Special to WorldTribune.com By Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct At the start of 2018, Saudi Arabia and Iran are engrossed in fundamental social change, but their approaches are taking their nations in polar opposite directions. The strikingly opposite differences illuminate the vast changes sweeping the region. Led by the bold policies of youthful Saudi Crown Prince […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2018 Twitter has ignored formal requests to explain its policies after Project Veritas released a video showing current and former employees of the social media giant admitting it censors conservative viewpoints. Twitter has banned high-profile conservative figures such as Milo Yiannopoulos and removed a campaign ad by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2018 The Commerce Department reported in November that the U.S. trade deficit with China has ballooned to $33.5 billion. In a phone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Jan. 15, U.S. President Donald Trump said the deficit “is not sustainable.” “President Trump expressed disappointment that the United States’ trade […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2018 At least 50 people have been killed, including five by torture, and 8,000 have been arrested since anti-government protests erupted in Iran late last month, an opposition group said. The National Council of Resistance of Iran, based in Europe, said protests have spread to 130 cities. The council on Jan. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranians in some of the regions hardest hit by years of drought have taken to public prayer sessions in desperate bids to end the dry spell and ease the strain on Iran’s dwindling water supplies. Religious services have been routinely held outdoors in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2018 Spurred by a surge in shale oil, the United States is poised to break an output record that was set in 1970. U.S. oil production will soon top 10 million barrels per day and is expected to hit 11 million barrels per day by late 2019, a level that […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2018 Weeks before joining special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann met with reporters from The Associated Press where Weissman received information on the AP’s investigation into Paul Manafort, a report said. Weissman met the journalists on April 11, 2017, investigative journalist Sara Carter reported on Jan. 11. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2018 Priests in the Catholic Church have done “irreparable damage” to the children they have raped and molested, Pope Francis declared during a visit to Chile on Jan. 15. “I am one with my brother bishops, for it is right to ask forgiveness and make every effort to support the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2018 Two men who took part in the widespread protests in Iran were tortured to death in prison, according to local reports and a rights group. Saro Ghahremani, a 24-year-old Kurd, died in Sanandaj prison in Iranian Kurdistan and Ali Poladi, approximately 26, died in Chalus prison in northern Iran, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2018 As he closes in on one year in office, doesn’t President Donald Trump have “every reason to be rather high on himself”? “What is there to be humble about?” asks R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., editor in chief of The American Spectator. “In his first year in office he has […]
