim Jong-Un regime to stop its missile and […]

‘Real industry’ growing among federal employees coming forward to ‘resist’ Trump

‘Real industry’ growing among federal employees coming forward to ‘resist’ Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, August 6, 2017 A number of career federal government workers, realizing that when President Donald Trump said he would drain the swamp “he meant them,” have openly joined the “resist” movement. There is a “real industry now behind recruiting whistleblowers inside the resistance movement,” GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak told The Hill. “It’s […]

China tightens Internet controls as 19th Communist Party Congress approaches

China tightens Internet controls as 19th Communist Party Congress approaches

by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2017 President Xi Jinping is stepping up China’s control of the Internet as he moves to consolidate power ahead of the 19th Communist Party Congress this fall. On Aug. 3, Beijing’s censors and the country’s Internet service providers held a drill to practice shutting down websites deemed harmful. Internet data […]

‘Dear Susan’: McMaster gives pass to Susan Rice, allows continued top-secret clearance

‘Dear Susan’: McMaster gives pass to Susan Rice, allows continued top-secret clearance

by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2017 In an April letter to Obama Administration national security adviser Susan Rice, current national security adviser H.R. McMaster said Rice would have continued access to classified information. President Donald Trump was not aware of the letter or McMaster’s decision, two senior West Wing officials and an intelligence official told […]

Election software firm confirms Venezuela altered outcome by one million votes

Election software firm confirms Venezuela altered outcome by one million votes

by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2017 The vote for Venezuela’s new National Constituent Assembly was manipulated “without any doubt,” according to a company which has worked with the country on its voting system since 2004. “We estimate the difference between the actual participation and the one announced by authorities is at least 1 million votes,” […]

Pro-Pyongyang paper: Seoul failed to recognize N. Korea’s new ‘strategic status’

Pro-Pyongyang paper: Seoul failed to recognize N. Korea’s new ‘strategic status’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 4, 2017 Whose side is South Korean President Moon Jae-In on, pro-North Korean forces in South Korea and Japan want to know. Liberal leftists and openly pro-North Korean activists passionately backed Moon’s recent victorious election campaign and his supporters’ earlier drive to impeach his predecessor, President Park Geun-Hye. But by subsequently […]

Leaked documents: Soros planned to turn Ireland into pro-abortion country

Leaked documents: Soros planned to turn Ireland into pro-abortion country

by WorldTribune Staff, August 2, 2017 George Soros, through his Open Society Foundations, is funding pro-abortion groups that seek to repeal Ireland’s “fetal personhood” constitutional amendment. According to documents leaked by DCLeaks.com, Soros’s foundation poured money into the pro-abortion groups in an effort to “stem, mitigate and reverse the tide of fetal personhood laws and […]