Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Allies have again protected Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been blocked from responding to delays in the removal of Syria’s CW stockpile. Diplomats said China, Iran and Russia opposed sanctions on the regime of President Bashar Assad for failing to meet deadlines […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Saudi Arabia has determined that the United States lacks a policy to address the crisis in the Middle East and beyond. A senior Saudi prince asserted that the administration of President Barack Obama has been paralyzed amid the Sunni revolt in Syria. Former Saudi intelligence director Prince Turki Al Faisal […]
Sol W. Sanders Originally published Oct. 28, 2013 The U.S. is transfixed by the Obama administration’s massively bungled attempt to nationalize one sixth of the economy, the health welfare system. But the rest of the world watches the slow motion unfolding of another debacle: the loss of post-World War II American leadership of the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Western powers, led by the United States, have agreed to suspend billions of dollars worth of sanctions on Iran’s energy and other sectors for the next six months in exchange for a reduction in Teheran’s enriched uranium stockpile. Under an agreement reached on Nov. 24, the so-called P5+1 pledged to […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — As civil war, political stalemate, and the tragic humanitarian hemorrhage of refugees continues, Syria approaches its third winter of conflict. With over 120,000 people killed and large parts of this ancient land in ruins or chaos from the conflict between the Assad Family dictatorship and a fractious collection of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United States has praised the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad a month after it planned to attack it. Secretary of State John Kerry praised Assad for implementing his agreement to start destroying Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. Kerry, in remarks that angered neighboring Turkey, said he was “very pleased” […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Libya has become a leading weapons supplier to Syria. The United Nations has determined that weapons and ammunition were sent from Libya to Syria. The UN report, relayed to the Security Council, said the military equipment was sent to Syrian rebels by sea and air. “There have been an increasing […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — We are witnessing an intense geopolitical chess game over Syria. The players: Barack Obama, President of the United States, former Senator, and Chicago community organizer versus Vladmir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and former Soviet KGB intelligence operative. Moscow has just made a move which appears to have […]
Sol W. Sanders The old cliché has it that history is written by the victors. But the victors’ historians, too, are human. In an effort to write a narrative which the rest of us can follow, they pick up what we diginicks call a “thread”. Until someone identifies a major theme and writes [and […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The geopolitical chess game over Syria continues as the world enters autumn with the clouds of war swirling in the Eastern Mediterranean. The civil war which has engulfed Syria since 2011 killing 100,000, and now having crossed President Obama’s proverbial “red line” of chemical weapons use allegedly by the […]