by WorldTribune Staff, September 11, 2025 Real World News [Originally published on September 11, 2019] The attacks carried out by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania were an attack on “freedom itself,” then-President George W. Bush said. “America was targeted … because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 31, 2025 PARIS — It’s a turning of the page in Franco/African diplomatic relations. Now for the first time since the decolonization of the French colonies in the early 1960’s, there will be no formal French military bases on the African continent. Following decolonization, former French President […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 17, 2025 President Donald Trump has had it with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Gone are the days where it appeared that the Russians were ready for a negotiated “deal” or “ceasefire’ in the bloody Ukraine war. Now Donald Trump has openly said that “Putin has been bull**ing him” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 13, 2025 Tis’ that time of the year when the BRICS economic Summit comes round to state the obvious; “We are the Rest of the World,” and powerful members of the global developing economies too. So, when the 17th BRICS Summit launched in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 6, 2025 Amid wars, global strife and massive refugee dislocations, the current global scene is overwhelmed with crises ranging from the Middle East to Ukraine and a dozen African conflicts which rarely make the news. The contemporary world situation in many ways resembles 1945 and the end […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 27, 2025 The die has been cast. American stealth B-2 bombers swooped down on Iran’s nuclear weapons enrichment targets and dealt a presumably knock-out blow to the Islamic Republic’s longtime dream of possessing a nuclear weapon. Three nuclear sites were hit in pulverizing raids using the massive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 19, 2025 Well, it seems to have started. Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear research and development sites have ushered in the new phase of the rolling Middle East conflicts which began when Teheran’s Hamas terrorist proxies invaded Israel on October 7, 2023 triggering a murderous pogrom against Jewish […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 15, 2025 The stunningly successful Ukrainian drone attacks on multiple airbases across Russia’s deep interior last week by hitting and likely destroying a sizable portion of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet, proved the audacity of the beleaguered Kyiv government not to surrender. Operation “Spider Web,” hit grounded Russian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 6, 2025 “There’s no reason to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, adding that “any attempt by communist China to conquer Taiwan would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world.” Speaking […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 30, 2025 Speaking out to break the information barrier inside the hermetically sealed North Korean dictatorship is in itself nothing new, and usually quickly forgotten. North Korean exiles, friendly governments and humanitarian organizations will periodically raise the oft forsaken banner of human rights only then to be […]
