Not ‘political’? March for Our Lives rally was anti-gun, anti-Trump, anti-GOP

Not ‘political’? March for Our Lives rally was anti-gun, anti-Trump, anti-GOP

by WorldTribune Staff, March 25, 2018 According to the March for Our Lives website “School safety is not a political issue.” But many of the thousands who took part in the march in Washington, D.C., on March 24 “carried signs revealing their anti-gun, anti-Trump, and pro-left wing agenda,” Penny Starr reported for Breitbart News. Signs […]

House Committee report finds Director of National Intelligence Clapper misled Congress

House Committee report finds Director of National Intelligence Clapper misled Congress

by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper provided misleading testimony to Congress regarding information he allegedly leaked to CNN on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, the House Intelligence Committee said. The committee’s final report, which it approved on March 22, found no evidence of Russian collusion […]

CNN’S monopoly on ‘public spaces’, especially airports, comes under attack

CNN’S monopoly on ‘public spaces’, especially airports, comes under attack

by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 CNN pays airports nationwide to broadcast its content, in many cases even paying for the airport TVs. Since the network shifted to a 24/7 anti-Trump propaganda machine, however, many travelers are asking the airports to turn CNN off. Some have started online petitions. According to Trip Savvy, 20 of […]

Report: China, Mexico impose world’s highest tariffs

Report: China, Mexico impose world’s highest tariffs

by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 Major media reports on U.S. President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods, such as a CNN report Friday, warned they would lead to a “global trade war.” The New York Times reported that China responded with “cautious anger.” Downplayed was the fact that China on average imposes […]

Build (a small fraction of) the wall: Spending bill funds just 33 miles of U.S. border barrier

Build (a small fraction of) the wall: Spending bill funds just 33 miles of U.S. border barrier

by WorldTribune Staff, March 23, 2018 President Donald Trump first threatened to veto and then signed Congress’s massive spending bill that appropriates funds for only a fraction of the wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump tweeted on March 23: “I am considering a VETO of the Omnibus Spending Bill based on the fact that the […]

Journalist spotlights checkered past of Mueller and his ‘pit bull’ Weissmann

Journalist spotlights checkered past of Mueller and his ‘pit bull’ Weissmann

by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team’s top attorney, Andrew Weissmann, are carrying “troubling baggage,” having been prominently involved in two significant scandals in the FBI’s history, a report said. The “integrity” of Mueller’s “investigation and of the investigators must be a paramount priority in our criminal justice system […]

Making America laugh again: President taunts his tormentors

Making America laugh again: President taunts his tormentors

by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Joe Biden would “go down fast and hard” in a physical confrontation, President Donald Trump said in response to the former vice president’s insistence that he would have “beat the hell” out of Trump if the two had been schoolmates. “Crazy Joe Biden is trying to act like a […]

White House defends Trump’s call to Putin after Russian election

White House defends Trump’s call to Putin after Russian election

by WorldTribune Staff, March 22, 2018 Amid a torrent of mainstream media criticism, the White House on March 21 defended President Donald Trump’s decision to make a congratulatory call to Russian President Vladimir Putin after his recent re-election victory. In a pair of tweets on his call with Putin, Trump said U.S. news organizations “wanted […]

’21st century’ tech tax: EU targets U.S. giants Facebook and Google

’21st century’ tech tax: EU targets U.S. giants Facebook and Google

by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2018 The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union (EU), announced on March 21 it was bringing its tax rules “into the 21st century” with the unveiling of a new tax on digital companies. Though the EU said the digital tax is not aimed at any country or […]

Guardian op-ed: ‘No one can pretend Facebook is just harmless fun any more’

Guardian op-ed: ‘No one can pretend Facebook is just harmless fun any more’

by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2018 Facebook is the “real bad guy” in the Cambridge Analytica story about big data’s role in the election of Donald Trump, Britain’s The Guardian said in an op-ed. The op-ed said that “Cambridge Analytica shouldn’t act as a diversion from the real bad guy in this story: Facebook. It […]