Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel has been preparing for an investigation of U.S. espionage. Officials and parliamentarians said Israel would seek details of U.S. espionage operations in the Jewish state. They said Israel long suspected that the United States was monitoring the telephones and e-mails of officials. “We need to know if the United […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi Arabia has again played down a threat from the emerging shale market in the United States. The Jadwa Investment bank asserted that U.S. shale production marked a greater threat to Saudi Arabia’s petrochemical sector than the kingdom’s crude oil exports. In a report, the Saudi bank predicted a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has delivered its first fuselage for the U.S.-origin Joint Strike Fighter. The state-owned Turkish Aerospace Industries supplied the first center fuselage of the F-35. On Dec. 11, TAI completed the delivery to Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin in a ceremony in Ankara. “Delivery of this high quality, affordable center […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Israeli victims of Iranian-sponsored attacks could receive millions of dollars from Teheran’s assets in the United States. A U.S. federal district court judge, culminating a decade-long battle, has granted $9.7 million to the families of five victims of an Iranian-assisted suicide bombing in 1997. But the judge delayed implementing the […]
President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States is battling to win Qatar’s multi-billion-dollar fighter-jet competition. Industry sources said the administration of President Barack Obama has been lobbying the Gulf Cooperation Council emirate to select a U.S. warplane for Doha’s largest combat air project. The sources said the administration has succeeded in delaying Qatar’s tender, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com We’ll never hear the end of questions about what a different world it would have been if President John Fitzgerald Kennedy had not been shot and killed one sunny day in Dallas in 1963. The 50th anniversary, Nov. 22, has spawned countless articles and a number of books […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Wayne Allen Root There are 2 major political parties in America. I’m a member of the naïve, stupid, and cowardly one. I’m a Republican. How stupid is the GOP? They still don’t get it. I told them 5 years ago, 2 books ago, a national bestseller ago (“The Ultimate Obama Survival […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Matt Barber Benjamin Franklin famously quipped, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Franklin evidently failed to envisage today’s postmodern left. For the conservative, there exists at least one other certainty, and it is this: The degree to which “progressives” attack you corresponds precisely […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — The United States has been drafting plans for a rapid naval evacuation from Bahrain. Officials said the U.S. Navy has conducted an exercise that envisioned a crisis in the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom. [Related stories: Bahrain, U.S. embassy deny reports of statements attributed to Gen. Shelton, Oct. 8 and Former […]