GREATEST HITS, 17: India defies missile-exporting China with cruise missile sale to Vietnam

Welcome to the Countdown: Top 21 stories of 2017. by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2017 India’s sale to Vietnam of a short-range, supersonic anti-ship missile has opened a new conflict in an already tense situation with China, an analyst said. Vietnam will receive the BrahMos which is considered one of the most effective and lethal […]

GREATEST HITS, 18: Ten terrorists who took advantage of the porous U.S.-Mexico border

GREATEST HITS, 18: Ten terrorists who took advantage of the porous U.S.-Mexico border

Welcome to the Countdown: Top 21 stories of 2017. by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 Republicans have long voiced concern over the threat of terrorists entering the U.S. from Mexico, a concern the Obama administration largely downplayed. Available data suggest the concern is justified, according to a Jan. 15 report by the Christian Science Monitor […]

GREATEST HITS, 19 — ‘Shattered’: expose reveals Russian ‘narrative’ was spun within hours of Trump win

GREATEST HITS, 19 — ‘Shattered’: expose reveals Russian ‘narrative’ was spun within hours of Trump win

Welcome to the Countdown: Top 21 stories of 2017. by WorldTribune Staff, April 25, 2017 Hillary Clinton launched the Russian meddling narrative within 24 hours of her concession speech, the authors of a riveting behind-the-scenes book on the Clinton campaign said. “Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign”, reveals how Clinton and her team responded in […]

GREATEST HITS, 20 — The McCain-Soros connection: How it started

GREATEST HITS, 20 — The McCain-Soros connection: How it started

Welcome to the Countdown: Top 21 stories of 2017. by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2017 An institute that launched with $9 million in unspent funds from Sen. John McCain’s failed 2008 presidential campaign has been likened to the Clinton Global Initiative and linked to billionaire leftist George Soros. The McCain Institute for International Leadership, intended […]

GREATEST HITS, 21: Report says DNC files were copied, not hacked, 5 days before murder of Seth Rich

GREATEST HITS, 21: Report says DNC files were copied, not hacked, 5 days before murder of Seth Rich

Welcome to the Countdown: Top 21 stories of 2017. by WorldTribune Staff, July 11, 2017 A report by an IT specialist gives detailed information on how Democratic National Committee (DNC) files that were given to WikiLeaks were copied locally, contradicting the narrative that the DNC was hacked by Russia. The leaked DNC emails detailed efforts […]

Greatest Hits, No. 1: What jury duty with Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson was like

Greatest Hits, No. 1: What jury duty with Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson was like

by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2016 The following is a Dec. 13 post by Emily Roden on the five days she spent serving jury duty in Denton, Texas with Donald Trump’s Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson. (Emily Roden is the wife of Denton City Councilman Kevin Roden.) “Nine years ago, I showed up to […]

Greatest Hits, No. 3: No ear mics allowed for debate moderators; But what about the candidates?

Greatest Hits, No. 3: No ear mics allowed for debate moderators; But what about the candidates?

by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2016 While presidential debate moderators are not allowed to wear earpieces during the proceedings, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) has not specifically ruled out the use of ear mics for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in the first debate on Sept. 26. A voter in Maryland wrote FEC Commissioner Matthew […]

Greatest Hits, No. 4: Martin Luther King’s niece endorses Trump

Greatest Hits, No. 4: Martin Luther King’s niece endorses Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2016 The American black community is “being pimped like prostitutes” by the Democratic Party, the leader of the New Black Panther Party said on Aug. 27. Meanwhile, Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has endorsed Trump for president, saying the GOP candidate’s plan for the […]

Greatest hits, No. 5: Pentagon gives Beijing ultimatum on militarizing the South China Sea

Greatest hits, No. 5: Pentagon gives Beijing ultimatum on militarizing the South China Sea

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct.com U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter told the Chinese defense delegation in Singapore that the U.S. will take appropriate action if China crosses the red line, i.e. further reclamation and militarization of the Scarborough Shoal in the Spratlys chain. The Philippines and China have fiercely clashed over the Scarborough Shoal […]

Greatest hits, No. 6: Documents appear to implicate State Dept. in cover-up on Clinton emails

Greatest hits, No. 6: Documents appear to implicate State Dept. in cover-up on Clinton emails

by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2016 The U.S. State Department waited over a year before producing emails stored on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private server despite 17 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, “in August 2013, State Department officials were aware of 17 FOIA requests relating […]