Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Not since the peak of the colonial era has Western interventionism in African affairs been so intrusive and so damaging to the long-term interests and well being of the peoples and their lands. Moreover, while during the colonial era […]
By Bill Gertz, The Ring, The Washington Times U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies monitoring security at the Sochi Olympics say the southern Russian city faces a high risk of an Islamist terrorism attack. One message from a security analyst to those considering attending the Winter Games: Don’t go. …. Continued…
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — There used to be an advertising slogan, “We’re number two but we try harder.” Perhaps in the spirit of the times we should now revive the phrase and proclaim, “We’re number twelve, but it’s somebody else’s fault.” Thus when viewing the world’s freest economies, the U.S. has slid from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — Everybody here is talking about cyberspying. The National Security Agency has never had so much publicity. Until Edward Snowden came along, most people had never heard the initials “NSA.” Now President Obama is getting into the act big-time. In the hours after this newspaper comes out […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The Chechen rebel leader and terrorist who has claimed responsibility for several deadly suicide bombing in Russia has ordered his network to do whatever it takes to sabotage the upcoming Winter Olympics scheduled to open in February. Even though Doku Umarov and his organization have not claimed the […]
Sol W. Sanders Among the many complaints I have against most of my colleagues in the mainstream media [MSM] these days is the anachronistic contradiction that they are largely ahistorical. An anachronism since there has never been a time when with the benefits of the digital revolution more information is available – including archives. […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The powerful polar vortex causing the “big freeze” in parts of the USA has confronted tens of millions of Americans with record cold winter temperatures. While waiting for the bus in the icy New York winds we were all complaining; then I reflected on a report I picked up […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The controversy swirling around President Obama’s birth certificate simply will not die. Take a recent plane crash in Hawaii. Some facts are so striking they require further examination. On Dec. 11, 2013 a small plane in Hawaii on a routine flight in the middle of the day, taking off […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Why is it every time we get optimistic about North Korea “opening up” or making concessions or engaging in serious reconciliation, we get so disillusioned? Remember Kim Dae-Jung’s “Sunshine Policy?” The North Koreans repaid him for his generosity by cranking up their nuclear program and exploding their first […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — The Palestinian Authority has contracted to purchase natural gas from Israel. The Palestine Power Generation Co. has signed a 20-year agreement for the supply of Israeli gas from new offshore reserves in the Mediterranean Sea. The contract between the PA utility and Israel’s Delek Drilling and Avner Oil Exploration […]