Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A “climate of fear and persecution” face Burma’s minority Rohingya population as a year of unrelenting human rights abuses and forced expulsions continue by the country’s Beijing-backed military rulers. As UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told a stunned Security Council meeting, “The massive refugee emergency […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller’s “greatest problem was his original mandate” allowing an open-ended investigation of President Donald Trump, Hoover Institution Fellow Victor Davis Hanson wrote. So where are we after 15 months of indictments of an elected president’s associates, but on charges having nothing to do with Russian collusion […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2018 At least 1.5 million adults in the United States are under the care of guardians and, critics say, are trapped in a flawed system which controls everything from a person’s finances to visits with family members. In North Carolina, Ginny Johnson described how, just three months after her 95-year-old […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 22, 2018 A new fighter jet which Iran says was domestically designed and manufactured looks a lot like the U.S. F-5, which was designed by Northrop in the 1950s and used by the U.S. since the 1960s, observers say. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami were […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 28, 2018 Finland has indicated that it could join NATO, a move that would enrage Russia which would consider it an encroachment on its sphere of influence, a report said. President Sauli Niinisto on Aug. 25 said that Finland’s NATO membership is a possibility, Yle Uutiset television reported. Traditionally neutral Finland and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty WASHINGTON — On September 8, 1999, just a few weeks after promoting the head of the country’s top intelligence agency to the post of prime minister, Russian President Boris Yeltsin took a phone call from a world leader with whom he had developed an unusually close […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 2, 2018 George Gilder, whose 1981 book “Wealth and Poverty” championed the free market and influenced Ronald Reagan’s supply-side economics, laments the era of “Google Marxism” which aims to make the human mind obsolete. But the author of “Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 20, 2018 In a reversal of a previous order, a U.S. district judge ruled the government does not have to accept new requests for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Illegal aliens who were brought into the U.S. as children, known as “Dreamers,” can renew their DACA applications, but […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on Aug. 30 called on China to immediately release Muslim Uighurs from alleged re-education camps. The committee cited estimates that up to one million Uighurs are being detained on the “pretext of countering terrorism” in re-education centers in China’s far […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 31, 2018 While Rudy Giuliani said he is working on a report on the legitimacy of the Robert Mueller investigation, longtime Trump associate Roger Stone said he expected to charged with a crime by Mueller’s team that he did not commit and that would cost him $2 million in legal defense […]
