by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 No evidence was ever produced that Richard Nixon approved the Watergate break-in. Likewise President Donald Trump has offered no proof that former President Barack Obama knew of the wiretapping of Trump Tower, media reports say. The Watergate scandal ended in Richard Nixon’s resignation and inspired a generation of adversarial […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 North Korea really is a growing nuclear threat, The Washington Post reported on March 11 following a week in which the Kim Jong-Un regime successfully launched four missiles into the Sea of Japan and a court upheld the impeachment of South Korea’s conservative president. “U.S. officials are no longer […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 Several journalists, bloggers and video teams who were critical of the Obama administration’s handling of the 2014 Bundy ranch standoff in Nevada and the 2016 confrontation at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon are facing criminal charges. Representatives of major media organizations, such as CNN and CBS, that covered […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 12, 2017 In what may be the ACLU’s version of March Madness, the group is coaching anti-Trump protesters on their rights to vocally oppose the president’s policies – and to remain silent when they get arrested. “We will bring all the lawsuits necessary to defend these rights,” ACLU Executive Director Anthony […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 A second investigation, separate from a FISA warrant issued in October, targeted alleged ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, a national security correspondent said. Citing senior U.S. officials, Sara Carter of Circa News told Fox News host Sean Hannity on March 8 that there were “two instances” of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution, March 10, 2017 On Jan. 12 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a well-crafted speech at the National Press Club, a speech which has lived in infamy since its delivery, still haunting the U.S. and its allies in the Asia and Pacific region in general […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 North Korean state media, notoriously slow when it comes to covering news outside of the country, quickly disseminated the news on March 10 that South Korea’s Constitutional Court had upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-Hye. The court’s ruling is widely seen as bringing to power a left-leaning government […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 As part of its ambitious military buildup aimed at narrowing the gap with the United States, China has put into service its J-20 stealth fighter and vowed to build a “first class” navy and develop a marine corps. Chinese state television’s military channel confirmed in a March 9 report […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 The president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate said the Raleigh News & Observer prodded Facebook to censor reader comments on news stories he had posted. “Today The News & Observer had Facebook delete hundreds of your comments on this page – just because they don’t like that we include […]
by WorldTribune Staff, March 10, 2017 Two New York University (NYU) professors who undertook an experiment with the intent of showing the gender bias Hillary Clinton faced in the 2016 election were “unsettled” when the outcome was the opposite of what they expected. Professors Maria Guadalupe and Joe Salvatore and audiences of the gender-swap mock […]
