U.S. military trainers to remain at 10 Iraqi bases

U.S. military trainers to remain at 10 Iraqi bases

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. military plans to retain a presence in 10 bases in Iraq in 2012. The Defense Department and Joint Chiefs of Staff have approved a plan in which U.S. military trainers would operate out of 10 bases in Iraq after the American troop pullout at the end of 2011. […]

U.S. policy ‘breakthroughs’ in Asia hit a series of reality walls

U.S. policy ‘breakthroughs’ in Asia hit a series of reality walls

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com WASHINGTON — Call it a matter of conflicting — or colliding — messages. South Korean conservatives have forced a free-trade agreement with the United States through a fractious National Assembly. A U.S. Congress “supercommittee” has demonstrated the weakness of the American system of governance by abject, humiliating failure […]

Beijing decides on two-pronged strategy to blunt Obama’s ‘anti-China containment policy’

Beijing decides on two-pronged strategy to blunt Obama’s ‘anti-China containment policy’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Hu Jintao leadership is mapping out measures to blunt what Beijing perceives is an enhanced effort by Washington to counter China’s power projection in the Asia-Pacific Theatre. While visiting Australia on Nov. 16, President Barack Obama and host Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that U.S. Marines would […]

West extends sanctions on Iran, but spares Central Bank

West extends sanctions on Iran, but spares Central Bank

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Western powers have begun bolstering sanctions on Iran. Britain, Canada and the United States, have announced new sanctions on Iran’s financial system. Officials said the sanctions, announced on Nov. 21, were meant to retaliate for Iran’s continued efforts to develop nuclear weapons. “If you are a financial institution and you […]

Jetsetters at Occupy: Guess who’s back preaching communism?

Jetsetters at Occupy: Guess who’s back preaching communism?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sumantra Maitra, Freepressers.com NEW DELHI — Remember Arundhati Roy? Booker prize winner, posh South Delhi resident, Kohl eyed beauty who sympathizes with the global proletariat? She once termed Maoists as “Gandhians with guns“, ironically a few days before they massacred 76 Central Reserve Police Force personnel in one of the single […]

Question not on big media’s radar screen: How will America be impacted by the growing EU crisis?

Question not on big media’s radar screen: How will America be impacted by the growing EU crisis?

Sol W. Sanders An old Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times”, has become a bromide. I suspect those old Chinese savants were smarter: Confucius [and his St. Paul, Mencius] codified rules and ceremonies for all princes for all eternity, undoubtedly suspecting, rightfully, all eras would have many if not most of the same […]

08/08/08 and the ‘Little War That Shook The World’

08/08/08 and the ‘Little War That Shook The World’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sumantra Maitra, Freepressers.com The 5 day August war between Russia and Georgia changed the geopolitical and geostrategic scenario of Europe. It is important for many reasons. It was the first East-West conflict since the end of Cold War. It was the first European war since the Second World War, where the […]

Americans elected a president who holds them in contempt

Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama regularly expresses his contempt for America. The latest example was his comment at a business forum in Hawaii where he complained that “we’ve been a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades.” In particular, he meant Americans supposedly have been lax in pursuing foreign investment because “we aren’t […]

Report: Kuwait to use financial position to ‘avoid a broad popular uprising’

Report: Kuwait to use financial position to ‘avoid a broad popular uprising’

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Congress has been told that Kuwait would not face a revolt like that in other Arab League states. The Congressional Research Service asserted that Kuwait would be able to overcome the current escalation in unrest. CRS, which briefs the House and Senate on a range of issues, said […]