Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 3, 2026 There’s been a subtle but overlooked shift in the bloody war between Russia and Ukraine. Despite grueling causalities and losses on both sides in the fighting, the Kremlin leadership has been able to keep the worst effects of the conflict away from key populations in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 26, 2026 Admittedly it looks a lot like a movie plot. A political thriller where the intelligence Director of the chief adversary state, comes into the nervous capital city and meets with regime leaders to tell them their days in power are numbered. Unless … Then a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 20, 2026 Amid the spectacle and political pageantry in which Beijing so excels, President Donald Trump and his high-powered American business entourage visited China. The trip to the People’s Republic comes amid rising global tensions, continuing trade frictions and disruption of maritime commerce in the Middle East. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 11, 2026 THE HAGUE — Among the attributes of the Dutch people are hard work, punctuality and friendly free spirits. But when the new Netherlands coalition government was formed earlier in the year, one of its first steps was a massive tax increase on an already overburdened […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 22, 2026 A hundred days have passed since the carnage. Those dark days in early January when a rolling crescendo of massive pro-democracy demonstrations took to the streets of Teheran and Iranian cities to demand not only political freedoms, but the most basic choice of social and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, April 16, 2026 Splashdown! After a successful nine-day mission around the Moon, including the planet’s rarely seen Far Side aka the Dark Side, the Artemis II astronauts returned to earth with a textbook landing in the Pacific Ocean just off San Diego, California. Manned Lunar spaceflight has returned! […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 17, 2026 As the Iran War enters its third week of largely aerial and seaborne combat, there’s laser-like focus on the Straits of Hormuz and the wider Persian Gulf. Iran quite predictably has closed the narrow sea-lane to shipping and thus jolted oil markets from the Middle […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 10, 2026 LONDON — Just a year ago, Sir Kier Starmer, Britain’s Prime Minister was being hailed as a statesman for having defused a nasty political dustup between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky over Ukraine policy. A White House showdown threatened to derail American support for beleaguered […]
Special to WorldTribune, February 22, 2026 Real World News By Richard Fisher for Geostrategy-Direct, February 17, 2026 Since 1963, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has served as an annual meeting ground for European and American foreign policy elites, spanning the Cold War and into the new era of multiple powers, enabling constant European and American […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 9, 2026 Set amid the spectacular Alpine scenery and historic towns of northern Italy, the XXV Winter Olympics have opened in Milan/Cortina. The two week event hosting 90 teams and some 2,900 athletes are competing in sporting events from the traditional downhill skiing, snowboard, speed skating to […]
