Nuclear power Pakistan scrambles to secure its border from newly-empowered Taliban

Nuclear power Pakistan scrambles to secure its border from newly-empowered Taliban

FPI / April 30, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct Pakistan, a country of 255 million people that has nuclear weapons, is facing a major problem at its border with Afghanistan. Pakistan’s version of the CIA, the ISI, has reportedly been riddled with Taliban assets for years while China has increasingly replaced the United States as its strategic partner. […]

Taliban’s dark rule in failed state Afghanistan: Opium prices soar, women lose rights

Taliban’s dark rule in failed state Afghanistan: Opium prices soar, women lose rights

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 16, 2025 The darkening rule of the Taliban regime over Afghanistan continues to dim prospects for Women’s rights as well as any chances for the war-torn country to overcome an ongoing humanitarian catastrophe. Currently more than 50 percent of the population, some 23 million people in this […]

Flashback: America has paid dearly for its emperor with no clothes

Flashback: America has paid dearly for its emperor with no clothes

Special to WorldTribune.com Has this column, penned two-and-a-half years ago, stood the test of time? Was Joe Biden’s legacy already in focus back then? Following are excerpts of the original: By John McNabb June 13, 2022 Today we have a president, Joe Biden, who is both a multimillionaire, a guy who can’t lead the country […]

Master of disaster: Early assessment of Biden’s geostrategic legacy

Master of disaster: Early assessment of Biden’s geostrategic legacy

FPI / September 25, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct President Joe Biden’s weak foreign policy decisions have “encouraged the advance of U.S. adversaries across the globe,” according to a devastating assessment on Sept. 23. “It is a far more dangerous world than Biden inherited, and far less congenial for U.S. interests, human freedom and democracy,” stated the editorial, […]

On 3rd anniversary of Afghanistan disaster, Trump attends memorial skipped by Biden, Harris, Obama, Bush

On 3rd anniversary of Afghanistan disaster, Trump attends memorial skipped by Biden, Harris, Obama, Bush

by WorldTribune Staff, August 26, 2024 Contract With Our Readers Former President Donald Trump, whose Afghanistan withdrawal plan was ignored by the Biden-Harris administration, was on hand at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to mark the third anniversary of the botched Biden-Harris withdrawal in which 13 U.S. military servicemembers were killed in a terrorist attack […]

August 15, 2021: Kabul collapse shattered global balance of power

August 15, 2021: Kabul collapse shattered global balance of power

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 15, 2024 The collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban Islamic fundamentalists three years ago on Aug. 15th, signaled an inflection point on the geopolitical scene. While the appalling stupidity of the Biden/Harris Administration’s botched and humiliating withdrawal of American forces from this South Asian land stained and […]

Taliban celebrate with Chinese, Iranian envoys at former U.S. Bagram Air Base

Taliban celebrate with Chinese, Iranian envoys at former U.S. Bagram Air Base

by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2024 Contract With Our Readers The Taliban on Wednesday held a military parade at a key air base that was abandoned by the Biden-Harris team and showcased U.S. military equipment the terror organization obtained when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in September 2021. The Taliban was celebrating the third anniversary […]

Ukraine’s trauma continues; UN and NATO have no solution

Ukraine’s trauma continues; UN and NATO have no solution

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 17, 2024 As Ukraine’s war enters its third summer of fighting, there’s a morbid cadence to the conflict. The Russian invaders continue a bloody slugfest with a tough but worn-down Ukrainian army. Civilians throughout Ukraine are intended victims of indiscriminate Russian missile attacks. Clearly the international community […]

Bowe Bergdahl is back in the news, thanks to a D.C. judge

Bowe Bergdahl is back in the news, thanks to a D.C. judge

Special to WorldTribune.com By Bill Juneau, April 18, 2024 You may have figured that you’d heard the last of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who deserted his regiment in Afghanistan and subsequently was convicted of the offense in a court martial at which he plead guilty. But the story of the ex-sergeant has taken a new […]

Taliban will begin stoning to death women accused of adultery

Taliban will begin stoning to death women accused of adultery

by WorldTribune Staff, March 26, 2024 When Joe Biden surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban in August 2021, some news reports hinted that the Biden team had somehow convinced the terror organization to become more moderate and respectful of women. As part of its war on Western democracy, the Taliban announced on Saturday that it will […]

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