ISIS mounts full court press to claim Stephen Paddock was ‘Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki’

ISIS mounts full court press to claim Stephen Paddock was ‘Abu Abdul Barr al-Amriki’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2017 Islamic State (ISIS) is persisting in its claims that Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was acting on the terror group’s behalf. In the Oct. 6 issue of its al-Naba newsletter, ISIS claims Paddock converted to Islam six months ago. The newsletter used the nom de guerre that ISIS bestowed up Paddock […]

Who is battling social media’s confiscation of the free press? Rupert Murdoch, that’s who

Who is battling social media’s confiscation of the free press? Rupert Murdoch, that’s who

by WorldTribune Staff, October 6, 2017 News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch is spearheading the news industry’s war against tech and social media giants Facebook and Google, which have “eaten journalism’s business model and forever changed how readers consume information,” an analysis said. “Stories in recent months highlighting Facebook and Google’s fraught role in the election […]

North Korea’s new Internet provider: Russian firm replaces China Unicom as primary router

North Korea’s new Internet provider: Russian firm replaces China Unicom as primary router

by WorldTribune Staff, October 3, 2017 A new external Internet connection provided by Russia will give North Korea the capability to conduct more cyber attacks, an analyst said. North Korea’s Internet access is estimated to be somewhere between a few hundred and just over 1,000 route connections. Pyongyang’s web connections are vital for coordinating the […]

Obama official: Backing out of Iran deal would jeopardize U.S. diplomacy with North Korea

Obama official: Backing out of Iran deal would jeopardize U.S. diplomacy with North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal “doesn’t make us tougher with North Korea … it isolates us from the rest of the world,” said an Obama administration official who helped broker the deal. “North Korea will see this as we are unreliable and we don’t have credibility,” Wendy […]

Lawyers for Awans cite evidence of widespread procurement fraud by House Democrats

Lawyers for Awans cite evidence of widespread procurement fraud by House Democrats

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 Imran Awan, his brothers and their associates were merely doing what they were “ordered to do” by Democratic members of Congress when the IT aides allegedly falsified records on how the members’ office budgets were spent, according to lawyers for Awan. Awan was arrested in July while trying to […]

All-out legal assault on Manafort called standard procedure for Mueller’s pro-Obama prosecutor

All-out legal assault on Manafort called standard procedure for Mueller’s pro-Obama prosecutor

by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2017 A ferocious government prosecutor and Obama donor has onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort in his sights. Andrew Weissmann, who has been reunited with special counsel Robert Mueller, his old boss at the FBI, “has an operational history of going after the relatively small to snare the big,” Rowan […]

Key unanswered questions about Las Vegas massacre challenge emerging media narrative

Key unanswered questions about Las Vegas massacre challenge emerging media narrative

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 The American people deserve to know what really took place in Las Vegas – and the major media is not telling them, says a conservative writer in Idaho. “According to the mainstream media, a 64-year-old retired accountant with a flabby physique that had no military training whatsoever and that […]

Saudi King heads to Russia to talk oil, Syria, Iran

Saudi King heads to Russia to talk oil, Syria, Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, October 5, 2017 In the first ever visit to Moscow by a reigning Saudi monarch, King Salman is expected to prioritize oil cooperation but will also discuss differences with Russia over Syria and Iran. The King, who arrives in Moscow on Oct. 5, will have several investment deals on his plate, including […]

Major think tank abruptly cancels talk by billionaire dissident targeted by Beijing

Major think tank abruptly cancels talk by billionaire dissident targeted by Beijing

by WorldTribune Staff, October 4, 2017 A conservative think tank in Washington called off a public meeting with Chinese dissident Guo Wengui after the think tank’s website was targeted in a denial of service cyber attack traced to Shanghai, a report said. The Hudson Institute on Oct. 2 sent an email notice stating the widely-anticipated […]

Mattis argues President Trump favors a diplomatic solution on North Korea

Mattis argues President Trump favors a diplomatic solution on North Korea

by WorldTribune Staff, October 4, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump has “very clearly” signaled his intent to pursue a diplomatic solution to the standoff with North Korea, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Oct. 3. Mattis told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Pentagon “supports fully” a diplomatic solution amid mixed messages from […]