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‘Almost noiseless’ 3rd Russian nuclear-powered sub begins sea trials

By Editor One on January 8, 2013 Africa / Europe, Exclusives, Latest From Geostrategy-Direct, Life, Russia, Top Stories

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s third Borei-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), the Vladimir Monomakh, recently began sea trials from the northern shipbuilding town of Severodvinsk. The official RIA Novosti news agency called the Vladimir Monomakh “super-modern, powerful and almost noiseless.” The Borei-class SSBN is Russia’s first post-Soviet designed nuclear submarine. […]

Rolling the dice: The Chinese Communist Party bets it can beat the odds

By Editor One on January 7, 2013 China, Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Life, NE Asia, Singapore, Sol Sanders, Thailand, Top Stories

Sol W. Sanders Perhaps more than Westerners, Chinese have a gambling streak. Even during the darkest hours of Maoist oppression and pretended Puritanism, Beijing tolerated gambling on its southern flank in the Portuguese colony of Macau. Now reincorporated into China, in 2012 the world’s largest casino, holding the country’s only legal gambling monopoly, raked […]

Deathwatch for dictator a timebomb in Venezuela

By Editor One on January 6, 2013 Americas, Exclusives, Life, Top Stories, Venezuela

Special to WorldTribune.com Global Information System CARACAS — Venezuela’s ruling Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (United Socialist Party: PSUV) has, since mid-December 2012, been working on devising a plan to initiate President-elect Hugo Chávez Frias’ new term in office without the president necessarily being physically able to govern. By the beginning of January 2013, there […]

Surrender: Republicans betrayed their own limited-government precepts

By Editor One on January 5, 2013 Columnists, COMMENTARY, Exclusives, Jeffrey Kuhner, Life, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Politics

Jeffrey T. Kuhner The Republican Party has capitulated to President Obama’s redistributionist tax agenda. Mr. Obama has won a significant victory. He has broken Republican ranks and effectively co-opted much of the GOP opposition. The Republican Party, especially House Speaker John A. Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will rue the day. Many House […]

UN report predicts likely global economic downturn in 2013

By Editor One on January 4, 2013 China, Columnists, India, John Metzler, Life, U.S. Economy

John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The global economy risks sliding back into recession. That’s the sober assessment from the UN’s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2013, which cites weak economic growth in 2012, and an anemic expected expansion over the next two years. And while economic woes in the United States, Europe and Japan […]

Two chubby young Koreans register on the global recognition scale

By Editor One on January 3, 2013 Exclusives, Life, NE Asia, North Korea, South Korea, Top Stories

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com LONDON — There was a time when Korea was best known overseas for Samsung gadgetry and Hyundai cars. Now Korea is permeating the global consciousness in ways that would have seemed unlikely if not impossible two or three years ago. The latest proof positive is a New Year’s […]