Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The Democrats are one step closer to their ultimate goal: Impeaching President Trump. This is the real meaning of the Pennsylvania special election results in the 18th Congressional District. The Democratic candidate, Conor Lamb, appears to have defeated Republican Rick Saccone in a photo finish. Both the GOP and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk In the excitement over impending summits, we may have forgotten one other solution everyone was talking about, oh, just a month or two ago. Whatever happened to all the enthusiasm for forcing Kim Jong-Un out of his job by internal upheaval, external attack, or maybe just a plain old […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Paul Manafort, former campaign chief of U.S. President Donald Trump. U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman asked a judge on March 14 to dismiss criminal charges he faces related to his foreign lobbying work on behalf of Ukraine’s former pro-Russia president. In a series of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants the U.S. military to create a new “space force” that would be separate from the Pentagon’s current army, navy, and air force. Trump told troops at the Miramar Marine Corps Air Station near San Diego on March 13 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tariffs are in a sense like other taxes; easy to impose, hard to roll back, and usually employed for the “greater good.” Thus triggering tariffs creates a feel good solution, a political sugar rush, but often later a bitter backlash to those ordering them. I […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Frud Bezhan, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Pakistan’s so-called university of jihad is led by a man who proclaims himself “the father of the Taliban,” and counts some of the world’s most notorious terrorists among its alumni. It also receives millions of dollars in aid from the government of the restive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Don’t hold your breath. We’ve been disappointed so often in moves toward North-South reconciliation that it’s hard to believe any face-to-face talks between President Moon Jae-In and North Korea’s “respected leader” Kim Jong-Un will lead to resolution of a nuclear crisis that’s only worsened in recent years. But wait! […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Is it time for California to go? The ultra-liberal state is openly defying federal immigration law. This has prompted Attorney General Jeff Sessions to file a lawsuit blocking California’s sanctuary state laws, hoping the courts will declare them illegal and unconstitutional. Gov. Jerry Brown responded by claiming the Trump […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — U.S. President Donald Trump is putting the best face on the agreement for North and South Korean leaders to meet next month at the truce village of Panmunjom, on the North-South line 55 kilometers north of Seoul for the third inter-Korean summit. Despite pervasive doubts about North […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — Whenever experts talk about “confederation” or “reunification” between North and South Korea, they overlook the fate of tens of thousands of people confined to prison camps in the North for offenses that might threaten the regime. Examples of such “crimes” include Christian worship, possession of a bible […]
