by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2017 Google and Facebook will receive a staggering 84 percent of all digital ad dollars in 2017 and will account for all Internet advertising growth for the year. That dominance “is exceedingly bad news for the balance of the digital publisher ecosystem,” the investment management firm GroupM said. The two […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2017 President Donald Trump has asked longtime Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch to consider running for an eighth term, in large part because Mitt Romney, the failed 2012 presidential candidate and a virulent “Never Trumper,” is said to be preparing to run for the seat should Hatch retire. In a phone […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2017 North Korea’s Hwasong-15 ICBM broke up on re-entry, according to a U.S. official and the crew of a Cathay Pacific airliner that reported witnessing the test. U.S. and allied ships are reportedly still searching for debris from the ICBM, which was launched on Nov. 29 and came down near […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 4, 2017 Lebanon has been “hijacked” by Hizbullah and the only way the nation can flourish is if the terror group disarms, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said. “Lebanon will only survive or prosper if you disarm Hezbollah,” Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told a conference in Italy on Dec. 1. “As […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2017 The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said he has instructed committee staff to draw up contempt of Congress charges for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray for their failure to reveal why special counsel Robert Mueller removed a key FBI agent from the Trump-Russia […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2017 The narratives that wind up as the “news of the day” for Americans are heavily driven by just four Internet giants – Google, Facebook, Twitter and the Drudge Report. According to Pew Research Center, 45 percent of Americans say they get some of their news from Facebook. “That means […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2017 The mainstream media worked itself into a frenzy reporting on Mike Flynn’s guilty plea on one count of lying to the FBI, postulating that special counsel Robert Mueller was ready to swoop in on President Donald Trump. It turns out the most damning piece of “evidence” against Trump was […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2017 Three years after joining forces to drive out the internationally recognized government in Yemen, the alliance between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and forces loyal to ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh has collapsed. Gun battles between the Houthis and Saleh loyalists erupted in the capital Sanaa on Dec. 3 as residents reported […]
by WorldTribune Editors, December 3, 2017 It’s the holiday season, and we extend warm greetings and our thanks for your interest and support. Before starting WorldTribune in 1998, I gave a friend’s teenage son $100 to develop a turn-key html site with a half dozen specifications.Voila! Life was simpler then. A few of the early […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2017 U.S. President Donald Trump called on Chinese President Xi Jinping to halt China’s supply of oil to North Korea following Pyongyang’s latest test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). “President Trump called Chinese President Xi this morning and told him we have come to the point that China must […]
