FBI: Cuban Intelligence aggressively recruiting leftist academics as spies, influence agents

FBI: Cuban Intelligence aggressively recruiting leftist academics as spies, influence agents

Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Cuba’s communist-led intelligence services are aggressively recruiting leftist American academics and university professors as spies and influence agents, according to an internal FBI report published this week. Cuban intelligence services “have perfected the work of placing agents, that includes aggressively targeting U.S. universities under the assumption that […]

Oil tanker training for 22 Yemeni-Americans from Michigan raises suspicions

Oil tanker training for 22 Yemeni-Americans from Michigan raises suspicions

Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Inside the Ring, Washington Times U.S. intelligence agencies last month reported that a group of 22 Yemeni-Americans were training in Houston to be seamen on oil tankers, raising terrorism concerns over the unusual activity. The Department of Homeland Security issued an Aug. 26 report from its National Terrorism Advisory System […]

Hypocrisy on the Left over nude selfies

Hypocrisy on the Left over nude selfies

Special to WorldTribune.com Ben Shapiro, Breitbart.com Over the weekend, a hacker posted nude photos of actresses including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Ariana Grande, Mila Kunis, Scarlett Johansson, Lea Michele, Christina Aguilera, and Kirsten Dunst, among others. This prompted rightful anger on all sides of the aisle, as well as an FBI investigation. Then, comedian Ricky […]

Deport the Tsarnaev sisters

Deport the Tsarnaev sisters

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin The Sisters Tsarnaev have been nothing but trouble. Double, bubbling trouble. While their Boston Marathon bomber brother Dzhokhar awaits trial this month for the bloody 2012 attacks that killed three and injured hundreds, his elder Chechen immigrant siblings Ailina and Bella remain on the loose in the U.S. after […]

China ruling smashes Hong Kong democracy

China ruling smashes Hong Kong democracy

Special to WorldTribune.com Washington Free Beacon China’s legislature on Sunday denied fully democratic elections to Hong Kong in a move that could spark mass protests in the city’s streets. The National People’s Congress Standing Committee ruled that nominees for Hong Kong’s chief executive in 2017 would still have to obtain approval from 50 percent of […]

Bloodstained hypocrisy of Hollywood’s violence profiteers

Bloodstained hypocrisy of Hollywood’s violence profiteers

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Did you miss Tinseltown’s latest political correctness powwow? Preening celebrities showed their solidarity with Ferguson, Mo., at the MTV Video Music Awards show this week. Rapper Common led the convocation, preachifying about the positive impact of hip-hop music on society as a “powerful instrument of social change” and “truth.” […]

Intelligence reports warn 11 Libyan airliners are missing

Intelligence reports warn 11 Libyan airliners are missing

Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a warning that the jets could be used in terrorist attacks across North Africa. Intelligence reports of the stolen jetliners were distributed within the U.S. government over the past two […]

Overlooked despite $632 billion spent on public education: How to teach well

Overlooked despite $632 billion spent on public education: How to teach well

Special to WorldTribune.com By Mona Charen For the past half-century, and particularly since the 1983 “Nation at Risk” report, Americans have been heaving great sacks of money at schools. Federal spending alone has tripled since the 1970s. The New York Times calculates that the federal government now spends $107.6 billion on education yearly, which is […]

FBI terror report lists militia groups, race extremists but not radical Islam

FBI terror report lists militia groups, race extremists but not radical Islam

Special to WorldTribune.com Bill Gertz, Washington Free Beacon The FBI’s most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting — both carried out by radical Muslim Americans. Instead, the internal FBI intelligence report concluded in its 2013 […]