by WorldTribune Staff, July 30, 2020 President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he was shifting 12,000 troops out of Germany to other NATO allies and stateside. Trump said he would reconsider his position if Germany begins “paying their bills.” U.S. troops are “there to protect Europe,” the president said. “They’re there to protect Germany, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 29, 2020 White farmers in Zimbabwe who were evicted during the reign of brutal dictator Robert Mugabe will receive compensation from the state, a report said. President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday approved an agreement to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to white farmers whose land was expropriated by the Mugabe government […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 28, 2020 The film “Mr. Jones” examines the atrocities committed by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union and the New York Times reporter, Walter Duranty, who enabled them. The film, directed by Agnieszka Holland and featuring Peter Sarsgaard as Duranty, focuses on the Ukrainian Famine, or Holodomor, a Soviet-enforced mass starvation […]
FPI / July 27, 2020 Analysis by Jason Orestes “Made in China” already doesn’t have the strongest connotation associated with it, and it appears this may even apply to mainland Chinese infrastructure. China has upped spending on dams in the last several years to combat flooding, namely on the Yangtze River: the longest river in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2020 Japan has purchased 105 F-35A and F-35B strike fighters from the United States in one of the largest foreign military sales ever. The deal for the Lockheed Martin-produced jets is worth $23.11 billion. The F-35A variant takes off from a normal runway while the F-35B is a jump jet […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2020 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is urging America’s allies and China’s citizens to work with the United States to change the “bankrupt totalitarian ideology” of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The CCP “fears the Chinese people’s honest opinions more than any foreign foe,” Pompeo plans to say in a […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 23, 2020 Russian leader Vladimir Putin ordered a massive combat readiness check for his nation’s military. The exercise, which began on July 17, included 56 separate drills and took place at 52 training ranges, TASS reported. In total, some 150,000 troops, 400 aircraft and 26,000 vehicles and equipment, as well as […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 22, 2020 Global wealth managers are scouring the social media posts and other public records of their clients in Hong Kong for information on whether they have any ties to the city’s pro-democracy movement, which was essentially outlawed under the Chinese communist government’s new security law. Putting China’s cash ahead of […]
FPI / July 20, 2020 Commentary by Jason Orestes What China doesn’t like, it assumes control over. If you say something the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) disapproves of, you often end up just disappearing or fleeing the country. It’s not unheard of at all for people who speak out against communist policy to just go […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 20, 2020 Iran’s clerics and terrorist sympathizers are living on borrowed time as a new generation of Iranians yearns for freedom, a group of Iranian dissidents and prominent U.S. and European officials said at a virtual international rally on Friday. “This generation is a constant nightmare for the mullahs. Indeed, the […]
