Times247.com Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine [...]
Times247.com Greece abandoned a nine-day hunt for a government on Tuesday and called a new election that threatens to hasten the nation’s slide towards bankruptcy and a future outside the euro zone. … A second election is expected to produce a similarly divided parliament, with opponents of the EU/IMF rescue consolidating their gains and raising [...]
By Uwe Siemon-Netto, FreePressers.com A nauseating remark by Donald Trump on Fox News about Germany this week made me wonder if today’s American and European conservatives are living on the same planet – assuming for the sake of an argument that this network is the authentic voice of conservatives in the U.S.A. Discussing the Euro [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley, Global Information System Europe is at a pivotal point. Or, rather, it is at a point where its structural transformation can no longer be ignored. Events in Europe have finally led us to the dénouement of the 20th Century. It may presage a new Europe tied more firmly into [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has raised the prospect of conducting cyber warfare to stop attacks from neighboring Egypt. Officials said the Israeli intelligence community and military have been drafting options to counter Palestinian and Al Qaida-aligned attacks from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The officials said Sinai was becoming a launching pad for Hamas, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has determined that hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding was relayed to militias in Iraq. A U.S. government report asserted that 10 percent of $4 billion in relief and reconstruction aid was siphoned to unidentified Iraqi militias, including tribal groups. The report, quoting U.S. commanders, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M Downing, FreePressers.com President Obama whisked into Afghanistan unannounced, inked a somewhat nebulous yet significant agreement with Afghan president Hamid Karzai, then quickly returned home. It was an impressive diplomatic coup that guarantees an appreciable U.S. presence in the country over many years, for better or worse. Many regional powers [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel’s intelligence community has lost confidence in the government’s policy toward Iran. Most of the senior members of Israel’s intelligence community were said to have lost their trust in the government, particularly Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. They said the two men were preparing Israel for [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com AMMAN — Egypt, canceling its multi-year contract with Israel, has pledged to renew natural gas supplies to Jordan. A senior Jordanian official said Egypt intends to resume gas deliveries to Jordan in early May. The official told Jordan’s official Petra news agency that the Hashemite kingdom would receive 100 million cubic meters [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com ANKARA — Turkey has reported the launch of energy exploration off the coast of Cyprus. Officials said the government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has approved the start of drilling off the coast of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Officials said drilling, meant to rival a similar effort by the rival [...]
