Boeing, Iran sign $3 billion airliner deal

Boeing, Iran sign $3 billion airliner deal

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing has inked a $3 billion deal to sell 30 commercial airliners to an Iranian airline. The deal announced on April 4 was the first of its kind since Donald Trump became U.S. president and imposed new sanctions against the Islamic republic. Under […]

Corporate media cover up: Turns out there was a government interfering in the election — ours

Corporate media cover up: Turns out there was a government interfering in the election — ours

Special to WorldTribune.com Excerpts from the Rush Limbaugh show, April 4. RUSH: It is fascinating to watch an entire industry disintegrate before our very eyes. So much of what we call the news business is literally eating itself alive and I guess they’re willing to do it. I have never in my life seen such […]

Meadows stood up to ‘master negotiator’ Trump, but sees compromise by Easter

Meadows stood up to ‘master negotiator’ Trump, but sees compromise by Easter

Special to WorldTribune.com By Pete Zamplas, Asheville Tribune Freedom Caucus Chairman U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows sees the health care stalemate unlocked by Easter, easing off from a demand for a full Obamacare repeal that made national waves after he stood toe to toe with President Donald Trump. But the congressman still firmly seeks to undo […]

Turkey’s April 16 referendum and Erdogan’s transit from irritant to threat

Turkey’s April 16 referendum and Erdogan’s transit from irritant to threat

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, Ankara There were, by the end of March 2017, growing indications that Turkish President Reçep Tayyip Erdoğan had concrete plans to unleash a new wave of undocumented migrants into the European Union if he failed to win the absolute power he was seeking in the April 16, […]

Time to once and for all solve Syria as the bloodshed enters seventh year

Time to once and for all solve Syria as the bloodshed enters seventh year

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Syria’s bloody conflict has entered its seventh year with unrelenting killings, displacements and bombardments being “one of the largest man-made humanitarian and protection crises in the world.” As the UN Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien told the Security Council, “Hundreds of thousands of people have been […]

Profiles in Korean corruption: First female president may be seen later as tragic figure

Profiles in Korean corruption: First female president may be seen later as tragic figure

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The prospect of Park Geun-Hye going to jail in the most sweeping political scandal in modern Korean history inspires invidious comparisons. Who, actually, was the most corrupt president since promulgation of the “democracy constitution” in 1987 at the height of demonstrations as massive as those we have witnessed in […]

State Department employee arrested on charges of concealing extensive contacts with Chinese agents

State Department employee arrested on charges of concealing extensive contacts with Chinese agents

Special to WorldTribune.com The following statement has been released by U.S. Department of Justice, March 29, 2017 A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, […]

Memo to the president: The swamp is not your friend

Memo to the president: The swamp is not your friend

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The failure of Ryancare is a watershed in Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump is now at a crossroads: Continue down the dead-end road with the establishment GOP or ditch House Speaker Paul Ryan. If early signs are an indication, the president has learned the wrong lessons from Ryan’s decision on […]

In epic fight to be top U.S. foe, China still claims victory, despite upstart Putin’s multiple triumphs

In epic fight to be top U.S. foe, China still claims victory, despite upstart Putin’s multiple triumphs

Special to WorldTribune.com by Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution,, March 28, 2017 The cadres of the global commentariat often discuss the intricate relationships among the world’s most meaningful triumvirate, namely the United States, Russia, and China. Less often analyzed, however, are the very potent and peculiar interactions between Moscow and Beijing. It is the ghost […]

Why FBI Director Comey must resign immediately

Why FBI Director Comey must resign immediately

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner FBI Director James Comey is seeking to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidency. His testimony in front of the House Intelligence Committee had nothing to do with finding the truth about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia. It was a political hit job — an attempt by the deep state to preserve […]