U.S. has multiple opportunities to exploit aging International Space Station

U.S. has multiple opportunities to exploit aging International Space Station

FPI / August 1, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher While it could still be transferred to and operated by a consortium of “private” companies, it appears that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) plans to end its operation of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2030, and to thereafter begin operations to deorbit the […]

Out of Africa: France pulls forces from key bases

Out of Africa: France pulls forces from key bases

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 […]

‘Blood Covenant’: Iran’s state media back bounty on President Trump’s head

‘Blood Covenant’: Iran’s state media back bounty on President Trump’s head

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 […]

Miles Yu: ‘Midnight Hammer’ bunker ‘busted’ China’s Iran proxy strategy

Miles Yu: ‘Midnight Hammer’ bunker ‘busted’ China’s Iran proxy strategy

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 […]

Iran was central to China’s Middle East strategy; No more

Iran was central to China’s Middle East strategy; No more

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 […]

Did North Koreans die? What did those bunker busters do? Kim wants to know

Did North Koreans die? What did those bunker busters do? Kim wants to know

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 […]

‘12-day war’ means ’12-day war’; Steamed president heads for NATO summit

‘12-day war’ means ’12-day war’; Steamed president heads for NATO summit

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 […]

Israel defense minister threatens Khamenei after missile strike on residential hospital

Israel defense minister threatens Khamenei after missile strike on residential hospital

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 […]

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 […]

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