Turkey as failed state? Army won’t stand by, and that wouldn’t be such a bad thing

Turkey as failed state? Army won’t stand by, and that wouldn’t be such a bad thing

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey As Turkey degenerates, a military coup is more likely than total failure, and not a bad outcome for Israel. Famed commentator David Goldman, writing under the pseudonym “Spengler” in the “Asia Times”, has published an analysis in which he asks the question whether Turkey is in danger of becoming […]

ISIL hotbed in the heart of Europe: Terrorists buying real estate in the mountains of Bosnia

ISIL hotbed in the heart of Europe: Terrorists buying real estate in the mountains of Bosnia

Special to WorldTribune.com Authorities have discovered an Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) stronghold in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Bosnian police recently raided the mountain village of Gornja Maoca and found residents there flying the ISIL flag, according to the Sunday Mirror. Police said several jihadists trained in the village and went on to […]

In 1950, UN forces fought back; Of what use are today’s ‘peackeepers’

In 1950, UN forces fought back; Of what use are today’s ‘peackeepers’

By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The United Nations as a force for peace has never lived up to the hopes implicit in the name. You can’t blame a succession of secretary-generals for the failures of the UN The current secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon, may seem bland and ineffective, but there’s not much he can do when each […]

Guns of August: A century after , the U.S. is aloof

Guns of August: A century after , the U.S. is aloof

By John J. Metzler VIENNA, Austria–The countdown started in Sarajevo in June 1914, the conflagration followed in August. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb nationalist set in motion a series of events in which the great European powers marched, with near lockstep, into a war which would devour seventeen million people, […]