Special to WorldTribune.com ABU DHABI — Saudi King Abdullah has cut short his vacation amid the intensification of the war in Syria. The king arrived on June 14 in Jedda after being in Morocco for two weeks. Abdullah, struggling with declining health, cut short his vacation in North Africa for what a government statement attributed [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid In a 2011 article in the socialist publication In These Times, anti-NSA journalist Glenn Greenwald said “the only thing that can truly strengthen America’s national security is a weakening of America.” Greenwald also declared that Al Qaida’s 9/11 terrorist attacks on America were “very minimal in scope compared to [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The fingerprints of America’s enemies and adversaries are all over the disclosures about the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program. It is significant that NSA contract employee Edward Snowden would flee to Hong Kong — controlled by China — and that he would select Glenn Greenwald, a far-left columnist, as his [...]
John J. Metzler PARIS — Just a year after the Socialist Party regained the presidency, the winner and unassuming new occupant of the Elysee Palace (White House) Francois Hollande, may have wished he was still in the political opposition. After all, it is easier after to critique than to govern, especially in a country battered [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid An Obama-allied group that is at the center of the scandal over IRS harassment of conservative organizations was the target of a protest outside its own headquarters. “The escalation of homosexual activist power is bad for America, and American liberty,” declared Peter LaBarbera of the group Americans for Truth [...]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Peacekeeping is fraught with risk, but it is also filled with promise, stated UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. “Our Blue Helmets bring hope to millions of people in some of the most troubled parts of the world,” advised the Secretary General in a somber ceremony honoring fallen peacekeeping troops, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Key opinion leaders in Egypt have expressed alarm over a foreign project to divert the Nile River. Officials said the regime of President Mohammed Morsi has been monitoring the launch of an Ethiopian project to construct a dam over the Blue Nile. They said the dam could deny Egypt more [...]
Sol W. Sanders As the shale gas revolution begins to ripple through, reordering the world economy, another fossil fuel revolution is in the offing which will again torpedo most conventional wisdom concerning energy. So-called “peak oil”, the end of petroleum exhausted by expanding consumption and diminishing discoveries, the love story of environmental fanatics, has [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has engaged with a major U.S. ballistic missile defense project. Turkey’s state-owned Havelsan has been participating in the U.S. Aegis program, designed to intercept ballistic missiles from the sea. Havelsan has contributed naval combat management capabilities to enhance Aegis, led by Lockheed Martin. Aegis has been procured by the [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel Air Force commander Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel issued one of the starkest warnings of an imminent war that could include Hizbullah and Syria. In an address to a combat air conference, Eshel said Israel, already engaged in a shooting war with Syria, faces a range of low- and [...]
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