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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Beijing’s tightening noose on Hong Kong foretells many things both in the successful city state as much as throughout the opaque vastness of China itself. Clearly, the widening communist political crackdown on Hong Kong’s rights and freedoms was expected given the successful city-state’s thriving democracy. Despite large pro-democracy […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer If you want proof that the wave of corporate-sponsored Cultural Marxist agitprop currently washing over America is thoroughly phony at its core, look no further than parcel delivery goliath FedEx and its attempts to pressure the NFL’s Washington Redskins into changing its team name for reasons of […]
Special to WorldTribune, July 6, 2020 By Frank Luber As violent protests, marked by the toppling of statues of historical American significance, grip the nation President Donald Trump has rightfully called them “a left-wing culture revolution”. It’s taken years but what we’re seeing today in America is the Left succeeding in taking down this country. […]
FPI / July 5, 2020 Commentary by Lee Cohen Wednesday’s announcement of the start of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a major accomplishment for the Trump administration — fulfilling its promise to modernize the way trade agreements are written — as well as a major economic boost for our continent. Along with frustration over […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Seventy years ago, on June 25, 1950, North Korean troops attacked South Korea launching an unexpected military blitz. Kim Il-Sung’s communists had as their aim the forcible reunification of the divided Korean peninsula, itself a recent legacy of Japan’s defeat in WWII. The South was stunned and Seoul, […]
FPI / July 1, 2020 Commentary by Jason Orestes Conventional analysis of the world’s militaries always places the U.S. at the top, and by a wide margin. The most common measure is defense spending, a metric by which the U.S. is so far and away number one it looks like it’s not even a contest. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com, June 30, 2020 By Alexander Maistrovoy In April 1918, the Bolshevik government headed by Lenin signed the decree “On the Monuments of the Republic.” Monuments “in honor of the kings and their servants” must be demolished, but with a significant stipulation: if they had no “significance from either historical or cultural point […]
FPI / June 28, 2020 By Christopher W Holton, Center for Security Policy If you think the tactics and rhetoric of Antifa and Black Lives Matter demonstrators in America’s streets are new, think again. They’re old. The date is August 1966. Large numbers of students have organized themselves into a violent social movement to promote […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer Our ruling elites would like you to believe that the explosion of cultural Marxist agitprop that has dominated mainstream media in the wake of the death of a black man in police custody in Minneapolis reflects a spontaneous grassroots response to “oppression” occurring in America today. It […]