Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer As large corporations trip over themselves to virtue signal on behalf of Black Lives Matter in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in police custody in Minneapolis, there has been quite a bit of debate over whether this is all mere theater meant to boost sales or […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The crisis was brewing for months. Storm clouds were gathering around Hong Kong’s splendid bay as China’s communist authorities have put the vice grip squeeze on democratic Hong Kong’s political rights and social freedoms. The world has watched aimlessly until the United States and a few fellow democracies […]
Special to WorldTribune, June 1, 2020 Commentary by Carter Clews Nearly 50 years ago, communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously observed that “The medium is the message,” essentially saying that the medium delivery system itself (at that time, newspapers, TV, and radio) had a profound impact upon the way in which the message was received and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer No person of good will can deny that America in 2020 has become engulfed by a sinister darkness. It is also increasingly impossible not to notice that this ominous swell is being embraced and exacerbated by powerful and prominent leading figures in our society. An unprecedented social […]
FPI / May 31, 2020 Commentary by Lee Cohen With China’s transgressions piling up, U.S. and allied leadership are rising to the occasion to assert opposition. This is particularly apparent in the digital arena, where unchecked Chinese technological presence could spell disaster for global network security. Last week, the Trump administration applied new sanctions against […]
FPI / May 29, 2020 By Christopher W Holton, Center for Security Policy, May 29, 2020 Recent revelations of U.S. professors serving as foreign agents for China has raised serious questions about just who is paying for access to the minds of America’s youth and established a renewed focus on how foreign funding is corrupting higher education. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The World Health Organization (WHO) held its annual Assembly with barely a mention of the member state which brought this UN agency so much political grief — China. But this year’s Assembly convened not in the alpine splendor of its Geneva headquarters, but in virtual reality of cyberspace […]
Special to WorldTribune.com, May 24, 2020 By John McNabb How time flies! I remember a great friend Bob Pascal, an All American football player at Duke, asking me years ago “John, where did the time go?” His was a rhetorical question but a deeply meaningful expression of life’s journey. Some of my heroes were not […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer As presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden vows to have a female running mate, Michigan is giving us all a horrifying look at what electing women merely because they are women and not because of their qualifications leads to: a tyranny of feelings, ballooning senses of moral […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler After years of consistent economic expansion and growth throughout much of the world, the global economy is facing tectonic shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic. For developed states such as the United States and Western Europe, the “unseen enemy” of the virus has shattered economic forecasts and international commerce; […]
