by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2019 U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook is headed to the Persian Gulf region to hold meetings with key allies to “discuss Iran’s regional aggression” and share U.S. intelligence “on the range of active threats Iran currently poses in the region,” the State Department said. The State Department said […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2019 President Donald Trump, in a June 19 interview on Fox News’s Hannity, railed against the ongoing “hoax” investigations of his campaign and administration, saying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, “hands out subpoenas like they’re cookies.” Trump said former Speaker Paul Ryan, Wisconsin Republican, was more cautious in issuing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2019 Former NFL player Burgess Owens said in congressional testimony on June 19 that he didn’t believe in reparations for slavery, but did believe in “restitution,” and that restitution should come from the Democratic Party for all the “misery” it has brought to his race. Burgess was part of a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2019 Joe Schaeffer, First of two parts U.S. immigration officials have noticed a dramatic surge in the numbers of African migrants arriving at our overwhelmed southern border. Many are coming from the Congo. Border Patrol agents have already expressed great alarm about acquiring any of a variety of infectious diseases […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 20, 2019 Radio and TV host Mark Levin’s book, Unfreedom of the Press, which details the corporate media’s leftist bias and its animus toward President Donald Trump, is at the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list for a fourth consecutive week. Unfreedom of the Press has sold some […]
FPI / June 19, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Richard Fisher Barely a week after the historic June 9 one million strong protests, on June 15, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam decided to “suspend” but not withdraw the controversial law that would have given China the right of extradition, the ability to take and remove Hong […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2019 President Donald Trump launched his 2020 re-election campaign on June 18, telling a crowd of 20,000 at the Amway Center in Orlando that the “great political movement” he engineered has made American great and will never allow the nation to become socialist. He also took direct aim his Democrat […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2019 The U.S. Air Force reported a successful initial flight test of a B-52 Stratofortress armed with the AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW), a hypersonic missile which can fly at speeds of Mach 5 or faster. The test of the Lockheed Martin-produced weapon was conducted on June 12 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2019 A recent Gallup poll found that less than half of Americans have confidence in higher education. Scores of students and their parents are “frustrated with increasing costs and underemployed grads living in their parent’s basement,” author Tom Vander Ark, the CEO of Getting Smart, wrote in a June 17 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Subsaharan Africa’s vast but impoverished Sahel region has been largely overlooked amidst the turmoil of Mid-East conflicts and East Asian regional instability. Yet this arid swath of five countries comprising what’s known as the Sahel, remains wracked by poverty, hunger, weak governance, and environmental degradation, […]