U.S. Navy stretched thin to cover global contingencies

U.S. Navy stretched thin to cover global contingencies

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 10, 2023 In the game of baseball, the defending team must cover all bases; First, Second and Third. No matter how good and fast a player is, one person “Can’t cover all bases,” as the expression goes.  Cover one and the ball would be hit to another. […]

U.S. has given Taliban-led Afghanistan $11 billion in aid since disastrous Biden exit

U.S. has given Taliban-led Afghanistan $11 billion in aid since disastrous Biden exit

by WorldTribune Staff, November 7, 2023 After leaving behind tens of billions of dollars worth of U.S. military equipment and surrendering the strategic Bagram Air Base with its disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, Team Biden has sent the nation led by the Taliban terror organization another $11 billion of U.S. taxpayer money. The funding was revealed […]

From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

From beautiful Geneva campus, UN Rights Council presides over far-flung, horrific abuses

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 20, 2023 Over the past year human rights abuses in places ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and to Myanmar/Burma, Xinjiang China, the Middle East, to name a few sordid cases, have splashed across the headlines. Just in the past month, ethnic cleansing of Christian Armenians from Muslim […]

Reports: Timeline indicates weapons left in Afghanistan used in Oct. 7 attack on Israel

Reports: Timeline indicates weapons left in Afghanistan used in Oct. 7 attack on Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2023 In surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban, the Biden Administration left billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry behind and those weapons likely ended up in the hands of terrorists, according to a new book  and interviews with a Hamas official. A senior Hamas official said in an interview on […]

September 11: ‘What’s gone missing is the feeling of solidarity …’

September 11: ‘What’s gone missing is the feeling of solidarity …’

Special to WorldTribune, September 11, 2023 By Tracy Dahlby [The following by former Tokyo correspondent for Newsweek and chairman of the University of Texas Journalism Dept. Tracy Dahlby was written for the Austin American-Statesman on September 11, 2011.] I’m fighting a form of nostalgia about 9/11, but it’s not easy to resist. As we head […]

After Afghanistan: Global conflicts widen, endure and spread

After Afghanistan: Global conflicts widen, endure and spread

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 8, 2023 It’s been two years since the fall of Afghanistan. The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled the last sordid chapter in the Biden Administration’s appalling and shambolic “withdrawal” from America’s longest military commitment. But beyond the perceived American weakness and strategic […]

Migration crisis: 108 million worldwide and in U.S. ‘human trafficking rings operating with near impunity’

Migration crisis: 108 million worldwide and in U.S. ‘human trafficking rings operating with near impunity’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 23, 2023 As chaos and conflict seem to be the tragic trend in many parts of the world, a sad parallel follows: Large numbers of people are fleeing and being displaced by the violence. The numbers are stunningly high and climbing according to the UN High Commissioner […]

Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Unreported: Russia’s geostrategic breakthrough in the ‘Great Game’

Special to WorldTribune.com Analysis by Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs, June 16, 2023 Russia appears to have finally won secure access to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, the goal it has pursued vigorously since the 17th Century: the old Great Game may be over, and the new begun. Russia’s inchoate, […]

Henry Kissinger and the post-Vietnam War legacy of U.S. military defeat

Henry Kissinger and the post-Vietnam War legacy of U.S. military defeat

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, May 23, 2023 The following by WorldTribune.com columnist Don Kirk, originally appeared in The Hill. The defeat of the American-equipped, American-advised South Vietnamese forces in the first four months of 1975 invites comparisons to today’s American support for Ukraine against Russian invasion. In contrast to the approval of vast amounts of aid provided thus […]

State-sponsored terrorism: Taliban shows off U.S. military vehicles, arms, stacks of $100 bills

State-sponsored terrorism: Taliban shows off U.S. military vehicles, arms, stacks of $100 bills

by WorldTribune Staff, March 27, 2023 The Taliban in recent days has released through its affiliated TV channels footage of rows upon rows of U.S. military vehicles, a large cache of small arms and ammunition, and a room with stacks of $100 bills. The equipment and cash were left behind as Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan […]