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Judge awards families of terror victims $323 million in suit against Syria, Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A U.S. court has ruled against Iran and Syria in a lawsuit brought by the families of victims of a bombing in Israel in 2006. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth awarded $323 million to the families of 11 Americans and Israelis killed in a 2006 bombing in Tel Aviv. The [...]

May 17th, 2012 | Posted in Iran,Syria,Terrorism,Top Stories,U.S. Politics | Read More »

Some straight reporting on America’s ‘first gay president’

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Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Barack Obama is being presented as America’s first gay president by Newsweek, which glorifies his decision to recognize same-sex marriage. The Newsweek cover story will serve a purpose other than generating interest in a magazine that has been losing circulation and advertising revenue if it is viewed as an [...]

May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Exclusives,Life,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Media,U.S. Politics | Read More »

Is there a clergyman in the house? Obama’s constantly evolving gift to the GOP

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Wesley Pruden This is not what Barack Obama expected for a coming-out party. The “historic” revelation that he is now fully evolved, as from tadpole to frog, and now grooves on same-sex marriage, was meant to be marked with quiet ceremony. No music, no flowers, no kiss, no dancing, not even a cupcake. Rage and [...]

May 15th, 2012 | Posted in Columnists,COMMENTARY,Exclusives,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Culture,U.S. Media,U.S. Politics,Wesley Pruden | Read More »

Australia’s pro-Obama Gillard government clings to power, reduces defense spending

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard greets President Barack Obama after his arrival in Canberra.  /Stuart McEvoy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley, Global Information System Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s Labor Party (ALP)-dominated coalition Government of Australia has clung to power without an express public mandate since the August 21, 2010, House of Representatives elections. This has been largely because its parliamentary majority has been guaranteed by four independent parliamentarians and one [...]

May 14th, 2012 | Posted in Australia,Exclusives,Life,NE Asia,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Politics | Read More »

Obama makes it clear: He wants a secular, post-Christian, homosexual America

President Barack Obama steps off Marine One May 10, on arrival at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, enroute to Hollywood for a George Clooney-hosted fundraiser tipped to make a record-breaking $15 million.  /Mandel Ngan/AFP

Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Obama has made it official: He now supports same-sex marriage. It is his latest onslaught on traditional America. Mr. Obama has made history. He is our first commander in chief to openly embrace legalizing homosexual and lesbian unions. He has crossed a cultural watershed, paving the way for the eventual triumph [...]

May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Columnists,COMMENTARY,Exclusives,Jeffrey Kuhner,Life,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Culture,U.S. Politics | Read More »

Thrills up more legs for the evolved Obama

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Wesley Pruden Barack Obama, now fully evolved, is once more the rage of the demimonde. All it took was for him to man up, to acknowledge what everyone already knows the president thinks about “gay sex.” This is “sex” loosely defined, of course, since most people do not associate the terminus of the alimentary canal [...]

May 11th, 2012 | Posted in Columnists,COMMENTARY,Exclusives,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Culture,U.S. Media,U.S. Politics,Wesley Pruden | Read More »

End of Atlanticism and the rise of Germany: The West looks East and yields to unelected bureaucracies

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses a news conference after talks with Slovenia's Prime Minister Janez Jansa in Berlin on May 9.  /Tobias Schwarz/Reuters

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 [...]

May 10th, 2012 | Posted in Africa / Europe,Daily Brief,England,Exclusives,France,Germany,Greece,Life,Russia,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Politics | Read More »

A Soviet front that exploited the black-white divide and the U.S. ‘leaders’ it published

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Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid Newly declassified documents from Operation SOLO, an FBI program to infiltrate the Communist Party of the United States, reveal that a journal called Freedomways, which was influential in the black community for decades, was subsidized by the Soviet and Chinese Communist Parties. Freedomways has been called “one of the [...]

May 7th, 2012 | Posted in Exclusives,Life,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Culture,U.S. Media,U.S. Politics | Read More »

Communism muddles along in the Middle Kingdom

China's President Hu Jintao speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Beijing, May 4. Clinton told Hu on Friday that relations between their two countries were the strongest they had ever been.  /Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

Sol W. Sanders   [See Archive] Chen Guangcheng and Bo Xilai represent the two poles of the Chinese political spectrum. Chen is a blind, self-taught lawyer and provincial activist for human rights, in a life and death struggle to reinterpret the system. Bo is a pampered scion of a famous Communist family, until recently a [...]

May 7th, 2012 | Posted in China,Columnists,COMMENTARY,Exclusives,NE Asia,Sol Sanders,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Politics | Read More »

Selling priceless freedom, for a modest profit, to the enemy

China's Huawei firm, with close ties to the Peoples Liberation Army, has sought close ties with a number of Western technology firms.

Lev Navrozov One of our family’s aims in coming out of Russia and to the United States was to help Westerners to understand Russia, from which the West was cut off for almost a century, their only main source of information being what Soviet propaganda was feeding them. This week, as I was writing my [...]

May 6th, 2012 | Posted in Africa / Europe,China,Columnists,COMMENTARY,Exclusives,Lev Navrozov,NE Asia,Russia,Stateside,Top Stories,U.S. Politics,World Links | Read More »