Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The story comes right out of a Dan Brown mystery thriller in which Vatican secrets are targeted by State sponsored computer hackers. Yet according to cyber security sources, the intrusion into sensitive Vatican diplomatic traffic is not fiction, but a cold hard fact of modern espionage. The Recorded […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau There is a clamor in the air about debates between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Republicans backing the President welcome them with open arms, and Democrats, along with a media that no longer even pretends to be unbiased, have suddenly decided that maybe debates aren’t all that important after […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Its very name Hagia Sophia evokes the ancient mysteries of Byzantium. Its setting along the Golden Horn on the majestic Bosphorus joining Europe and Asia in itself serves as a beacon for uniting world religions. Yet this magnificent church which has weathered the march of time and the shift of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau If there is one story you will seldom hear about, it is one the media doesn’t like because it goes against their own supposedly non-existent biases. But then, there are times when these stories sneak out. In these intense political times, those stories which too often get consigned to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau As was hyped and promoted, the Chris Wallace one-on-one interview with President Trump was aired Sunday, July 19. Nothing new there, but Wallace endeavored to produce the coveted “gotcha” which would embarrass the president and draw kudos from liberals and his colleagues in the media. With his prepared questions, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is leading President Donald Trump in national and many state polls, according to Real Clear Politics. One of the reasons for this surge is that the media has presented Trump as an incompetent leader who cannot handle the coronavirus pandemic. By contrast, Biden […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler In a sweeping, scathing and searingly poignant speech, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr swept back the curtain on China’s communist regime in a tour de force rarely seen. His focus centered not only on China’s rulers menacing their own people and those of East Asia, but also specifically […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk China looms like an enormous bullying giant above its borders with India stretching more than 4,000 kilometers from the high Himalayas to the west to more mountains and lower level frontiers to the east. In between is Nepal, over which China wields increasing influence, and Bhutan, which is tied […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler A devastating decade old war, a deteriorating humanitarian situation, and a deplorable inability of the international community to stop the conflict, underscores Syria’s tragic fate. The failure of the UN Security Council to ease the suffering, callously blocked by Russia and China, tragically highlights the shared international shame […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The insistence of a pair of brothers on scattering hundreds of thousands of leaflets from balloons fired over North Korea confronts the South with tough questions. Is it worth upsetting North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and his sister, Kim Yo-Jong, knowing the negative effects the leaflets are […]
