Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Presidents, Prime Ministers and Kings are attending the opening debate of the UN General Assembly; but online. The 75th anniversary session of the Assembly was planned as a gala gathering of chiefs of state and government but shall now be relegated to a series of virtual sessions. The […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Viewing the sorrowful September 11 commemorations, I was instantly transported back nineteen years to the terrorist attacks on America. As I wrote back then, “On a picture perfect September morning, the Grim Reaper visited New York…it would be our generation’s Pearl Harbor.” A mournful, nervous but resolute time. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The rising tide of China’s military modernization, expansion, and force projection capabilities has long haunted policymakers from the United States to East Asia. But while many Washington politicians were premised on the paradigm of China’s “peaceful rise” and a world of global commerce with only occasional political friction, […]
FPI / September 9, 2020 Commentary by Jason Orestes India is instituting a crackdown on Chinese technology that makes U.S. President Donald Trump’s action look friendly in comparison. India took a page out of the Trump administration’s recent executive order to ban U.S. transactions with Chinese companies Tencent and ByteDance (expelling massively popular TikTok in […]
Special to WorldTribune, September 8, 2020 By Joel Nagel My family and I moved to Vienna five years ago for business reasons and so our younger children would have an opportunity to experience Austrian culture. I, myself had been an exchange student in high school in Hannover, Germany which led to extended periods of study […]
WorldTribune, September 6, 2020 Commentary by R. Clinton Ohlers Perhaps the single most surprising outcome of the Jacob Blake shooting has been the response by his mother, Julia Jackson and her pastor James E. Ward, Jr. What was remarkable about Ms. Jackson was that although enduring a heartbreaking family crisis, she found words to help […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Nearly six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States remains mired in the nebulous haze of the “invisible enemy,” suffering greatly both physically and emotionally. We have been battered and bruised economically and most of all psychologically. And all this in the midst of a contentious presidential […]
Special to WorldTribune, September 1, 2020 Commentary by Lawrence A. Hunter, Ph.D. Conventional wisdom has it that without a body of the crime – corpus delicti – prosecutors cannot prove murder – no body; no crime. Well, close but not quite. A number of court decisions have established that absence of a body may not […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau There are at least three good reasons why Joe Biden cannot weasel out of debating President Trump where his mental agility and that of the incumbent will be on display for citizens to watch and judge. Debates are traditional, and Americans want them and expect them. Reason One is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto The Republican and Democratic Party conventions convey opposite views of America. One is a land of opportunity, abundance, interracial partnerships and historical achievements; the other is of a country on its knees, broken by racism and misogyny—and with an economy brought to the brink of collapse by a menacing […]
