Reassessing George H. W. Bush: How the ‘Washington Compromise’ undermined the Reagan Revolution

Reassessing George H. W. Bush: How the ‘Washington Compromise’ undermined the Reagan Revolution

Special to WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 By Joseph Churba The following excerpt is from ‘The Washington Compromise‘ by the late Dr. Joseph Churba, University Press, 1995. The Republican National Convention was held in Detroit on July 14-17, 1980. With Reagan’s candidacy assured, the only remaining question befell the choice of running mate. Henry Kissinger, hoping […]

26 years ago, this strategist urged a U.S. preemptive strike on North Korea

26 years ago, this strategist urged a U.S. preemptive strike on North Korea

by Robert Morton, WorldTribune, December 4, 2017 On Nov. 25, 1991, a Brooklyn-born intelligence expert of Syrian Jewish descent rattled a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing with his proposed response to the emerging North Korean nuclear threat. After being challenged he responded with a warning that now, 36 years later, seems eerily prophetic. While other […]

Countdown to war? Sirens in Hawaii as new U.S.-S. Korea exercise rehearses for the real thing

Countdown to war? Sirens in Hawaii as new U.S.-S. Korea exercise rehearses for the real thing

by WorldTribune Staff, December 3, 2017 Five days after North Korea carried out its latest test of an ICBM, the U.S. and South Korea on Dec. 3 began massive joint war games seen as a rehearsal for a full-scale war with Pyongyang. U.S. President Donald Trump warned he would “take care” of North Korea following […]

‘Rocket man’ gives everyone a break from tedious news cycles

‘Rocket man’ gives everyone a break from tedious news cycles

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― He had to do it, didn’t he? Just when the optimists were saying, well, it’s been a few weeks since the last one, maybe he’s learned his lesson. What lesson? Kim Jong-Un (aka, “Rocket man”) sails on, oblivious to the fuming and fussing in capitals from Beijing […]

North Korea conducts most successful missile test yet; U.S. mum on how to ‘take care of it’

North Korea conducts most successful missile test yet; U.S. mum on how to  ‘take care of it’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON – America’s top leaders are clearly uncertain as to how to retaliate for North Korea’s latest long-range missile test without resorting to a military option. President Donald Trump pledged, “We will take care of it” but showed no sign of unleashing the “fire and fury” that he had […]

U.S., South Korea set for exercise with focus on synching operations in the event of war

U.S., South Korea set for exercise with focus on synching operations in the event of war

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON — U.S. and South Korean warplanes will be crisscrossing the skies above and around South Korea early next month in the biggest show of allied force against the North so far. U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-In agreed on the need to stage the […]

Trump takes new actions, short of war, to ‘maximize pressure’ on North Korea

Trump takes new actions, short of war, to ‘maximize pressure’ on North Korea

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk The U.S. has opened a bold new assault on North Korea’s nuclear-and-missile program with a one-two punch designating the North as a “state sponsor of terror” and then imposing new sanctions. Analysts doubt if these measures will result in immediate capitulation of the regime of Kim Jong-Un to give […]

‘Tsunami of cocaine’ entering U.S. due to production surge, lack of ‘operational capabilities’ to interdict

‘Tsunami of cocaine’ entering U.S. due to production surge, lack of ‘operational capabilities’ to interdict

by WorldTribune Staff, November 22, 2017 Cocaine is flooding into the U.S. via container ships, fishing boats, special drug-running fast boats, aircraft, and submarines, the director of a counter drug unit based in Key West, Florida said. The United States lacks the “operational capabilities” to stop the massive amounts of cocaine that are being smuggled […]

Trump’s Reaganesque speech in Seoul: ‘Tale of one people, but two Koreas’

Trump’s Reaganesque speech in Seoul: ‘Tale of one people, but two Koreas’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — U.S. President Donald’s Trump’s whirlwind trip to East Asia was fraught with both promise and peril; the promise of expanding commercial alliances and reinforcing military alliances, and the peril of confronting North Korea’s ominous nuclear threat. In Seoul, South Korea’s bustling and free capital, the […]

Disunited front in Beijing: Corruption czar toppled, Xi rises, dissident silenced

Disunited front in Beijing: Corruption czar toppled, Xi rises, dissident silenced

The state media in Beijing contrasts “stability” in communist China with the political “chaos” across the Pacific in the U.S. Behind the elaborate staging for President Trump’s visit, a vicious power struggle has broken out into the open, held in check only by the censoring of a wealthy, well-informed dissident who could only be silenced […]

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