Unreported: Moscow fills vacuum of power in Sub-Saharan Africa as France fades from scene

Unreported: Moscow fills vacuum of power in Sub-Saharan Africa as France fades from scene

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 6, 2024 While the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel, and the Red Sea have grabbed the headlines, there’s a dangerously developing security situation throughout large parts of the African continent. The systemic chaos which has befallen a string of countries in the Sub-Saharan Sahel region has gone largely […]

Tucker Carlson: Why interviewing Vladimir Putin is my job

Tucker Carlson: Why interviewing Vladimir Putin is my job

by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News February 6, 2024 Tucker Carlson turned many a head in legacy media newsrooms when it was revealed he was seen leaving the Kremlin in Moscow. Many could not understand why. Isn’t Russia the enemy? Is he undermining Ukraine? Carlson explained that, as a journalist, he was doing would […]

Bombs away: It’s ‘déjà vu all over again’

Bombs away: It’s ‘déjà vu all over again’

Special to WorldTribune, February 1, 2024 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford “It’s like déjà vu all over again:” Quote attributed to Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees. “We’re going into a war that nobody voted for. The Biden admin believes Joe must be a “war-time president” in order to win this election — and they’re […]

Moscow charges Ukraine downed Russian transport carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs

Moscow charges Ukraine downed Russian transport carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs

by WorldTribune Staff, January 24, 2024 Ukraine shot down a Russian military transport plane that was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Reports cited several Russian lawmakers as saying IL-76 aircraft was shot down by three missiles of types that the West has supplied to Ukraine. The […]

Does Putin have the 2020 receipts? ‘In the United States, previous elections were falsified’

Does Putin have the 2020 receipts? ‘In the United States, previous elections were falsified’

by WorldTribune Staff, January 16, 2024 What does Valdimir Putin know about the 2020 U.S. election? “In the United States, previous elections were falsified through postal voting … they bought ballots for $10, filled them out, and threw them into mailboxes without any supervision from observers, and that’s it,” Reuters cited Putin as saying on […]

Ukraine’s expensive military reality check and the forgotten human dimension

Ukraine’s expensive military reality check and the forgotten human dimension

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 14, 2023 We are approaching Ukraine’s second Christmas at war with Russia. Gone are the heady days and David and Goliath moments of tough and plucky Ukraine stunning the Russian bear and, against all odds and predictions, presumably turning the military tide on the aggressor. Now the […]

Moscow steps up crackdown on LGBTQ, raids bars after Supreme Court ruling

Moscow steps up crackdown on LGBTQ, raids bars after Supreme Court ruling

by WorldTribune Staff, December 4, 2023 Founded on Christian precepts, the United States is according to critics championing the values of the gay lobby worldwide. Formerly atheist, post-Soviet Russia is having none of it. Soon after Russia’s highest court recently declared the LGBTQ movement to be “extremist,” police raided gay bars and clubs throughout Moscow, […]

Behind the Mideast wildfire: Iran’s expanding oil sales

Behind the Mideast wildfire: Iran’s expanding oil sales

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 16, 2023 As violence explodes throughout the Middle East, from Gaza to Yemen, and Syria to Iraq, the political fingerprints of the Islamic Republic of Iran become increasingly obvious on this regional tableaux of terror. Long deemed a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Iran’s Islamic rulers have funded […]

Ex-German chancellor: Team Biden sabotaged Ukraine-Russia peace talks

Ex-German chancellor: Team Biden sabotaged Ukraine-Russia peace talks

by WorldTribune Staff, October 23, 2023 The Biden Administration deliberately upended negotiations held in Turkey last year that were aimed at a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine-Russia conflict, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said. During talks in Istanbul in March 2022, the Biden team did not allow Ukraine to negotiate a peace deal, Schröder, who […]

Of no consequence: UN General Assembly debates Ukraine war, moves on

Of no consequence: UN General Assembly debates Ukraine war, moves on

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 27, 2023 The arc of history passed through the UN last week as the global Assembly debated and deliberated on the ongoing war in Ukraine. Storm clouds from far off Eastern Europe descended over the delegations meeting in New York, who while largely and resolutely condemning the […]