Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — Peering into the crystal snow globe, it’s time to predict, prognosticate and presage into the year ahead. Without a pun we need the proverbial 2020 vision to decipher the political and security landscape that awaits us in the new year with both long running static […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by John McNabb The day after Christmas, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached yet another all-time high. Over 100 Dow Jones highs have been recorded during the three-year Trump Presidency. The Standard & Poors Average also reached an all-time high as did the NASDAQ which closed over 9,000 for the first […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk In the first annual “Transactions” published by the venerable Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1900, James S. Gale, one of the early missionaries, wrote, “The more we read, the more we are forced to the conclusion that Korea was under a mesmeric spell at the hands […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer Of all the progressive globalist groups being financially aided by major corporations today, the Aspen Institute qualifies as something of an odd duck. This is an organization that is absolutely swimming in cash. Leftist “philanthropic” titans such as the Tides Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation, and yes, of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Japanese conservatism is like a seething volcano, spewing smoke and ash but not quite ready to erupt. The reluctance reflects the great ambivalence in Japanese society. Japanese are fundamentally conservative, united in a culture dedicated to hard work and formal relationships but otherwise undecided about where they are going […]
Special to WorldTribune, December 10, 2019 Commentary by Charles Togias I have always considered the United States as the largest corporation in the world. The democratic socialists, who have no conception of how to run a successful small business, corporation or country, are trying to influence America and determine what success is. The far-left socialists […]
FPI /December 8, 2019 Analysis by Onar Åm, LibertyNation.com When the United States became a net oil exporter in November 2019, nearly 75 years of energy dependence on dubious regimes came to an end. It happened without buzz or fanfare, but the geopolitical consequences are earthshaking. The impetus has been the shale-oil revolution, which has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump put Afghanistan back in the news again after his surprise Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops stationed in the embattled South Asian country. Besides bringing holiday cheer for American forces serving in the eighteen-year long conflict, the President again offered a conditional olive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Corporate WATCH By Joe Schaeffer Three major companies that trace their roots in Minnesota back well over 100 years are actively supporting the effort to forever change the state’s population via massive Third World immigration. Food processing mega-corporation General Mills began as the Minneapolis Milling Company in 1856. Retail goliath Target started […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk BUSAN ― Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, had his hands in his pockets and a bored expression on his rugged face as President Moon Jae-In extolled high-tech Korean manufacturers on the big day of his summit with the leaders of 10 Southeast Asian countries. Having sat or […]