by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2021 After reviewing the evidence in the Derek Chauvin case earlier this week, Washington D.C. lawyer Harold Cameron came to a conclusion that surprised him: “Derek Chauvin did nothing wrong.” The presumption of Chauvin’s guilt rests on three assumptions. These have seemed to most people to be as undeniable as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 26, 2020 The communist regime in China is killing Americans with fentanyl, an analyst noted. Gordon Chang related in an Oct. 21 analysis for Gatestone Institute just how destructive the drug is in the U.S. “At the end of 2017, a friend in Maryland’s Anne Arundel County stood outside a church […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 1, 2019 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced on Jan. 31 that its officers had seized 254 pounds of fentanyl in Nogales/Mariposa port of entry in Arizona. The amount discovered in what was the largest fentanyl seizure ever recorded was enough to kill 115 million people, according to investigators in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 The United States this week will seek to mobilize a global response to the opioid crisis, the U.S. State Department said on March 12. The State Department said the U.S. delegation to the 61st UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), to be held March 12-16 in Vienna, Austria, “will […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 31, 2018 Drug cartels are close to controlling as much territory in Mexico as Islamic State (ISIS) did at its height in Syria, according to a U.S. senator who recently visited Mexico. “Forty to 45 percent of Mexico is ungoverned or run by the cartels,” Sen. James Lankford, Oklahoma Republican, told […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 25, 2018 Addictive opioids can readily be ordered from China and shipped to America via the United States Postal Service (USPS), lawmakers say. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said that its investigators found through Google searches “hundreds of pages offering to sell” opioids, including highly-addictive fentanyl. The committee’s chariman, Ohio […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 10, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump wrapped up his first trip to China by concluding dozens of major trade deals between American and Chinese firms and pressing Chinese President Xi Jinping to curb exports of a drug that contributed to 20,000 U.S. opioid overdose deaths last year. The U.S. Commerce Department […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 5, 2017 The latest in the deadly drug mixing trend has been cited in dozens of overdose deaths in Alabama, Georgia and Ohio. Described as looking like a concrete mix, “Gray death” is a mixture of heroin, potent painkillers and elephant tranquilizers that are cut together to create a lethal combination, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 14, 2016 More Americans died from illicit opioid overdoses in 2015 than did in the deadliest year of the Vietnam War, according to newly released statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). According to the CDC, 12,990 American citizens died from heroin overdoses in 2015, a 23 percent increase from […]