Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood, fresh from its victory in parliamentary elections, has been quietly reaching out to the military for a transfer of power. Egyptian opposition sources said the Brotherhood has been engaged in a high-level dialogue with the military regime to ensure a transfer of power sometime in 2012. They […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media “As President Obama stood on the podium in the Pentagon briefing room Thursday to outline the nation’s defense priorities, the military stood with him,” reported The Washington Post, as if the military brass had any other alternative than to serve as […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System Most strategic allies of the United States are waking up after the long Cold War and post-Cold War party with the realization that their efforts to integrate their military doctrine with that of the U.S. have led them to evolve force structures which require enormous capital investment […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has approved weapons sales to South Sudan. President Barack Obama has directed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to enable U.S. defense and security exports to South Sudan. The presidential memorandum said South Sudan would be eligible to receive defense articles and services under the Foreign Assistance Act. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley and Yossef Bodansky, Global Information System Rarely in the past six decades has global context counted for as much in strategic forecasting trend analysis as it does at the dawn of 2012. Reliance on stove-piped analysis of strategic sectors such as economic and financial issues, security issues, politics, geopolitics, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Wednesday, June 22, 2011 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Air Force has been urged to prepare for war with Iran. The Rand Corp. asserted that the Air Force must increase exercises and testing of weapons as part of preparations for any order to attack Iran. In a report for the Air Force, Rand […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Friday, August 5, 2011 ANKARA — Turkey appears to have significantly reduced the scope of plans to procure the Joint Strike Fighter from the United States. The government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has scaled down plans that until 2009 called for the procurement of 120 F-35 fighter-jets. Under the latest proposal, […]
Lev Navrozov I call countries that are not free “slave countries,” though Soviet propaganda proclaimed that “Soviet Russia” was the only first “free” country in the world even after it conquered some countries to the west of it, after which those countries became “free” countries in the Soviet propaganda, in contrast to “the rest of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Monday, May 2, 2011 By Grace Vuoto Related: Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s letter to President Obama — April 8, 2010 On April 27 President Barack Obama issued a copy of his long-form birth certificate and declared: “We do not have time for this kind of silliness.” He said “We’ve got better stuff […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M. Downing, FreePressers.com One can scarcely read anything on world affairs these days without seeing discussion of the decline of the U.S. and the rise of China. In recent weeks, however, President Obama spoke plainly, bluntly, and even disparagingly to China. At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, Obama chided China, […]