Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The Washington Post apparently doesn’t care how ridiculous it looks as it embarks on the process of destroying Ken Cuccinelli and other Republican candidates for top statewide offices in Virginia. After Cuccinelli won the gubernatorial nomination, the Post stories looked like press releases from the Democratic Party. The front-page […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Joint Strike Fighter, designed as a low-budget fighter-jet, has now exceeded $150 million per unit. Britain, a leading partner in the JSF program, reported that the F-35 cost more than $150 million. British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said the rising cost could hamper his government’s procurement plans. “It’s [procurement] […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The revelations about the IRS targeting voices opposed to Barack Obama’s political agenda came of no surprise to filmmaker Joel Gilbert. His private financial accounts were hacked into and the information used by a George Soros-linked journalist, Seth Rosenfeld, before the presidential election. Gilbert wants to know who provided […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Five months before Barack Obama was elected to his first term as president, Herbert Romerstein and I finished a Washington, D.C. briefing on “The Stealth Candidate” — Barack Obama — and his communist connections. I opened it up for questions. “I’m Dana Milbank from The Washington Post,” said the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Bill Ayers’ claim that the Weather Underground bombed property, not people, in order to protest the Vietnam War, is two lies in one. First, they specialized in anti-personnel bombs using heavy metal staples. Second, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn were not opposed to the war, only to a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Global Information System/Defense & Foreign Affairs The seemingly unrelenting wave of media “revelations” in the United States against one of the key strategic policy officials in the government, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (Democrat, New Jersey), has its origins not in any malfeasance or misadventure by the Senator, but in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has determined a shale gas potential that could put a dent in its foreign energy dependency. The government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has awarded a license of a potential shale reserve to Canada’s Valeura Energy. The General Directorate of Petroleum Affairs said Valeura would hold a 100 percent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Memories and images of Margaret Thatcher and her legacy as displayed in the media this week evoke an obvious question: What would the Iron Lady have done about North Korea? The answer would seem clear. It’s hard to imagine the woman who dispatched troops to the Falklands in […]