Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Although Andrew Brunson called on President Trump in Washington after leaving Turkey in a U.S. military plane, worldwide persecution of Christians has reached an all time high. The former Christian missionary was arrested on bogus charges over alleged links to political groups, including the banned Gulenist movement after […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders While the United Nations remains crippled in so many ways as an effective international organization, it is the main forum for the expression of foreign policy issues among the nations. And in a detailed and outspoken message, President Trump on Sept. 25 used that forum to complete the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders There are haunting echoes in the meeting Presidential National Security Advisor John Bolton has just completed in Moscow. In another era, now just a hundred years ago, the U.S. and its Western allies made a deal with Moscow to oppose an even more threatening enemy, Nazi Germany and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders There always seemed to be the possibility that there could be a really big rumble along the San Andreas Fault and Hollywood, San Francisco’s hills and the wild northern California coast would slide into the Pacific. The state has had its Brown-outs with two governors, father and son, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Don’t look now but Donald K. Trump has won his war with the traditional media and the Hollywood luminaries. In the process he has left the Democrats gasping for breath and searching for a missing program for action. It will take historians a while to figure out just […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Much too much is being made of the naming of Russian agents operating in the U.S. and their ostensible efforts to thwart our electoral process. There is a suspicion that part of the hullabaloo is an attempt to draw attention away from more important scandalous matters, including the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Diplomats like to believe they speak a special language because of their knowledge of other cultures. Thus, logic which may apply elsewhere is not always applicable to their transactions. That explains, as much as anything, the present undercurrent of animosity between the State Department’s Foreign Service establishment and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The two recent horrendous storms have settled the continuing argument about climate change, although neither side in what has been the recent lively and costly dispute in time and energy may recognize it. Our argument begins with the fact that it is hard to exaggerate the force of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Normally we would be coming down hard on the side of newspaper owners in any argument; they are after all running the business where we make our living. But we are finding it a little hard to choose sides in a struggle between three of the wealthiest men […]
By Sol W. Sanders While the U.S. debates whether it has “a Russian problem”, little Finland [6 million] is again fearful of wrestling with its old neighbor. There is a new wrinkle in the Russia-Finland encounter, however. The Finns are always feeling threatened by their giant neighbor now planning one of its largest military exercises […]