Energy independence gave president strong hand; Speech supported freedom agenda in hemisphere

Energy independence gave president strong hand; Speech supported freedom agenda in hemisphere

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — In a stunningly positive speech before Congress, President Donald Trump delivered the annual State of the Union address to a deeply divided nation.  While the president outlined a long upbeat list of economic achievements and trade deals, amounting to what was called a “Blue Collar […]

Seoul government bristles at less-than-diplomatic rebuke by U.S. Amb. Harry Harris

Seoul government bristles at less-than-diplomatic rebuke by U.S. Amb. Harry Harris

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Harry Harris, has one of the world’s more sensitive diplomatic missions. He’s got to defend the U.S.-Korean alliance while getting along with a government that’s dedicated to appeasing a North Korean regime that’s hostile to the U.S. and South Korea. The […]

Teen Vogue warps American youth with help from well-connected, corporate friends

Teen Vogue warps American youth with help from well-connected, corporate friends

Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer One of the most depraved, purely evil corporate entities to be found in America today is Teen Vogue. This supposed fashion magazine aimed at younger readers is a cesspool of moral perversion and leftist political propaganda designed to distort the minds of our nation’s developing youth. And […]

Burma-China ties flourish as World Court issues ruling

Burma-China ties flourish as World Court issues ruling

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Amid deepening political and economic ties between Burma and China, the Southeast Asian state is being fully integrated into Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative, emerging as a transportation hub and military asset.  Yet at the same time, while Beijing’s leader Xi Jinping made a high […]

East Asia leads world in economic growth; Trump advises world leaders: Put own citizens first

East Asia leads world in economic growth; Trump advises world leaders: Put own citizens first

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — East Asian countries continue to be global leaders in economic growth despite ongoing trade tensions between the USA and China. Nonetheless, even among those dynamic Asian states, growth has tempered from 5.7 percent in 2018 to 5.2 percent in 2019 amid an international downshift.   The […]

‘Conservative’ Cato analyst: Opposing the outsourcing of American jobs is bigotry

‘Conservative’ Cato analyst: Opposing the outsourcing of American jobs is bigotry

Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer If the mask had not already been completely lifted on the fictitious conservative standing of globalist free trade “libertarian” organizations such as the Cato Institute, a telling tweet this month has surely sealed the deal. David Bier is the point man on immigration for Cato, formerly called […]

2020 update on that ‘axis of evil’

2020 update on that ‘axis of evil’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk A detail generally overlooked in all we’ve been reading about the misfired Iranian missile that brought down the Ukraine airliner with 176 people aboard: It was almost certainly made in North Korea and sold to Iran or made in Iran from a North Korean design and technology. The relationship […]

Sleepless in Pyongyang: Three reasons for Kim’s anxiety

Sleepless in Pyongyang: Three reasons for Kim’s anxiety

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The killing of Qasem Soleimani by an American drone aircraft on orders from U.S. President Donald Trump as the Iranian general arrived in Baghdad to spur on Iran-backed Iraqi militia against the U.S. confronts Kim Jong-Un with serious problems. The first is that North Korea cannot publicize the episode […]

Back from the brink, again

Back from the brink, again

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — An eagerly anticipated UN Security Council meeting came in the nervous aftermath of America’s targeted killing of Iranian terrorist kingpin Qasem Soleimani by an armed U.S. drone. The rhetorical crescendo was building all week following Soleimani’s funeral cortege which wove its way across Iraq and […]

Decapitation? Assassination? Over in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-Un isn’t hung up on semantics

Decapitation? Assassination? Over in Pyongyang, Kim Jong-Un isn’t hung up on semantics

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk People who split hairs over semantics ask if decapitation is the same as assassination. The debate assumes relevance in the wake of the killing of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. No, he wasn’t exactly decapitated, meaning his head wasn’t literally cut off from the rest of his body though […]

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