CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE: Top stories of 2023, December 19, 2023 Thank you for your support for WorldTribune, Window on the Real World. Have a great 2024! — The Editors by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2023; Updated Dec. 3, 2023 [Editor’s Note: This story, originally published on Dec. 1 has been updated following the […]
FPI / December 17, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher During the Cold War, high profile defections from the Soviet bloc to the West were a constant source of assurance of the desirability, if not the superiority of the democracies over the empire of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. For example, such assurance was […]
FPI / December 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct North Korea has not engaged with the United States since President Donald Trump left the White House, the top U.S. East Asia official in the Biden Administration told Congress. All attempts by the Biden team at outreach to the Kim Jong-Un regime have been rejected, Assistant Secretary of State […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2023 You are to have no other gods as a substitute for me. — Exodus 20:3 China, which decided in June 2020 that it owned Hong Kong, is enforcing its own atheistic version of the Ten Commandments. This flies in the face of a city which has long valued economic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2023 On Oct. 26, 1972, then-U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger said “peace is at hand,” insisting he had reached a deal to end the Vietnam War which would have the “North” Vietnamese and their southern affiliate, the Viet Cong remaining in “South” Vietnam and eventually working out an accommodation […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2023; Updated Dec. 3, 2023 [Editor’s Note: This story, originally published on Dec. 1 has been updated following the whistleblower’s arrest.] The administrator of New Zealand’s Covid vaccine database who turned whistleblower and revealed an alarming percentage of individuals who received the Covid jab died soon after has been arrested, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2023 While Western governments have condemned the Hamas attack, the Xi Jinping regime in Beijing has not. The communist regime has also censored pro-Israel expression, both online and offline. What’s going on here in China, a nation and business destination loved by the late Henry Kissinger and the millions in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2023 Smartmatic, which is suing numerous media outlets and individuals for defamation related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, has had its voting technology banned in the Philippines after being caught up in an alleged bribery scandal. The Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on Wednesday said it would ban Smartmatic […]
FPI / November 29, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Just because Kim Jong-Un is paranoid doesn’t mean a wide variety of North Korean operatives aren’t out to kill him. An active and funded plot to assassinate Kim may have been foiled during the process in which South Korean conservative President Park Geun-Hye was impeached, according to a report. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 19, 2023 Divers with Australia’s navy suffered ear injuries after a Chinese warship ignored warnings of the divers’ presence underwater and used its powerful sonar, officials say. In a statement on Saturday, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, who was acting prime minister while Anthony Albanese was in San Francisco for the […]
