Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — On a picture perfect September morning, the Grim Reaper struck in New York. Hijacked aircraft slammed into the Twin Towers of the Word Trade Center shattering the myth that terrorism “can’t happen here.” Before long, the towers were like two belching black smokestacks set against […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump vowed to “shoot out of the water” any Iranian vessels that harass the U.S. Navy, if he is elected. At a rally in Florida on September 9, Trump said he would make the U.S. military “so strong that nobody’s going […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2016 The U.S. State Department said it “strongly disagrees” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments equating the goal of Palestinians for a state with no Jews to “ethnic cleansing.” “[T]he Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one pre-condition: No Jews. There’s a phrase for that: It’s called […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk You have to credit the North Koreans with chutzpah ― the Yiddish word for “nerve,” brazen arrogance or insolence, all in untranslatable exclamation. The leaders of the world’s 20 strongest, most powerful nations were gathered in a solemn conclave in China, and in Pyongyang North Korea’s Supreme Leader did […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 Americans are lazy. Too lazy to get to know the people of other cultures. Too lazy, even, to do their own recycling. U.S. President Barack Obama called Americans “lazy” multiple times during his visit to Laos this week. “The United States is and can be a great force for […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 7, 2016 President Barack Obama’s liberal transformation of the U.S. Court of Appeals has gone largely under the radar as most attention has focused on the Supreme Court. “The Supreme Court grabs the spotlight, but it hears fewer than 100 cases a year,” Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett said, “while […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2016 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton squandered an opportunity for the U.S. to gain a treasure trove of intelligence on China when she turned a high-level Chinese defector over to Beijing, a report said. In 2012, Clinton turned away Wang Lijun, a police chief and close aide to an up […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 6, 2016 The Obama administration is not only letting Iran “push the envelope” but appears to be acting as the Islamic Republic’s “lawyers” when it comes to enforcement of last summer’s nuclear deal, an Israeli analyst said. “Iran is continuing to push the envelope, trying to get as much as it […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders It would be hard to exaggerate the mess in the Middle East that President Barack Obama is leaving his successor. While the five-year Syrian civil war continues unabated, pitting a number of different armed groups against each other with their foreign sponsors, Washington is caught in its own […]
by WorldTribune Staff, September 4, 2016 China’s lack of a “red carpet” welcome to U.S. President Barack Obama when he arrived for the G20 summit was seen by some as a “deliberate snub.” While other leaders arriving in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou got the full diplomatic red carpet treatment, Obama used a smaller, […]
