Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The scenes of Syrians fleeing their homeland and pouring on to the roads and rail links of Greece and the Balkans create an almost Biblical image. Exodus comes to mind. Not since WWII have such a large surge of refugees fleeing civil war and conflict, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct The summer months have been relatively quiet in Ukraine but the approach of fall could see a new round of Russian military opportunism and aggression according to former UK Secretary of State for Defense and current Member of Parliament, Dr. Liam Fox. Fox, during a recent visit […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto Measuring a mere 137,000 square miles, Germany is not even as big as the U.S. state of Montana (147,000 sq. mi.). Germany is home to 81 million people, compared with Montana’s one million. Yet this year alone, Germany, a “very selfish country,” according to Fox News Host Bill O’Reilly, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Europe has been flooded by over 350,000 Middle East migrants in 2015. “Since the beginning of the year 2,342 migrants have died in the Mediterranean, 2,326 in the Channel of Sicily,” said Federico Soda, director of the International Organization for Migration’s Coordinating Office for the Mediterranean in Rome. “In the last few […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty German military observers in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region say Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) fighters appear to have used chlorine gas shells to attack Kurdish forces. A German intelligence unit in the Kurdish region’s capital, Irbil, told the German newspaper Bild that the apparent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Even before the debates in Iran and the United States could begin over last week’s nuclear agreement, Germany sent its economy minister to Teheran on July 19 to revive a trading relationship in anticipation of the lifting of sanctions. However, a foreign ministry spokeswoman made short work of German Vice Chancellor and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — A rhetorical tsunami followed the signing of the landmark nuclear limitation deal between Iran and six world powers in Vienna. On the one hand President Barack Obama and his tireless Secretary of State John Kerry presented a technically well-crafted plan which would supposedly keep the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The Greek government, in last-minute talks with its European creditors (predominantly Germany) achieved a breathing space on July 13, to start to manage its new economic framework. However, largely ignored by the Greek and international commentary, has been the contextual impact of the Greek economic crisis with the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The depth of German influence, and that of Chancellor Angela Merkel, is being put to the test by Greece and the cavalcade of critics who piled on after Greeks voted “no” on the July 5 economic referendum. Merkel’s popularity in Germany, however, has remained solid throughout the Greek crisis. She has a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Excerpted from a report by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty European Council President Donald Tusk called a eurozone summit for July 7 to discuss the Greek debt crisis after Greeks voted overwhelmingly to reject the terms of a bailout. Greek voters rejected international creditors’ demands for more austerity in return for […]