Special to WorldTribune.com Cornel West has compared Hillary Clinton to the phoniest of phonies. “Sister Hillary Clinton is the Milli Vanilli of American politics,” the author-philosopher and prominent socialist said. Ouch! “She lip-synchs, she gives lip service. But when it comes to policy, who supported the crime bill? Who supported, not just the deregulating of banks, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The American public may never know the exact circumstances of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. And the conspiracy theorists are having a field day with the secretive bonds that united the men with whom he spent his last day alive. Scalia, 79, was found dead on Feb. 13 in Shafter, Texas. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com Listen to people talking about the panacea of “dialogue” and “a peace treaty” with North Korea. They make it seem so simple. We need to talk, they say. We’ll never come to terms with North Korea if we don’t talk. One advocate of dialogue put it this way […]
Special to WorldTribune.com A Marine veteran has filed a lawsuit after being banned from his daughter’s school for more than a year after he raised objections to the school’s pro-Islam curriculum. John Kevin Wood is asking a judge to remove the ban so he can watch his daughter graduate from La Plata High School in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com For Hillary Clinton, a picture is worth a thousand words – and about three thousand bucks. The Democratic presidential hopeful hit up West Coast elites for some more campaign cash on Feb. 22 with a slew of Los Angeles fundraisers. At one of the events, a $1,000 per-person fundraiser at a Studio […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Allan Wall, MexiData.info Pope Francis has just made his first official papal visit to Mexico. Pope Francis is the first pontiff from the Jesuit order, and was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, in Argentina, to an Italian-immigrant father and a mother whose family is of Italian origin. Nevertheless, despite all the hoopla […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Despite some recent military successes against the Islamic State (ISIL) forces, both the security and the humanitarian situation in Iraq remain fragile and precarious. That’s the assessment from Jan Kubis, the UN special representative in a sobering report to the Security Council on the road […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs U.S. voters and political parties were, by mid-February 2016, well down the path toward selecting the final candidates for the November 2016 Presidential election. This determines how the United States would face the most decisive challenges for more than a century to its […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy and Ted Belman Before Donald Trump’s blowout win in New Hampshire he shocked the world by saying he would allow the Russians to do the “dirty work” and would “let them beat the shit out of ISIS [ISIL] also.” Trump went further, “I have always felt that Russia and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Reversing the trend of economic mismanagement, ending a fifteen year debt impasse with foreign lenders, calming a percolating political crisis over the disputed Falkland/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic, and overcoming the image of unpredictability, Argentina’s new conservative government faces serious obstacles in reintroducing Argentina […]
