Risky geopolitics: Answering a Red Sea maritime threat in an election year

Risky geopolitics: Answering a Red Sea maritime threat in an election year

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, January 12, 2024 Islamic Iran is pulling the puppet strings, and its local stooges are jumping to them threatening global commerce. But beyond Hamas terrorists in Gaza, or the Hizbullah in southern Lebanon, this new seaborne threat has emerged in the oft overlooked Red Sea, a vital waterway […]

Report: Houthi attacks on Red Sea ships directly assisted by Iran intelligence

Report: Houthi attacks on Red Sea ships directly assisted by Iran intelligence

FPI / January 5, 2024 Geostrategy-Direct Along with drones and missiles, the Yemen-based Houthis are receiving real-time intelligence from Iran and are using it to target vessels passing through the Red Sea, according to regional and Western officials. Commercial vessels which have been targeted by the Houthis are tacked by a Red Sea surveillance vessel […]

Behind the Mideast wildfire: Iran’s expanding oil sales

Behind the Mideast wildfire: Iran’s expanding oil sales

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 16, 2023 As violence explodes throughout the Middle East, from Gaza to Yemen, and Syria to Iraq, the political fingerprints of the Islamic Republic of Iran become increasingly obvious on this regional tableaux of terror. Long deemed a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Iran’s Islamic rulers have funded […]

100 universities — but not one Ivy League school — sign letter condemning Hamas

100 universities — but not one Ivy League school — sign letter condemning Hamas

by WorldTribune Staff, November 8, 2023 Many of the most egregious acts of anti-semitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel occurred on Ivy League campuses. A Cornell student faces federal charges for threatening to stab and rape Jewish students; a Columbia student was charged with assault and hate crimes for attacking a student […]

Hate contagion: Depravity deemed acceptable by Gaza civilians, U.S. elected officials and academics?

Hate contagion: Depravity deemed acceptable by Gaza civilians, U.S. elected officials and academics?

by WorldTribune Staff, October 24, 2023 A large number of Gaza Strip residents who were not members of any terrorist group followed Hamas terrorists into Israel and participated in the massacre of Jewish civilians, including children. “The second wave of Arabs who came into the country were just as cruel as the terrorists of the […]

Palestinian refugees to U.S.? Can Islam culture coexist with western civilization?

Palestinian refugees to U.S.? Can Islam culture coexist with western civilization?

by WorldTribune Staff, October 15, 2023 As some one million people are expected to flee the Gaza Strip ahead of Israel’s military offensive, leftist Democrat New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman is calling on Team Biden to “welcome” Palestinian refugees into the United States. “The international community as well as the United States should be prepared […]

Reports: Timeline indicates weapons left in Afghanistan used in Oct. 7 attack on Israel

Reports: Timeline indicates weapons left in Afghanistan used in Oct. 7 attack on Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2023 In surrendering Afghanistan to the Taliban, the Biden Administration left billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry behind and those weapons likely ended up in the hands of terrorists, according to a new book  and interviews with a Hamas official. A senior Hamas official said in an interview on […]

Selective intel? U.S. agencies have not ‘seen evidence’ Iran planned Hamas attack

Selective intel? U.S. agencies have not ‘seen evidence’ Iran planned Hamas attack

FPI / October 13, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) had since August worked with the Hamas terror organization to devise the Oct. 7 air, land, and sea incursions into Israel, the most significant breach of the Jewish State’s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, senior members of Hamas and […]

Terror group shares ideological origins with ISIS; Qatar shelters top Hamas official

Terror group shares ideological origins with ISIS; Qatar shelters top Hamas official

FPI / October 11, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Following the Hamas terror attacks initiated on Oct. 7 that killed more than 1,000 Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “They are savages. Hamas is ISIS.” “Hamas terrorists bound, burned, and executed children,” Netanyahu said. But is Hamas really ISIS? Dr. Harel Chorev of the Moshe Dayan Center for […]

Black Lives Matter, Harvard student groups called out for celebrating Hamas massacre in Israel

Black Lives Matter, Harvard student groups called out for celebrating Hamas massacre in Israel

by WorldTribune Staff, October 11, 2023 On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists on paragliders descended on a music festival in southern Israel and slaughtered at least 260 festival attendees. Soon after, the Black Lives Matter Chicago chapter tweeted an image of a paraglider with a Palestinian flag and the caption “I Stand With Palestine.” More than […]