Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs What form of governance is “best”? What is most durable? What is most equitable? What produces the best economic results? These questions are usually posed — and the answers are usually imposed — as though a universally applicable model could be found by […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 19, 2017 “With four big hurricanes, a powerful earthquake and wildfires, it seems that nature recently has just gone nuts,” an AP writer surmised. There can be no denying that the late-August, early-September series of natural disasters have riveted a nation’s attention, even distracting attention from the crisis in North Korea. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2017 The United States has circulated a proposal at the United Nations to stop oil shipments to North Korea and freeze the assets of Kim Jong-Un. The draft resolution, circulated to all 15 members of the UN Security Council, would also ban Pyongyang’s exports of textiles and prohibit employment of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2017 Reagan biographer Craig Shirley, has just published “Citizen Newt”, which sheds light, he said, on the reasons former Speaker Newt Gingrich has influenced President Donald Trump. “Trump respects Gingrich, I suspect, because he utterly routed the shallow Washington culture” during his years in Congress, Shirley told Paul Bedard of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin Sept. 6, 2017, began taking the initiative to control the “crisis” over North Korean strategic weapons, because Russia had more at stake in resolving the issue than perhaps any other nation-state. There was strong evidence that President Putin was working to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Donald Trump doesn’t get it. He warns South Korea about “appeasement,” but who’s appeasing whom? Yes, President Moon Jae-In, hero of the candlelight protests that lofted him as the liberal darling into the presidency after the ouster of the conservative Park Geun-Hye, would love to go down in history […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Jeffrey T. Kuhner President Trump may have just committed political suicide. He announced that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA, will be rescinded, but only after a six-month delay. The reason: Trump wants to give Congress the opportunity to pass a legislative amnesty for the so-called “Dreamers.” This […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2017 Sebastian Gorka, who late last month stepped down as deputy adviser to the president, said he can better serve the winning Trump’s campaign public mandate away from a cramped atmosphere marked by “two different world views.” Gorka told SiriusXM host Alex Marlow last week that he resigned because “people […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on August 31 that Iran is showing its “true colors” by renewing ties with the Palestinian militant group Hamas and providing it with arms. Yahya al-Sinwar, the new head of Hamas, said this week that Iran has […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2017 In what would be the last direct communication between the 44th and 45th presidents, Barack Obama left a 275-word hand-written letter to Donald Trump in the top drawer of the Resolute Desk. CNN said it obtained a copy of the letter, written on White House stationery, from someone Trump […]
