Reality: Windmills kill whales and eagles, spoil views and are a nightmare to recycle

Reality: Windmills kill whales and eagles, spoil views and are a nightmare to recycle

Special to WorldTribune, April 27, 2023 . . . Reality Check Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Where is Don Quixote when we need him? His fantasy was to slay giants (in reality, windmills) in his quest to fight injustice through chivalry. Green energy proponents have a carbon dioxide “net zero emissions” fantasy of powering civilization […]

China on the move in America’s backyard, Part II

China on the move in America’s backyard, Part II

Special to WorldTribune Commentary by Laurence F Sanford, April 12, 2023 The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) unrestricted warfare against the United States is gaining footholds in Central and Latin America. More effective than direct kinetic military attacks are economic, political, and law warfare against the  “villain” United States. “Part I” discussed gains in Honduras and […]

China on the move in America’s back yard: Honduras, El Salvador

China on the move in America’s back yard: Honduras, El Salvador

Special to WorldTribune, April 7, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasing its social, economic, and strategic footprint in the Central American countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. The United States and democracies are fading away while socialism/communism is rising and encircling the […]

Whose problem is China’s growing clout south of our southern border? Our problem

Whose problem is China’s growing clout south of our southern border? Our problem

Special to WorldTribune, March 30, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford China is a growing presence economically, politically, and socially near our southern border: Yes, in Mexico. Fentanyl — China supplies Mexican cartels the raw ingredients to make fentanyl and other opioid drugs for smuggling into the United States. Over 100,000 Americans died last year […]

EV mandates? Team Biden energy policies make Xi Jinping smile

EV mandates? Team Biden energy policies make Xi Jinping smile

Special to WorldTribune, March 17, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford President Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China is often photographed with a smug smile, bordering on a smirk. It conveys the satisfaction that comes with presumed success. For all his unreported problems at home, Xi must enjoy the spectacle of the United […]

To defeat China’s non-military conquest of Asia, start by recognizing it

To defeat China’s non-military conquest of Asia, start by recognizing it

Special to WorldTribune, February 2, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses gray zone tactics worldwide to further its interests. It is particularly active against countries that border its seas — the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Countries affected include Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia, […]

Response to China emergency: 1) Wake up; 2) Enact ‘Quid Pro Quo’ policy right now

Response to China emergency: 1) Wake up; 2) Enact ‘Quid Pro Quo’ policy right now

Special to WorldTribune, January 5, 2023 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford It has not yet dawned on many that the United States is burning while China plays the fiddle. Waking up is the first step in confronting a deadly threat to our nation’s future. Next, a “Quid Pro Quo” policy should be instituted in U.S.-China […]

Paper Tiger II: ‘Weak’ U.S. military may soon be no match for expanding China juggernaut

Paper Tiger II: ‘Weak’ U.S. military may soon be no match for expanding China juggernaut

Special to WorldTribune, December 22, 2022 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford How woke military leaders are hollowing out America’s military with woke Marxist racist Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) was the focus of Part I [‘Paper Tiger’: Woke leadership has transformed the U.S. military].  Instead of instilling a sense of […]

‘Paper Tiger’: Woke leadership has transformed the U.S. military

‘Paper Tiger’: Woke leadership has transformed the U.S. military

Special to WorldTribune, November 30, 2022 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Merriam-Webster defines “Paper Tiger” as “one that is outwardly powerful or dangerous but inwardly weak or ineffectual.” “Paper Tiger” was used by China’s Mao Zedong in describing American imperialism as all paper and not able to withstand wind and rain. Osama Bin Laden, another […]

One facet of China’s unrestricted hybrid war on America — TikTok

One facet of China’s unrestricted hybrid war on America — TikTok

Special to WorldTribune, November 8, 2022 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Just because Chinese bombs are not falling and soldiers are not marching (yet) on America does not mean there is no war against America. China is waging unrestricted war on the United States. From the theft of military and industrial secrets to the poisoning […]