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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...
By John J. Metzler Most countries politely prefer to look the other way when it comes to confronting widespread reports of North Korean human...
By John J. Metzler Most countries politely prefer to look the other way when it comes to confronting widespread reports of North Korean human...
By John J. Metzler PARIS ― "Barbie" has charmed Paris. The pink-hued doll figure came alive in its blockbuster movie rendition that has captured...
By John J. Metzler PARIS ― The recent military coup d'etat in Niger, a vast and arid land on the southern tier of the Sahara, underscores the...
By John J. Metzler Paris ― The one-year countdown for the opening of the Paris Summer Olympics has begun. The return of the Olympics to...
By John J. Metzler The Russians are acting more and more like the Soviets. Their brutal war in Ukraine underscores the point that Moscow's...
By John J. Metzler UNESCO has equally designated unique foods as part of the world's intangible cultural heritage; Ukrainian Borsht soup, the...
By John J. Metzler In one of the more predictable rites of spring at the United Nations, the General Assembly has elected, or actually selected,...
By John J. Metzler It's hardly a surprise, but an affirmation of the obvious. Myanmar's military regime is being backed, supported and protected...
By John J. Metzler Seventy years is a long time, especially for a military alliance between friends. There are few in the world notably including...
By John J. Metzler The writing was on the wall. But when Brazil's leftwing President Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva visited China recently, he...
By John J. Metzler Taiwan's vibrant but threatened democracy had a good week. After months of facing ominous political threats from the Chinese...
By John J. Metzler As they say, you can't make this up. In the course of just over a week, China and Russia reaffirmed their friendship and...
By John J. Metzler As they say, you can't make this up. In the course of just over a week, China and Russia reaffirmed their friendship and...
By John J. Metzler A year after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the U.N. General Assembly firmly and sternly rebuked Russia's brutal war...
By John J. Metzler The timing is terrible but intentional. The setting is suspicious. The symbolism is deeply troubling. Almost a year to the day...
By John J. Metzler The timing is terrible but intentional. The setting is suspicious. The symbolism is deeply troubling. Almost a year to the day...
By John J. Metzler The military junta which seized power in Myanmar two years ago remains in power. But it is increasingly challenged by both its...
By John J. Metzler It seems like a profound contradiction; trying to convince Afghanistan's Taliban authorities to accept foreign humanitarian...
By John J. Metzler There's a significant sea change occurring in Japanese defense policy. Some would say it's the result of a political Tsunami....
By John J. Metzler It's all about the timing. Ana Belen Montes, an American who served more than 20 years in federal prison for spying for the...
By John J. Metzler It's that time of year to gaze into the crystal snow globe and try to see the stories on the horizon which will affect the New...