Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The outgoing U.S. Barack Obama Administration and its supporters embarked on a campaign to traduce and challenge the incoming Administration of President Donald J. Trump in the hope that it would find it difficult to govern effectively. This may be unprecedented in U.S. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 19, 2017 Rising health care costs and regulations due to Obamacare resulted in more than 10,000 small businesses shutting down and a loss of some 300,000 jobs, a report said. Obamacare cost $19 billion in lost wages per year, according to a study released on Jan. 18 by the American Action […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct.com China’s state media has not obsessed about President Barack Obama’s “legacy” to the degree America’s 44th president has. It has not however missed the opportunity to celebrate the “failure” of his celebrated “Asia Pivot” strategy while finding other positive things to say about the exiting leader. However, unlike Mr. Obama […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 18, 2017 Republicans and Democrats alike expressed outrage over President Barack Obama’s decision on Jan. 17 to commute the 35-year prison term of Chelsea Manning. Manning, the former Army intelligence specialist who turned over some 700,000 classified and sensitive diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, will be released in May. Sen. John McCain, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2017 For all of his talk of a smooth transition, President Barack Obama is laying down a slew of landmines that Donald Trump must defuse before he can get comfortable in the Oval Office, the New York Post said in a Jan. 17 editorial. “Presidential transitions are traditionally apolitical and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2017 Germany will not make itself “submissive” to Donald Trump, the country’s deputy chancellor said in response to the president-elect’s scathing criticism of Berlin over the weekend. “We are not inferior to him, we have something to bring to the table too,” Sigmar Gabriel, who is also minister of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the outgoing U.S. administration of trying to “undermine the legitimacy” of President-elect Donald Trump by spreading what Putin said were false allegations. Last week, news reports said a classified intelligence dossier given to President Barack Obama and Trump contained salacious […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2017 U.S. President Barack Obama says he has no regrets over his speech in 2012 in which he drew a “red line” over Syria’s use of chemical weapons. In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” broadcast on Jan 15, Obama said that he had ad-libbed the “red line” phrase, which […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 15, 2017 Another in a series of last-minute executive orders issued by U.S. President Barack Obama is being slammed by critics as “a deal with the devil.” Obama on Jan. 13 eased a 20-year-old trade embargo on Sudan, “reversing a policy towards an Islamist regime that massacred its own people and sheltered Osama […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 15, 2017 U.S. President Barack Obama insists he was a “good friend” to Israel during his tenure, it’s just that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nethanyahu “did not recognize it.” A pair of polls published last week showed that the majority of Israelis did not feel that Obama was their friend. In […]
