Remember the time when Americans could laugh at themselves? Now there’s Australian TV

Remember the time when Americans could laugh at themselves? Now there’s Australian TV

Special to WorldTribune.com By Karen Hagestad Cacy, Fairfax Free Citizen, Aug. 13, 2017 COLORADO SPRING, Colorado – There’s prostitution. There’s booze and drugs aplenty. There’s organized crime mixed with decaying local government. Australia’s hit television series, “Rake,” takes American viewers back in time when personal insults weren’t called “bullying,” and when language was so free-wheeling […]

Left-wing magazine shoots down premise on which Mueller investigation is based

Left-wing magazine shoots down premise on which Mueller investigation is based

by WorldTribune Staff, August 11, 2017 The narrative that laid the groundwork for the ongoing Russia investigations and a year’s worth of major media accusations is wrong, according to The Nation magazine. Russia did not hack Democratic National Committee (DNC) email servers, a left-wing publication has concluded after examining evidence from computer analysts and former […]

One world under China? Beijing rolls out BRI initiative; U.S. can’t agree on renewing its own infrastructure

One world under China? Beijing rolls out BRI initiative; U.S. can’t agree on renewing its own infrastructure

The Belt and Road Initiative is the vanguard for Beijing’s reach for global power. It may not work, given all the imponderables of a project on this scale, not to mention conflicting interests with nations along its route. But at least the Chinese are showing the kind of social energy necessary to achieve great things. […]

U.S., Russia to continue dialogue after Trump’s hand forced by Congress on sanctions

U.S., Russia to continue dialogue after Trump’s hand forced by Congress on sanctions

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on August 6 that he believed his American counterpart was ready to continue dialogue with Russia on complex issues despite bilateral tensions and the imposition of fresh U.S. sanctions against Moscow. “We felt the readiness of our U.S. colleagues to […]

Big media scorpions fight to the death . . . as Donald Trump looks on from the President’s box

Big media scorpions fight to the death . . . as Donald Trump looks on from the President’s box

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 […]

Is checking Trump on U.S.-Russian collaboration really such a good idea?

Is checking Trump on U.S.-Russian collaboration really such a good idea?

Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner The Deep State has won. It got what it wanted: The end of any possible Détente with Russia. President Trump campaigned on restoring U.S.-Russian relations. He has lost that battle — and the consequences are immense both for the world and America. Call it Cold War 2.0. This is […]

‘America’s anchorman’: The Rush Limbaugh show at 30 is stronger than ever

‘America’s anchorman’: The Rush Limbaugh show at 30 is stronger than ever

by WorldTribune Staff, August 1, 2017 On Aug. 1, 1988 “The Rush Limbaugh Show” debuted on WABC radio in New York City. Mike Moyers, station manager of AM 30 WTAD, which has been a Rush Limbaugh Show affiliate since 2000, says the anniversary “marks 3 decades of a guy, with no college education, no sheepskin, […]

Lighten up, get a life, enjoy the 45th president

Lighten up, get a life, enjoy the 45th president

Special to WorldTribune.com By Susan Smith, Fairfax Free Citizen Donald J. Trump, our recently elected 45th President, possesses what is commonly known as a larger than life personality. He has an accompanyingly-sized sense of humor, with sparks of outrageousness in it, and he does, as we say, shoot from the hip on occasion. Put this […]

The new feminism: Women who arm themselves

The new feminism: Women who arm themselves

Special to WorldTribune, by Brittany Jennings, July 28, 2017 Women are now arming themselves. You could call it the new feminism. In Chicago for example, women are joining gun clubs and learning firearms safety after an uptick in the ongoing epidemic of violence. As of July, Chicago has had 1,557 shootings and 369 people have […]

Tech for former DNC chairwoman arrested at Dulles Airport attempting to flee country

Tech for former DNC chairwoman arrested at Dulles Airport attempting to flee country

by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2017 A Pakistani-born IT specialist working for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, was arrested Monday at Dulles Airport while trying to leave the country. Fox News reported the arrest of Imran Awan on bank fraud charges . Awan has been in the news this week […]