Dwarfing past monopolies, the rapid growth of ‘Big Tech’ alarms both left and right

Dwarfing past monopolies, the rapid growth of ‘Big Tech’ alarms both left and right

by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 The power of three firms – Google, Facebook and Amazon – has grown larger than “any other monopolies we’ve dealt with in the past century,” raising major concerns on all sides of the political spectrum. Google rules about 90 percent of the Internet search market in the United States […]

Stone goes public with opening statement to closed session of House Intelligence Committee

Stone goes public with opening statement to closed session of House Intelligence Committee

by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 Roger Stone’s opening statement to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Sept. 26: Good morning Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ranking Member, Committee members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and staff. My name is Roger J. Stone, Jr., and with me today are my counsel, Grant […]

NY Times ‘cheered’ as FBI picked lock on Manafort’s Virginia home and stormed in, waking family

NY Times ‘cheered’ as FBI picked lock on Manafort’s Virginia home and stormed in, waking family

by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 When the FBI stormed into the Virginia home of Paul Manafort in a pre-dawn raid, The New York times reacted by applauding it, Rush Limbaugh said. “The New York Times is cheering this,” Limbaugh noted in his Sept. 19 radio broadcast. “Listen to the headline: ‘With a Picked Lock […]

Who hacked the 2016 election? Turns out it was the Obama administration

Who hacked the 2016 election? Turns out it was the Obama administration

by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 The Watergate perpetrators sought to conceal their actions from the law, but the U.S. government’s blatant intrusion into the 2016 presidential campaign, before and after the election, was conducted by its own law enforcement and intelligence agencies. “Richard Nixon’s henchmen wore surgical gloves to avoid leaving clues for law […]

‘Decorum’ at UN wrecked by ‘provocative’ N. Korean tests, Trump’s ‘substance’

‘Decorum’ at UN wrecked by ‘provocative’ N. Korean tests, Trump’s ‘substance’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Truth has become stranger than fiction even here at the United Nations where the recently concluded annual debate of world leaders was both clouded by threats of conflict in Korea and to a backdrop of natural calamities from Caribbean hurricanes to earthquakes. Clearly a week […]

Congressman who defeated Eric Cantor reports ‘cracks in the status quo’ in war with ‘Swamp’

Congressman who defeated Eric Cantor reports ‘cracks in the status quo’ in war with ‘Swamp’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 In the people’s war with the D.C. “Swamp,” the “Swamp” is still winning – but Congress “is making progress,” said Rep. Dave Brat. “There are good reasons voters in both parties felt they needed to turn to ‘outsider’ candidates last November:  the insiders in the swamp weren’t listening,” Brat […]

NFL and NBA have different rules for how high-paid athletes should respect national anthem

NFL and NBA have different rules for how high-paid athletes should respect national anthem

by WorldTribune Staff, September 25, 2017 Unlike the NBA, the NFL’s 2017 rulebook makes no mention of what players must do during the playing of the national anthem. A rumor that is circulating the web that a rule mandating players stand for the anthem does exist seems to be just that – a rumor. Snopes […]

VFW commander: ‘I stand for our flag and anthem’

VFW commander: ‘I stand for our flag and anthem’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 26, 2017 Football players kneeling during the national anthem “doesn’t wash” with millions of U.S. military veterans, the commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) said on Sept. 25. “I stand for our flag and anthem,” Keith Harman, a Vietnam combat veteran, said. “And I kneel for our fallen. That’s what […]

FBI continues to miss deadlines for subpoenaed documents on phony ‘dossier’

FBI continues to miss deadlines for subpoenaed documents on phony ‘dossier’

by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 The FBI and Justice Department have, for the third time, missed a deadline to deliver subpoenaed documents related to the discredited Trump dossier to the House Intelligence Committee. Sen. Chuck Grassley and the House Intelligence Committee want to know if the FBI ever used what former FBI Director James […]

NC basketball national championship team will not be visiting the White House

NC basketball national championship team will not be visiting the White House

by WorldTribune Staff, September 24, 2017 Did March Madness just surrender to September hysteria? On the same day President Donald Trump rescinded an invitation to NBA champion Golden State Warriors’ point guard Stephen Curry, a team spokesman for the University of North Carolina’s NCAA championship-winning men’s basketball team said the team won’t be making the […]