Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Federer, September 5, 2021 [Excerpts from ‘Change to Chains – How Republics and Democracies Rise and Fall’] Plagues Rome was weakened by the devastating pandemics: The Antonine Plague (165-180 AD), which killed an estimated 5 million people, including Emperors Lucius Verus; The Plague of Cyprian (249-252 AD), which killed up […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Oliver North and David L. Goetsch “Those who fail to heed history are doomed to repeat it.” This aphorism has been attributed to Edmund Burke, George Santayana and Winston Churchill. Regardless of who said or wrote it first, President Joe Biden should heed it now, before his poorly planned bug out from […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Federer, June 6, 2021 On Jan. 30, 1933, Adolph Hitler was elected Chancellor of post-World War I Germany by promising hope and universal healthcare. Less than a month later, on February 27, 1933, a crisis occurred — the Rheichstag, Germany’s Capitol Building, was suspiciously set on fire, with evidence pointing […]
Special to WorldTribune, June 4, 2021 On June 3, 2019, then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a statement noteworthy for the following: We salute the heroes of the Chinese people who bravely stood up thirty years ago in Tiananmen Square to demand their rights. Their exemplary courage has served as an inspiration to future […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager America is going through convulsions that may destroy it as the country we and the world have known for more than two centuries. For all its flaws — virtually all of which were not unique to America but universal throughout human civilization — America has been regarded more than any […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager [Following is the transcript of the following Prager U video: https://www.prageru.com/video/is-communism-moral/] Motives are much less important than behavior. We all know this: If someone has good intentions, but treats people badly, those good intentions mean nothing. As it is with individuals, so it is with governments. Capitalism might sound less […]
World War II I came out of Bataan and I shall return! — In Terowie, South Australiaregarding the Battle of Philippines (March 20, 1942) I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil. — On landing in Leyte, Philippines (20 October 1944) Like Abraham Lincoln, I am a firm believer in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager One of the most highly regarded books of the 20th century was Ernest Becker’s “The Denial of Death.” Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize, the book is regarded as a classic for its analysis of how human beings deny their mortality. But there is something people deny more than mortality: […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Federer, January 20, 2021 Gen. Douglas MacArthur addressed the Massachusetts State Legislature in Boston, July 25, 1951: It is not of any external threat that I concern myself but rather of insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions — these institutions which formerly we hailed as something […]
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s long and sometimes acrimonious divorce from the European Union ended Thursday with an economic split that leaves the EU smaller and the U.K. freer but more isolated in a turbulent world. Britain left the European bloc’s vast single market for people, goods and services at 11 p.m. London time, midnight in […]