Despite lack of trained pilots to fly them, Ukraine set to receive two dozen U.S.-made F-16s

Despite lack of trained pilots to fly them, Ukraine set to receive two dozen U.S.-made F-16s

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News July 2, 2024 In the next month, Ukraine will reportedly receive two dozen U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets from the Netherlands even though Ukrainian officials have said Kyiv will only have 20 pilots trained to fly them by the end of this year. Meanwhile, Russia will have even more […]

Inspector General on grants to Chinese labs: Pentagon ‘did not track funding in sufficient detail’

Inspector General on grants to Chinese labs: Pentagon ‘did not track funding in sufficient detail’

by WorldTribune Staff, June 21, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The Pentagon does not know how much funding it awarded to Chinese research labs that could have been used to enhance pathogens with pandemic potential, according to a June 20 report by the Department of Defense’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). “Consistent with prior findings […]

The death of Gen. Stonewall Jackson and June 19, 1865, the day history changed

The death of Gen. Stonewall Jackson and June 19, 1865, the day history changed

Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Federer, June 19, 2024 President Abraham Lincoln’s National Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer was observed April 30, 1863. Two days later, a freak accident occurred which altered the course of the war. One of the South’s best generals was accidentally shot by his own men. Lt. General Thomas J. […]

Downplayed Friday headline: The draft is back

Downplayed Friday headline: The draft is back

by WorldTribune Staff, June 16, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war has revived not only talk of a Third World War but the unannounced reality of a military draft, or at least partial conscription, as part of U.S. preparations for a major future conflict in an era in which lagging recruitment has […]

The Gettysburg Address and the origins of Memorial Day

The Gettysburg Address and the origins of Memorial Day

by WorldTribune Staff, May 27, 2024 Contract With Our Readers [Memorial Day — Day of Remembrance — Address delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania by President Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863. Subsequently, a series of commemorations on behalf of both Union and Confederate forces in the Civil War […]

Remember fallen heroes who sacrificed all for our freedoms that ‘are on the line today’

Remember fallen heroes who sacrificed all for our freedoms that ‘are on the line today’

By John McNabb, May 26, 2024 [Editor’s Note: Columnist John McNabb is a 2024 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award and was awarded the Press Freedom Prize in 2023 by Free Press Foundation. Following are excerpts from his Memorial Day tribute on May 28, 2023.] Last year on Memorial Day I warned that our nation […]

An unusually direct message to Congress from Japan’s PM: ‘All hands on deck’

An unusually direct message to Congress from Japan’s PM: ‘All hands on deck’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 18, 2024 It’s not often an American ally and partner addresses the U.S. Congress; but when they do, it’s time to listen. That was certainly the case when Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida spoke before a joint session of Congress in Washington to both thank America for […]

Trans surgeries for active-duty military raises questions about readiness

Trans surgeries for active-duty military raises questions about readiness

by WorldTribune Staff, April 18, 2024 Currently, the U.S. military offers gender reassignment surgeries to America’s active-duty service members (ADSMs). The military is providing these surgeries and taxpayers are footing the bill. “A doctor for the military told me they are doing several a week,” Tracy Beanz noted in an April 16 analysis for UncoverDC. […]

Bowe Bergdahl is back in the news, thanks to a D.C. judge

Bowe Bergdahl is back in the news, thanks to a D.C. judge

Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau, April 18, 2024 You may have figured that you’d heard the last of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who deserted his regiment in Afghanistan and subsequently was convicted of the offense in a court martial at which he plead guilty. But the story of the ex-sergeant has taken a new […]

Iran attack appears to have been coordinated-leaked among all nations concerned

Iran attack appears to have been coordinated-leaked among all nations concerned

by WorldTribune Staff, April 15, 2024 Of Iran’s more than 300 drones and missiles launched in Saturday’s attack on Israel, 99 percent were intercepted by Israeli and U.S. forces. They were able to crush Iran’s attack in large part “because Arab countries quietly passed along intelligence about Teheran’s attack plans, opened their airspace to warplanes, […]

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