Día Internacional del Migrante 2018

La migración es el gran tema de nuestra época. El martes 18 de diciembre celebramos el Día Internacional del Migrante 2018 bajo el lema...

Australia Announces Moving its Embassy to Jerusalem: Is there any Surprise?

When the current Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison floated the idea that Australia might move its Israeli embassy from Tel Aviv to...

"Čilaj, stara"

Povsem navaden dan v službi bele halje, jutranji kaos, kopica dela in vrvež. Za sestrskim pultom pa v vsej tej hektiki mirno sedi študentka,...

New Frontiers for Waste Management

WASHINGTON, DC – The world is mired in a serious, if underreported, crisis. Every year, humans generate about two billion tons of household waste,...

When Americans fear China, what are they really afraid of?

Today, it appears that US-China relations are at their lowest point in decades, and that perception on both sides is clouded by misunderstanding...

Neo-Nazis in Germany's police — put out the fire

It may just be the tip of the iceberg: a right-wing extremist murder threat, sent from a police fax machine in the western German city of...

Argumentacija v številkah

Več kot dve tretjini denarja, ki ga država nameni svojim kulturnim zavodom in preko najrazličnejših razpisov še drugim akterjem na tej sceni,...

The Murder of Arab Women: A Badge of Shame for Their Society

These under-reported acts of violence have unique characteristics that must be addressed at the outset of any campaign to eradicate this evil

Mainland to answer Hong Kong population woes

Here’s another Family Planning Association survey to tell us what we already know: Hong Kong couples don’t like having children. Why? It’s not a...

Lies, damned lies, and artificial intelligence

CAMBRIDGE - Algorithms are as biased as the data they feed on. And all data are biased. Even “official” statistics cannot be assumed to stand...

Beijing’s South China Sea grab

MANILA - It has been just five years since China initiated its major land reclamation in the South China Sea, and the country has already shifted...

More people means more cars and more deaths

NEW YORK - More than 1.3 million people died in road-traffic accidents in 2016, an all-time high, according to the World Health Organization. A...

How Abe is changing Japan’s foreign policy apparatus

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND - Despite much attention being paid to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s diplomacy and domestic reforms, his administration’s...

The U.S.-North Korea deadlock

The majority of Japanese are skeptical about the chances of complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement (CVID) of nuclear weapons in North...

Dongdongju: King of drinks

Dongdongju: King of drinks By Bernard Rowan This year I've read stories about makgeolli, one of the more popular traditional Korean drinks. A...

Outcast furnaces for low-quality steel finding ways into Southeast Asia

MANILA (Reuters) — China banned induction furnaces last year in a crackdown on polluting producers of low-quality steel, but these machines have...

North Korea's future military

By Troy Stangarone About two weeks ago, North Korea tested a new weapons system that state media described as a "newly developed ultramodern...

Sijo conferences

By Mark Peterson Maybe this sijo thing is really catching on? In the last month I've been invited to two, count them! two!, conferences on sijo....

¿Por qué reparar tu ropa es un acto radical?

Chile es el país de Latinoamérica que más consume prendas de vestir. Un estudio realizado por Euromonitor International estima que los hogares...

What renting a property in Singapore is worth

FOR many years, Singapore has had a reputation for being one of the most expensive cities for real estate. The post What renting a property in...

Trump’s Victory Dance on the Weekly Standard’s Grave Is Obnoxious, Foolish - and Dangerous

From famine to fortune: A timeline of China’s economic turnaround

Today is the 40th anniversary of the opening up of communist China to outside economic forces. President Xi Jinping marked the occasion with a 90-...

Overestimating the EU Economy

ABU DHABI – The European Commission, the International Monetary Fund, and the OECD predict that, on average, the European Union’s economy will...

Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective Punishment of Attackers’ Families

The bill that would permit the eviction of families of terrorists from their homes to other areas of the West Bank, which has been approved by the...

A Nightmare on Balfour Street

Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly approaching the record for longest term in office as prime minister, set by David Ben Gurion. Both served in this...

Goldman shares drop as Malaysia files criminal charges over scandal

GOLDMAN Sach's shares were trading at its lowest level since Oct. 2016 early Monday morning (local time) after the Malaysian government filed...

Is there a plot to depopulate Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon?

An eerie video of a photo of one “Hajj Jamal Ghalaini” with a prayer on a backing track pops up occasionally on Facebook. The voice is that of...

Fatah and Hamas will face Trump's deal disunited

It's been more than a year now that the Trump administration has been talking about the "deal of the century" to bring some form of settlement to...

Corporate tax cuts are China's best option for boosting growth

Gideon Levy’s Views on Dead Settlers Are Incomprehensible, Inexcusable and Unforgivable

It is clearly possible to bear vehement political hostility to the political settlement movement, but not to murdered settlers. That Levy is no...

'Winter is coming’: Subservience to bankers & failure to reform is leading us into another crash

Back in October, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank had their annual meeting in Indonesia, where Indonesian President Widodo told the...

It’s Not the Prices, It’s the Politics

A protest that is focused on the 'cost of living' is not simply apolitical. It collaborates with a cruel policy of inequality that damages social...

Netanyahu and Europe's Right Wing: Quite a Success Story

Netanyahu is steering a path through teetering Europe with a realpolitik approach, strengthening relations in the east and south, without damaging...

Maybe studying medicine causes men’s brains to shrivel

Women’s brains are not only small but are made of a soft, sponge-like material. This was one of myriad myths that plagued women in Britain during...

Medical school entrance exams need monitoring for fairness

The education ministry has uncovered discriminatory practices in entrance examinations of 10 of the 81 medical schools nationwide. Their entrance...

Debating the Great Disruption

Growing inequality, accelerating globalization, and new technologies are contributing to a populist backlash that is upending the economic,...

No Noticeable Progress In India-Pakistan Relationship So Far

We have already reported earlier that the victory of the Movement for Justice party, headed by the current Prime Minister Imran Khan, in the...

Zionism as a Form of Toxic Masculinity

Toxic masculinity, as in: I, as a self-decreed Alpha, can do whatever the Capital Eff I please, to whomever I please, for whatever personal benefit...

America to the world: do as I say, not as I do

As the top diplomat of the most powerful country in the world, Mike Pompeo seems to follow an inversion of Spider-Man’s famous dictum: with great...

Truth is the First Casualty of Global Warming

BRUSSELS – The latest global climate summit in Poland has generated familiar predictions of doom and disaster from environmental activists....

How IoT is transforming the transportation sector and why it matters

THERE has been plenty of chatter about the internet of things (IoT) in the past decade or so, and most often, these conversations focus on the...

Either the EU ditches neoliberalism or its people will ditch the EU

In 1948 US State Department mandarin George Kennan – the man credited with devising the policy of containment vis-à-vis the Soviet Union at the end...

Just like Color Revolutions, Cyber Conflicts can Still Get People Killed

As it has been clearly demonstrated by the history of mankind, whenever new weapons are invented, they would invariably give an edge to the most...

Israeli Former Chief of Staff Gantz Could Represent Quite a Challenge to Netanyahu

He has a resumé, vague viewpoints, he looks great, really believes in reconciliation and unity, and, no less important, he’s brand new

Tokyo’s Indo-Pacific vision could definitely do with sharper teeth

SINCE Trump’s ‘Indo-Pacific’ speech in November 2017, Japan’s strategic vision towards the Indo-Pacific region, the ‘Free and Open...

Fixing Afghanistan’s Flawed Peace Process

OXFORD – In February, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani offered the Taliban unconditional talks to negotiate a political settlement. To support the...

Will 2019 be the year the yuan bounces back?

The pace of Chinese economic growth is slowing and a 90-day timeout from the trade war with the United States doesn’t guarantee a peace treaty will...

Pepe Mujica, ‘the dreams of an old man’

Interview. We spoke with former Uruguayan President Pepe Mujica, subject of the new movie La Noche de 12 Años. ‘Life taught me that you can always...

What Happened to Yad Vashem?

Netanyahu's extremist, nationalist government has turned the Holocaust remembrance center into a political tool reminiscent of history museums in...

'Barbed wire-plus': Borders know no love

During a Thanksgiving Day teleconference with members of the US armed forces, US President Donald Trump took the opportunity to exult over the...