Wesley Pruden Now the fun begins. Nothing can fire the anger of an American like the arrogance of a government lawyer with his foot on the throat of a helpless citizen, and the justices of the Supreme Court are the government lawyers with the biggest feet of all. The justices sent a message loud and […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] “A policy of strategic ambiguity” is a striped-pants way of saying “keep your opponent guessing”. It can also be a Foggy Bottom euphemism for lack of policy or not knowing what to do in a difficult situation. It has the advantage of keeping your opponent off balance, never quite […]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia wants U.S. help in energy development in Iraq. Russia’s Rosneft has been negotiating an agreement to team with the U.S. company ExxonMobil for a joint project in Iraq. Industry sources said the target was Iraq’s huge West Qurna-1 oil field. “These two companies have been very serious about partnerships […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid President Obama can declare immunity for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens and can also unilaterally order the broad refinancing of mortgages on millions of “underwater” homeowners in order to reduce principal payments and debt, The New York Times’ Paul Krugman told the liberal “Take Back the American Dream” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley, Global Information System It would be a mistake to think that the Western economic crisis is being managed toward a successful conclusion; that perhaps it can escape from disaster. Rather, most Western societies have moved closer to the brink of economic — and therefore political and social — instability […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] Longer ago than I care to remember, I discussed “the decline of the American labor movement” with an old friend, a high AFL/CIO official, veteran of many a bitter “organizing campaign”, at its palatial 16th Street Washington headquarters. [Transparency alert: My Mom, a 17-year-old Romanian Jewish solitary immigrant was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — A leading U.S. contractor plans to invest another $1.5 billion in Egypt’s energy sector. Officials said Apache Corp. would invest another $1.5 billion in operations in Egypt in 2012. The officials said this marked the largest expansion of foreign investment in Egypt since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — Iraq has awarded a contract to modernize an oil refinery. The U.S. firm Shaw Group has been granted a contract to issue a feasibility study of the upgrade of the refinery in the southern city of Basra. The contract, the value of which was not reported, would examine the 140,000-barrel-per-day […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M. Downing, FreePressers.com A few months ago, Saudi Arabia lowered oil production and attributed it to excess world supply. Oil experts saw this as odd because Libyan and Syria production were way down and Nigerian production was thought in jeopardy from bombing incidents. Some thought the long awaited “twilight in […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A generation ago many Central American countries faced death and destruction from aggressive left-wing insurgencies battling governments in places like El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Today while these countries have evolved into reasonably representative democracies, a new tide of violence “born of transnational organized crime and drug trafficking,” plagues […]