Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy “France is at war,” President Francois Hollande said after ISIL attack (as if it had not happened before – 9/11, Madrid in 2004, London in 2005, Boston in 2003, Marathon bombing, countless acts of terrorism in Israel, Russia, Kenya, Nigeria, and finally “Charlie Hebdo”). Hollande is awakened from a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey As in previous conflicts, Western civilization is being hampered in the war with radical Islam by widespread denial. The world has been at war for sixty-eight of the past hundred years. World War I lasted four years, World War II six years, the Cold War 44 years, and the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com France on Nov. 17 became the first nation in the history of the European Union to invoke the EU’s mutual defense clause. French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made the request in Brussels on Nov. 17 in the wake of the devastating terror attacks in Paris on Nov. 13. France’s request received unanimous […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The French capital was under siege again as a brazen, coordinated attack on six popular Parisian locations was carried out on Nov. 13 by what is almost certainly an Islamic terrorist group, probably the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The attackers apparently acted in near […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The European Union “should be ashamed” over its decision to label products from Jewish settlements, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Nov. 11. The EU is only punishing “the side that is being attacked by terrorism,” Netanyahu said, adding “this will not advance peace; it will certainly not advance truth and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, and correspondents in Turkey and the Region The resounding win by the Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (Justice and Development Party: AKP) in the Nov. 1 parliamentary elections in Turkey relied heavily on the support given to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the AKP because of […]
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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The EU’s aviation regulator has warned airlines of the potential danger of flying over Iran, Iraq, and the Caspian Sea after Russia fired cruise missiles at Syrian targets. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) noted the launch of missiles from warships in the Caspian Sea in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The almost Biblical scenes of mass humanity surging through Europe from the Balkans to the Baltic have created jarring images as we see a mass movement of displaced Syrians and Iraqis flooding into what they see as a Promised Land, the European Union. Thus as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a blunt address to the United Nations General Assembly, slammed the world body for its indifference to Iranian threats to destroy Israel. Netanyahu said that the Iran deal “doesn’t make peace more likely,” but by giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief the deal makes […]