Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Five years after the onset of the pro-democracy revolts against authoritarian rulers in much of the Middle East, the heady warm breezes of the Arab Spring have been replaced with swirling ill winds sweeping the region from Tunisia to Iraq. Governments were toppled, chaos ensued, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Morocco’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) dominated elections in the country’s largest cities on Sept. 4, expanding its power four years after running on a platform of major fiscal reform. The PJD came to power in 2011 in the wake of “Arab Spring” protests which forced King Mohammed VI to devolve […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The White House on Aug. 18, 2011 released a written statement from President Barack Obama: “For the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President (Bashar) Assad to step aside.” Four years later, Assad remains in power with the backing of Iran’s terror proxy Hizbullah, Obama’s weak policy has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com He looks like a sophisticated man of the world, talks like a man in charge of the universe, and was received in the U.S. on his maiden state visit like something of a rock star. He is India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose charm and openness won him many […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — The United States has envisioned new power alignments in the Middle East that could include Israel cooperating more closely with the Gulf Arab states. Officials said such factors as the Arab Spring, the threat from Iran and the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood have opened opportunities throughout the Middle East. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fariborz Saremi In these strange and unstable times in the Middle East one surprising and superficially positive event is ironically also a new major cause for concern. Iran and the United States of America, longstanding enemies, would appear to be close to lasting rapprochement. Rather than producing greater feelings of security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fariborz Saremi Currently the Middle East is in a state of upheaval from which it may never truly recover. Politically, the region as a whole is extremely unstable, as are several countries within the region. To ensure that permanent chaos does not ensue the United States and the Islamic Republic of […]
Sol W. Sanders Untangling all the strands of the Boston Marathon Terrorist Attack will take enormous effort and time, long past the patience of the American public to follow the full-fledged autopsy. But one important element needs the attention of U.S. intellectuals who have largely abdicated their role. It is a discussion of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Egyptian Army, financed and equipped by the United States, tortured and killed pro-democracy protesters in 2011, a report said. A state commission determined that the Army joined security forces in attacking opponents of the regime of then-President Hosni Mubarak in January and February 2011. In a report, the panel […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey’s call for a congressional “inquiry” into Al Jazeera’s purchase of Al Gore’s Current TV gives hope that the controversial transaction benefiting the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood can still be derailed. At a Breitbart News-sponsored forum during last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Mukasey said, […]