by WorldTribune Staff, May 5, 2021 David Bell is the British psychiatrist who blew the whistle on the questionable medical practices involved at the gender identity development service (GIDS), a clinic at the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust in London. Bells says 10 staffers came to him to voice their concerns about the way […]
Special to WorldTribune Robert Morton, April 28, 1999 The vacuum of power in the post-Soviet western world has been filled by three men whose past should have disqualified them. Bill Clinton, Britain’s Tony Blair and Germany’s Gerhard Schroeder once marched against using military force to stop communist aggression. The Cold War ended and the communists […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Alexander Maistrovoy The main challenge facing the West is not to defeat “them” but to find itself. In a recent survey, 83% of Americans polled failed a basic test on the American Revolution. According to Belgian researchers Jan and Kurt Monten of the Catholic College of Limburg, “young people studying to […]
FPI /November 18, 2019 Analysis by Sarah Cowgill, LibertyNation.com One came from privilege, was a Goldwater girl, and married a man who would become president of the United States. The other was the daughter of a greengrocer, who attended University of Oxford to study Chemistry. Both were professed Methodists. Both would reach pinnacles in an […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk LONDON ― Brexit, Britain’s exit from the European Union, is getting so tiresome, you wish the Brits would just get on with it and get out. That’s a lot easier said than done. Britain’s conservative prime minister, Boris Johnson, would love to do just that, but he’s about 40 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Alexander Maistrovoy Western elites have mastered the Soviet arsenal of repressions perfectly. The report stating that Tommy Robinson was transferred to a special closed prison Belmarsh in the South of London, which was described as “jihadi training camp”, has brought an ominous deja-vu to me. In the 1990s, we learned […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says it has seized a British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz for an alleged failure “to respect international maritime rules.” The ship, the Stena Impero, “was confiscated by the Revolutionary Guards at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk LONDON — You’ve got to admire the Brits for one thing. They sure are proud of their ancient heritage as citizens of a “tight little island” that has always stood aloof from Europe. Historically they’ve fought against the Romans (Hadrian’s Wall), the Normans (1066 and all that), Spanish (Sir […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United States said it welcomed Britain’s seizure of an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar, labeling it “excellent news,” while Tehran condemned what it called the “illegal interception” of the vessel. “Excellent news: UK has detained the supertanker Grace 1 laden with Iranian oil bound for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — From the appalling murders of 300 Sri Lankan Christians celebrating Easter, to the killings of Coptic Egyptians, Syrian Catholics, and Nigerian faithful, the grisly wave of anti-Christian violence worldwide is rising. Add the formal state repression of Christianity in places like China, North Korea and […]