Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Following the celebratory Lunar New Year holidays, China’s ruling Communist Party announced that Chairman Xi Jinping, the current President, would be allowed to stay in office beyond the constitutionally proscribed two-term limit. A tweaking of the constitution would allow in effect Xi, who assumed power […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Dmitry Volchek, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Every Wednesday, Aleksei Nesterenko stands outside building No. 23 on Moscow’s Nikolskaya Street with a sign calling for it to be turned into a branch of the city’s GULAG museum. On September 12, 1938, Nesterenko’s father was executed inside that building, which at […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Don’t look now but Donald K. Trump has won his war with the traditional media and the Hollywood luminaries. In the process he has left the Democrats gasping for breath and searching for a missing program for action. It will take historians a while to figure out just […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty WASHINGTON — If it hasn’t started already, then a new arms race is almost certainly about to get under way, arms-control experts and analysts warn. With his announcement that Russia has developed new strategic weapons, including a nuclear-powered missile that he said can fly indefinitely and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk PYEONGCHANG ― Now I know firsthand what they’re talking about when they say the Russians are tricky. Yes, they’ve gotten into American and other websites, tried to sway the U.S. presidential election and are not to be trusted, but those were media reports. In an era of fake news, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk U.S. officials remain deeply skeptical of North Korea’s intentions while South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In seeks to build on the momentum toward negotiations in the aftermath of the Winter Olympics. The White House is awaiting a firm signal directly from Pyongyang about the prospects for talks while wondering about […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct A report in Beijing’s state media said China’s increasing military “competitiveness” is making the United States “uneasy” and is contributing to the Americans’ need for more muscle flexing, namely the deployment of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group to the South China Sea. The U.S. carrier group, which includes […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Sheriff Scott Israel must resign. His leadership of the Broward County police department is not just untenable. It has become a national disgrace — a scandal that can no longer be ignored. In the wake of the school mass shooting in Florida, the media was quick to demand gun […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Artillery fire and indiscriminate air strikes pound and batter the Damascus suburb of Ghouta. Civilians, mostly children, are being killed and maimed. The Security Council wrings its hands in pleading for a humanitarian respite in a ongoing horror. And the world community politely averts its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Critics have complained for years of the appearance of cooperation between Iran’s state-controlled television and its hard-line security structures, citing smears against activists and the broadcast of prisoner confessions thought to have been extracted under duress. But lawyers for the family of a […]
