Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer The rock star was talking. “[L]et’s be honest, we live at a time when institutions as vital to human progress as the United Nations are under attack. The European Union is threatened. The G7 is being threatened. NATO is being threatened. The WTO is being threatened. I […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has projected that debt held by the public due to the coronavirus crisis “will exceed the size of the economy by the end of Fiscal Year 2020 and eclipse the prior record set after World War II by 2023.” The budget-focused think […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 19, 2020 President Donald Trump called on Minnesota, Michigan, and Virginia to “liberate” amid coronavirus lockdown orders that are getting “carried away.” Trump called out Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam, who on Friday signed several gun control measures into law, including reinstating the state’s “one-handgun-a-month” rule and legislation that expands gun-purchase […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 Americans are struggling mightily to cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus crisis. Many wait for days just to file for unemployment on overloaded state websites. Some who filed in March have yet to receive their first weekly check. Others struggling to make ends meet are waiting in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 Instituting the Democratic Party’s Green New Deal would have its own environmental impact, namely an “unprecedented increase in mining for raw materials,” according to a new policy brief. “The solar panels, wind turbines, and batteries needed to replace fossil fuels and nuclear energy over a 10-year period to produce […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The phrase has a certain drama, overtones of life-or-death struggle: “The last plane out of” a city under attack, under siege, on the brink of surrender. In my case, it was “the last plane out of Washington,” or, to be precise, the last non-stop flight from Washington […]
Special to WorldTribune , April 17, 2020 Commentary by Brad Johnson At this week’s virtual NATO Atlantic Council event, Turkey repeated its offer to the United States to form a technical working group, including NATO, to resolve a dispute over Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 missiles. But, before the U.S. considers this offer, another diplomatic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 The U.S. economy is headed toward another great depression if it contracts any further due to the coronavirus shutdown, radio host Rush Limbaugh warned. “All we need is a 30 to 40 percent contraction in this economy,” Limbaugh said on his April 16 broadcast. “We’ll hit Great Recession territory […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 17, 2020 A journalist lied when he told President Donald Trump at a recent White House press conference he was working out of Taiwan. The journalist actually works for a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a report revealed. The National Pulse exposed Ching-Yi Chang on April 9, the […]
