Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — North Korea’s determination to fire a long-range missile sometime between Wednesday and next Monday is leaving the United States and its allies in the humiliating position of issuing rhetorical threats with no real chance of carrying them out. The helplessness of the U.S. position was clear […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — America’s political standing has dipped so low in Egypt, that in a recent Gallup poll, more than eighty percent of respondents said they neither want military aid nor economic assistance from the United States. Moreover as many shades of Islamic political parties dominate the landscape, many people in this […]
Wesley Pruden Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are as irrelevant now as Ron Paul to the selection of the Republican presidential nomination, and they both know it. They both know that Mitt Romney can start planning his coronation in Tampa. The latest round of primaries, in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, revealed in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Gregory Copley, Global Information System Global security concerns continued, in early April 2012, to be geared around the possibility of armed conflict between Iran and Israel, an issue hedged by a range of other conflicts and issues. The actual prospect of such a conflict, however, remained extremely low, for a variety of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media Fox News is once again moving to the left, hoping to avoid left-wing attacks on its news operations and commentators. The current controversy involves new Fox News contributor Santita Jackson, who lists the notorious Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., as being among […]
Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama is undermining the rule of law. On Monday, he openly attacked the Supreme Court. He fears that the high court will overturn Obamacare. It is the president’s signature domestic achievement – the jewel in his socialist crown. To repeal parts or all of it would be a humiliating repudiation. Hence, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, despite opposition in Congress, has relayed all of U.S. aid to Egypt for 2012. In an unusual move, the White House acknowledged that the administration relayed all $1,5 billion in U.S. civilian and military aid to Egypt for this year. The move came less than two weeks […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive Like death and taxes the conundrum of short term advantage versus long term gain is always with us, in public as well as private life. Somehow, just now, it seems to be more than usually evident in political-economic decisions before The Republic. Here are two: The Supremes, as I write, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Israel has been alarmed by what officials determined were leaks by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama of purported Israeli preparations to attack Iran. A leading U.S. analyst who returned from talks with the Israeli leadership reported that the Obama administration was accused of staging a campaign to undermine […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The Congressional Research Service has issued a report that called on the House and Senate to draft contingencies based on the ramifications of an Israeli military campaign to destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. Titled “Israel: Possible Military Strike Against Iran’s Nuclear Facilities,” CRS, which briefs Congress on a range of issues, […]