Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 17, 2026 As the Iran War enters its third week of largely aerial and seaborne combat, there’s laser-like focus on the Straits of Hormuz and the wider Persian Gulf. Iran quite predictably has closed the narrow sea-lane to shipping and thus jolted oil markets from the Middle […]
Special to WorldTribune, March 11, 2026 The following are excerpts from Government Gangsters, by Kash Patel in 2023. He was named Director of the FBI in 2025. The Deep State is really just a collection of unaccountable bad actors at the highest levels of the federal bureaucracy, the media, elected office, corporations, and cultural institutions. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, March 11, 2026 Given the energy disruptions in the Middle East and the topsy-turvy fluctuation in the price of crude oil in recent weeks, here are a few facts about the energy scene. First, “drill, baby, drill” is working. America today is producing more oil and gas than […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 10, 2026 LONDON — Just a year ago, Sir Kier Starmer, Britain’s Prime Minister was being hailed as a statesman for having defused a nasty political dustup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky over Ukraine policy. A White House showdown threatened to derail American support for beleaguered […]
Special to WorldTribune, March 9, 2026 The following are excerpts from Government Gangsters, by Kash Patel in 2023. He was named Director of the FBI in 2025. After my years as a public defender, I was hired by the National Security Division in DoJ headquarters (commonly referred to as Main Justice) in Washington, DC, as […]
Special to WorldTribune, March 6, 2026 The following are excerpts from Government Gangsters, by Kash Patel in 2023. He was named Director of the FBI in 2025. The Trump era was, more than anything else, an apocalypse in the truest sense of the word. It was an unveiling. It was a time when suddenly we […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 2, 2026 Darkness at Noon has shrouded Iran for nearly half a century. The Islamic Republic of Iran has tried, and somewhat successfully, to turn back the clock in the once secular and prosperous nation. It has since ruined the economy, disenfranchised women, supported terrorist proxies, and […]
Special to WorldTribune, March 1, 2026 by Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution The following analysis was originally published on July 2, 2025 and was re-posted this weekend by the author. When the Biden administration signaled a withdrawal of U.S. assertiveness in the Middle East, it effectively created a vacuum that China was eager to fill. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, February 27, 2026 Here’s a depressing but all too predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: “Detroit’s EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion.” Yikes. That’s a lot of money for the American auto industry to lose. Once again, we have confirmation of an iron law of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 25, 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech “hit the ball out of the park” during the recent Munich Security Conference in Germany. The address provided a policy tour de force which recalled the Cold War, post-communist history and then seamlessly blended the topic into a cohesive […]
