Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 31, 2026 PARIS — France has had a bad Summer. First came the heatwaves, later there was the respite of World Cup Football amid cooler days, and then in the midst of the World Cup finals, France lost badly and the heat and wildfires returned anew. France’s […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 23, 2026 Transnational terrorism, namely the global links and support of targeted violence, is hardly a new phenomenon. The September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States tragically underscored this grim reality. But what’s changed in the 25 years since September 11th has been the widening […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 15, 2026 How quickly we forget. The cataclysmic earthquakes which devastated large regions of Venezuela recently have paralyzed an already vulnerable country in the midst of chronic social and political instability. Now yet another level of humanitarian disaster stalks this South American land as the world rushed […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 8, 2026 Well, we’ve done it! Reaching the milestone 250th Anniversary of the United States Independence and throwing an amazing party to celebrate the achievement. The traditional 4th of July independence day commemorations in Philadelphia turned into a phenomenal nationwide gala of patriotism, pride and perseverance of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 2, 2026 250 Years of Freedom — 9 There’s a perfect nexus of sport, celebration and patriotism throughout the USA this summer as the FIFA World Cup, the countdown to the American 250th Birthday celebrations, and the 4th of July Independence Day holiday have converged into a […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 26, 2026 If is a big and a most consequential word in the English language. The word connotes wishes and conditionality and often aspirations. If also is one of the shortest words holding a very long explanatory meaning which embodies hope but just as easily signals fatalism. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 17, 2026 The lavish welcome China’s Leader Xi Jinping received on his recent visit to North Korea stylistically underscored a deep and comradely relationship between the two communist regimes. Xi’s trip to Pyongyang, his first in seven years to the secluded socialist state, was nonetheless more about […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 12, 2026 The UN General Assembly has a busy year ahead.. First the members have chosen its new President to preside over the 81st General Assembly. Then the 193 members picked five new non-permanent members to serve on the fifteen-member Security Council. Lastly, later in the year, […]
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 […]
