Special to WorldTribune.com By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System/Defense & Foreign Affairs Operation Sangaris (a local exotic butterfly) — the French and MISCA (the French acronym for the International Support Mission to the Central African Republic) military intervention in the Central African Republic (CAR) — is escalating. The French contingent will now be […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — An arc of political and social instability exists on the soft underbelly of the Sahara Desert, as Islamic militants and ethnic separatists chip away at the fragile political geography of five states on the southern fringe of the Sahara desert. The West African country of Mali, wracked by a […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Presidents, prime ministers, kings and potentates will be in New York for the 68th annual UN General Assembly. The ongoing Syrian crisis and the toxic haze of recent chemical weapons use, clouds the diplomatic horizon at the global gathering as delegates confront issues of war, peace and widening humanitarian […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Al Qaida was believed to have conducted a car bombing against a Western embassy in Libya. On April 23, Al Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb is said to have detonated a car bomb in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. AQIM targeted the French embassy and two guards were injured […]
Sol W. Sanders ZURICH – Europeans seem determined to ignore the depth of an approaching economic and political crisis which will end its longest period of prosperity and peace in history and threatens the very foundations of post-World War II democratic progression. In the fleshpots of Vienna and Zurich I have just visited, for […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has encountered an opportunity to improve its relations with war-torn Mali, a report said. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies said France’s military intervention in Mali could facilitate an Israeli entry into the African country. In a report, author Emmanuel Navon asserted that Israel could also use the […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The world is confronted by a maze of crisis ranging from North Africa to the Middle East and South Asia. Places from Afghanistan, to Syria, Somalia and Mali make the grim headlines. So it’s not surprising that an extraordinary achievement of peace and reconciliation in Western Europe is flippantly […]
John J. Metzler PARIS — The Normandy Beaches which witnessed the epic 6 June 1944 Allied landings leading to the liberation of France and Nazi-occupied Europe, have been etched in the annals modern history. Now in a move supported by the French government, the landing beaches would be inscribed into UNESCO’s World Heritage List, hopefully […]
Sol W. Sanders [See Archive] Resembling a huge 74-wheeler packed with unassembled goodies, the U.S. is stranded on the world economy grade-crossing with the Euro express gathering speed as it tears down the Trans-Atlantic financial tracks for a seemingly inevitable collision. A police report written by patronizing Harvard economists some time in the dim […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Gregory Copley, Global Information System Europe is at a pivotal point. Or, rather, it is at a point where its structural transformation can no longer be ignored. Events in Europe have finally led us to the dénouement of the 20th Century. It may presage a new Europe tied more firmly into […]