Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler North Korea’s Marxist “Monarchy” could be at a critical crossroads as recurring rumors about the death or incapacitation of the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un swirl around the nervous Korean peninsula. Despite a wildfire of media speculation, pending the definitive outcome of Kim’s health, the hard reality remains that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Grace Vuoto What is one of the biggest mistakes you can make if you are running for office? Insult voters. It looks like the presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden does not realize this. Did he not learn a valuable lesson from Hillary Clinton, who lost the election in 2016? In September […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Since mid-March the American economy has been on pandemic lockdown. Commercial, social and educational interaction have faced a form of limbo, forced to follow a still uncertain script dictated by the deadly coronavirus and decreed by state governors. For many of us, the world seems suspended in time; […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John McNabb, April 20, 2020 I flew my last sortie just over 50 years ago on April 3, 1970. Or at least I thought it was my last combat sortie in Southeast Asia! Uncle Sam had already gotten his money out of me as I flew virtually every day from March […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk SEOUL — The phrase has a certain drama, overtones of life-or-death struggle: “The last plane out of” a city under attack, under siege, on the brink of surrender. In my case, it was “the last plane out of Washington,” or, to be precise, the last non-stop flight from Washington […]
WorldTribune, April 16, 2020 Analysis by Paul Crespo As America watched Democratic presidential primary candidates drop like flies in March, many wondered what was behind their quick departure and the sudden surge of Joe Biden’s previously slumping campaign. Some speculated it was former President Barack Obama pulling the strings. And now it has become increasingly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s easy to point fingers during a deadly pandemic, and let’s do so. WHO first sounded the alarm? WHO downplayed real medical risks? WHO calmed or stoked irrational fears? WHO in this case, is the global medical monitor providing us with real time warnings and assessments. Governments and […]
FPI / April 14, 2020 Commentary by Christopher W. Holton, Center for Security Policy By all accounts, Iran is having a very tough time with the Wuhan virus. There are reports that the Iranian regime has mishandled the virus and concealed information about its spread in Iran. There are also accounts that some mullahs have […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer Meet the identity politics dullards who have helped to ruin the movies. At age 83, Robert Redford may still hint at the handsome face that harkens back to better days in Hollywood, when the industry could make films of actual quality. But his Sundance Institute is at […]
