Not funny: Iran satirist sentenced to 23 years in prison

Not funny: Iran satirist sentenced to 23 years in prison

by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2019 Writer and satirist Kioomars Marzban has been sentenced to 23 years and nine months in prison by an Iranian Revolutionary Court which convicted him of charges including cooperation with the United States. Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, lawyer for the 28-year-old Marzban, told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Aug. 24 that […]

Perspective: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and haters of the late David Koch

Perspective: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and haters of the late David Koch

by WorldTribune Staff, August 25, 2019 Liberal icon Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recently underwent three weeks of radiation treatment at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after a cancerous tumor was discovered on her pancreas. Libertarian billionaire David Koch, who passed away on Aug. 23 after a long battle with prostate cancer, donated […]

Trump greenlights F-16Vs for Taiwan; China threatens ‘countermeasures’

Trump greenlights F-16Vs for Taiwan; China threatens ‘countermeasures’

FPI / August 23, 2019 By Richard Fisher, Geostrategy-Direct.com On Aug. 15, the Trump administration informally told the U.S. Congress that it had approved the $8 billion sale of Lockheed-Martin F-16V fighters to Taiwan, that now requires Congressional approval to proceed. Taiwan has been seeking upgraded and more capable F-16s since 1997, in the wake […]

You go Girl: Drag queen seeks to unseat Rep. Adam Schiff

You go Girl: Drag queen seeks to unseat Rep. Adam Schiff

by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2019 Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff has a challenger for the California congressional seat he has held since 2013. According to a report by Route Fifty, the challenger is drag queen Maebe A. Girl. “We need more everyday people in Congress — its overwhelmingly older, white, wealthy men, and that’s just […]

Seoul scraps intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo in blow to U.S. alliance

Seoul scraps intelligence-sharing pact with Tokyo in blow to U.S. alliance

by WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2019 South Korea’s government on Aug. 22 announced that it was scrapping a military-intelligence sharing pact with Japan weeks after being urged to do so by communist North Korea. Japan had sought an extension of the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) despite increased tension between the two countries. […]

Footloose 2019: Left wants Sean Spicer banned from dancing on ABC show

Footloose 2019: Left wants Sean Spicer banned from dancing on ABC show

by Christopher Sparks, WorldTribune Staff, August 23, 2019 In the 1984 classic Footloose (and the 2011 remake), dancing is prohibited in the small town that city boy Ren McCormack moves to. In the 2019 version of Footloose, the Left is moving to ban former Trump White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer from dancing on the […]

Report: China sees Pacific Islands as ‘power-projection superhighway’

Report: China sees Pacific Islands as ‘power-projection superhighway’

FPI / August 22, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com In becoming the first sitting U.S. Secretary of State to visit the Federated States of Micronesia earlier this month, Mike Pompeo hailed the island nations of the Pacific as “small islands” which “are big strongholds of freedom.” Washington has long held sway over the region, but analysts say China […]

Analysis: After 3 years in denial over Trump, the DNC faces a real panic attack

Analysis: After 3 years in denial over Trump, the DNC faces a real panic attack

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2019 There’s real panic in DNC land. So much so that the Democrats are turning to Hillary Clinton and Mexico for a fundraising miracle. In July, the Republican National Committee (RNC) nearly tripled the fundraising of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). “Our eventual nominee won’t stand a chance against […]

It’s now or never: As China supremacy looms, Trump says he was ‘chosen’ to fight back

It’s now or never: As China supremacy looms, Trump says he was ‘chosen’ to fight back

by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2019 China would “pay a price they wouldn’t want to pay” in a military conflict with the United States, President Donald Trump said after a report said the U.S. has lost its military edge in the Indo-Pacific to China. “America no longer enjoys military primacy in the Indo-Pacific and its […]

Electoral College [which elected Obama twice] is a racist ‘scam,’ AOC says

Electoral College [which elected Obama twice] is a racist ‘scam,’ AOC says

by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2019 The de facto leader of the Democratic Party, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, insists that the Electoral College is a racist “scam.” The socialist New York Democrat made the argument on Aug. 19 in an Instagram story that shows her driving along a deserted highway and saying, “many votes here, as […]