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” […]
FPI / July 16, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Two death warrants against President Donald Trump issued within Iran, and broadcast on state media have morphed into a “Blood Covenant” in which more than $40 million has reportedly been raised as a bounty on the U.S. president. Iran’s senior religious clerics made it clear that “every cell of […]
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, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 11, 2025 Real World News When the Biden Administration abandoned U.S. assertiveness in the Middle East, it opened the door for China to rapidly increase its influence. Seizing on Biden-era weakness, the communist regime of Xi Jinping “sought to transform Iran into a critical proxy for its grand strategy” in the […]
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 […]
FPI / July 3, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Iran had been a key cog in the emerging anti-American axis in the Middle East led by China and including Russia. Then Israel quickly dismantled Iran’s warfighting structure via a series of targeted strikes known as Operation Rising Lion. The United States followed by bombing Iran’s nuclear strongholds at […]
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 […]
FPI / June 25, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct It is possible that North Koreans were in Iran and even at its nuclear sites as U.S. B-2 bombers dropped massive bunker buster bombs on the facilities. North Korea has long assisted Iran with its nuclear programs. “North Koreans are still in Iran helping Iran with its nuclear weapon […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 24, 2025 Real World News President Donald Trump on Tuesday was none too happy about Israel and Iran continuing to attack each other just hours after he had announced a ceasefire. “I think they both violated it,” President Trump said before heading to a NATO summit in the Netherlands. “I don’t […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2025 Real World News Israel’s defense minister issued a direct threat to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday after an Iranian missile struck a hospital in Beersheba, Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been instructed and know “that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man […]
