Smart fence is best option for U.S.-Mexico border barrier, Israeli security firm says

Smart fence is best option for U.S.-Mexico border barrier, Israeli security firm says

by WorldTribune Staff, January 31, 2017 The CEO of an Israeli security firm at the forefront of smart technology said the combination of a smart fence and wall would be the best bet for the United States at its border with Mexico. “Just putting a barrier will not stop someone from surmounting the wall; they […]

Rasmussen: Silent majority backs Trump’s immigration order

Rasmussen: Silent majority backs Trump’s immigration order

by WorldTribune Staff, January 31, 2017 A new Rasmussen Reports survey found that 57 percent of likely U.S. voters, including 82 percent of Republicans, support President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration. The survey was taken late last week, prior to the weekend protests against Trump’s executive orders imposing a four-month ban on all refugees […]

Pentagon tracks China test of long-range missile with 10 warheads

Pentagon tracks China test of long-range missile with 10 warheads

by WorldTribune Staff, January 31, 2017 U.S. officials said China’s recent test of a long-range missile with 10 warheads indicates Beijing is intent on increasing its nuclear arsenal. “The flight test of the DF-5C missile was carried out earlier this month using 10 multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, or MIRVs,” the Washington Free Beacon reported […]

Time for Taiwan to elevate its strategic role in northeast Asia

Time for Taiwan to elevate its strategic role in northeast Asia

Special to WorldTribune.com By Parris H. Chang President Tsai Ing-wen’s phone call with U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump last December and his questioning of the “one China” policy have angered Beijing. China’s foreign minister Wang Yi jeered at Tsai for playing a “petty trick;” her call, however, was planned weeks in advance and assisted by Trump’s […]

U.S. calls urgent UN Security Council meeting over Iran missile test

U.S. calls urgent UN Security Council meeting over Iran missile test

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The United Nations Security Council scheduled an urgent meeting for January 31 to discuss an Iranian ballistic missile test at the request of the United States. “In light of Iran’s January 29 launch of a medium-range ballistic missile, the United States has requested urgent consultations of […]

Trump to Sens. McCain and Graham: Stop trying to start World War III

Trump to Sens. McCain and Graham: Stop trying to start World War III

by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2017 Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham released a joint statement accusing President Donald Trump of “hastily” issuing the executive order on immigration which the senators said would anger U.S. allies and hinder the war on terror. Trump wasted no time in letting the senators have it: “The joint […]

White House says Saudis agree on need for Syria, Yemen safe zones

White House says Saudis agree on need for Syria, Yemen safe zones

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The White House says President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman agreed to support safe zones in Syria and Yemen in an hour-long phone call. During his campaign, Trump had repeatedly called for Gulf states to pay for establishing safe zones to protect Syrian refugees. […]

Flashback: Jerry Brown, Biden and other Dems refused to accept Vietnamese refugees

Flashback: Jerry Brown, Biden and other Dems refused to accept Vietnamese refugees

by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2017 Some liberal Democrats are fighting back tears when discussing President Donald Trump’s travel ban on Muslims from seven nations. But in 1975, leftist Dems went to great lengths to keep Vietnamese refugees (even orphans) out of the United States. Trump issued the order, the White House said, so that […]

Press erupts following immigration order; White Houses calls it a ‘massive success story’

Press erupts following immigration order; White Houses calls it a ‘massive success story’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2017 While the major media was playing up controversy and backlash surrounding President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, a White House official countered that the media should chill. From Politico’s Playbook e-letter: “Good morning, Mr. President – N.Y. Times – 5 of 6 stories about Trump http://nyti.ms/2jJaghe … Washington […]

Democrats to get remedial education on how to talk with ordinary people

Democrats to get remedial education on how to talk with ordinary people

by WorldTribune Staff, January 30, 2017 Sandwiched between their urban power cores of New York and Los Angeles is a vast nation of people with whom, analysts say, the Democratic Party needs clues on how to interact. Rational Democrats have realized that has to change. On Feb. 2, Democratic members of Congress and several liberal […]