Reassessing George H. W. Bush: How the ‘Washington Compromise’ undermined the Reagan Revolution

Reassessing George H. W. Bush: How the ‘Washington Compromise’ undermined the Reagan Revolution

Special to WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 By Joseph Churba The following excerpt is from ‘The Washington Compromise‘ by the late Dr. Joseph Churba, University Press, 1995. The Republican National Convention was held in Detroit on July 14-17, 1980. With Reagan’s candidacy assured, the only remaining question befell the choice of running mate. Henry Kissinger, hoping […]

Affidavits by former senator, intelligence officials tie Saudi government to 9/11

Affidavits by former senator, intelligence officials tie Saudi government to 9/11

by WorldTribune Staff, December 4, 2017 Former FBI officials said that the Saudi government officials helped 9/11 terrorists prepare for the attack and hide out in the United States. Affidavits filed by three former FBI officials that were provided to the Washington Examiner allege that Saudi Arabia used intricate espionage “tradecraft” to assist the September […]

26 years ago, this strategist urged a U.S. preemptive strike on North Korea

26 years ago, this strategist urged a U.S. preemptive strike on North Korea

by Robert Morton, WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 On Nov. 25, 1991, a Brooklyn-born intelligence expert of Syrian Jewish descent rattled a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing with his proposed response to the emerging North Korean nuclear threat. After being challenged he responded with a warning that now, 36 years later, seems eerily prophetic. While other […]

House Intelligence chair to cite FBI, DOJ for contempt over ‘hiding documented political bias’

House Intelligence chair to cite FBI, DOJ for contempt over ‘hiding documented political bias’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2017 The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said he has instructed committee staff to draw up contempt of Congress charges for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray for their failure to reveal why special counsel Robert Mueller removed a key FBI agent from the Trump-Russia […]

Plea deal with gold trader has potentially explosive links to Flynn, Turkey’s Erdogan

Plea deal with gold trader has potentially explosive links to Flynn, Turkey’s Erdogan

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct The case against a Turkish-Iranian gold trader who allegedly engineered a massive bribery scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran could also implicate Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former U.S. national security adviser Michael Flynn. Reza Zarrab has pleaded guilty in a New York federal court. Prosecutors described Zarrab, […]

Inspector general probes retaliation at secret Pentagon think tank, once run by ‘Yoda’

Inspector general probes retaliation at secret Pentagon think tank, once run by ‘Yoda’

by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2017 The Pentagon’s acting inspector general has initiated a formal investigation into allegations of sweetheart political deals  by the new head of a legendary independent think tank that served as a “Team B” to the military bureaucracy. The director of the Defense Department’s Office of Net Assessment retaliated against an […]

U.S. says alleged mastermind in Iran sanctions case won’t stand trial

U.S. says alleged mastermind in Iran sanctions case won’t stand trial

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty A wealthy Turkish-Iranian businessman who was the alleged mastermind in what U.S. prosecutors say was a high-level conspiracy to help Iran evade U.S. sanctions will not stand trial this week as scheduled, though the case is proceeding against his co-defendant. U.S. Judge Richard Berman announced on […]

Why? Motive for CIA-FBI-NSA joint assessment 2 weeks before inauguration still unclear

Why? Motive for CIA-FBI-NSA joint assessment 2 weeks before inauguration still unclear

by WorldTribune Staff, November 26, 2017 Top Obama-named U.S. intelligence officials, in a coordinated public assessment, on Jan. 6, 2017 publicly stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had instructed Russian operatives to help engineer Donald Trump’s move to the White House. The monumental announcement was made 14 days before Trump’s inauguration and was a watershed […]

Report: CIA director meets senior NSA whistleblower who contends DNC hack was inside job

Report: CIA director meets senior NSA whistleblower who contends DNC hack was inside job

by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2017 The intelligence community was described as shaken by news that CIA Director Mike Pompeo met with a former high-ranking NSA official who contends Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffers, not Russia, stole emails that were leaked during the 2016 presidential election campaign. William Binney, who Pompeo met with reportedly at […]

Disunited front in Beijing: Corruption czar toppled, Xi rises, dissident silenced

Disunited front in Beijing: Corruption czar toppled, Xi rises, dissident silenced

The state media in Beijing contrasts “stability” in communist China with the political “chaos” across the Pacific in the U.S. Behind the elaborate staging for President Trump’s visit, a vicious power struggle has broken out into the open, held in check only by the censoring of a wealthy, well-informed dissident who could only be silenced […]

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