by WorldTribune Staff, October 9, 2018 Carbon dioxide emissions will need to be taxed as high as $27,000 per ton by the end of the century, which would amount to a $240 per gallon tax on gasoline for Americans, a United Nations special climate report said. To effectively limit global warming, societal changes that are […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — It didn’t have to be this way. An oil rich, economically prosperous middle class country, once a stable Latin American democracy, is disintegrating into a socialist dystopia plagued by hunger, corruption, hyper-inflation and churning political unrest. While petroleum remains Venezuela’s major export, now tragically it’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2018 The United States should help Venezuelans take their country back by providing “arms, equipment, training, intelligence, and logistical support to worthy Venezuelans to organize their own insurgent force,” the Center for Security Policy said. Citing the success of the Reagan administration’s Contras program in Nicaragua, the think tank proposed […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2018 During the Senate confirmation process for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, many who sought to derail the judge’s nomination were paid activists. Others cited studies which claim false allegations of sexual assault are extremely rare. In backing Christine Blasey Ford’s accusations, some of Kavanaugh’s foes said that studies show […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2018 Amid a torrent of sexual abuse scandals that have even implicated him personally, Pope Francis is calling on Catholics around the world to recite a special prayer every day in October to beat back Satan. Francis, who has made clear that he believes the devil to be real, wrote […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 8, 2018 While a Democratic Party increasingly controlled by the far Left digs in for the 2018 midterms, “for once, the GOP may well be ready for the fight,” a columnist wrote. With President Donald Trump “whipping congressional Republicans into fighting shape and Democrats heeding the progressive siren call to keep […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 7, 2018 One of the heroes of the resistance is apparently now a pariah. Many observers say the unsupported “gang rape” allegation by Julie Swetnick swayed Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. The allegation was brought to light by lawyer Michael Avenatti, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 7, 2018 On Nov. 6, “the ugliness of the last two weeks will be litigated again in the midterm elections,” the Boston Globe said in an Oct. 7 editorial aimed at voters: ‘Now it’s your turn’. A Washington Times columnist, to the contrary, suggested it was time for the Democrat Party […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 7, 2018 It has become routine to see activists confronting Republican senators and members of the Trump administration in restaurants, outside of their homes, in elevators and other public spaces. What about Democratic officials working out in the gym? Is confronting them crossing the line? New York Mayor Bill de Blasio […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 7, 2018 A team of assassins killed a prominent Saudi journalist inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkish police said. The journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, was last seen inside the consulate on Oct. 2. Turkish officials said Khashoggi was killed on the premises and his body was then removed. “Based on their […]
