How Beijing and Burma treat minorities: ‘Decades of exclusion,’ ethnic cleansing and intolerance

How Beijing and Burma treat minorities: ‘Decades of exclusion,’ ethnic cleansing and intolerance

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 12, 2025 Almost a decade ago, the then new UN Sec. Gen. Antonio Guterres decried the forced expulsion of the minority Rohingya people from Myanmar (Burma) by the military. During a September press conference in 2017, he condemned the Myanmar regime’s actions forcing nearly a million Muslim […]

Memo to both sides ‘of the aisle’: End the Obama-created health insurance scam now

Memo to both sides ‘of the aisle’: End the Obama-created health insurance scam now

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, October 1, 2025 No one likes insurance companies — trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog’s clenched teeth — and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 […]

For its 80th birthday, UN gets stern rebuke by President Trump, praise for ‘potential’

For its 80th birthday, UN gets stern rebuke by President Trump, praise for ‘potential’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 29, 2025 President Donald Trump lambasted the United Nations on opening day for its failure to stop global crises in the midst of major regional wars, humanitarian disasters, looming security threats, never mind costly bureaucratic waste. But like a stern professor, yet as the leader of the […]

How Mexico is adapting as 2 million illegal immigrants exit U.S. in only 8 months

How Mexico is adapting as 2 million illegal immigrants exit U.S. in only 8 months

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Allan Wall,  September 25, 2025 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced in a press release on Sept. 23, 2025, that since Jan. 20, (Trump’s inauguration) 2 million illegal aliens have left the U.S. or been deported. That is a substantial number. From the DHS press release: “On Tuesday […]

The case against Jerome Powell’s ‘reign of error’

The case against Jerome Powell’s ‘reign of error’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, September 23, 2025 It’s hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn’t been for someone named Taylor Swift. Powell has been idolized by the Left […]

80th General Assembly session convenes; UN’s budget slashed to 10 percent of NYC’s school system

80th General Assembly session convenes; UN’s budget slashed to 10 percent of NYC’s school system

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 22, 2025 Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates are converging on New York for the United Nations General Assembly session. The upcoming General Debate, starting Sept. 23, will bring together a cast of thousands of delegates for ten days of speeches, meetings, and debates. UN Sec. Gen. […]

Here comes another nationwide revolt against property tax tyranny

Here comes another nationwide revolt against property tax tyranny

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, September 17, 2025 Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a […]

With military parade spectacle, China invited world to revise history, surrender to its power aims

With military parade spectacle, China invited world to revise history, surrender to its power aims

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 14, 2025 The Chinese communists put on a massive military parade in Beijing to both commemorate the 1945 victory over Japan as well as to reinforce the rule and strategic vision of Supreme Leader Xi Jinping. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and its assorted services excelled in […]

UN at 80 shadowed by same old (and new) chaos, financial shortfalls

UN at 80 shadowed by same old (and new) chaos, financial shortfalls

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 3, 2025 When the new UN General Assembly session opens on Sept. 9th, world leaders and diplomats will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of the global organization established in the wake of WWII to “maintain international peace and security” for future generations. At headquarters here on the […]

Post-Christian advanced civilization is dying off, East and West

Post-Christian advanced civilization is dying off, East and West

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, August 29, 2025 Let’s start with a very simple truism: You can’t have prosperity without people. Human beings are the most valuable resource, because it is human ingenuity that creates, captures and cultivates all other resources. We as human beings are the custodians and protectors of the planet, not […]

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