Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by John McNabb The day after Christmas, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached yet another all-time high. Over 100 Dow Jones highs have been recorded during the three-year Trump Presidency. The Standard & Poors Average also reached an all-time high as did the NASDAQ which closed over 9,000 for the first […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk In the first annual “Transactions” published by the venerable Korea Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society in 1900, James S. Gale, one of the early missionaries, wrote, “The more we read, the more we are forced to the conclusion that Korea was under a mesmeric spell at the hands […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 17, 2019 Following the Dec. 6 terror attack in Pensacola, Florida where three American sailors were killed and eight wounded, a group of U.S. Navy instructor pilots has asked the Pentagon for permission to arm themselves on base. “We trust 18-year-old privates in combat with grenades, anti-tank missiles, rifles and machine […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 16, 2019 The Trump administration has expelled two Chinese diplomats who reportedly breached a U.S. Special Operations base in Virginia. U.S. officials believe at least one of the Chinese officials was an intelligence officer posing with a diplomatic cover, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The Chinese diplomats allegedly went […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — While dictator Kim Jung-Un is huffing and puffing about arbitrary deadlines to diplomatic negotiations between the United States and North Korea concerning Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation, the UN Security Council met to deliver a unified call for peace and disarmament on the divided […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 11, 2019 Following the deadly terror attack by a Saudi student at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, the Pentagon has suspended 852 Saudi military students from flight training, raising questions about the vetting process that allowed their admission. The Saudi students will be immediately confined to classroom training, while all […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Japanese conservatism is like a seething volcano, spewing smoke and ash but not quite ready to erupt. The reluctance reflects the great ambivalence in Japanese society. Japanese are fundamentally conservative, united in a culture dedicated to hard work and formal relationships but otherwise undecided about where they are going […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump put Afghanistan back in the news again after his surprise Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops stationed in the embattled South Asian country. Besides bringing holiday cheer for American forces serving in the eighteen-year long conflict, the President again offered a conditional olive […]
Special to WorldTribune, November 28, 2019 [Editors’ Note: President Trump announced the resumption of peace talks with the Taliban after a surprise Thanksgiving trip with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.] * * * * On Thanksgiving Day, we remember with reverence and gratitude the bountiful blessings afforded to us by our Creator, and we recommit to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John McNabb I thought I would never see anything as ugly and disgusting as the Justice Kavanaugh public “lynching” by three Democratic Senators: Feinstein, who just happened to have a People’s Republic of China spy as her office manager for an extended period of time, the thuggish Patrick Leahy and of […]
