Next move for North Korea’s Marxist ‘monarchy’? Watch China

Next move for North Korea’s Marxist ‘monarchy’? Watch China

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler North Korea’s Marxist “Monarchy” could be at a critical crossroads as recurring rumors about the death or incapacitation of the Supreme Leader Kim Jong-Un swirl around the nervous Korean peninsula. Despite a wildfire of media speculation, pending the definitive outcome of Kim’s health, the hard reality remains that […]

Can we afford not to reopen America?

Can we afford not to reopen America?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler Since mid-March the American economy has been on pandemic lockdown. Commercial, social and educational interaction have faced a form of limbo, forced to follow a still uncertain script dictated by the deadly coronavirus and decreed by state governors. For many of us, the world seems suspended in time; […]

Clear cut answers to the WHO questions

Clear cut answers to the WHO questions

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler It’s easy to point fingers during a deadly pandemic, and let’s do so. WHO first sounded the alarm? WHO downplayed real medical risks? WHO calmed or stoked irrational fears? WHO in this case, is the global medical monitor providing us with real time warnings and assessments. Governments and […]

This Easter, ‘scientists’ are being followed with ‘theological rigor’

This Easter, ‘scientists’ are being followed with ‘theological rigor’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler The Coronavirus outbreak has closed down the world, at least as we know it.  From the Far East into Europe and North America shutdowns, lockdowns, and stay at home orders are the norm.  And for good reason; COVID-19 poses the most dangerous global Pandemic since the 1918 scourge […]

Reagan: ‘Our differences worldwide would vanish’ if all faced an alien threat

Reagan: ‘Our differences worldwide would vanish’ if all faced an alien threat

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler What would happen if an alien force invaded the world? This was the hypothesis of many sci-fi films over the years in which warring countries and governments would somehow, suddenly, and urgently join together to fight the greater threat.  War of the Worlds, (1953) based on the H.G. […]

Life, livelihoods and liberty: The Coronavirus lockdown limbo

Life, livelihoods and liberty: The Coronavirus lockdown limbo

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler NEW YORK — It’s almost become a sad cliche to say that America is shutting down over the Coronavirus pandemic.  Uncertainty and fear stalk the land, but the enemy remains invisible. The growing global effects of COVID-19 from China to Western Europe, and now North America, ominously looms […]

Corona’s March Madness forces EU to control open borders

Corona’s March Madness forces EU to control open borders

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Truth is often stranger than fiction.  If somebody suggested a thriller novel plot set to the backdrop of gyrating stock markets, falling oil prices, rising tensions with Iran, amidst a spreading worldwide health pandemic, all juxtaposed to a contentious American Presidential election, most literary agents […]

Coronavirus, China supply chains and pharmaceutical components: Globalization’s revenge?

Coronavirus, China supply chains and pharmaceutical components: Globalization’s revenge?

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler GENEVA — In recent decades China has emerged as the factory to the world; a key player in production networks for automobiles, smartphones, computers, textiles and medical equipment. Indeed, as the world’s second largest economy Mainland China has become an indispensable part of globalization’s network combining low wage […]

Trump visit marked India’s dramatic post-democratic socialist economic boom

Trump visit marked India’s dramatic post-democratic socialist economic boom

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The imagery and optics presented a publicist’s dream; an American  president being feted by a cast of millions on foreign soil with exotic backdrops ranging from the enchanting Taj Mahal to a rousing Namaste Trump rally at the Motera Cricket stadium with 110,000 cheering onlookers […]

‘Westlessness’ and the ‘Meddle Kingdom’: Pompeo, Esper confront security challenges

‘Westlessness’ and the ‘Meddle Kingdom’: Pompeo, Esper confront security challenges

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Are the two sides of the Atlantic drifting apart?  Do the political and security ties forged during the dark years of the Cold War still hold firm?  Is the Atlantic Alliance which preserved Europe’s freedom and allowed for its prosperity, now simply a historical footnote? […]

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