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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 19, 2024 Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings and potentates are converging in New York for the 79th annual General Assembly of the United Nations. As the 193 member states meet amid the pomp, splendor and promise of a renewed challenge to settle conflicts and solve humanitarian crises, which […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 13, 2024 The world is entering a new more dangerous security phase; the winds of war which have been lashing parts of the planet for the past few years could well go to gale force and bring us to the verge of a global conflict. Though both […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, September 8, 2024 The three-day visit of U.S. National Security advisor Jake Sullivan to Beijing had a clear message; “Don’t Rock the Boat.” Chinese/American relations remain very sensitive over trade tariffs, strategic issues, and Beijing’s continuing military threats to democratic Taiwan and the Philippines. The mutual political mistrust […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 28, 2024 Who remembers Libya? Who recalls how we became embroiled in this civil war only then to quickly lose interest? But sadly, Americans vividly remember Benghazi and the horrible loss of a U.S. Consulate, the death of a respected U.S. diplomat, killing of three security personnel […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 15, 2024 The collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban Islamic fundamentalists three years ago on Aug. 15th, signaled an inflection point on the geopolitical scene. While the appalling stupidity of the Biden/Harris Administration’s botched and humiliating withdrawal of American forces from this South Asian land stained and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 9, 2024 PARIS — In what’s described as a thunderclap in French North African policy, the Paris government recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over the long disputed Western Sahara, a region long contested by rival Algeria and a lingering subject of endless United Nations deliberations. In a deft and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, August 1, 2024 PARIS — France is facing continuing political chaos in the wake of President’s Emmanuel Macron’s vain and failed gambit in calling for unnecessary legislative elections to counterbalance the expected but riveting results of the rightist surge in June’s European Parliamentary voting. Now ironically the Paris […]
