North Korea crisis tops agenda at key Trump summit with China’s Xi

North Korea crisis tops agenda at key Trump summit with China’s Xi

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 As pro-China lobbyists geared up for this week’s critical summit in south Florida, the White House weighed in as well. President Donald Trump said in an interview that the U.S. will solve the North Korea problem on its own if China does not reign in the rogue Kim Jong-Un […]

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

Compromised FBI deputy director, Obama’s National Security Adviser eyed in growing intel scandal

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 The world now knows spies infested every part of the 2016 U.S. election and its aftermath. But which intel-scam has the most serious ramifications for U.S. national security? The spotlight is now shifting from the major stars of the drama such as FBI Director James Comey to his deputy […]

Trump’s omnipresent son-in-law now in Iraq

Trump’s omnipresent son-in-law now in Iraq

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 President Donald Trump can’t be everywhere even when his twitter feed can. But sometimes, in 2017, he has to try. That’s where his favored son-in-law is becoming a major factor. From pulling the strings in the U.S.-Mexico relationship to helping solve the nation’s opioid addiction problem and draining the […]

Fallout from Iran ‘nuclear deal’: Saudis seen becoming ‘more active’ in developing WMD

Fallout from Iran ‘nuclear deal’: Saudis seen becoming ‘more active’ in developing WMD

by WorldTribune Staff, April 3, 2017 Saudi Arabia is expected to actively seek nuclear weapons capability to counter Iran, which continues to advance its own nuclear program despite the nuclear deal with world powers, a report said. “Saudi Arabia is in the early stages of nuclear development” and will only become “more active” in seeking […]

Intel official who ‘unmasked’ Trump associates said to be ‘very high up’

Intel official who ‘unmasked’ Trump associates said to be ‘very high up’

by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2017 A very senionr official in the intelligence community is responsible for “unmasking” associates of President Donald Trump, according to a March 31 report. Several sources said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, California Republican, knows who is responsible for the disclosure of classified names, Fox News reported. The official […]

‘Londonistan’: 423 new mosques, 500 closed churches

‘Londonistan’: 423 new mosques, 500 closed churches

by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2017 Britain’s capital city is now “more Islamic than many Muslim countries,” a leading Shia scholar said. By 2020, estimates are that the number of Muslims attending prayers will reach at least 683,000, while the number of Christians attending weekly services will drop to 679,000. The scholar, Maulana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi, […]

The last time nation was this divided the issue was real events, not false narratives

The last time nation was this divided the issue was real events, not false narratives

by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2017 Events that unfolded in the United States in 1968 were staggering, unprecedented, tragic – and real. America was on edge after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. There were riots in the streets of Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. There were widespread demonstrations against […]

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 […]

VA punishes whistleblower, a doctor, by forbidding him from treating veterans

VA punishes whistleblower, a doctor, by forbidding him from treating veterans

by WorldTribune Staff, April 2, 2017 A doctor who is being paid $250,000 a year to help those who served their country now can’t help them at all. Dr. Dale Klein, a highly-rated pain management specialist at the Southeast Missouri John J. Pershing Veterans Administration facility literally does nothing – punishment, he said, for being […]