Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 24, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Khamenei: USA ‘can’t do damn thing’ about missile program… Secret history of Iran-deal ‘Echo Chamber’… NPR cancelled interviews with anti-deal congressman…
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 23, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Record 499 Syrians admitted to USA so far in May includes no Christians… Iran leadership freaked out by U.S. 2016 campaign Border anxiety – I: Zuckerberg tearing down homes surrounding his… Border anxiety – II: Immigrant influx fuels British exit movement… Record 499 Syrians admitted […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By EastAsiaIntel.com On April 29, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi issued a joint statement objecting to the contemplated deployment in South Korea of the U.S. Theater High Altitude Area Defense [THAAD] missile interceptor system. But what is unusual is that the joint Russian-Chinese objection to THAAD […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 19, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Clinton rape accuser blasts ‘biased’ NBC anchor Andrea Mitchell … Rush Limbaugh on golf and … Fakebook, where liberalism is always trending… School board bans ‘climate change-denying materials’… Family forced from home by thousands of mysterious bugs resistant to exterminator…
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — “Economic activity in the world economy remains lackluster, with little prospect for a turnaround in 2016,” cites the gloomy prognosis by the World Economic Situation and Prospects Update for 2016. The UN survey cautions that weak global growth “continues to linger,” posing a serious challenge […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Drudge-Select — May 19, 2016 c/o DrudgeReport.com Egyptair plane ‘swerved and plunged’… Fell 22,000 feet… ‘Almost certainly terror attack’… Pilot did not respond to radio calls… Three air marshals Aboard… Wreckage found… ‘Final nail in coffin’ for Egypt tourism… Latest…
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russia has joined several dozen Islamic countries in barring 22 LGBT-rights groups from participating in a major United Nations meeting on HIV/AIDS next month. The move to exclude the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) defenders has drawn sharp criticism from UN officials, Western diplomats, and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com GWANGJU ― The ghosts of the uprising of May 18, 1980, hover over this old but new city in a restive spirit that shows the disunity, the factional splits and the regional hatreds that persist in undermining the ability of South Korea to stand effectively against challenges from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com, May 19, 2016 By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Part I, Part II. The initial alienation of grassroots, European-born and educated Muslim youth was a result of the overall deteriorating economic and social conditions throughout Western Europe. But this socio-economic frustration quickly transformed into a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com On the heels of the Party Congress in which North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un presented a five-year economic plan, North Korea has kicked off tougher “work-harder campaigns.” North Koreans, already struggling with hunger and the stresses of survival in the repressive society, are being mobilized for new construction […]