N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

N. Korean cyber thiefs targeting banks, casinos worldwide

by WorldTribune Staff, April 6, 2017 A North Korean hacking group, known as Lazarus, has launched a global digital robbery ring that is targeting banks, casinos and trading firms dealing in digital currency, a group of cyber forensics analysts said. A report released this week by Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based cybersecurity and virus protection firm, […]

Susan Rice and all the president’s men: The unmasking of Barack Obama

Susan Rice and all the president’s men: The unmasking of Barack Obama

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Susan Rice must be indicted. And she should spend years in prison. Former President Obama’s national security advisor is in the middle of a political firestorm. Numerous media outlets report that Rice oversaw a spying operation on Donald Trump that lasted for nearly a year beginning in January 2016. […]

China continues to fuel growing Korean crisis; Misled world on coal imports

China continues to fuel growing Korean crisis; Misled world on coal imports

Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea will figure prominently in President Donald Trump’s summit in South Florida this week with China’s Xi Jinping. By Geostrategy-Direct China is once again abrogating its promises and obligation to implement international sanction regimes against Pyongyang. Beijing has continued its illicit trade with North Korea, allowing the Kim regime to obtain […]

Comment: Truth no longer matters in Washington’s civil war with America

Comment: Truth no longer matters in Washington’s civil war with America

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michael Giere , Fairfax Free Citizen “[America’s] ruling class largely destroyed, along with its own credibility, the respect for truth, and the culture of restraint that had made the American people unique stewards of freedom and prosperity.” – Professor Angelo Codevilla If you are not slack-jawed at what is happening in […]

Israel questions Syria’s claim that chemical attack caused by strike on rebel depot

Israel questions Syria’s claim that chemical attack caused by strike on rebel depot

by WorldTribune Staff, April 5, 2017 Israel believes the chemical weapons attack on a Syrian rebel-held town was approved at the highest levels of the Assad regime and doubts the explanation from Moscow and Damascus. The official report said the town was exposed to deadly sarin gas after a conventional Syrian airstrike hit a rebel-held […]

Boeing, Iran sign $3 billion airliner deal

Boeing, Iran sign $3 billion airliner deal

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing has inked a $3 billion deal to sell 30 commercial airliners to an Iranian airline. The deal announced on April 4 was the first of its kind since Donald Trump became U.S. president and imposed new sanctions against the Islamic republic. Under […]

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

Flashback: Team Obama’s influence operations started with Benghazi

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Fresh evidence of the Obama administration’s political influence operations emerged on April 3 with the news that then-national security adviser Susan Rice was behind the unmasking of Trump associates. “Rice certainly wasn’t politically naive about the political uses of intelligence information,” the New York Post noted in an editorial. […]

Report: Susan Rice ordered detailed intelligence spreadsheets on Trump associates

Report: Susan Rice ordered detailed intelligence spreadsheets on Trump associates

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Susan Rice, national security adviser under former President Barack Obama, requested intelligence agencies to provide her detailed lists of phone calls involving Donald Trump and his associates during the 2016 presidential campaign, a former U.S. attorney said. “What was produced by the intelligence community at the request of Ms. […]

Reporter: Susan Rice scoop not from intel sources but newsroom informants

Reporter: Susan Rice scoop not from intel sources but newsroom informants

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 The writer who broke the story on Susan Rice being behind the unmasking of Trump associates who were surveilled during the 2016 campaign said he got the information from his own newsroom spies. “I didn’t get it from the intelligence community,” Mike Cernovich said. “Everybody’s trying to figure out […]

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

Report: Intel agencies, media render U.S. helpless against hostile foreign disinformation

by WorldTribune Staff, April 4, 2017 Russia has unleashed a torrent of hackers, Internet trolls and fake news reports aimed at undermining American democracy and the U.S. has done little to defend against it, cyber intel specialists said during testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week. Eugene Rumer, former U.S. national intelligence […]