With her nation dependent on Mideast oil, Japan’s PM braces for high stakes Oval Office visit

With her nation dependent on Mideast oil, Japan’s PM braces for high stakes Oval Office visit

by WorldTribune Staff, November 18, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Japan’s energy lifeline to the Middle East accounts for approximately 90% to 95% of its crude oil imports. Nearly all passes through the Strait of Hormuz, with major suppliers being Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar. With Iran continuing to disrupt the […]

Whom to believe: California-Wikipedia or Nick Shirley?

Whom to believe: California-Wikipedia or Nick Shirley?

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Independent journalist Nick Shirley, who essentially ended Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s political career by exposing widespread fraud at childcare facilities in that state, has reported finding mountains of fraud in California. Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and whoever edits Wikipedia are not happy with his […]

Inconvenient truths about China’s organ harvesting industry from lone known survivor

Inconvenient truths about China’s organ harvesting industry from lone known survivor

by WorldTribune Staff, November 17, 2026 Non-AI Real World News It has long been suspected that China executes people for their organs. A new book tells the world, including the perspective of the lone known survivor of the gruesome practice, how a prison population of millions, drawn predominantly from Falun Gong practitioners and the Uyghur […]

Meanwhile, the UN condemns ‘in strongest terms’ Iran strikes on Gulf states

Meanwhile, the UN condemns ‘in strongest terms’ Iran strikes on Gulf states

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 17, 2026 As the Iran War enters its third week of largely aerial and seaborne combat, there’s laser-like focus on the Straits of Hormuz and the wider Persian Gulf. Iran quite predictably has closed the narrow sea-lane to shipping and thus jolted oil markets from the Middle […]

Lessons both China and Taiwan can learn from this year’s major U.S. military operations

Lessons both China and Taiwan can learn from this year’s major U.S. military operations

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News In 2023, during the Biden era, China’s Xi Jinping openly envisioned a future where, along with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and their allies North Korea and Iran, they would dominate the world with help from clients in Venezuela and Cuba. They were “at the height […]

Trump slams SCOTUS: Weaponization by ‘Democrats on the Court’ is ‘hurting our country’

Trump slams SCOTUS: Weaponization by ‘Democrats on the Court’ is ‘hurting our country’

by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News The Supreme Court has “unnecessarily RANSACKED” the United States, President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social on Sunday. In a 6-3 vote in February, the top court struck down the president’s global tariffs. Trump thanked Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito and Clarence […]

Oscars? Amid dwindling influence, woke Hollywood applauds itself

Oscars? Amid dwindling influence, woke Hollywood applauds itself

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News For the many, many millions who weren’t watching, the Oscar for Best Picture on Sunday night went to “One Battle After Another”, a film which glorifies Antifa terrorism and lost over $100 million. Fewer are watching the content they churn out and their influence […]

Memo to anti-America leftists: Cost to rescind citizenship just dropped to 450 bucks

Memo to anti-America leftists: Cost to rescind citizenship just dropped to 450 bucks

by WorldTribune Staff, November 16, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Good news for all those anti-America leftists out there: The U.S. State Department has reduced the cost of rescinding one’s U.S. citizenship from $2,350 to just $450. The process of formally renouncing U.S. citizenship: 1. Applicants must appear in person before a U.S. consular officer […]

How goes the war? Don’t ask AI or NY Times; Trump invites allies to make Hormuz straight again

How goes the war? Don’t ask AI or NY Times; Trump invites allies to make Hormuz straight again

by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2026 Non-AI Real World News Two major wars are raging at the moment: One by the United States against Iran; The other by multiple powerful influencers on cognitive assessments of that conflict. What is cognition? Basically an individual’s conclusion after being barraged by a blizzard of conflicting “news” reports, analysis […]

He’s back: Judge Boasberg rules for Fed’s Powell and against Trump

He’s back: Judge Boasberg rules for Fed’s Powell and against Trump

by WorldTribune Staff, March 15, 2026 Real World News Anti-Trump U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Friday rejected the Department of Justice’s subpoenas issued to Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. Boasberg, an Obama appointee, took aim at President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, saying the subpoenas were improperly issued after the president pressured Powell […]