‘Dream’ on: Iran rejects demands by Haley that its military sites be inspected

‘Dream’ on: Iran rejects demands by Haley that its military sites be inspected

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 Iran’s rulers said they will not allow United Nations nuclear inspectors to visit military bases, calling a U.S. demand for such action “merely a dream.” U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley recently pressed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to uses its authority to gain access to Iranian military […]

Seriously? Ruling party leader in Seoul calls North’s missile launch ‘unpardonable’, wants talks

Seriously? Ruling party leader in Seoul calls North’s missile launch ‘unpardonable’, wants talks

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 South Korea’s ruling party, which saw President Moon Jae-In rise to power on a pledge of dialogue with North Korea, said the North’s latest missile launch was “unpardonable” – an assessment with which the conservative opposition is in full agreement. How should the wealthy but relatively powerless South respond […]

Who is ‘running the FBI’? Agency keeps lid on Clinton records, cites lack of ‘public interest’

Who is ‘running the FBI’? Agency keeps lid on Clinton records, cites lack of ‘public interest’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 The public just isn’t interested enough in Hillary Clinton’s FBI files to have them released, the agency said in rejecting a lawyer’s open-records request. “You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject,” FBI records management section chief David M. Hardy told lawyer Ty […]

UAE slams ‘colonial’ role of Iran, Turkey in Syria

UAE slams ‘colonial’ role of Iran, Turkey in Syria

by WorldTribune Staff, August 30, 2017 Iran and Turkey must halt their “colonial behavior” in Syria, the UAE’s foreign minister said on Aug. 29. “If Iran and Turkey continue the same historical, colonial and competitive behavior and perspectives between them in Arab affairs, we will continue in this situation not just in Syria today but […]

Latest missile launch alarms northern Japan, rattles markets

Latest missile launch alarms northern Japan, rattles markets

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2017 Residents of Japan’s Hokkaido, a northern island of 5.5 million, awoke early on Aug. 29 to a “J-Alert” on their mobile phones from the government, warning that North Korea had fired a missile and to take shelter. At 5:58 a.m., the Kim Jong-Un regime launched the North’s first ballistic […]

Some blunt questions for the authors of our new Afghanistan strategy

Some blunt questions for the authors of our new Afghanistan strategy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Washington staff, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs U.S. President Donald Trumps was fully aware that his Aug. 21, 2017, speech on a supposedly new U.S. “strategy” on Afghanistan — his first major prime time policy speech since taking office — was neither his speech nor his policy. Neither was it, in any […]

Anyone you know? A handy list of organizations that take George Soros money

Anyone you know? A handy list of organizations that take George Soros money

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2017 Leftist billionaire George Soros is philosophical about his money. He doles it out to those who share his philosophy. Following is a partial list of beneficiaries of grants from his Open Society Foundations. Advancement Project: This organization works to organize “communities of color” into politically cohesive units while disseminating […]

Mossad turns over photos said to show Iran violated nuclear agreement

Mossad turns over photos said to show Iran violated nuclear agreement

by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2017 Israel’s spy agency is said to have delivered evidence to the United States that shows Iran is in violation of the nuclear deal. Mossad director Yossi Cohen, who headed an Israeli delegation to Washington, D.C. last week, is said to have provided the Trump administration and Congress with photographic […]

U.S. report: N. Koreans who practice religion still subject to ‘executions, torture, …  arrests’

U.S. report: N. Koreans who practice religion still subject to ‘executions, torture, …  arrests’

by WorldTribune Staff, August 27, 2017 North Korea continues to brutalize those who practice religion in the country, the U.S. State Department said in a report. The Kim Jong-Un regime “continued to deal harshly with those who engaged in almost any religious practices through executions, torture, beatings, and arrests,” the 2016 Annual Report on International […]

Sebastian Gorka’s resignation letter in full

Sebastian Gorka’s resignation letter in full

by WorldTribune Staff, August 29, 2017 Sebastian Gorka, who since January has served as deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, resigned from the White House on Aug. 25. Full text of his resignation letter: Dear Mr. President, It has been my high honor to serve in the White House as one of your Deputy Assistants […]