Mexico’s president-elect wants ‘new relationship’ with Trump

Mexico’s president-elect wants ‘new relationship’ with Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2018 Mexico’s president-elect, who had vowed during his campaign to “put Trump in his place,” is now seeking a “new relationship” with the American president. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico’s president-elect, will take office in December. / AP Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in a letter to President Donald Trump, wrote: “It encourages […]

Profiles in Leadership: Barack Obama and Donald Trump

Profiles in Leadership: Barack Obama and Donald Trump

Special to WorldTribune.com, July 23, 2018 By John McNabb There are many definitions of leadership. The simple definition that I embrace is “leaders make a difference”. Though simply stated, that definition doesn’t go quite far enough in some cases.” Positive, values-based leadership which results in a common good, combined with leaders making a difference” is a […]

Professors: America paying the price for loss of ‘bourgeois norms’

Professors: America paying the price for loss of ‘bourgeois norms’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2018 Widespread opioid abuse. Inner city violence. Half of all children born out of wedlock. College students lacking basic skills and high school students ranking below those from two dozen countries. The causes of these phenomena in the United States “are multiple and complex, but implicated in these and other […]

Judicial Watch calls on Trump to declassify ‘heavily redacted’ FISA court documents

Judicial Watch calls on Trump to declassify ‘heavily redacted’ FISA court documents

by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2018 A government watchdog group is urging President Donald Trump to step in and declassify 412 pages of top-secret documents related to surveillance conducted against former Trump campaign chairman Carter Page. The documents revealed that the Department of Justice and FBI relied heavily on the Democrat-funded Steele dossier in the […]

FBI’s Wray: China ‘most significant threat’ to U.S. national security

FBI’s Wray: China ‘most significant threat’ to U.S. national security

by WorldTribune Staff, July 20, 2018 China poses “the broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said after a week of drama in Washington about the U.S.-Russia summit in Helsinki. FBI Director Christopher Wray speaks at the Aspen Security Forum. The U.S. is investigating economic espionage linked to China […]

Charlotte’s Democrat-controlled city council narrowly OKs hosting GOP convention

Charlotte’s Democrat-controlled city council narrowly OKs hosting GOP convention

by WorldTribune Staff, July 18, 2018 The Charlotte City Council on July 16 voted in favor of the North Carolina city hosting the 2020 Republican National Convention despite the presence of a “dangerous” President Donald Trump. The Democrat-controlled council voted 6-5 in favor of allowing City Manager Marcus Jones to negotiate contracts with the Republican National Committee […]

‘Welcome to the resistance’: Uber driver ‘who realized we were Republicans’ abandoned passengers

‘Welcome to the resistance’: Uber driver ‘who realized we were Republicans’ abandoned passengers

by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2018 Six campaign volunteers who were talking politics while sharing an Uber in Raleigh, North Carolina were abandoned when the driver realized they were Republicans, reports say. “Welcome to the resistance,” the driver said after ditching the group about 10 minutes from their destination, according to a July 16 report […]

No doubt: Soros money will fund fight to stop Kavanaugh

No doubt: Soros money will fund fight to stop Kavanaugh

by WorldTribune Staff, July 17, 2018 A newly-formed political advocacy group that has vowed to stop Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court is largely funded by a non-profit that has received millions of dollars from leftist billionaire George Soros, a report said. Demand Justice, which said it would pump $5 million into […]

Transatlantic divide; NATO then and now

Transatlantic divide; NATO then and now

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Donald Trump’s rhetorical thunderclap at the start of the NATO Summit sent political reverberations throughout allied capitals and put the pundits into overdrive as to what immeasurable damage the American president had caused while in Brussels. Indeed while chiding European allies on their woeful shortfalls […]

Trade war: Oh no? Oh yes!

Trade war: Oh no? Oh yes!

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Global Trade War is sweeping the world, and U.S. President Donald Trump intends to keep fighting. The question, though, is how and when it will end and what damage it will leave in its wake. The U.S. contends that that eventually some of America’s trading partners will realize they […]