CNN analyst: Women’s march ‘wasn’t about women’

CNN analyst: Women’s march ‘wasn’t about women’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 22, 2017 The Women’s March on Washington really wasn’t about women at all, a CNN analyst said. “It’s not about women, it’s about liberalism,” Bakari Sellers said of the Jan. 21 march. Sellers and Concerned Women for America CEO Penny Nance had been arguing about the inclusiveness of the march when […]

Full text of inaugural address: ‘We are transferring power from Washington, D.C.’

Full text of inaugural address: ‘We are transferring power from Washington, D.C.’

Special to WorldTribune.com Inaugural Address of President Donald Trump, Jan. 20, 2017: Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all […]

Trump world: What The Donald inherits

Trump world: What The Donald inherits

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Chaos, Conflict and Crisis are some of the words describing the combustible global situation the new American President Donald J. Trump inherits from his predecessor. Far from a stable world order, Donald Trump is entering a complex foreign maze in which he must decipher, decode […]

Snowden plays Snowden: Time to take the show on the road?

Snowden plays Snowden: Time to take the show on the road?

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk As Donald Trump is inaugurated in Washington, it may be timely to wonder what if anything did Edward Snowden, in Moscow, have to do with his election. Would Snowden be letting his skills go to waste? Might he be sharing notes with Russian friends on cyber-sleuthing and cyber-espionage ― […]

Trump inaugural ceremonies features 26 religious leaders, multiple prayers

Trump inaugural ceremonies features 26 religious leaders, multiple prayers

by WorldTribune Staff, January 20, 2017 The inauguration of Donald Trump as 45th President of the United States will feature 26 religious leaders and a record six prayers as part of the ceremonies. Trump was to be sworn in using both his own Bible, a gift from his mother, and the Bible used to swear […]

Iran deal negotiator on Trump vow: ‘We will have our options’

Iran deal negotiator on Trump vow: ‘We will have our options’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 20, 2017 Iran is “not worried at all” that the U.S.’s new president will follow through on his vow to “rip up” the nuclear deal. “We are not going to be wary of what Trump does and we will have our options,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Jan. […]

Here comes the ax: Congress and even Trump’s cabinet have yet to learn of planned cuts

Here comes the ax: Congress and even Trump’s cabinet have yet to learn of planned cuts

by WorldTribune Staff, January 19, 2017 The ax cometh, as WorldTribune correspondents report Washington, D.C. is like an armed camp. The security measures are in preparation for both an inauguration and a power struggle  on a scale the capital of the Free World has never seen. Congress and even President-elect Donald Trump’s own cabinet are […]

Obama’s unprecedented crusade to discredit his successor has strategic consequences

Obama’s unprecedented crusade to discredit his successor has strategic consequences

Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The outgoing U.S. Barack Obama Administration and its supporters embarked on a campaign to traduce and challenge the incoming Administration of President Donald J. Trump in the hope that it would find it difficult to govern effectively. This may be unprecedented in U.S. […]

Report: Obamacare killed 10,000 small businesses

Report: Obamacare killed 10,000 small businesses

by WorldTribune Staff, January 19, 2017 Rising health care costs and regulations due to Obamacare resulted in more than 10,000 small businesses shutting down and a loss of some 300,000 jobs, a report said. Obamacare cost $19 billion in lost wages per year, according to a study released on Jan. 18 by the American Action […]

U.S., citing Iran’s arming of Hizballah, urges UN to enforce arms embargo

U.S., citing Iran’s arming of Hizballah, urges UN to enforce arms embargo

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power on January 18 expressed concern that Iran is supplying weapons to Lebanon’s Hizballah in violation of an arms embargo imposed by the United Nations Security Council. Power said Iran’s arming of Hizballah “continues to destabilize the Middle East” and urged the council […]