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The geopolitics of African resources: China’s plot to tap them in new,...
GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs People’s Republic of China (PRC) officials are becoming increasingly apprehensive about the rise in the use of the westward corridor to export oil, diamonds, and rare...
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Behind France’s intervention in CAR: Uranium supply security
By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Operation Sangaris (a local exotic butterfly) — the French and MISCA (the French acronym for the...
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UN swamped by a ‘Perfect Storm’ of humanitarian disasters
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Faced with the ongoing civil war in Syria, the natural disaster in the Philippines, and a spreading civil conflict in the Central African Republic, the UN...
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U.S. interventionism in Africa makes colonialism look progressive, empowers...
By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Not since the peak of the colonial era has Western interventionism in African affairs been so intrusive and...
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African nations need regional solutions, not misguided advice from the West...
Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Western political leaders and media are often quick to make demands of African states and their leaders while...
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Chaos in the heart of Africa: Time for S. Sudan to act and the U.S.-enabled...
Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Crisis and violence linger in South Sudan more than two months after Riek Machar’s failed coup attempt. A South...
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As China eats West’s lunch in Africa, bad policy reaps chaos in S. Sudan, CAR
Yossef Bodansky, Senior Editor, Global Information System / Defense & Foreign Affairs Major Western states, with historical dominance over key African regions and markets, have, in the first years...
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The great Africa switcheroo: U.S. policy is now ideological, while China’s is...
Gregory R. Copley, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs The global strategic framework has changed beyond recognition in the past decade, even if the majority of the world’s population cannot grasp it....
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Holiday season of peace and joy? Not for a record-breaking 57 million war...
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Set to the backdrop of regional wars and simmering ethnic conflicts, the UN relief agencies made an unprecedented appeal for wider funding to address the current...
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Disturbing Freedom House report: As USA weakens, repression expands
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — There’s been a disturbing decline in global freedoms over the past year with a clear erosion of political rights for the ninth consecutive year. These are among the...
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FAITH MATTERS: ‘Selfish’ Germany’s warm welcome to 800,000 refugees
By Uwe Siemon-Netto Measuring a mere 137,000 square miles, Germany is not even as big as the U.S. state of Montana (147,000 sq. mi.). Germany is home to 81 million people, compared with Montana’s one...
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WORLD MATTERS: Flood of Refugees exposes America’s fatal flaw: Impatience and...
By Uwe Siemon-Netto The flood of Middle Eastern refugees into Europe exposes a fatal flaw of the current democratic system in the United States. The defect is the innate inability of the fast-paced...
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UN session begins under clouds of war and crisis
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Dark war clouds swirl from the Middle East, humanitarian crises worsen in Sub-Saharan Africa, and as refugees pour fourth into the developed world, the UN General...
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FAITH MATTERS: Volkswagen and Germany’s lost virtue
By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Arrogance is the art to take pride in its own stupidity,” says an astute German aphorism allegedly coined by Goethe. Arrogance comes to mind as the most charitable attribute when...
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WORLD MATTERS: The Brexit sorrow of an Anglo-German couple
By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Oh dear, I’d better stay in bed,” groaned my English wife, Gillian, when I woke her on Friday morning with the sad news that her compatriots had voted to leave the European Union....
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As UN convenes, N. Korea is only one crisis: Consider China-backed Burma’s...
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — Amid the backdrop of global conflicts and humanitarian crises, presidents, prime ministers, and potentates from 193 member states have...
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