by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2023 The so-called coup in Russia lasted for less than 24 hours. The leader of the uprising, Evgeny Prigozhin, announced that his Wagner fighter columns that were reportedly descending on Moscow would turn around and go back to their bases. Was it a psychological operation? U.S. intelligence officials confirmed they […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 17, 2023 In one of the more predictable rites of Spring at the United Nations, the General Assembly has elected, or actually selected, five new non-permanent members to serve on the powerful fifteen member Security Council. While this year’s contest lacked the drama, debate and deliberation of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 8, 2023 The world seems to have forgotten about Syria. You could excuse this after a dozen years of bloody conflict, humanitarian catastrophes and a jarring earthquake in February. Equally there’s a global crisis overload from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and looming in East Asia. […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, June 7, 2023 In his first broadcast on Twitter, Tucker Carlson dissected large chunks of the Russia-Ukraine narrative pushed by Team Biden and its major media allies which brook no opposition. He concluded by noting: “We’re told there are no gatekeepers here.” We shall see. Racking up 71.6 million views in […]
FPI / June 4, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct The growing nuclear threat posed by China is “potentially catastrophic” and the United States needs to bolster its deterrence to deal with it, a group of senior specialists have warned. Biden administration plans and policies are not sufficient to handle China’s rapid large-scale buildup of nuclear missiles, submarines, bombers, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 29, 2023 Days after Sen. Lindsey Graham traveled to Kiev, where he reportedly said Russian deaths in the war with Ukraine amount to American money well spent, the Kremlin issued an arrest warrant for the South Carolina Republican. The hawkish senator met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev on Friday […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 29, 2023 It’s hardly a surprise, but an affirmation of the obvious. Burma’s military regime is being backed, supported and protected by both Russia and China. What’s new is that the specifics of this assistance have come to light in a landmark UN report uncovering the extent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 21, 2023 Another earthquake has jolted Turkey. But contrary to the seismic calamity which devastated large parts of eastern Turkey in February killing more than 50,000 people this was an electoral jolt whose political shockwaves and aftershocks continue to rattle the entire country from Istanbul, through the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 22, 2023 As they say, you can’t make this up. In the course of just over a week, China and Russia reaffirmed their friendship and military ties, the Iranian regime proxies lashed out with rockets at U.S. forces in neighboring Syria, North Korea shot off a few […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 22, 2023 Despite a widening war with Russia, shipments of Ukrainian food and grain are still being shipped to global markets under a complex but fragile accord brokered by the United Nations and nearby Turkey. Since the deal was initiated last Summer, The Black Sea Grain Initiative […]
