The strategic roots of the U.S. ‘defeat’ of Sept. 10, 2013

The strategic roots of the U.S. ‘defeat’ of Sept. 10, 2013

Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs There should be no ambiguity: the U.S. and the West suffered a transformative strategic reversal on Sept. 10, 2013, and Russia and Iran each separately made substantial strategic gains and consolidation as a consequence. But the pivotal decision of Sept. 10 by President Barack Obama […]

Reports: Cash-strapped N. Korea ‘stepped up’ chemical weapons shipments to Syria

Reports: Cash-strapped N. Korea ‘stepped up’ chemical weapons shipments to Syria

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — North Korea was believed to have sent chemical weapons technology to Syria. A United Nations panel and Western analysts agreed that Pyongyang was shipping CW technology to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. They said the CW assets could have facilitated non-conventional weapons attacks against the Sunni revolt over […]

Sarajevo, 1995 and Damascus, 2013: The use of mass attack deception to decide wars

Sarajevo, 1995 and Damascus, 2013: The use of mass attack deception to decide wars

Special to WorldTribune.com Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs In August 1995, Western governments, and particularly the Bill Clinton White House, were in great quandary. The negotiations with the Serbs were going well as President Slobodan Milosevic was demonstrating unprecedented flexibility and accepting virtually all the demands put forward by the West. Hence, […]

U.S. report zeroes in on Gen. Sisi’s ‘radical’ political agenda

U.S. report zeroes in on Gen. Sisi’s ‘radical’ political agenda

Special to WorldTribune.com Geostrategy-Direct.com WASHINGTON — Egypt’s new military ruler envisions his country as an Islamist dictatorship, a report said. A leading U.S. analyst said Defense Minister Abdul Fatah Sisi, contrary to his pledge to Washington, plans to rule Egypt for a long time. In a report, Robert Springborg, the analyst, said Sisi, who led […]

FBI cancels counterterror ads deemed offensive to Muslims

FBI cancels counterterror ads deemed offensive to Muslims

Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The Rolling Stone cover photo of Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been the subject of countless news stories because people across the ideological spectrum have rightly objected to this magazine’s glorification of the Islamist killer. But in Seattle, Washington, radical Muslims working with members of the Democratic Party and […]

Report: U.S. officials say Israeli air strike hit Syrian arms depot on July 5

Report: U.S. officials say Israeli air strike hit Syrian arms depot on July 5

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Israel was said to have again attacked Syria. The United States determined that the Israel Air Force struck a Syrian military depot in the port of Latakia on July 5. Three U.S. officials told CNN that the attack targeted the P-800 Yakhont coastal defense system procured by the regime of […]

New secret Iran nuclear site reported in tunnels under mountain

New secret Iran nuclear site reported in tunnels under mountain

Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The opposition has reported another underground nuclear facility in Iran. The Mujahadeen Khalq, known as MEK, reported a secret Iranian nuclear facility northeast of Teheran. In a statement, Mujahadeen, which disclosed Iran’s nuclear program more than a decade ago, said the latest facility consisted of tunnels beneath a mountain near […]

White House did not call Mubarak’s ouster a coup, still backs Muslim Brotherhood

White House did not call Mubarak’s ouster a coup, still backs Muslim Brotherhood

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The new Egyptian Government of Interim President Adly Mansour faces major strategic challenges from internal conflict and economic crisis, but this has been substantially exacerbated, and to some degree caused, by the fact that the U.S. Obama White House has refused to sign […]

From ‘Arab Spring’ to ‘Arab Nightmare’ as the ‘civilized’ world stands by

From ‘Arab Spring’ to ‘Arab Nightmare’ as the ‘civilized’ world stands by

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey It has become commonplace to say that the grotesquely over-hyped “Arab Spring” has turned into the “Arab Fall” or even the “Arab Winter”. Nothing of the kind. To go from spring to fall or winter is simply the fate of most revolutionary movements, as in the “French Spring” of […]

Ailes on America: ‘We are in a storm, the mast is broken, the compass is barely functioning, and there is a big damned hole in the boat!’

Ailes on America: ‘We are in a storm, the mast is broken, the compass is barely functioning, and there is a big damned hole in the boat!’

Special to WorldTribune.com Fox News Channel Chairman Roger Ailes was awarded the 10th Bradley Prize on June 12 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Following are his prepared remarks: “America needs all of us to leave here tonight, renewed in our spirit and determination to turn this country forward to the future. I won’t […]