Special to WorldTribune.com By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Nothing says “America” quite like the opening of a bogus Kentucky Fried Chicken in the Iranian capital. Too American, it seems, for Iranian authorities, who apparently spoiled the grand opening of a Turkish-born, Muslim-focused, “KFC Halal” restaurant in Tehran because they considered it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A large majority of Iranian legislators say the Islamic republic is “not at all prepared” to abandon the slogan of “Death to America” despite a landmark nuclear deal signed with six world powers. In a statement carried by state news agency IRNA on November 2, 192 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) announced on Oct. 19 it would invest $35 billion in the United States by 2020. The QIA’s pledge comes as Qatar’s looks to bolster its strategic alliance with the United States after tensions emerged among Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states over relations with Iran, which the GCC […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com SEOUL — The Trans-Pacific Partnership carries implications far beyond the commercial benefits that President Obama and others claim would result from it. Arguments pro and con in terms of the advantages and disadvantages for each of the 12 countries that have signed on to TPP are sure to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The world goes on after Shemitah 2015 and a rare four blood moons. But global warnings of economic stress intensified in September. “I believe a great shaking is coming to America and the world. I believe a shaking is coming that strikes the financial realm, economic realm and may even be a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Arrogance is the art to take pride in its own stupidity,” says an astute German aphorism allegedly coined by Goethe. Arrogance comes to mind as the most charitable attribute when considering Volkswagen’s breathtakingly stupid act of hoodwinking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and systematically deceiving eleven million customers who […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com WASHINGTON ― China President Xi Jinping’s meeting with President Obama Friday is sure to be an exercise in double-and-triple talk that will sorely test the skills of both of them in papering over, covering up and otherwise evading issues that neither of them is going to be able […]
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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Microsoft has opened its first retail store in Iran and may soon be joined by Apple and McDonald’s, according to Iranian media reports. Press TV, citing the Tasnim News Agency, said on Sept. 17 that the American technology giant had set up shop in Teheran, making it the first U.S. company to establish […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Driven by a thriving high-tech industry, Israel’s economy enjoyed a high rate of growth this past year and that momentum is expected to continue through the coming year, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In an annual report on Israel’s economy published on Sept. 16 by the IMF, the group’s economists […]