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Hang on to that Nobel Appeasement Prize, Mr. President

By Editor on September 5, 2013 Exclusives, LIFE, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Politics

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Looks like Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is safe for now. He won’t have to return the bauble he received in 2009 for doing his utmost to curb “nuclear proliferation” and talk nice to Muslims. He can keep the money too. Not too trivial a sum — about […]

A reporter’s retrospective 10 years after ‘shock-and-awe’ in Iraq

By Editor on March 21, 2013 Exclusives, Iraq, LIFE, Mideast, NE Asia, North Korea, Stateside, Top Stories, U.S. Media, U.S. Military

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com The tenth anniversary this week of the opening salvos in the American “shock-and-awe” campaign against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq reminds us of the “axis-of-evil” speech delivered by George W. Bush in his state-of-the-union address on Jan. 20, 2002, a year after he was inaugurated. No one would dispute Bush’s […]