Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s missile program is destabilizing the Middle East and raising the risk of a “regional arms race,” a senior U.S. arms control official has said. “Iran’s missile program is a key contributor to increased tensions and destabilization in the region, increasing the risk of a regional […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Richard Fisher, Geostrategy-Direct China’s military spending for 2019 will increase by 7.5 percent to about $177.61 billion, as revealed on March 3, 2019 by an official at Chinese Communist Party’s annual National People’s Consultative Congress. This figure, while lower than the 8.1 percent for 2018, is greater than the announced 6 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 18, 2019 Through its Catch and Release policy, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has since December released 84,500 immigrants who crossed through the U.S.-Mexico border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) data show. Catch and Release is in “overdrive,” according to the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, the ICE union. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 17, 2019 The Pentagon’s proposed $718 billion budget for 2020 is designed in large part to counter the threat from China and its rapidly advancing military technology, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said. In presenting the Trump administration’s proposed 2020 defense budget to the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 14, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2019 Though it ended its cooperation with the Pentagon, tech giant Google has no problem boosting China’s military, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said. “The work that Google is doing in China is indirectly benefiting the Chinese military and I’ve been very public on this issue […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 13, 2019 House Judiciary Committee Republicans on March 12 released transcripts from a closed-door session last summer in which FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted the FBI was ordered by the Obama Department of Justice not to consider charging Hillary Clinton for gross negligence in the handling of classified information. Rep. John Ratcliffe, Texas […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2019 One of a “vast empire” of Democratic “dark money” groups linked to liberal activists, including George Soros, gave more than $2 million to an organization which hired Fusion GPS and anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele to continue investigating alleged Trump campaign “collusion” with Russia after the 2016 election, a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2019 As the blackout that has crippled the capital of socialist Venezuela dragged into its fifth day on March 11, at least 17 people were reported dead as a result of the power outage which has left Caracas without Internet, mobile phones, banks, credit-card machines, or air-conditioning. Pro-Maduro motorcycle gangs, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2019 Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, in congressional testimony, said he was given two thumb drives by Fusion GPS containing opposition research on candidate Donald Trump which Ohr delivered to the DOJ, one before and one after the 2016 presidential election. Along with his role in delivering the thumb […]
