Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 15, 2025 In what was akin to a celebration of global dictators and political rogues, Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Nicholas Maduro visited Moscow to join Vladimir Putin in celebrating Russia’s May 9th Victory Day Parade, the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany. Putin’s pantheon […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 14, 2025 Real World News On the second leg of what many are calling his golden tour of the Mideast, President Donald Trump on Wednesday secured an “economic exchange” of $1.2 trillion with Qatar, according to a White House fact sheet. A day after securing a $600 billion investment commitment in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2025 Real World News Soon after landing and being given the purple carpet treatment by his Saudi Arabia hosts, President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a massive Saudi investment deal, warned Iran to “make peace or else,” and said he would be lifting all sanctions on Syria. In a statement […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 9, 2025 Real World News Iran’s government has agreed to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons, a senior adviser and assistant to President Donald Trump said. Steve Witkoff told Breitbart News that Iran has informed him that they “don’t want” nukes. Witkoff is expected to meet with the Iranians in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 7, 2025 A long smoldering fuse to wider conflict has reignited in the wake of a terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in the mountainous Pahalgam region in disputed Kashmir. The Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion. Since the unprovoked attacks in late […]
FPI / April 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Pakistan, a country of 255 million people that has nuclear weapons, is facing a major problem at its border with Afghanistan. Pakistan’s version of the CIA, the ISI, has reportedly been riddled with Taliban assets for years while China has increasingly replaced the United States as its strategic partner. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 29, 2025 The tides of history, the tears of remembrance. Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units surged into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly reuniting the country, thus ending twenty years of conflict. Scenes of the North Vietnamese T-54 tanks crashing […]
FPI / April 24, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher One of China’s most effective stratagems is to create conflicts that promote divisions between countries or peoples, and then to exploit the ensuing tension to its benefit. This it has been using in the Middle East to displace American power. In Mid-April 2025 an American formation […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 24, 2025 The Four Horsemen of the apocalypse are stalking Sudan; Brutal civil conflict, widespread devastation, humanitarian disasters, and the displacement of millions of refugees. Now add the Fifth Horseman, the darkness of global indifference. In characterizing one of the world’s biggest conflicts, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 16, 2025 A flurry of accusations, finger pointing and political grandstanding dominate the headlines as the trade war with China escalates. Global markets responded with roller-coaster fluctuations, and serious jolts, amid growing economic uncertainty. Talk of escalating tariffs is in the air as major trading partners square-off […]
