Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — For the first time since the Sunni revolt in March 2011, the United States has begun operations against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Western diplomatic sources said the administration of President Barack Obama has ordered the U.S. intelligence community to ensure the ouster of Assad in 2012. The […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] Chief Political Correctness High Priestess Diane Rehm, with one of her often-biased radio panel discussions, recently carried this ancient back to the late 1930s’ Great Debate, framed as “isolationism” vs. “interventionism” in foreign policy. (Full disclosure: I was a teen-age member of William Allen White’s Committee for Defending America […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has decided to maintain U.S. military aid to Egypt. A Senate panel has approved a foreign aid budget that maintains U.S. military aid to Egypt for 2013. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations agreed to a request by the administration of President Barack Obama for $1.3 […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] Resembling a huge 74-wheeler packed with unassembled goodies, the U.S. is stranded on the world economy grade-crossing with the Euro express gathering speed as it tears down the Trans-Atlantic financial tracks for a seemingly inevitable collision. A police report written by patronizing Harvard economists some time in the dim […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — The United States is said to have completed plans for a military strike option to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program. U.S. ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, asserted that the administration of President Barack Obama has drafted plans for military options against Iran. Shapiro said the military option was now “fully […]
Times247.com Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States intends to resume weapons exports to Bahrain. The administration of President Barack Obama told Congress that Washington would renew arms shipments to Bahrain. In a statement on May 11, Congress was told that U.S. engines and ships would be delivered to Bahrain’s military, coast guard and security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley, Global Information System Europe is at a pivotal point. Or, rather, it is at a point where its structural transformation can no longer be ignored. Events in Europe have finally led us to the dénouement of the 20th Century. It may presage a new Europe tied more firmly into […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has enhanced its campaign against suspected violators of sanctions on Iran and Syria. President Barack Obama has empowered his administration to identify and track alleged violators of U.S. and international sanctions on Damascus and Teheran. On May 1, Obama signed an order that authorized the Treasury Department […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, in a move that could affect Middle East allies, has trimmed oversight by Congress of weapons exports. Congressional leaders said the Obama administration has reduced House and Senate oversight over proposed U.S. arms sales. They said the White House was virtually eliminating the consultation process with Congress […]