Transcripts reveal bitter fight within NSC over Ukraine, President Trump

Transcripts reveal bitter fight within NSC over Ukraine, President Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2019 Officials at the National Security Council (NSC), some of them Obama era holdovers, waged an internal war against President Donald Trump and his political appointees, transcripts from Rep. Adam Schiff’s closed-door impeachment inquiry hearings show. Fiona Hill, a Russia specialist brought to the NSC in 2018 from the Brookings […]

Clarity: Nikki Haley boils down the ‘impeachment’ chaos

Clarity: Nikki Haley boils down the ‘impeachment’ chaos

by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2019 In one of the most concise explanations of the entire impeachment saga, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said there is no impeachable offense in President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president. “There was no heavy demand insisting that something had to happen. So […]

Watershed: Hanson calls 2020 a referendum on a new, ‘Orwellian’ America

Watershed: Hanson calls 2020 a referendum on a new, ‘Orwellian’ America

by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2019 The Democratic Party “as we have known it, is extinct for now,” historian and columnist Victor Davis Hanson wrote. The Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential field is “well beyond even the stark choices of 1972 and 1984 that remained within the parameters of the two parties,” Hanson wrote for American […]

Reports: Ciaramella hosted 2016 White House meeting that issued demand to Ukraine

Reports: Ciaramella hosted 2016 White House meeting that issued demand to Ukraine

by WorldTribune Staff, November 12, 2019 The so-called Trump-Ukraine “whistleblower,” who many in the media have identified as Eric Ciaramella, hosted a January 2016 White House meeting where Ukrainian officials were told to drop the Burisma-Hunter Biden investigation, reports say. Ciaramella hosted a meeting with Ukrainian diplomat Andrii Telizhenko on Jan. 19, 2016 in the […]

‘New Berlin’: Guns drawn, shots fired as Hong Kong daily protests enter 9th month

‘New Berlin’: Guns drawn, shots fired as Hong Kong daily protests enter 9th month

by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2019 A Chinese state-run media outlet warned the Chinese military could enter Hong Kong “at any time” as the pro-Beijing government in Hong Kong has increased its violent crackdown on pro-democracy activists. Millions of protesters have been in the streets daily for eight months beginning on March 15. Addressing Hong […]

You’re fired: Trump administration crackdown impacted over 8,000 VA employees

You’re fired: Trump administration crackdown impacted over 8,000 VA employees

by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2019 On this Veterans Day, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said President Donald Trump is fulfilling a signature promise from his 2016 campaign to overhaul the Department of Veterans Affairs. Since taking office, Trump has relieved over 8,000 Veterans Affairs employees for failing their duty, Wilkie told reporters. “The standard is […]

Bonfire of hypocrisies: Media protected Epstein not Kavanaugh, fired ABC ‘whistleblower’

Bonfire of hypocrisies: Media protected Epstein not Kavanaugh, fired ABC ‘whistleblower’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2019 Standards? What standards? In its refusal to run Amy Robach’s exclusive on pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, ABC News “ostensibly a news organization, sat on one of the biggest and most consequential stories of the past decade. By the company’s explanation, this was for the sake of an editorial standard, a […]

Son of Weather Underground terrorists wins San Francisco DA race

Son of Weather Underground terrorists wins San Francisco DA race

by WorldTribune Staff, November 11, 2019 The son of Weather Underground terrorists who once worked as a translator for Venezuelan socialist dictator Hugo Chavez has been elected district attorney of San Francisco. Chesa Boudin, whose campaign was backed by George Soros-linked funding, has vowed to “end mass incarceration” and only use jail as a “last […]

Can Seoul and Tokyo cooperate? Yes, says U.S.; No, says Pyongyang

Can Seoul and Tokyo cooperate? Yes, says U.S.; No, says Pyongyang

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― Koreans have innumerable reasons to resent Japan’s sense of superiority and also every reason to get over it. Astonishingly, apologists for North Korea deride U.S. attempts at persuading South Korean and Japanese leaders to get along with each other. It’s as though they really think South Korea […]

30 years ago, the wall came tumbling down

30 years ago, the wall came tumbling down

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Thirty years ago on Nov. 9 1989, the world suddenly changed.  Mass civil and religious demonstrations rocking East German cities created a political tsunami which soon reached Berlin. Berlin, the divided city and German capital at the epicenter of the Cold War, would see an unexpected […]