Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has issued a new deadline for the completion of Iran’s first nuclear reactor. Russia’s state-owned Atomstroyexport said it would launch full operations of Iran’s nuclear reactor at Bushehr by 2013. The company said the 1,000 megawatt facility was deemed 90 percent complete. Atomstroyexport reported trials of Bushehr in May […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has been linked to a virus attack on Iran’s energy infrastructure. Officials and executives suggested an Israeli link to the Flame malware, a virus said to have attacked computers in Iran. The officials said Flame was an advanced software that could take over targeted computers without a trace. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com NATO took a step forward toward completing a comprehensive ballistic missile shield by announcing that an “interim capability” to destroy incoming missiles was already in operation. “The United States and our European allies are investing in common security and it is an excellent example of the renewed […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] Chief Political Correctness High Priestess Diane Rehm, with one of her often-biased radio panel discussions, recently carried this ancient back to the late 1930s’ Great Debate, framed as “isolationism” vs. “interventionism” in foreign policy. (Full disclosure: I was a teen-age member of William Allen White’s Committee for Defending America […]
Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Russia has sent additional weapons to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Diplomatic sources said a Russian ship filled with weapons was ready to dock in Syria. They said the weapons were believed to include surface-to-surface rockets. “Russia wants to build Syrian forces to counter any attack from […]
Lev Navrozov From Moscow, the capital of the slave country founded in 1917, I came to New York, to the 21st floor of a skyscraper. The owners of the slave country had created their radio and television and even their own art and philosophy — in short, they created a new culture, with inevitable shortcomings. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Vladimir Putin was sworn in Monday to be Russian president for a six-year term following a controversial election. The first thing Putin wanted was a guarantee from the U.S. that its missile defense system would not be used against Russia. That puts the Obama administration in a […]
Lev Navrozov It seems that quite recently things looked so promising in Russia. In my recent columns, I happily noticed that there are quite a few burgeoning signs of freedom in Russia that were impossible even to think of in my time: freedom of travel, freedom to leave the country, or start your own business. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley, Global Information System Europe is at a pivotal point. Or, rather, it is at a point where its structural transformation can no longer be ignored. Events in Europe have finally led us to the dénouement of the 20th Century. It may presage a new Europe tied more firmly into […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fariborz Saremi The Iranian revolutionary regime has succeeded in alienating other Muslim states in the region by attempting to export its own version of Islam to countries within the Middle East. Ever since its first day of coming to power in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has meddled in the […]