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Bombshell in the Benghazi e-mails: The CIA warned of impending jihadist attack »

Thousands of Egyptian protesters demonstrate outside U.S. embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11, 2012.  /AP

Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The White House recently released more than 100 pages of e-mails between the CIA, State Department and the White House regarding the now infamous talking points. President…

Incompetence? Not such a big deal to the Ruling Class »

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Wesley Pruden There’s an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It’s in the DNA. Democrats generally and liberals…

Inside China: Tough talking Xi Jinping goes easy on rampant PLA corruption »

Gen. Xu Caihou, left, and Chinese President Hu Jintao at banquet marking the 63th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Sept. 29, 2012.  /Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com After becoming simultaneously General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the 18th Chinese Communist Party Congress last November, Xi Jinping put it as…

U.S. moves ‘assets and personnel’ near Libya in case they are ‘called upon’ »

Pentagon spokesman George Little.

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has reported the preparation of troops to intervene in Libya. The Defense Department said the U.S. military has sent troops near the coast of the…

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Syrian Army detains Saudi, Qatari officers caught aiding rebel forces »

Syrian rebels prepare to repel a coordinated attack by government forces in Qusair, Homs province on May 19. /AP/Qusair Lens

Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — The Syrian Army has captured scores of foreign fighters, including those from Qatar and…

Iraq’s Al Maliki continues to insist bogus device detects IEDs »

The fake bomb detectors being sold by millionaire businessman James McCormick.  /Avon and Somerset Police

Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iraq, in wake of a British court ruling, still insists that the thousands of…

Russia’s counter-intelligence arrests, turns over CIA agent in Moscow »

The FSB building in Moscow.

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Federal Security Service [FSB] announced on May 14 that it…

Three birthdays say much about China’s future and its leaders’ ‘revolutionary bloodline’ »

Xi Jinping turns 60 on June 15.  /Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com There are three major birthdays and anniversaries in this year’s political calendar…

Key commander, 30 other Hizbullah fighters killed in Syria battle with Sunni rebels »

Hizbullah members carry the coffin of Fadi Al Jazar during his funeral in southern Beirut on May 20.  /AFP

Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — A senior Hizbullah commander has been killed in heavy fighting in Syria. Arab diplomatic…

Morsi orders troops into Sinai after abduction of officers »

Egyptian border police, angry at the kidnapping of their colleagues, have shut down crossings into Gaza and Israel.  /AP

Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has begun sending thousands of troops into the turbulent Sinai Peninsula. Officials said…

Virginia’s Cuccinelli battles Democrats, and the Democrat media »

Ken Cuccinelli.

Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The Washington Post apparently doesn’t care how ridiculous it looks as it embarks…

Chronicling thirty years of upheaval in Afghanistan’s Garmser district »

U.S. Marines in Garmser.

Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M Downing Carter Malkasian, War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the…

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Creative diplomacy needed as conflict in Syria threatens its neighbors »

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Decrying a rising death toll and an escalation of violence, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly called yet again for progress towards a political transition to defuse Syria’s civil war, now in its third year. Though the resolution strongly condemns the Syrian government of Bashar Assad for its increased use…

A rebel fighter fires an anti-aircraft gun during a regime airstrike on Tel Rafat, a village north of Aleppo.  /Reuters

Incompetence? Not such a big deal to the Ruling Class »

Wesley Pruden There’s an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It’s in the DNA. Democrats generally and liberals in particular can’t understand what the noise from Benghazi is about, though they’re willing to concede that the deaths of the American…

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Welcome to Soviet America! (Was my 1975 1-act play prophetic?) »

Lev Navrozov “Lev, this is Julie. Do you remember me?” The voice on the phone sounded familiar. She went on: “Almost forty years ago, I believe the year was 1975, I went to see your play ‘Welcome to Soviet America!’ at Carnegie Hall. It was a one-actor play, in which you played all the roles,…

Life and Look magazines herald the 50th Anniver­sary of the USSR, 1967.

The game of chicken over Syria with dangerous consequences »

Sol W. Sanders   That loud noise you hear now coming out of the Middle East is the sound of a frighteningly dangerous game of chicken between Russia and Israel [and inferentially the U.S.]. Last minute pleas by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Soviet President Vladimir Putin delivered at Sochi on the Black Sea…

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meet in Moscow on May 7.  /Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Political thugocracy at the top: Several special prosecutors should be appointed »

Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings. They eventually brought down President Nixon, forcing him to resign. Mr. Obama is the liberal Nixon — a corrupt chief executive, who…

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Russia’s counter-intelligence arrests, turns over CIA agent in Moscow »

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Federal Security Service [FSB] announced on May 14 that it had caught a CIA agent in Moscow red-handed in the process…

Three birthdays say much about China’s future and its leaders’ ‘revolutionary bloodline’ »

Xi Jinping turns 60 on June 15.  /Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com There are three major birthdays and anniversaries in this year’s political calendar – and how…

Kim Jong-Un shifts focus to economy from military escalation »

An undated photo released on April 28 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un visiting the Haedanghwa Health Complex with wife Ri Sol-Ju.  /European Pressphoto Agency

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un who mobilized the military and threatened U.S. allies with Weapons of Mass…

Inside China: Tough talking Xi Jinping goes easy on rampant PLA corruption »

Gen. Xu Caihou, left, and Chinese President Hu Jintao at banquet marking the 63th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Sept. 29, 2012.  /Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com After becoming simultaneously General Secretary and Chairman of the Central Military Commission at the 18th…

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Russia’s counter-intelligence arrests, turns over CIA agent in Moscow »

The FSB building in Moscow.

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Federal Security Service [FSB] announced on May 14 that it had caught a…

The game of chicken over Syria with dangerous consequences »

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meet in Moscow on May 7.  /Maxim Shemetov/Reuters

Sol W. Sanders   That loud noise you hear now coming out of the Middle East is the sound of a frighteningly…

The fake bomb detectors being sold by millionaire businessman James McCormick.  /Avon and Somerset Police

Iraq’s Al Maliki continues to insist bogus device detects IEDs »

Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iraq, in wake of a British court ruling, still insists that the thousands of British-origin fake bomb detectors remain effective. The government of Iraqi Prime…

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