For Iran’s Mullahs, ‘a dead-end of their own making’

For Iran’s Mullahs, ‘a dead-end of their own making’

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 […]

Regime change in Iran? MAGA debates, Left taunts

Regime change in Iran? MAGA debates, Left taunts

by WorldTribune Staff, June 17, 2025 Real World News When President Donald Trump on Monday urged people to “immediately evacuate Teheran,” Iran’s capital city, many jumped to the conclusion that he was setting the stage for the U.S. entering the Israel-Iran conflict. Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social: “Iran should have signed the […]

Hegseth puts Beijing and world on notice: Don’t ‘sugarcoat’ China’s threat to Taiwan

Hegseth puts Beijing and world on notice: Don’t ‘sugarcoat’ China’s threat to Taiwan

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 […]

Memorial Day 2025: ‘Their young lives were taken in the spring of innocent youth’

Memorial Day 2025: ‘Their young lives were taken in the spring of innocent youth’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John McNabb, May 25, 2025 Walk with me through the white stone fields of Crosses and Stars of David in American military cemeteries located in Arlington, Virginia; Omaha Beach, Normandy; the Punch Bowl, Hawaii; Florence, Italy, and many, many other honorable resting places worldwide, and I will show you the domain […]

Saigon fell, 50 years ago; What if the South had prevailed, like in Korea?

Saigon fell, 50 years ago; What if the South had prevailed, like in Korea?

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 […]

Chinese escalates harassment of Taiwan with ‘Grey Zone’ carrier exercise

Chinese escalates harassment of Taiwan with ‘Grey Zone’ carrier exercise

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 7, 2025 China’s growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Units of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as well as swarms of military aircraft regularly […]

Iran’s Houthi proxies target U.S. ships, Red Sea trade routes, consumers

Iran’s Houthi proxies target U.S. ships, Red Sea trade routes, consumers

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 23, 2025 Amidst the unpredictable arc of crisis shadowing the Middle East persists the systemic and sustained merchant shipping attacks in the Red Sea.  The culprits are a shadowy but lethal Iranian proxy force, the Houthis, who use their control of mountainous parts of the Yemeni coast […]

Update: After warnings, Trump drops hammer on Houthis in Yemen, blames Iran

Update: After warnings, Trump drops hammer on Houthis in Yemen, blames Iran

by WorldTribune Staff, March 16, 2025 Real World News [Updated, March 17, 1:30 pm EST] Warning that “hell will rain down upon” the Houthi terrorist organization, President Donald Trump ordered strikes against the Iran-backed group on Sunday. The Houthis claimed at least 31 people were killed in Sunday’s strikes. On March 17, Trump underlined that […]

Taliban’s dark rule in failed state Afghanistan: Opium prices soar, women lose rights

Taliban’s dark rule in failed state Afghanistan: Opium prices soar, women lose rights

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 16, 2025 The darkening rule of the Taliban regime over Afghanistan continues to dim prospects for Women’s rights as well as any chances for the war-torn country to overcome an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Currently more than 50 percent of the population, some 23 million people in this […]

The sidelining of Europe: Allies brawl over ending the Ukraine war

The sidelining of Europe: Allies brawl over ending the Ukraine war

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 20, 2025 Three years into Russia’s war against Ukraine, there seems to be a chance for peace. But this political intermezzo may be as fleeting as the approaching Spring weather to soon sweep the steppes yet at the same time remains a worthwhile window of opportunity for […]