Special to WorldTribune.com Smugglers from former Soviet republics have been working to set up a black market for radioactive materials and the FBI recently seized illegal chemicals during an undercover sting. The FBI is said to have foiled at least four plots in the last five years by gangs in Eastern Europe to sell nuclear […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The cost of cyber attacks reached one half trillion dollars globally last year with no end in sight, said former CIA analyst Jack Caravelli at a conference in Switzerland. An underground growth industry driven by the expanding ranks of amateur and professional hackers steal government secrets and sensitive corporate information, he said. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Moscow insists that its air strikes in Syria have targeted Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and aren’t being used against rebels fighting the Bashar Assad regime. Russia’s defense ministry said it launched a second day of air strikes in Syria on Oct. 1 which destroyed an ISIL ammunition depot and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. President Barack Obama’s new strategy to defeat Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) is to win with ideas instead of guns. During a summit with world leaders at the United Nations, Obama claimed that “military pressure” will not force ISIL to back down and that the war of ideas was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Sol W. Sanders President Abdul Fatah Sisi is rapidly resuming Egypt’s role as leader of the Arab world, nosing out U.S. Mideast leadership under President Barrack Obama’s “leading from behind”. Initially snubbed by Obama after his military coup last year against the Morsi Islamicist government, Sisi has moved away from his military […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs [Editor’s note: The following full-length report by Yossef Bodansky details Russia’s unambiguous response to the growing jihadist threat in Syria and the Middle East that has remarkably been aided and abetted at several junctures by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct Russia is using a broad repertoire of economic, diplomatic and military tools to expand its influence in the Middle East, taking advantage of the Obama administration’s broad disengagement there. Once described derisively by Barack Obama as a “local power,” Russia is demonstrating considerable interest and skill in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey The Western powers are being outplayed by adversaries with much weaker hands. VIENNA 1815: The great powers of Europe: Russia, Prussia, Great Britain and Austria, meet in Vienna with the representative of a France defeated, disarmed and occupied by foreign troops. That representative, Prince Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, playing a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy A new round of the “Great Game”* in Syria demonstrates not so much Moscow’s growing power, as the intellectual vacuum in the West. Western leaders, the media and experts state the obvious: the Kremlin is trying to save Assad. Of course, yes, but principal points remain outside of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. and Fred Fleitz Even though the nuclear agreement with Iran has cleared a controversial congressional review process, the Obama administration and its supporters continue to argue that the only alternative to the agreement is war and that the idea of a better deal is a fantasy. We […]