by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2023 Saudi Arabia and Iran are among six countries invited to join BRICS as new members next year. The trading bloc BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has openly stated its desire to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. With the exception […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, August 24, 2023 Natural gas is the world’s wonder fuel: cheap, abundant, made in America, reliable AND clean burning. So why are the Biden administration and environmental groups against it? There’s really no good answer. What makes the Left’s war against natural gas inexplicable is that the single biggest […]
FPI / August 9, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Despite U.S. artificial intelligence advances in weaponry, Russia is thus far winning the drone war in Ukraine, an analyst said. How? “Because Moscow, Beijing and Teheran have figured out the vulnerabilities of machines versus humans. Western UAVs might have artificial intelligence. But it doesn’t make them smart in a […]
FPI / August 2, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher In 1950 it was former Soviet leader Josef Stalin who engineered the first “Axis of Evil,” when in January that year he approved of North Korean Workers Party leader Kim Il-Sung’s plan to invade South Korea. This fateful action then convinced newly victorious Chinese Communist Party […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 28, 2023 The Russians are acting more and more like Soviets. Their brutal war in Ukraine underscores the point that Moscow’s military ambitions have counter-humanitarian consequences. And now the Kremlin’s shutdown of the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain initiative signals that Vladimir Putin is willing to block food […]
by WorldTribune Staff / 247 Real News July 12, 2023 Since launching its new counteroffensive on June 4, the Ukrainian army has lost over 26,000 men and 1,244 tanks and armored vehicles, according to Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu as NATO members were meeting in Lithuania. Since the start of the Ukrainian counter-offensive on Kharkiv […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 30, 2023 The State Visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington illustrated both style and substance of the evolving relationship between the world’s two largest democracies. President Joe Biden described the India/American relationship as, “A partnership that is among the most consequential in the world, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 28, 2023 At the outset of Episode 7 Of his Tucker on Twitter series, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson asks: “Why exactly are we at war with Russia.” Of the billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars sent from Team Biden to Ukraine, Carlson asks: “What’s the point? Are we really doing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 25, 2023 The so-called coup in Russia lasted for less than 24 hours. The leader of the uprising, Evgeny Prigozhin, announced that his Wagner fighter columns that were reportedly descending on Moscow would turn around and go back to their bases. Was it a psychological operation? U.S. intelligence officials confirmed they […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 17, 2023 In one of the more predictable rites of Spring at the United Nations, the General Assembly has elected, or actually selected, five new non-permanent members to serve on the powerful fifteen member Security Council. While this year’s contest lacked the drama, debate and deliberation of […]