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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi Arabia’s continued flooding of the crude oil market has ushered in cheap prices that could stop the U.S. shale energy industry’s growth in its tracks, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). High-cost producers like U.S. shale drillers are likely to see the biggest drop in output in nearly a quarter […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sheda Vasseghi Thanks to a weak and mediocre Mainstream Media, the only thing that people learned about the presidential contender, the Republican candidate Donald Trump, from a Sept. 9, 2015, interview by the Rolling Stone’s Paul Solotaroff is that he allegedly offended a female political rival. As far as comments on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy “The prospects are bright, but the road has twists and turns”. These are the words of Mao Zedong, but they could have belonged to Barack Obama. Unfortunately, “twists and turns” will be so numerous, that not many will manage to see the “bright prospects”. Obama believes that the agreement […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fred Fleitz Democratic New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez gave a powerful speech yesterday announcing his strong opposition to the nuclear agreement with Iran. The speech was a devastating indictment of the Iran agreement that refutes the many questionable arguments in defense of the deal by the Obama administration. Menendez also discusses […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The temptation to slash defense spending is overwhelming. Why worry about huge standing forces overseas when they’re not deployed much except on military exercises and war games that are repetitious and boring? Easy to say, but the U.S. had only 500 advisers in South Korea when the North […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Saudi Arabia’s risky gamble to break the U.S. shale oil (fracking) industry has not only failed, but sent the Saudis and OPEC into a downward spiral that will “be in existential crisis by the end of the decade,” a UK analyst said. “If the oil futures market is correct, Saudi Arabia will […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fred Fleitz While Obama officials continue to bash Republicans and neocons for opposing the Iran nuclear agreement, growing Democratic opposition, strong statements against the deal by several Democratic legislators, and new poll results indicate Americans disapprove the agreement on a bipartisan basis. Congressman Steve Israel of New York, the top ranking […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Patrice Hill, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Barack Obama told supporters on July 30 that Democratic support in Congress for the Iran nuclear deal is “squishy” and they must work hard to counter an aggressive lobbying campaign against it. In a call with groups affiliated with the Center […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Peru and Colombia have, largely unnoticed by the world’s media, continued to quietly work toward an integration of their political, economic, and strategic structures. This growing closeness — albeit without a publicly-stated end goal — has a military dimension. A significant new bloc — several years in […]