From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 20, 2023 Over the past year human rights abuses in places ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and to Myanmar/Burma, Xinjiang China, the Middle East, to name a few sordid cases, have splashed across the headlines. Just in the past month, ethnic cleansing of Christian Armenians from Muslim […]

Totalitarian prosecutions in the last 3 years: Georgia, Cuba, Turkey

Totalitarian prosecutions in the last 3 years: Georgia, Cuba, Turkey

by WorldTribune Staff, August 16, 2023 With the indictment of former President Donald Trump and 18 of his associates, Georgia joins an ignoble club of heavy handed prosecutions in which members of political opposition are subjected to mass trials while being accorded few rights, an analysis said. “At a press conference near midnight on Monday, […]

Iran dictator completes tour of anti-U.S. axis: Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

Iran dictator completes tour of anti-U.S. axis: Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela

by WorldTribune Staff, June 22, 2023 Iranian President President Ebrahim Raisi concluded a Latin American trip on June 16 by saying the Islamic Republic’s ties to the communist states he visited, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, are not a “normal but rather a strategic” relationship against foreign interference. “Iran has just finalized a tour across Latin […]

As Blinken pays respects to Xi Jinping, new reports raise prospect of Chinese troops in Cuba

As Blinken pays respects to Xi Jinping, new reports raise prospect of Chinese troops in Cuba

by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2023 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken jetted to Beijing on Monday in a move to smooth ties with, rather than deter communist leader Xi Jinping who immediately rebuffed Blinken’s request to re-establish a military back channel. Blinken told reporters after meeting with Xi that he “repeatedly” raised the matter […]

Hegemony watch: China’s on-again spy facility in Cuba, established in 2001

Hegemony watch: China’s on-again spy facility in Cuba, established in 2001

FPI / June 14, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In a classic public-relations bungle, a June 9 leak by “U.S. officials” to the Wall Street Journal said that “China and Cuba have reached a secret agreement for China to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island.” Already Cuba’s largest trading partner since 2016, the […]

What to do about China in Cuba? Shine a bright light on totalitarian ideologies here, everywhere

What to do about China in Cuba? Shine a bright light on totalitarian ideologies here, everywhere

Special to WorldTribune, June 12, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Cuba in 1960 was the first Latin American country to recognize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule in China. Now all of Latin America, with the exception of Belize, Guatemala, and Paraguay, recognize the CCP. Two-thirds of Latin American countries are ruled by socialist […]

Died suddenly: Top Cuban rower who was two-time Olympian, 35

Died suddenly: Top Cuban rower who was two-time Olympian, 35

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News March 21, 2023 Angel Fournier Rodriguez, a two-time Olympian and the top rower in Cuba’s history, died suddenly and unexpectedly on March 16 in Texas where he had recently moved. He was 35. No cause of death has been reported. Fournier Rodriguez was a multiple World Cup medalist […]

A spy is released, the Castros are dead, but the people still ‘want out’

A spy is released, the Castros are dead, but the people still ‘want out’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s all about the timing. Ana Belen Montes, an American who served a more than twenty years in federal prison for spying for the then-Castro regime while serving as a senior analyst in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington, has been released. But this case is hardly […]

Biden’s Summit of the Americas: Almost no one showed and nothing was accomplished

Biden’s Summit of the Americas: Almost no one showed and nothing was accomplished

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2022 While many of their citizens were availing themselves of Joe Biden’s open borders, many of the leaders of Central and South America boycotted the 2022 Summit of the Americas hosted by Team Biden in Los Angeles last week. The Washington Examiner, in a June 10 editorial, said it […]

Not-America: Canada is instead becoming North America’s Cuba

Not-America: Canada is instead becoming North America’s Cuba

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager Canada is leaving the Western world. In terms of all-encompassing government, suppression of dissent and the denial of fundamental human rights to many of its citizens, Canada is now more similar to Cuba than to any free country. Canada may eventually return to Western civilization, but as of this writing, […]

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