Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 13, 2024 The Assad family dictatorship which has run Syria for 53 years and has withstood 13 years of bitter civil war, has now collapsed in just over a week. A sweeping series of Islamic rebel attacks starting in late November, captured key cities from Aleppo in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, December 6, 2024 PARIS — We have witnessed a modern-day miracle. The splendid Notre Dame Cathedral, the heart and soul of France which was scarred and damaged by the terrible fire of April 2019, has been rebuilt, renovated and revitalized, through an amazing and painstaking restoration effort encompassing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 29, 2024 PARIS — There’s a strange unease in Europe. Part of it reflects the misplaced nervousness reacting to Donald Trump’s re-election as the American President. Naturally there’s the predictable political nail biting that a new virulent and assertive U.S. administration will be tough on European trade […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 19, 2024 Showdowns loom in the new year as New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has been nominated to serve as United Nations Ambassador by President-elect Donald Trump. Should she be approved by the Senate, Rep. Stefanik who has served in the U.S. Congress for a decade […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, Novemer 10, 2024 Democrat Party candidate Kamala Harris called for an election that would “Turn the Page” on the past decade of division and discord. The vice president won that challenge; American voters overwhelmingly turned the page on the Kamala Harris candidacy and ended it with a decisive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, November 1, 2024 Vladimir Putin put on a good show. The 16th annual BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia set the stage for the gathering of what’s essentially the “Alternative economic club” to the established Western groups such as the G-7 and the IMF. Thirty-five 35 delegations including 24 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 25, 2024 The rumors were true. The apparent dispatch of elite North Korean military units to fight alongside Russian troops in Ukraine appears at first surprising but actually is quite logical given the historic and comradely ties between Pyongyang and Moscow. After all, North Korea’ s isolated […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 18, 2024 The UN General Assembly held its annual elections to the Human Rights Council. The elections, or should we say selections, to the Geneva-based Council had all the drama of a preordained contest where approved slates representing regional groups were rubber-stamped in the 193-member Assembly. Yet, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, October 7, 2024 On October 7th, 2023, the world changed yet again. The powerful but seemingly contained Hamas terrorist group carried out coordinated rocket and ground attacks from Gaza on Israel in a stunning surprise attack. As with the Al Qaida terrorist attacks on America September 11th, 2001, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 29, 2024 Powerful thunderclaps from the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan rumbled as a dire greeting to the opening UN General Assembly session in New York. Winds from ongoing but unresolved humanitarian crises the world over from Sudan to Syria and Somalia swirled. And a nervous atmosphere […]
