Whither Britain? PM Starmer goes wobbly on backing USA; Key Gulf allies get pounded

Whither Britain? PM Starmer goes wobbly on backing USA; Key Gulf allies get pounded

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 […]

Part II: What mattered most about Benghazi for DOJ-FBI was political power

Part II: What mattered most about Benghazi for DOJ-FBI was political power

Special to WorldTribune, March 9, 2026 The following are excerpts from Government Gangsters, by Kash Patel in 2023. He was named Director of the FBI in 2025. After my years as a public defender, I was hired by the National Security Division in DoJ headquarters (commonly referred to as Main Justice) in Washington, DC, as […]

Iran’s new dawn: ‘Largest tectonic geopolitical shift since 1989’

Iran’s new dawn: ‘Largest tectonic geopolitical shift since 1989’

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 2, 2026 Darkness at Noon has shrouded Iran for nearly half a century. The Islamic Republic of Iran has tried, and somewhat successfully, to turn back the clock in the once secular and prosperous nation. It has since ruined the economy, disenfranchised women, supported terrorist proxies, and […]

Trump’s one-two punch to China’s grand strategy: Iran as Middle East proxy

Trump’s one-two punch to China’s grand strategy: Iran as Middle East proxy

Special to WorldTribune, March 1, 2026 by Miles Maochun Yu, Hoover Institution The following analysis was originally published on July 2, 2025 and was re-posted this weekend by the author. When the Biden administration signaled a withdrawal of U.S. assertiveness in the Middle East, it effectively created a vacuum that China was eager to fill. […]

The predictable fate of EVs: Death by government subsidies

The predictable fate of EVs: Death by government subsidies

Special to WorldTribune.com Commentary by Stephen Moore, February 27, 2026 Here’s a depressing but all too predictable headline from The Wall Street Journal last week: “Detroit’s EV Pullback Is Costing $50 Billion.” Yikes. That’s a lot of money for the American auto industry to lose. Once again, we have confirmation of an iron law of […]

‘Charting the path for a new century’: Marco inspired renewal of transatlantic bonds

‘Charting the path for a new century’: Marco inspired renewal of transatlantic bonds

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 25, 2026 Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech “hit the ball out of the park” during the recent Munich Security Conference in Germany. The address provided a policy tour de force which recalled the Cold War, post-communist history and then seamlessly blended the topic into a cohesive […]

State of education: The children vanished

State of education: The children vanished

Special to WorldTribune.com By Alexander Maistrovoy, February 21, 2026 And the Piper advanced and the children followed, And when all were in to the very last, The door in the mountain-side shut fast. — The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child’s Story What makes an average individual a law-abiding, sensible, responsible citizen — loyal to […]

Japan election shifts geopolitical tectonic plates; NY Times buries news on page 7

Japan election shifts geopolitical tectonic plates; NY Times buries news on page 7

Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, February 16, 2026 A massive political tsunami swept across the Japanese islands as recent national elections scored a resounding electoral win for the incumbent political party and its maverick leader Sanae Takaichi. Though the outcome was assumed, her stunning triumph was not expected. The snap parliamentary elections reflected […]

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