Out of Africa: France pulls forces from key bases

Out of Africa: France pulls forces from key bases

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 31, 2025 PARIS — It’s a turning of the page in Franco/African diplomatic relations. Now for the first time since the decolonization of the French colonies in the early 1960’s, there will be no formal French military bases on the African continent. Following decolonization, former French President […]

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein; Now consider what July 2025 would have been like without Trump

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein; Now consider what July 2025 would have been like without Trump

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Wayne Allyn Root, July 26, 2025 This Epstein controversy has been obscuring the fact that this has been the greatest start to any presidency in history. And a remarkable past two weeks. And even a remarkable past 24 hours. Trump is hitting home runs. Except for Epstein. For once The […]

What? Federal programs can never be killed? Trump never got the memo

What? Federal programs can never be killed? Trump never got the memo

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, July 23, 2025 Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled — no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions […]

El Chapo’s son could implicate people on both side of border and at high levels

El Chapo’s son could implicate people on both side of border and at high levels

Special to WorldTribune.com By Allan Wall,  July 21, 2025 Ovidio Guzman, son of El Chapo Guzman and a leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was captured in Mexico in 2023 and extradited to the United States later that year. In July of 2025, Ovidio has made a plea bargain with the court and pleaded guilty. What’s […]

Ukraine war: Geopolitical realignment by U.S.-NATO puts heat on Russia, China

Ukraine war: Geopolitical realignment by U.S.-NATO puts heat on Russia, China

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 17, 2025 President Donald Trump has had it with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Gone are the days where it appeared that the Russians were ready for a negotiated “deal” or “ceasefire’ in the bloody Ukraine war. Now Donald Trump has openly said that “Putin has been bull**ing him” […]

BRICS, bromides and the big question: Where was Xi Jinping

BRICS, bromides and the big question: Where was Xi Jinping

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 13, 2025 Tis’ that time of the year when the BRICS economic Summit comes round to state the obvious; “We are the Rest of the World,” and powerful members of the global developing economies too. So, when the 17th BRICS Summit launched in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, […]

Unreported: The ‘hidden gems’ of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Unreported: The ‘hidden gems’ of the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, July 9, 2025 Everyone knows that the “Big, Beautiful” tax bill signed into law on the Fourth of July lowers tax burdens for families and businesses. It also averts a $4 trillion tax increase starting next year. That’s enough reason to heartily celebrate. But what isn’t well known is […]

United Nations at 80: Recalling its euphoric genesis in the ‘City by the Bay’

United Nations at 80: Recalling its euphoric genesis in the ‘City by the Bay’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 6, 2025 Amid wars, global strife and massive refugee dislocations, the current global scene is overwhelmed with crises ranging from the Middle East to Ukraine and a dozen African conflicts which rarely make the news. The contemporary world situation in many ways resembles 1945 and the end […]

Hizzoner Zohran Mamdani? Goodbye NYC, hello Gaza

Hizzoner Zohran Mamdani? Goodbye NYC, hello Gaza

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Wayne Allyn Root, June 29, 2025 I was born and raised a Jewish New Yorker. I graduated from New York’s Columbia University. I spent my 20s in Manhattan. I loved New York City. But now the unthinkable has happened. A politician with a combination that I’d never thought possible in […]

Follow the dark money; Arrest, identify, and prosecute violent rioters who hate America

Follow the dark money; Arrest, identify, and prosecute violent rioters who hate America

Special to WorldTribune, June 27, 2025 Commentary by Laurence F Sanford Headline-generating chaos that appears aimed at destabilizing American democracy is not as random as some news readers would have us believe. Such dramas are often funded by organized ideologues including Mexican cartels, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fronts and agents, Marxists, Islamists, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and […]