February 2012 – Page Array – World Tribune: U.S. Politics and Culture, Geostrategy, China, North Korea, Corporate Watch, Media Watch

World waits for someone to do something, and then waits some more

By Editor One on February 6, 2012 Afghanistan, Africa / Europe, China, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Egypt, Exclusives, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Life, Mideast, NE Asia, Russia, Sol Sanders, Spain, Stateside, Syria, Top Stories, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics

Sol W. Sanders Looking around the world, the striking characteristic is waiting out a number of crises. Their outcome seems almost artificially suspended, and their interaction on one another and their ultimate effect on the world is at issue. We start with the Euro. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s supplications in Beijing were perhaps laudable but a […]

The hidden agenda behind the all-out media war on Komen

By Editor One on February 6, 2012 Exclusives, Life, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Media, World Links

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lynn Woolley and Cliff Kincaid When the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure made a decision to sever its ties with America’s number one seller of abortions, Planned Parenthood, the media went to war. The media coverage was slanted in such a way that “mainstream” reporters like Andrea Mitchell and […]

Reading Mitt: The important differences between Romney, Gingrich and McCain

By Editor One on February 3, 2012 Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Jeffrey Kuhner, Life, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Culture, U.S. Media, U.S. Politics

Jeffrey T. Kuhner Conservatives are asking a reasonable question: Will a Mitt Romney candidacy turn into another debacle like Sen. John McCain’s in 2008? The Arizona maverick was said to be the most “electable” of the Republican nominees. Many GOP voters held their noses and supported Mr. McCain. Yet he was defeated — convincingly — […]

China’s dictators are not stupid like Stalin and Obama is their ally

By Editor One on February 2, 2012 Africa / Europe, China, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Lev Navrozov, NE Asia, Russia, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Politics

Lev Navrozov In my columns, I have been writing a lot about PRC’s aggressive policies, its growing military might, and its global ambitions. Today’s PRC’s dictators are not as stupid and naive as was Stalin, who kept his country isolated from the entire world. Nobody, except Soviet spies and high-post ambassadors he sent abroad to […]

Kim Jong-Un era starts with new landmines on China border and shoot-to-kill orders to stop defections

By Editor One on February 2, 2012 China, Exclusives, Latest From Geostrategy-Direct, Life, NE Asia, North Korea

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com North Korea has planted land mines and installed wooden planks studded with sharp iron nails along its border with China in one of the strictest measures yet to deter starving citizens from fleeing into China, according to Seoul-based defectors’ groups. “North Korea is planting a number of land […]

Loud and clear signals from Egypt: Rules of its game with West have changed

By Editor One on February 1, 2012 Africa / Europe, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Egypt, Exclusives, Germany, John Metzler, Life, Mideast, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Politics

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — When the government of erstwhile U.S. ally Egypt shut down seventeen Western pro-democracy groups, trashed their Cairo offices, and slapped travel bans on some of their staff, political relations between Washington and Cairo hit a new and unexpected low. Just a year after a tumultuous political uprising topped the […]