Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Tariffs are in a sense like other taxes; easy to impose, hard to roll back, and usually employed for the “greater good.” Thus triggering tariffs creates a feel good solution, a political sugar rush, but often later a bitter backlash to those ordering them. I […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 Twitter has censored a Drudge Report tweet of President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign slogan, “Keep America Great”, due to “sensitive content”, a report said. “When Twitter users navigate to the page of the Drudge Report with their ‘sensitive content’ filter enabled, they are unable to see the Drudge Report’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2018 The United States this week will seek to mobilize a global response to the opioid crisis, the U.S. State Department said on March 12. The State Department said the U.S. delegation to the 61st UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), to be held March 12-16 in Vienna, Austria, “will […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 South Korea’s national security adviser has said that U.S. President Donald Trump has been fully engaged since the beginning in negotiating with North Korea. For all those hours of engagement, however, it took only about half a minute on Thursday (March 8), for Trump to set in motion a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 The signing of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015 opened the floodgates for all Mideast regional powers to pursue their own nuclear programs, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Under the deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), “Many countries in the Middle East are […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 The nomination of Chai Feldblum for a third term as Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) commissioner may mean President Trump was not briefed on her activism for the homosexual lobby at the expense of religious liberty, Jewish and Christian organizations are saying. “Feldblum has been truly unfriendly to the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 11, 2018 Leftist billionaire George Soros has been a major financial backer of the firm that hired ex-British spy Christopher Steele to author the bogus Trump dossier, a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin wrote. If Oleg Deripaska’s claims pan out, Soros would join the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 9, 2018 Speaking of collusion … The U.S. House House Science, Space, and Technology Committee on March 1 released a report detailing Russian funding of U.S. environmental groups opposed to fracking and the Keystone pipeline. The report, titled “Russia’s Social Media Meddling in U.S. Energy Markets”, went largely uncovered by a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 4, 2018 The American Left “believes it has the right, duty, and power to force universal adherence to its dictates’ utmost details,” an analyst wrote. In 2016, Americans “voted for protection against government, big business, the media, the educational and even the religious establishments, which wage a cold civil war to push them […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 8, 2018 In her rush to alert illegal aliens of an impending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid on the Bay Area, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf also gave several criminals convicted of serious offenses the opportunity to flee, ICE said. The four-day raid resulted in the arrest of 232 illegals, including […]
