The Left’s fake news list includes conservative sites it considers dangerous

The Left’s fake news list includes conservative sites it considers dangerous

by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2016 The Left is out to “silence opposing views” by unleashing an avalanche of stories and lists on “fake news” and how it supposedly influenced the 2016 presidential election, columnist Kelly Riddell wrote on Nov. 24. Lists of fake news sites have included conservative (not liberal) news sites, including Red […]

U.S. faces new spectrum of geostrategic options in a post-Obama world

U.S. faces new spectrum of geostrategic options in a post-Obama world

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump in many ways faces the most circumscribed strategic options of any modern U.S. President entering office. Not only has the global context changed — and will change rapidly even further — so also has the United States’ abilities, […]

Teachers union flunked the test as members bolted for Trump

Teachers union flunked the test as members bolted for Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2016 Teachers unions, who dumped $108.2 million into the 2016 political cycle (nearly all of which went to Democrats) are still trying to figure out how so many of their members joined the Trump revolution on Nov. 8. More than one in three of the National Education Association’s (NEA’s) members […]

Fidel Castro ‘was a coward’: Miami columnist rejects ‘romantic narrative’

Fidel Castro ‘was a coward’: Miami columnist rejects ‘romantic narrative’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2016 Progressive lawmakers and the elite media were quick to heap praise on the “courageous” Marxist leader who they insist created a socialist paradise in Cuba. Miami Herald columnist Andres Oppenheimer was having none of it – characterizing Fidel Castro as an “egocentric coward who never dared to allow his […]

Light-hearted Brexit champ Farage describes heavy threats from intolerant Left

Light-hearted Brexit champ Farage describes heavy threats from intolerant Left

by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2016 British Independence Party leader and Brexit champion Nigel Farage “can’t go anywhere” these days without being physically threatened by angry leftists. The 52-year-old father of four, whose family was chased out of a pub and had their car attacked by protesters last year, said the “aggro” had become worse […]

Iraq’s parliament grants legal status to Shi’ite militias

Iraq’s parliament grants legal status to Shi’ite militias

by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2016 In a move that was boycotted by Sunni lawmakers, Iraq’s parliament has granted legal status to Shi’ite militias. The legislation guarantees militias from the Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces the right to keep their “identity and character as long as that does not threaten Iraqi national security.” The new law […]

Bernie Sanders to election-obsessed reporter: Get a life

Bernie Sanders to election-obsessed reporter: Get a life

by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2016 Even Bernie Sanders gets it. The socialist senator and 2016 presidential candidate blew up at a reporter who asked a familiar question. The boiling point for Sanders was reached when he was asked about who he thought would run for president in 2020. “This is incredible,” Sanders shot back. […]

Flashback: The Castro brothers’ Stalinist Cuba, mass graves, and a U.S. president’s legacy

Flashback: The Castro brothers’ Stalinist Cuba, mass graves, and a U.S. president’s legacy

Special to WorldTribune.com By Frank Calzon Fidel Castro, 90, is dead, his brother Raul announced Friday. The following was published on Jan. 19, 2016. President Barack Obama announced his visit to Cuba on Feb. 18, 2016 following the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama did not attend Scalia’s funeral and he has […]

As the world watches, Aleppo descends into Dante’s Inferno

As the world watches, Aleppo descends into Dante’s Inferno

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — It’ s not often a senior UN official leaves a prepared and rigid script to emotionally describe a situation to delegates in the Security Council. But when Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien told diplomats, “I am more or less at my wit’s end as a human […]

Meanwhile, in the Mideast, President-elect Trump is inheriting a meltdown

Meanwhile, in the Mideast, President-elect Trump is inheriting a meltdown

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The tumultuous events which have swept the Mideast like a malevolent sandstorm have hardly abated; crises and conflict are now nearly entrenched. Thus looking back at the results of President Barack Obama’s two-term legacy, its clear we are facing a Mideast meltdown with dangerous and […]