Winter games delays yet another moment of truth in Korea

Winter games delays yet another moment of truth in Korea

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk American policy-makers appear highly uncertain and divided among themselves as to moves toward negotiation between North and South Korea in the wake of the Winter Olympics. The view from the White House, is that President Donald Trump has succeeded in forcing the hand of Kim Jong-Un, compelling him to […]

Brainwashed millennials: Time to declare academic bias a national crisis

Brainwashed millennials: Time to declare academic bias a national crisis

Special to WorldTribune.com By Frank Vernuccio, Fairfax Free Citizen Academia has, for many decades, been a bastion of leftist orthodoxy. But the current extremity of its actions and beliefs have reached a level that should trouble the majority of Americans, and call into question the wisdom of funding, through taxes, tuition, grants, or donations, of […]

Press freedom group denounces ‘unparalleled’ media suppression in Iran

Press freedom group denounces ‘unparalleled’ media suppression in Iran

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterated its condemnation of the Iranian authorities’ harassment of journalists, saying control of news and information has been “implacable” since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian authorities are “trying to reinforce its news control both at home and internationally,” the Paris-based media watchdog […]

How Harvard is helping Islamize public school students in tony Boston suburb

How Harvard is helping Islamize public school students in tony Boston suburb

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner There is something very wrong with the public school curriculum in Newton, Massachusetts. The upscale Boston suburb is becoming ground zero in the insidious effort to Islamize and indoctrinate high school students to despise Israel, America and the West. And it’s all being funded by taxpayer dollars. For several […]

‘Not believable’: Friends of Iranian-Canadian activist call for ‘transparent’ investigation of ‘suicide’

‘Not believable’: Friends of Iranian-Canadian activist call for ‘transparent’ investigation of ‘suicide’

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Academics in Iran and rights activists are calling for a serious and transparent investigation into the death of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmental activist Kavous Seyed-Emami in prison. Four academic societies related to political science, sociology, peace studies, and cultural studies made the call in an open […]

Have the 2018 Winter Games become the ‘Pyongyang Olympics’?

Have the 2018 Winter Games become the ‘Pyongyang Olympics’?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — With a spectacular and sparkling opening ceremony of the PyeongChang Olympics, South Korea has predictably excelled in showcasing both sports and setting. Yet, given that security concerns on the divided peninsula dominated the nervous countdown to the Winter Games, the Seoul government at least in […]

Was the FBI’s hiring of Christopher Steele authorized by British intelligence or was it not?

Was the FBI’s hiring of Christopher Steele authorized by British intelligence or was it not?

Special to WorldTribune.com By GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The revelation that former British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS/MI6) officer Christopher Steele may have been illegally recruited by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation could have major ramifications for the UKUSA Accord (“Five Eyes”) signatory countries with the U.S.: the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. The […]

‘Second-class dreamers’: Why the ruling class did not mourn death of Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson

‘Second-class dreamers’: Why the ruling class did not mourn death of Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Edwin Jackson was a linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts. He had just finished his second year in the NFL. His future was full of promise. Yet, he was killed on Super Bowl Sunday by an illegal immigrant drunk driver from Guatemala. Jackson was a Dreamer too. His dreams are […]

Korean protests at the Olympics, then and now

Korean protests at the Olympics, then and now

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Mid-winter is not exactly the best time for mass demonstrations in South Korea. Protesters prefer to wait for spring, but the Winter Olympics leave them no choice. Flag-wavers are out there during the coldest ever Olympics, the rightists waving Korean and American flags, leftists and liberals those one-Korea flags, […]

Bad moon rising: Seoul leader ratings drop over Winter Game politics

Bad moon rising: Seoul leader ratings drop over Winter Game politics

Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Fierce controversies have erupted surrounding Winter Olympics politics with regard to North Korea’s participation, and President Moon Jae-In of South Korea has been dealt a blow in the public opinion polls. A new Seoul-based PR firm called Realmeter released polling data on Jan. 25, indicating the president’s approval ratings have […]