Netanyahu slams UN’s ‘deafening silence’ in a speech punctuated by his own 40 seconds of silence

Netanyahu slams UN’s ‘deafening silence’ in a speech punctuated by his own 40 seconds of silence

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 […]

Memo to the West: Moscow’s increasing role in Syria and against the jihadist threat since 2012

Memo to the West: Moscow’s increasing role in Syria and against the jihadist threat since 2012

Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]

What Russia is up to in Syria and the ‘progressive’ U.S. suicide

What Russia is up to in Syria and the ‘progressive’ U.S. suicide

Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy A new round of the “Great Game”* in Syria demonstrates not so much Moscow’s growing power, as the intellectual vacuum in the West. Western leaders, the media and experts state the obvious: the Kremlin is trying to save Assad. Of course, yes, but principal points remain outside of the […]

Rise of the have-nots: Inequality will bring the next financial crisis

Rise of the have-nots: Inequality will bring the next financial crisis

Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey It doesn’t grab headlines like refugees and war, but growing global inequality poses the worst threat to economic and political stability. Just when you think things couldn’t get worse, they do. As chaos, civil war and anarchy spread across the Middle East; as Europe is subject to the most […]

WORLD MATTERS: Flood of Refugees exposes America’s fatal flaw: Impatience and democracy

WORLD MATTERS: Flood of Refugees exposes America’s fatal flaw: Impatience and democracy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto The flood of Middle Eastern refugees into Europe exposes a fatal flaw of the current democratic system in the United States. The defect is the innate inability of the fast-paced American system to bring a long-drawn-out war against an unconventional enemy to a victorious conclusion. As Adelbert Weinstein, the […]

Former British defense chief aims to provide leadership he charges the West lacks

Former British defense chief aims to provide leadership he charges the West lacks

Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The summer months have been relatively quiet in Ukraine but the approach of fall could see a new round of Russian military opportunism and aggression according to former UK Secretary of State for Defense and current Member of Parliament, Dr. Liam Fox. Fox, during a recent visit […]

Turkey wins U.S. re-engagement against Syria in potentially fatal blow to Iran rapproachement

Turkey wins U.S. re-engagement against Syria in potentially fatal blow to Iran rapproachement

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs By whatever name, the unilaterally-imposed no-fly zone over an area of Syria, proposed by the U.S. and Turkey on July 27, is not an element of a supposed entry by Turkey into the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (asad-Dawlah […]

Downfall of the ayatollahs: Strategic hope for the future, Persia-centric Middle East

Downfall of the ayatollahs: Strategic hope for the future, Persia-centric Middle East

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, and Dr. Assad Homayoun GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs I’ve reached the end of this great history And all the land will talk of me: I shall not die, these seeds I’ve sown will save My name and reputation from the grave, And men of sense and wisdom will […]

Nuclear agreement with Iran a diplomatic disaster of historic proportion

Nuclear agreement with Iran a diplomatic disaster of historic proportion

Special to WorldTribune.com Sarah N. Stern The Obama administration has entered into a nuclear deal between the P5+1 powers and the Islamic Republic of Iran that is more deplorable than we had even anticipated. The deal threatens the security of the United States, the security of our ally Israel, and the security of the entire […]

Russia adding dozens of intercontinental missiles to arsenal

Russia adding dozens of intercontinental missiles to arsenal

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin says the military will add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) to its arsenal this year capable of “penetrating” any current missile defense systems. Putin said at the opening of the Army-2015 arms show in Alabino, west of Moscow, on […]