Greatest Hits, No. 16: Death of DNC lawsuit processor, earlier murder of DNC staffer spark conspiracy rumors

Greatest Hits, No. 16: Death of DNC lawsuit processor, earlier murder of DNC staffer spark conspiracy rumors

by WorldTribune Staff, August 5, 2016 Two mysterious deaths, the July 8 murder of a young Democratic staffer, and the Aug. 2 death of a man who served lawsuit papers to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), have stirred up a slew of conspiracy rumors on the web. Shawn Lucas, the man who served papers to […]

Greatest Hits, No. 17: China to finance Egypt’s $45 billion capital city in the desert

Greatest Hits, No. 17: China to finance Egypt’s $45 billion capital city in the desert

by WorldTribune Staff, September 30, 2016 Egypt’s plan to build a glittering new capital city in the desert was written off by many as nothing more than a dream for a country with a struggling economy. That dream, however, appears headed for reality after China stepped in to bankroll much of the $45 billion project. […]

Greatest Hits, No. 18: N.C. publisher sickened by his survey of 2016 campaign coverage

Greatest Hits, No. 18: N.C. publisher sickened by his survey of 2016 campaign coverage

Special to WorldTribune.com, August 28, 2016 For just one week, I perused 14 newspapers and found 119 anti-Trump articles – 25 from the New York Times, 16 from The Wall Street Journal, 22 from The Washington Post, 19 from USA Today (7 in one paper), 9 from the Los Angeles Times, and 8 from The […]

Greatest hits, No. 19: Lack of outrage noted as Western rancher shot down by Feds

Greatest hits, No. 19: Lack of outrage noted as Western rancher shot down by Feds

Special to WorldTribune.com, Feb. 4, 2016 I.M. Justice, Asheville Tribune Whatever the purpose of the protest, which I can guarantee you does not come out of empty paranoia but from very real and experienced knowledge of how vulnerable we are to federal power, I am shocked at how little courtesy a western rancher is shown. […]

Yankee go home, Yankee hang around: Mixed messages from East Asia

Yankee go home, Yankee hang around: Mixed messages from East Asia

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, is riding a populist wave with his declarations that he doesn’t need American military or commercial aid or agreements for U.S. forces to advise and assist the armed forces of the Philippines. He seems to want to reverse careful efforts on both […]

Greatest Hits, No. 20: America rejects the ‘coastal elites’: Trump won 3,084 of 3,141 U.S. counties

Greatest Hits, No. 20: America rejects the ‘coastal elites’: Trump won 3,084 of 3,141 U.S. counties

by WorldTribune Staff, December 2, 2016 That the Democrats have become the party of coastal elites is now backed up by hard data from the Nov. 8 election. President-elect Donald Trump won 3,084 of the 3,141 counties in the United States. Hillary Clinton won just 52 coastal counties and five “county equivalent” cities stretching from […]

Russian woman convicted of trying to join ISIL

Russian woman convicted of trying to join ISIL

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A Russian court has found a former Moscow State University student guilty of trying to join the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) and sentenced her to 4 1/2 years in prison. The Moscow Regional Military court convicted Aleksandra Ivanova — better known […]

Iranian security chief reveals Iran, Russia share military base In Syria

Iranian security chief reveals Iran, Russia share military base In Syria

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A top Iranian security official has revealed that Iran and Russia are sharing a military base in Syria where they are coordinating their support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, was quoted by Iranian news agencies […]

Homeland Security gave Somalis tour of airports’ secured areas, documents confirm

Homeland Security gave Somalis tour of airports’ secured areas, documents confirm

by WorldTribune Staff, December 19, 2016 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave groups of Somalis comprehensive tours of secured areas in at least three major U.S. airports, according to newly released documents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The “community engagement tours,” which included security briefings, were held in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Columbus, Ohio. […]