In bow to Trump, China instructs state-owned firms to stop buying Iran’s oil

In bow to Trump, China instructs state-owned firms to stop buying Iran’s oil

by WorldTribune Staff, October 26, 2018 In a major victory for U.S. President Donald Trump, China has instructed its export-finance bank and largest state-run oil refineries to cease purchasing Iranian oil. Reuters quoted Chinese officials as saying they feared running afoul of U.S. sanctions which kick in on Nov. 4, adding that it was uncertain […]

Scalise to NY Times: Remove Trump assassination short story

Scalise to NY Times: Remove Trump assassination short story

by WorldTribune Staff, October 26, 2018 Rep. Steve Scalise, who was shot last year at a congressional baseball practice by a Bernie Sanders supporter, is calling on The New York Times to remove a short story about the assassination of President Donald Trump. “The media needs to take accountability for the role they are playing […]

U.S. Navy seizes arms shipment near Yemen

U.S. Navy seizes arms shipment near Yemen

by WorldTribune Staff, October 26, 2018 The crew of a U.S. destroyer has seized 2,500 AK -47 rifles and other weapons from a vessel off the coast of Yemen. U.S. authorities on Oct. 25 said they invited UN inspectors to determine whether the weapons provide proof that Iran is smuggling arms to Houthi rebels in […]

The Russians are coming: Indicted firm challenges Mueller, demands its day in court

The Russians are coming: Indicted firm challenges Mueller, demands its day in court

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2018 A federal judge in Washington, D.C. has ordered special counsel Robert Mueller’s team to prove that indicted Russian company it indicted actually meddled in the 2016 election. The Russian firm, Concord Management and Consulting, LLC., is one of three businesses indicted by Mueller in February – along with 13 […]

Columnist on Trump’s nationalism: A welcome ‘response to progressive tribalism’

Columnist on Trump’s nationalism: A welcome ‘response to progressive tribalism’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2018 In the Left’s lexicon and corporate media studios, nationalism is apparently the new “n-word”, a columnist wrote. “When President Donald Trump described himself as a ‘nationalist’ at a rally in Texas, it set off a firestorm of criticism,” James S. Robbins wrote for USA Today on Oct. 25. Robbins, […]

Assassination chic: Fiction piece in NY Times pre-empted bomb scare

Assassination chic: Fiction piece in NY Times pre-empted bomb scare

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2018 In one of the ironies surrounding reports of “explosive devices” being sent to several Democratic honchos, The New York Times one day earlier published a work of short fiction titled “How It Ends” about the assassination of President Donald Trump. In another, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who […]

Goodfellas in Rome: Scorcese briefs the Pope on the subject of ‘evil’

Goodfellas in Rome: Scorcese briefs the Pope on the subject of ‘evil’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 25, 2018 Three decades after his film “The Last Temptation of Christ” was labeled as “morally offensive” by the Catholic Church, and shortly before a wave of bomb deliveries to anti-Trump political celebrities, Hollywood director Martin Scorsese met with Pope Francis. Scorsese, who also directed “Taxi Driver” about a would-be assassin […]

Caravan chaos: Who are these people, who organized them and who is supplying the cash?

Caravan chaos: Who are these people, who organized them and who is supplying the cash?

by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2018 Reports on the ground are not supporting the corporate media’s narrative that the Honduran caravan heading toward the U.S. border is a spontaneous movement of desperate Central American migrants. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said in a local newspaper report that leftist interests seeking to destabilize his country are manipulating migrants. […]

Inside China’s razor wire ringed ‘vocational schools’: Curriculum is taser-enforced re-education

Inside China’s razor wire ringed ‘vocational schools’: Curriculum is taser-enforced re-education

by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2018 To build better “Chinese citizens,” officials at re-education camps which hold Muslim Uighurs and other ethnic minorities (referred to as “vocational schools” by China) are instructed to “break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins,” according to a Chinese government document. The camps are […]

Apple’s Cook blasts data industrial complex: ‘We shouldn’t sugarcoat . . . this is surveillance’

Apple’s Cook blasts data industrial complex: ‘We shouldn’t sugarcoat . . . this is surveillance’

by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2018 In the “data industrial complex” of the 21st Century, “we see vividly, painfully how technology can harm, rather than help,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said, adding that platforms can “magnify our worst human tendencies… deepen divisions, incite violence and even undermine our shared sense or what is true or […]