Analyst: Anti-Trump positions based on faith, not facts

Analyst: Anti-Trump positions based on faith, not facts

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2018 President Donald Trump’s overall support has risen by 6 percent since late 2017. So, how does the so-called “resistance” keep getting it so wrong? “After each purported outrage – Charlottesville, separating children from their immigrant parents, now Helsinki – they confidently contend that this latest event will finally […]

Global scorecard for innovation: Switzerland at top, China rising, N. Korea and Cuba unlisted

Global scorecard for innovation: Switzerland at top, China rising, N. Korea and Cuba unlisted

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Not surprisingly the countries leading in Research & Development are among the world’s most successful economies. Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Sweden top the list among the top ten global innovation economies which also include the United Kingdom, Singapore, the United States, Finland, Germany and Ireland. […]

Conservatives happy; Left’s ‘level of hatred’ for Trump called ‘frightening’

Conservatives happy; Left’s ‘level of hatred’ for Trump called ‘frightening’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2018 Conservatives are happier than liberals, according to a new study by the Social Psychological and Personality Science journal. The study found that those of right-leaning ideologies are far more likely than their left-leaning counterparts to grasp the “meaning of life.” Whoopi Goldberg, left, and Jeanine Pirro “This is indeed a classic […]

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 […]

Iran’s Rouhani advised Trump not to incite the ‘mother of all wars’

Iran’s Rouhani advised Trump not to incite the ‘mother of all wars’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2018 As renewed U.S. sanctions loom and Iran’s economy staggers, President Hassan Rouhani on July 22 warned President Donald Trump that the U.S. shouldn’t “play with the lion’s tail, this would only lead to regret.” “America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war […]

Oil secures Socialist Venezuela’s elite as refugees flee failed state

Oil secures Socialist Venezuela’s elite as refugees flee failed state

by WorldTribune Staff, July 20, 2018 As Venezuelans suffer and thousands flee an economic and humanitarian nightmare, the nation’s massive oil reserves allow Socialist President Nicolas Maduro and his top aides to remain safely in power in Caracas. “The Maduro regime, despite the crisis, is in a pretty strong political position right now,” Michael Shifter, […]

Report: Ships carrying North Korean coal entered South Korea ports multiple times

Report: Ships carrying North Korean coal entered South Korea ports multiple times

by WorldTribune Staff, July 19, 2018 Two ships transporting North Korean coal have entered South Korean ports several times since October of last year, including in the last two months, Voice of America (VOA) reported on July 19. Under UN Resolution 2371, North Korea is banned from exporting minerals, including coal. South Korea’s government said […]

Europe’s terrorism nightmare: Those required to notice explain that all is well

Europe’s terrorism nightmare: Those required to notice explain that all is well

Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy In 1983, Robert Irwin wrote a fantasy novel “The Arabian Nightmare” about a young Englishman who was dragged into a whirlwind of sinister and ridiculous events in Cairo. The Arabian nightmare he learned was like a disease or a curse. It was terrible and obscene and monotonous, yet fearful. […]

Trump says Putin agreed to help on N. Korea, touts IQ of those who ‘loved my press conference’

Trump says Putin agreed to help on N. Korea, touts IQ of those who ‘loved my press conference’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 18, 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump said he was successful at the Helsinki Summit in getting a commitment from Russian President Vladimir Putin to help with North Korea. Trump tweeted: “Russia has agreed to help with North Korea, where relationships with us are very good and the process is moving along. […]

Russia Studies prof compares Putin summit reaction to ‘mob violence’; Rand Paul calls critics ‘deranged’

Russia Studies prof compares Putin summit reaction to ‘mob violence’; Rand Paul calls critics ‘deranged’

by WorldTribune Staff, July 18, 2018 The reaction by the major media, Democrats and many conservatives to U.S. President Donald Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin was likened to “mob violence” by a Russian Studies professor. Sen. Rand Paul said in a separate interview that many of the president’s critics on the summit seemed […]