Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler MONTREAL — World leaders met in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the Great War in 1918. The solemn gathering convened by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, saw 80 heads of state among them President Donald Trump, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Federer, November 14, 2018 In 1941, Lyndon Baines Johnson ran for U.S. Senate. Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech on the eve of the election criticizing LBJ’s opponent, Wilbert Lee O’Daniel, nevertheless, LBJ lost by 1,311 votes. LBJ alleged voter fraud. In 1948, LBJ ran for Senate again. On election […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2018 Florida was not good to Hillary Clinton in 2016. Now it’s payback time. In a memo from her Onward Together group, Clinton asked for funds to send lawyers and activists to Florida to assist in the recount. Clinton’s memo, on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), came […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2018 A filmmaker destroyed the corporate media’s narrative of the migrant caravan that is heading for the U.S.-Mexico border, finding the group of migrants is mostly male and highly organized. The media has constructed a narrative that the caravan is a spontaneous event which includes thousands of women and children. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2018 CNN, in a lawsuit filed on Nov. 13, accused President Donald Trump and other White House officials including White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders of violating CNN personality Jim Acosta’s First and Fifth Amendment rights by revoking his White House press credentials. Pundits and “media experts” have launched […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist who was elected on Nov. 6 to represent New York’s 14th District, fumed over Amazon’s decision to locate half of its second headquarters in New York City. “We’ve been getting calls and outreach from Queens residents all day about this,” she tweeted on Nov. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 14, 2018 The man expected to chair the House Intelligence Committee is likely to pump taxpayers’ dollars into re-interrogating Trump campaign and administration officials who the committee’s Republicans have already cleared of any 2016 election collusion, a report said. “The do-overs” will help California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff “fulfill promises of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct The Trump administration’s threats to impose sanctions and conduct retaliatory cyberattacks on any nations meddling in the U.S. midterm elections appear to have worked. Asked at the White House on Nov. 7 if there was any sign of Russian or Chinese meddling, U.S. President Donald Trump said: “No. We’re going […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 13, 2018 More than 450 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel on Nov. 12 and Israel responded by hitting over 70 Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets, reports said. The Jerusalem Post reported on Nov. 13 that Hamas requested a ceasefire with Israel via four mediators – Egypt, the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 13, 2018 House Democrats are expected to take aim at the fracking industry that has been a major boon to the U.S. economy and despite its excellent safety record, a columnist noted. “Energy production on public lands in the American West is likely to come under increased scrutiny” when Democrats assume […]