Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 22, 2023 Despite a widening war with Russia, shipments of Ukrainian food and grain are still being shipped to global markets under a complex but fragile accord brokered by the United Nations and nearby Turkey. Since the deal was initiated last Summer, The Black Sea Grain Initiative […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, March 14, 2023 The primary concern of the people who ran the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) — the bank that just went bust — was not banking. Nor was it making money for the bank’s shareholders or safeguarding the funds of its depositors. Their primary concern was social activism — […]
Special to WorldTribune, March 17, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China is often photographed with a smug smile, bordering on a smirk. It conveys the satisfaction that comes with presumed success. For all his unreported problems at home, Xi must enjoy the spectacle of the United […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Wayne Allyn Root, March 16, 2023 I can’t believe I’m saying this, but for the first time in history, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is right. I think it’s clear Lindsey is a warmonger. He’s never met a war he didn’t support. He loves the war in Ukraine. Lindsey would love […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Federer, March 16, 2023 On Oct. 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. International currency manipulation and devaluation contributed to a worldwide collapse of trade. Panic ensued as Wall Street sold 16,410,030 shares in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost. America and the World were plunged into […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 13, 2023 The theatrical pomp and circumstance of China’s National People’s Congress presents an annual political ritual on the verge of Spring. Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled in Beijing to participate in the week long sessions and delivered-on-demand results for the ruling Communist Party leadership; formalizing the unprecedented […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Bill Juneau, March 11, 2023 The cartoon character “Dilbert,” which has always ranked high on “favorite comic lists,” has been excised from thousands of newspapers. The block-headed Dilbert, a crotchety yet fan-favorite engineer, who often picked at the inadequacies of his fellow workers and could be sarcastic in upbraiding them, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Wendell Minnick, China in Arms, March 10, 2023 TAIPEI — Though months away, I thought we would start Halloween early. I say that because the Wolf Warrior is coming to Taiwan soon and plans to rape and pillage (my emphasis and not the dear Wolf’s). Zhou Xiaoping (周小平), the “Wolf Warrior”, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager, March 9, 2023 The world’s most trusted evaluator of medical studies, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, has just released as close to a conclusive report on the effectiveness of masks against respiratory viruses such as COVID-19 as we are likely to have for the foreseeable future. The report assessed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 7, 2023 LONDON — In the anxious countdown to the Coronation of King Charles III, the United Kingdom is shadowed by a raft of economic and political woes ranging from the soaring cost of living to an uneasy nervousness of what’s next in the Ukraine war. Though […]
