Hemingway and Trump: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the FBI isn’t on your case

Hemingway and Trump: Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the FBI isn’t on your case

by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 Bestselling novelist Jack Engelhard notes that U.S. President Donald Trump “can take heart from Ernest Hemingway…” In the last years of his life, Hemingway “was especially fearful of the FBI and the IRS” and believed “he was being wiretapped,” Engelhard, author of Indecent Proposal, wrote for Israel’s Arutz Sheva […]

Hillary Clinton supporters now blame both FBI’s Comey and the Russians

Hillary Clinton supporters now blame both FBI’s Comey and the Russians

by WorldTribune Staff, March 21, 2017 First, Hillary Clinton supporters blamed FBI Director James Comey for her epic fail. Then, they blamed Russian interference in the election. Now, it’s Comey’s failure to inform the public of Russian interference. In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on March 20, the FBI director confirmed a months-long probe […]

Shock and awe: Trump plan defunds public broadcasting, slashes swamp budgets

Shock and awe: Trump plan defunds public broadcasting, slashes swamp budgets

by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2017 The Trump administration’s pledge to phase out government funding for public broadcasting was met with cheers from conservatives and jeers from the Left. Under a budget plan released on March 16, President Donald Trump’s administration proposed to fully defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and its subsidiaries National Public […]

Trump to host Egypt’s Sisi in early April

Trump to host Egypt’s Sisi in early April

by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2017 Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi will make his first state visit to Washington on April 3. A White House official confirmed on March 19 that President Donald Trump will host the Egyptian leader, Reuters reported. Former President Barack Obama had never extended a formal invitation to Sisi, who was elected […]

Nothing mainstream about ‘Mediacrats’: Texas congressman credits partisan press for poll numbers

Nothing mainstream about ‘Mediacrats’: Texas congressman credits partisan press for poll numbers

by WorldTribune Staff, March 20, 2017 The media can’t be considered “mainstream” when it “doesn’t represent a majority of the American people,” a Texas congressman said. “The media and Democrats are so close in association and so close in their philosophical views that we might as well use one word to describe both, and that’s […]

Who blinked? Tough talk on Asia tour earns Tillerson warm reception in Beijing

Who blinked? Tough talk on Asia tour earns Tillerson warm reception in Beijing

by WorldTribune Staff, March 19, 2017 A trip to Asia that began with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson bluntly warning that the U.S. policy of “strategic patience” with the rogue regime and Chinese strategic ally in North Korea is no more, ended with Chinese President Xi Jinping hailing a “new era for constructive development.” […]

Tillerson in Seoul: U.S. has lost ‘strategic patience’ with Pyongyang

Tillerson in Seoul: U.S. has lost ‘strategic patience’ with Pyongyang

by WorldTribune Staff, March 17, 2017 “All options are on the table” in dealing with North Korea’s continued provocations, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said during a visit to South Korea on March 17. “Let me be very clear: the policy of strategic patience has ended. We are exploring a new range of diplomatic, […]

Korea is back in the eye of a perfect storm

Korea is back in the eye of a perfect storm

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Thunder clouds are swirling over the Korean peninsula as a perfect storm of political instability and regional geopolitical challenges rumble through South Korea. North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests, as well as Chinese bullying, have thrust the region into a dangerous cycle which could affect […]

Han chauvinism explains China’s fury at South Korea over deployment of U.S. anti-missile system

Han chauvinism explains China’s fury at South Korea over deployment of U.S. anti-missile system

Special to WorldTribune.com by Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution China is mad — really mad — at South Korea. Well-known Chinese defense and military figures are advocating direct military strikes against South Korea; state-controlled media are fanning anti-Seoul hysteria; mobs across the country are smashing South Korean-made goods and merchandise; K-pop concerts and other South […]

U.S.-South Korean alliance under assault by a communist tag team

U.S.-South Korean alliance under assault by a communist tag team

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, dispensing pledges like a jolly Santa Claus pulling Christmas presents from his sled, arrives today (Friday) in Seoul from Tokyo and flies the following day to Beijing. After vowing undying U.S. support to Korea and Japan, he’ll assure China that THAAD presents no […]