Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 6, 2025 “There’s no reason to sugarcoat it. The threat China poses is real, and it could be imminent,” U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, adding that “any attempt by communist China to conquer Taiwan would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world.” Speaking […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 30, 2025 Speaking out to break the information barrier inside the hermetically sealed North Korean dictatorship is in itself nothing new, and usually quickly forgotten. North Korean exiles, friendly governments and humanitarian organizations will periodically raise the oft forsaken banner of human rights only then to be […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 21, 2025 With the staging and showmanship of a Cecil B. De Mille saga, President Donald Trump’s State visit to three Arabian Kingdoms was uniquely paired with pomp and joint business incentives which focused in transforming the narrative from conflict to commerce and cooperation. The visits were […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 15, 2025 In what was akin to a celebration of global dictators and political rogues, Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Nicholas Maduro visited Moscow to join Vladimir Putin in celebrating Russia’s May 9th Victory Day Parade, the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany. Putin’s pantheon […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 7, 2025 A long smoldering fuse to wider conflict has reignited in the wake of a terrible terrorist attack killing 27 tourists in the mountainous Pahalgam region in disputed Kashmir. The Indian civilians were apparently targeted because of their Hindu religion. Since the unprovoked attacks in late […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 29, 2025 The tides of history, the tears of remembrance. Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units surged into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly reuniting the country, thus ending twenty years of conflict. Scenes of the North Vietnamese T-54 tanks crashing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 24, 2025 The Four Horsemen of the apocalypse are stalking Sudan; Brutal civil conflict, widespread devastation, humanitarian disasters, and the displacement of millions of refugees. Now add the Fifth Horseman, the darkness of global indifference. In characterizing one of the world’s biggest conflicts, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 16, 2025 A flurry of accusations, finger pointing and political grandstanding dominate the headlines as the trade war with China escalates. Global markets responded with roller-coaster fluctuations, and serious jolts, amid growing economic uncertainty. Talk of escalating tariffs is in the air as major trading partners square-off […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 7, 2025 China’s growing naval power is regularly and systematically harassing the waters around Taiwan in what appears to be rehearsal exercises for a future invasion of the self-ruled democratic island. Units of the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) as well as swarms of military aircraft regularly […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 31, 2025 Two powerful earthquakes jolted and devastated Myanmar, aka Burma, causing widespread death, destruction and dislocation for a country already reeling from the effects of ongoing civil conflict. The 7.7 Scale quakes created stunning devastation in central Myanmar as well as into neighboring Thailand killing 1,700 […]
