A curious U.S. response to the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist

A curious U.S. response to the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist

Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch Recognizing that Iran and its leaders are a grave danger to the world, why would anyone be distressed at the killing of an Iranian scientist who was working to create a nuclear bomb? Iran now has ballistic missiles capable of reaching Europe. Long ago, Iran developed the rockets needed […]

High stakes: Obama’s ace, Iranian oil and the 2012 election

High stakes: Obama’s ace, Iranian oil and the 2012 election

Sol W. Sanders President Barack Obama has launched new international diplomatic poker with “a trailing hand”. It is impossible to exaggerate the forces at play, economic as well as political, foreign and domestic, and their interplay. When he signed Dec. 31st the latest Iran provisos, Mr. Obama was handed new clout to cut Iran’s energy […]

Eight strategic factors bearing on 2012, the year of ‘Great Power Impotence’

Eight strategic factors bearing on 2012, the year of ‘Great Power Impotence’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley and Yossef Bodansky, Global Information System Rarely in the past six decades has global context counted for as much in strategic forecasting trend analysis as it does at the dawn of 2012. Reliance on stove-piped analysis of strategic sectors such as economic and financial issues, security issues, politics, geopolitics, […]

In pursuit, globally, of the elusive soft-landing

In pursuit, globally, of the elusive soft-landing

Sol W. Sanders The new year’s worldwide economic downturn has an interlocking effect: every national economy is searching to accommodate itself politically as well as economically to what looks to be an extended period of low growth. After longer or shorter periods of historically unrivaled prosperity, they are feeling for a “bottom” — a level […]

Iran claims it captured, reverse-engineered several U.S., Israeli drones since 2004

Iran claims it captured, reverse-engineered several U.S., Israeli drones since 2004

Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has claimed the interception of Israeli-origin as well as western unmanned aerial vehicles. A senior military official said Iran has downed several Israeli UAVs since 2004. The unidentified official told Iran’s Fars News Agency that the interceptions took place over the Gulf. Officials said Iran has developed the capability […]

If war is declared on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz will be the strategic focus

If war is declared on Iran, the Strait of Hormuz will be the strategic focus

Special to WorldTribune.com By Fariborz Saremi, FreePressers.com With Iran torn by political turmoil, the Persian Gulf and its energy riches are once again in the eye of the storm and the focus is on the Strait of Hormuz, the only gateway to the Persian Gulf and arguably the world’s most strategic choke point. Iran’s leaders […]

Mesmerized by its enemies: U.S. spends trillions of petrodollars to nurture a virulent culture of hate

Mesmerized by its enemies: U.S. spends trillions of petrodollars to nurture a virulent culture of hate

Sol W. Sanders For those who lived through the World War II prelude and the Cold War, the current American dilemma dealing with Islam is all too familiar. To the extent historical analogies are valid, countering Islamic radical infiltration resembles nothing so much as a century of struggle against Communism before the Soviet Union, as […]