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 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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 25, 2024 PARIS — France went into full Olympic countdown this week as the long-awaited Summer Games will begin in Paris with a spectacular evening parade of 85 boats and barges along the iconic River Seine. The uniquely creative Opening Ceremony on July 26, with over 10,000 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 17, 2024 As Ukraine’s war enters its third summer of fighting, there’s a morbid cadence to the conflict. The Russian invaders continue a bloody slugfest with a tough but worn-down Ukrainian army. Civilians throughout Ukraine are intended victims of indiscriminate Russian missile attacks. Clearly the international community […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 7, 2024 How does today’s climate of international chaos and uncertainty serve as a business barometer for foreign investment? Foreign investment has declined globally by 2 percent, to $1.3 trillion for 2023. Yet, in developing countries the dip was much deeper as investment flows fell by 7 percent […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, July 1, 2024 There’s said to be a Chinese curse which suggests, “May you live in interesting Times.” On the one hand it appears like a gesture of good fortune and happiness. It certainly can be. But what it subliminally implies is that you live in a world […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 19, 2024 North Korea’s ongoing human rights violations have been slammed and shamed by most members of the UN Security Council. In a powerful briefing by both diplomats and a high profile North Korean political defector, the fifteen-member Council underscored the noxious relationships between the regime’s massive […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 12, 2024 The somber but uplifting commemorations of the D-Day landings in Normandy, now eighty years ago, shed light on the historic Allied victory of arms, men and spirit. For American Presidents, D-Day serves as a talismanic singular moment in WWII which saw the successful Allied landings […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, June 5, 2024 This year has turned out be the time of major elections; Mexico, South Africa, Taiwan, European Union, Pakistan, Russia, soon the United Kingdom and in November the United States. And now India, probably the world’s most populous country, has just finished national elections for parliament, […]
