by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2020 A Chinese businessman has floated a $100 billion loan offer to the tiny Pacific island nation of Solomon Islands, a report said. The offer has raised concern over China’s major power grab in the region, especially since the funds represent an amount of money that is nearly 70 times […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 21, 2020 Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother in order to get him the documentation he needed to go to school in the United States, a member of the Minneapolis Somali community said, according to a report. Abdihakim Osman, who claims to be a friend of Omar, “is the first person […]
FPI / February 21, 2020 Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the $93 trillion Green New Deal does not “go far enough” in addressing what she says is the biggest problem facing the world today, climate change. “What I want to see us do is get off an oil economy and not only for ourselves, but for […]
FPI / February 21, 2020 Several major media outlets ran with an unsubstantiated rumor which claimed a California Republican congressman had acted on orders from President Donald Trump to offer WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a pardon in exchange for Assange saying Russia was not involved in the 2016 DNC emails leak. Former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher […]
FPI / February 21, 2020 By Paul Crespo Ostracized and considered illegitimate by the United States and most of Latin America and Europe, Venezuela’s Maduro regime has had one constant supporter — Russia. This support has included everything from symbolic visits by Russian bombers to reported security assistance via Russian state-connected mercenaries from the Wagner […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Barack Obama’s claim that his Recovery Act “paved the way” for the current economic boom is just the “latest con job” from the former president, President Donald Trump said. In a Feb. 17 tweet, Trump noted: “Did you hear the latest con job? President Obama is now trying to […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Roger Stone on Thursday was sentenced to more than three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the up to nine years originally sought by federal prosecutors was excessive. Still, the judge’s sentence was far more than the probation sought by Stone’s defense and, analysts […]
FPI / February 20, 2020 By Lee Cohen The Trump administration sees India as an important strategic ally in the region, particularly useful in pushing back against China’s Asian reach. While the past several years have yielded little significant progress in trade relations, the bilateral economic and defense relationships between the U.S. and India are […]
FPI / February 20, 2020 Post-Brexit Great Britain plans to close its borders to those who can’t speak English and to unskilled workers, reports say. The move is part of the administration of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s overhaul of immigration laws aimed at ending the era of cheap EU labor in the UK’s factories, warehouses, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, February 20, 2020 Is no one really above the law, as Democrats so often contend? Or is there indeed a two-tier system of justice favoring them? Consider the Logan Act, a federal law that prohibits unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments that are having a dispute with the United States. In 2017, Democrat […]
