Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to put their dispute over the Iran nuclear deal behind them at a White House meeting November 9. Iran, nevertheless, appeared to remain uppermost on their minds even as they discussed ways to try to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com President Obama might be considering the motto on which Woodrow Wilson ran for president in 1916 as his enduring legacy: “He kept us out of war.” That is, if he can forget that Wilson, after election to his second term, reversed course and sent American soldiers to Europe, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. President Barack Obama’s capitulation to Iran in recent nuclear negotiations will likely result in the first use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney wrote in an op-ed. Among the many dangerous deficiencies in his nuclear deal with Iran is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fred Fleitz This morning I read a Washington Post op-ed that provided an especially prescient analysis of the nuclear agreement the Obama administration is seeking with Iran. The author said in the final two paragraphs of this piece: The much-discussed terms of the impending agreement with Iran thus offer the theocracy […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Parris H. Chang Last month on May 20, the Defense Commission of North Korea (DPRK) claimed that the nation had built nuclear weapons small enough to be delivered by missiles. A statement carried by Pyongyang’s official news agency, KCNA, asserted that the DPRK’s nuclear capacity have entered the stage of producing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com U.S. officials on May 26 downplayed Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL) recent gains in Iraq as Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi pledged to recapture Ramadi in days, perhaps with assistance from Iran. The Iraqi government has called for volunteers and enlisted the aid of Shi’ite militiamen in its counteroffensive in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who heads Iran’s elite Quds Force, said Iran has done far more than the U.S. against the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). “Obama has not done a damn thing so far to confront Daesh: doesn’t that show that there is no will in America to confront […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Matt Drudge slammed congressional Republicans for all but surrendering their power to President Barack Obama on a fast-track trade bill. Drudge took to Twitter say the Trade Promotion Authority bill could be to blame if the GOP candidate loses the 2016 presidential election. He also said the secrecy surrounding the deal with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Fred Fleitz Earlier this week, Iranian forces seized a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship, the Maersk Tigris, while it was traversing the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian forces boarded the ship after firing warning shots across its bridge and diverted it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. Iranian officials have not explained […]
Sol W. Sanders One of the many anomalies of President Barack Hussein Obama’s collapsing foreign policy is Washington’s growing rift with Israel, despite the two countries’ historically intimate ties at every level. Obama’s fundamental antagonism toward Israel was always apparent: during the 2008 campaign he announced one of his “transformations” would be putting “light between […]