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John J. Metzler is a U.N. correspondent covering diplomatic and defense issues. He writes weekly for World Tribune.com.
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2009

  • January 2, 2009 - The daunting year ahead, for the economy, China, and Barack Obama
  • January 12, 2009 - China's year of anniversaries, selectively hailed
  • January 21, 2009 - Big chill Ñ gas crisis shatters European pipe dreams
  • January 30, 2009 - Ecstasy at the UN as U.S. under Obama rejoins global abortion consensus
  • February 6, 2009 - The missile game: Russian chess, American checkers, Iranian roulette
  • February 13, 2009 - DarfurÕs deepening disaster
  • February 20, 2009 - Look whoÕs back in Iraq!
  • February 27, 2009 - UN Peacekeeping Ñ The stretched-thin blue line
  • March 6, 2009 - Arrest warrant for Bashir endangers those trying to aid the victims in Darfour hell
  • March 13, 2009 - Top-down crisis in confidence
  • March 20, 2009 - Father dÕEscotoÕs blame game at the UN: Blast from the past
  • March 27, 2009 - Going global: China's military now focusing beyond Taiwan
  • April 3, 2009 - Obama's challenge: The looming AfPak PandoraÕs box
  • April 10, 2009 - Nuclear proliferation 101, courtesy of Pyongyang
  • April 17, 2009 - 'Armed teenagers' off Somalia take world shippers for punks
  • April 24, 2009 - Fidel to Obama: Not so fast, and you can keep the change
  • May 1, 2009 - WHOÕs on first Ñ Flu diplomacy in the Far East
  • May 8, 2009 - Gold has regained its glitter for world's bankers
  • May 15, 2009 - Farce: The politics of human rights at the United Nations
  • May 22, 2009 - Burmese haze: World's polite outrage fails to penetrate a thugocracy backed by Beijing
  • May 29, 2009 - The only power that could do something about N. Korea probably won't
  • June 5, 2009 - Selling out to big brother: China, Inc. and the U.S., Inc.
  • June 12, 2009 - PakistanÕs triple tragedy Ñ Taliban, refugees, indifference
  • June 19, 2009 - Overlooked geopolitical precedents in Georgia and Kosovo
  • June 26, 2009 - Iraq without training wheels
  • July 6 2009 - Continuing geopolitical fallout from U.S. timidity on Iran during the Carter years
  • July 10, 2009 - Why the Xinkiang uprising was so serious Hu Jintao had to lose face at the G-8
  • July 17, 2009 - UN watchdog committee for terrorism waits for member states to volunteer information
  • July 24, 2009 - Bad policy: Hillary practices pop psychology on Pyongyang
  • August 7, 2009 - High stakes for democracy (and terrorism) as Afghans prepare to vote
  • August 14, 2009 - The French cut spending on luxuries, not including American movies
  • August 21, 2009 - Webb in Burma: What good are talks with Asian dictators?
  • August 28, 2009 - Libyans have a blast, literally, at the West's expense and, by the way, where was Obama?
  • September 4, 2009 - What to do in Afghanistan? Ask Turkey
  • September 11, 2009 - Now in its 8th season, 'Iran going nuclear' is back; In this episode, Obama checkmated?
  • September 18, 2009 - Yawns greet the potentates of autumn: Gaddafi, Chavez, Mugabe, Ahmadinijad . . .
  • September 25, 2009 - Overlooked among the UN rants Ñ Economic truths from Czech, Colombian leaders
  • October 2, 2009 - At the UN: Plenty of hot air on the climate but scarcely a mention of Darfur, Burma
  • October 9, 2009 - What the UN stats say about quality of life worldwide
  • October 16, 2009 - Virtual prize for virtual peace: Virtually surreal
  • October 23, 2009 - Annual game of musical chairs at UN Security Council
  • October 30, 2009 - UN report slams nightmarish rights situation in N. Korea
  • November 6, 2009 - Germany's Angela Merkel at joint session of Congress thanks the USA for freedom
  • November 13, 2009 - Obama playing Prince Hamlet of Afghanistan?
  • November 20, 2009 - Obama went to China and all he got were some photos at the Great Wall
  • December 4, 2009 - A less-than-stirring speech before the silent 'long gray line' at West Point
  • December 11, 2009 - Somalia in crisis: Drought, famine, narcotics trade, Islamic militias, pirates
  • December 19, 2009 - Global responders to disasters list Ñ Who's been naughty, who's been nice?


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