Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The head of the Soros-funded Center for American Progress (CAP) is defending controversial State Department official Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who is suspected of playing a role in Obama administration “engagement” with the anti-American Muslim Brotherhood. Neera Tanden, president and CEO of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Sen. John McCain has become a left-wing media darling for defending Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin against truthful charges that she has family connections to the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. Andrew McCarthy notes there used to be a time when McCain was alarmed by the advance of the Muslim Brotherhood. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The United States has been working with NATO allies to track a Russian weapons ship to Syria. Western diplomatic sources said Britain and the United States were coordinating patrols of the North Sea for a Russian vessel that contained attack helicopters for the regime of President Bashar Assad. The sources […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has removed the threat of sanctions from Turkey for its purchase of crude oil from neighboring Iran. The administration of President Barack Obama has exempted Turkey as well as six other countries from financial sanctions on Iran’s energy sector. Officials said the administration determined that Ankara was […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Senior Obama administration officials last week urged the Senate to approve a bill authorizing the U.S. to become a party to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Doing so, they said, would better deter China’s “excessive” claims in the Western Pacific region. “As a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has hacked into Al Qaida websites as part of an online war with the Islamic insurgency movement, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced. “A couple of weeks ago, Al Qaida’s affiliate in Yemen began an advertising campaign on key tribal web sites bragging about killing Americans and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) administration’s continued persecution of dissidents and nongovernmental organization activists belies expectations that Beijing might pick up the threads of political reform after the downfall of the crypto-Maoist princeling, former Chongqing Party Secretary Bo Xilai. Pledges made to senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of […]
Wesley Pruden Barack Obama says he agrees with Abraham Lincoln (you could ask him) that America is “the exceptional nation,” a nation unique in a world of moral squalor, a beacon of hope for the “tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” But sometimes cold pragmatism demands the exceptional nation make exceptions. […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is on the road to Burma to witness a “critical moment” in the isolated Southeast Asian state’s slow but sure transition to a more open political system which may bring democracy, or could legitimize the long-ruling military regime. Recently, British Prime Minister David Cameron visited […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that the Sunni revolt in Syria was threatened by a shortage of money and weapons. Officials said the administration of President Barack Obama and Congress have been told that Sunni rebels were not receiving aid promised by Gulf Cooperation Council and other countries. They said […]