‘Darkness has fallen’: One year after Taliban takeover, humanitarian crisis widens

‘Darkness has fallen’: One year after Taliban takeover, humanitarian crisis widens

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler One year after the appalling collapse of Afghanistan into the hands of the Taliban insurgents, the humanitarian crisis in that beleaguered South Asian country has gone from bad to worse.  The Biden Administration’s shameful and botched pullout of American military forces signaled the last tawdry act of the […]

Ukraine: Tiptoeing around a wider tragedy

Ukraine: Tiptoeing around a wider tragedy

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler As Vladimir Putin’s war continues against Ukraine, there’s now a grim acceptance of tragedy; targeted civilians, wrecked cities and the threat from Russia’s nuclear weapons. But as the conflict churns on, few people have noticed the mixed signals that formerly blockaded port cities have cautiously reopened averting a famine […]

Summer in France: Idyllic, but a chilling Euro winter looms

Summer in France: Idyllic, but a chilling Euro winter looms

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PARIS — It’s been a strange and uncertain summer, bookmarked by high temperatures, torrid inflation, and a very hot war on Europe’s eastern doorstep. France is still in vacation mode for a few more hectic weeks, but as the once glorious long days now shorten and the inevitable […]

Scotland cut down 14 million trees to clear way for wind turbines

Scotland cut down 14 million trees to clear way for wind turbines

Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2022 Late last year, Scotland was the site of the United Nations 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) climate summit. The globalists at the COP26 summit in Glasgow agreed to end deforestation by 2030. So the slaughter of 14 million trees would seem an especially ironic move. But that, […]

Siege of Ukraine supply of food to the world is broken; We hope

Siege of Ukraine supply of food to the world is broken; We hope

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PORNICHET, France — Visiting a bountiful farmers market on France’s western Brittany coast, you can’t help but be dazzled by the choice and abundance of fresh fruits and food. Even in small towns, the sheer choice and selection is daunting. Now let’s metaphysically transport ourselves to Ukraine’s besieged Black […]

As Russia tightens the vice, Trump’s warning recalled; Green Germany eyes fossil fuel

As Russia tightens the vice, Trump’s warning recalled; Green Germany eyes fossil fuel

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler This was a crisis waiting to happen. Europe’s unfolding energy emergency was long in coming but at the same time widely encouraged by Western European states all too eager to embrace Russia’s cheap and available natural gas delivered to the European Union’s doorstep by a spiderweb of pipelines […]

25 years later, Hong Kong has lost its freedom and China is still communist

25 years later, Hong Kong has lost its freedom and China is still communist

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler How time flies. It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong returned to Chinese control, a quarter century since the prosperous British Crown Colony became a semi-autonomous part of the   People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest dictatorship. Nonetheless, the small but feisty islands on the south China coast […]

China stakes claim to Taiwan Strait; ‘International waters,’ says U.S.

China stakes claim to Taiwan Strait; ‘International waters,’ says U.S.

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Is China drawing yet another provocative red line, this time in the narrow but strategic Taiwan Strait? The Beijing regime recently claimed that the Taiwan Strait, the defensive body of water buffering the island democracy from Mainland China, is actually sovereign Chinese territory. Recently the People’s Republic of […]

Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, 96, revives gloomy Britain

Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, 96, revives gloomy Britain

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It was time to celebrate! The 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession to the throne in 1952 makes her the longest serving Monarch in British history. Thus, the grandly named Platinum Jubilee has not only dazzled the country with its Royal Pomp and circumstance, but as importantly invigorated […]

Having blinked during Trump era, Kim Jong-Un punctuates Biden’s Asia visit with ICBM launch

Having blinked during Trump era, Kim Jong-Un punctuates Biden’s Asia visit with ICBM launch

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler North Korea has been making a lot of noise, but few seemed to notice.  Kim Jong-Un’s reclusive communist regime has fired off  23 missiles since the beginning of the year to the yawns of world opinion.  So, is another North Korean missile showdown creeping up to surprise the […]

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