by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 House Speaker Paul Ryan said he believed just “one member” of the House wanted to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a former congressman said. The speaker made the comments at a private dinner earlier this year, Breitbart News reported, citing multiple sources with direct knowledge of the comments, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 12, 2017 Israel will not allow Iran to establish weapons factories and ports in Syria, an Israeli official said on Sept. 11. Syrian President Bashar Assad must “keep Iran out if he wants to survive,” Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said. “Israel needs to pressure world powers to not allow [Iran to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By E.W. Jackson, Fairfax Free Citizen There is probably not an adult in America who hasn’t experienced having someone cut in line. It’s exasperating not only because it’s fundamentally unfair, but because it’s highly disrespectful of those already waiting. More confrontational personalities will tell the person to go to the end of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner Steve Bannon is right: The Catholic Church has a vested economic interest in unlimited illegal immigration. To deny it — as the U.S. church hierarchy is doing — is not just wrong. It’s foolish and hypocritical. The former Trump chief strategist made the remarks in a recent interview on […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders The two recent horrendous storms have settled the continuing argument about climate change, although neither side in what has been the recent lively and costly dispute in time and energy may recognize it. Our argument begins with the fact that it is hard to exaggerate the force of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 A U.S. National Security Council (NSC) member appointed by H.R. McMaster was asked by members of an Israeli delegation to leave a meeting at the White House, a report said. NSC Senior Director on Counter-Terrorism Mustafa Javed Ali was asked by the Israelis to leave the meeting in late August, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 In a rare message of condolence to a foreign leader, Kim Jong-Un sent his sympathies to Cuban dictator Raul Castro over the devastation caused in Cuba by Hurricane Irma. “Receiving the news of the causalities and losses of many materials caused by the recent hurricane in the eastern and […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 13, 2017 Egypt has cut military ties to North Korea, according to reports. “Egypt will actively co-operate with South Korea against North Korea acts that threaten peace,” Egyptian Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi said during a visit to Seoul on Sept. 12, Yonhap reported. Cairo, which for decades maintained close ties with […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct Satire and ridicule “are effective, inexpensive instruments of psychological warfare,” J. Michael Waller, vice president of the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., wrote in the September-October edition of Army University Press. “They require few resources and little infrastructure,” he said. Kim Jong-Un, Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 14, 2017 A senior member of the Saudi royal family held high-level talks with Israeli officials during a secret trip to the Jewish state last week, a reports said. “A prince from the Royal Court visited the country in secret over the past few days and discussed the idea of pushing […]
