Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct.com China is seizing upon new gaps in the powerful pro-U.S. alliances in northeast Asia in the early days of the Trump administration. Meanwhile, South Korea’s ambassador to the U.S., top envoy to China and mission chiefs to Russia, Japan and the UN were summoned to take part in an unprecedented […]
Special to WorldTribune.com David Morgan, Asheville Tribune Mexico and the cartels without question are shipping tons of drugs into the US, through the southern border, and all the money is ending up back in Mexico. The Mexican government has no handle on it, cannot control it, and is dominated by the cartels. These drug kings […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 27, 2017 While a bitter dispute simmers over how Donald Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall will be funded, court documents in the 17-count U.S. indictment against Joaquin Guzman reveal “El Chapo” as a larger-than-life figure with assets that could fund the multi-billion dollar project. The brutal druglord carried a gold-plated AK-47, maintained […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 26, 2017 Among his flurry of week one executive orders, President Donald Trump is considering one that would drastically cut U.S. funding to the United Nations and other international organizations. A draft order titled “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations” calls for slashing funding to any UN agency or […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2017 Republicans have long voiced concern over the threat of terrorists entering the U.S. from Mexico, a concern the Obama administration largely downplayed. Available data suggest the concern is justified, according to a Jan. 15 report by the Christian Science Monitor which included 10 incidents of terror suspects and enablers […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 23, 2017 Washington, D.C. opened for business Monday morning with the knowledge that a profound change in the government’s metabolism was imminent. President Donald Trump’s 18-point Day-One plan sets the priorities addressed at the outset of his presidency: Immigration Stop all federal funding to “sanctuary cities” – places where local officials […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Inaugural Address of President Donald Trump, Jan. 20, 2017: Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 19, 2017 The ax cometh, as WorldTribune correspondents report Washington, D.C. is like an armed camp. The security measures are in preparation for both an inauguration and a power struggle on a scale the capital of the Free World has never seen. Congress and even President-elect Donald Trump’s own cabinet are […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Geostrategy-Direct.com China’s state media has not obsessed about President Barack Obama’s “legacy” to the degree America’s 44th president has. It has not however missed the opportunity to celebrate the “failure” of his celebrated “Asia Pivot” strategy while finding other positive things to say about the exiting leader. However, unlike Mr. Obama […]
by WorldTribune Staff, January 17, 2017 The comfort level in government offices has plummeted with the news on Jan. 17 that President-elect Donald Trump intends to cut the federal workforce by 20 percent. Sources said at least two of Trump’s “landing teams” in Cabinet agencies have been tasked with making the staff cuts, which also […]
