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John J. MetzlerThe Japan Times |
After months of hesitation, political infighting and rancorous debate, the U.S. Congress passed a massive Ukraine funding bill with a bipartisan...
John J. Metzler Myanmar is no stranger to conflict or endemic ethnic clashes. Tragically, the isolated Southeast Asian state has been in the...
In a classic under-the-political radar ploy, Russia has vetoed a U.N. Committee investigating North Korean nuclear, missile and banking sanctions...
As waves of gang violence engulf an already poor and destitute land through a reckless orgy of shootings and looting, the Caribbean nation of Haiti...
John J. Metzler Iran’s regime has been firmly condemned by a U.N. fact-finding mission investigating the unprovoked killing of Masha Amina two years...
LONDON — A stormy geopolitical weather front is converging on Western Europe as the Ukrainian war in the East has entered its third year with no end...
By John J. Metzler LONDON — A stormy geopolitical weather front is converging on Western Europe as the Ukrainian war in the East has entered...
By John J. Metzler John Metzler In a powerful vote of confidence for Ukraine's sovereignty and continuing independence, both the U.N. Security...
By John J. Metzler John J. Metzler Two years following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, some 74 percent of Americans view the war in...
By John J. Metzler Pakistan is politically on the brink again in the aftermath of fractious but inconclusive national parliamentary elections,...
By John J. Metzler While the world economy performed better than expected during 2023, tough times loom in the upcoming year. That’s...
By John J. Metzler While the world economy performed better than expected during 2023, tough times loom in the upcoming year. That’s...
By John J. Metzler Islamic Iran is pulling the strings and its local stooges are jumping to them threatening global commerce. But beyond Hamas...
By John J. Metzler Looking into the snow globe, it’s that time of year to predict and prognosticate what awaits this tired world in the New Year....
By John J. Metzler There they go again! North Korea’s reclusive communist regime ended the year with a provocative intercontinental ballistic...
By John J. Metzler There they go again! North Korea’s reclusive communist regime ended the year with a provocative intercontinental ballistic...
By John J. Metzler We are approaching Ukraine’s second Christmas at war with Russia. Gone are the heady days and David and Goliath moments of...
By John J. Metzler John J. Metzler Venezuela’s ruling Marxists are using some time-honored tricks to give their economically battered regime...
By John J. Metzler North Korea got lucky. After two previous failures earlier this year to launch a spy satellite, Pyongyang successfully sent...
By John J. Metzler North Korea got lucky. After two previous failures earlier this year to launch a spy satellite, Pyongyang successfully sent...
By John J. Metzler Facing a tight and tense presidential election showdown, Argentines chose freedom. In a stunning upset, the South American...
By John J. Metzler As violence explodes throughout the Middle East, from Gaza to Yemen, and Syria to Iraq, the political fingerprints of the...
By John J. Metzler “It’s the last bus stop in the world,” a former New Zealand prime minister once told me while he was visiting New...
By John J. Metzler “It’s the last bus stop in the world,” a former New Zealand prime minister once told me while he was visiting New...
By John J. Metzler Over the past year, human rights abuses in places ranging from Afghanistan to Ukraine, and to Myanmar, Xinjiang, China and...
By John J. Metzler A wide swath of Asian security issues were discussed and deliberated during the recent U.N. General debate. China and Korea...
By John J. Metzler It's been two years since the fall of Afghanistan. The tragic collapse of Kabul to the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban signaled...