Pakistan, China and terrorism

Katere družbene oznake nosijo teroristi?

‘Povsod sem videl mrtve. Trije so ležali na hodniku in ob samem vhodu v mošejo. Ne razumem, kako lahko nekdo stori kaj takšnega komur koli....

Born in the USSA? Americans cozy up to Socialism as Neocons pursue regime change in Venezuela

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, under duress from the US and its allies, must have enjoyed a good laugh this week when he read the news out of...

All Trump would do after Brexit is force UK to import American goods for US benefit

It may be that his views have been influenced by the fact that he's a friend of Nigel Farage, the former UKIP leader. During his 2016 presidential...

Netanyahu’s Latest Victim

The resignation of retired Judge Awni Habash as chairman of the permits committee in the State Comptroller’s Office ought to disturb every...

Indifference to Netanyahu’s Sinister Designs on Democracy Echo 'It Can’t Happen Here'

Sinclair Lewis’ 1935 dystopian novel is a blast from the past that warns Israelis, to paraphrase Herzl’s famous words: 'If you will it, it is...

Water sharing in Indonesia key to smothering transboundary haze

WITH 2019 expected to bring hotter and drier-than-usual El Niño weather conditions to Southeast Asia, concerns are heightened about a recurrence...

What’s behind East Asia’s falling birth rates?

EAST ASIAN countries now have the lowest fertility rates in the world. Japan was the first in the region to experience birth rates below...

Movilidad social o los bemoles de "nadie me regaló nada"

Consultada sobre la propuesta de la congresista Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, según la cual, bajo ciertas circunstancias el gobierno federal debería...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Tretja generacija upornikov

Najlažje je reči, da je današnja mladina zmanipulirana. Za karkoli že se javno in včasih celo množično zavzemajo, v vsakem primeru lahko...

Zbytočná hystéria

Maroš Šefčovič je pod oveľa väčším tlakom ako jeho súperka. Nielen vzhľadom na výsledky prvého kola, ktoré napovedajú, že má čo...

America: that awful country that everyone wants to move to

NEW YORK - Mercer, the global human resources consulting firm, last week released its 21st annual Quality of Living list, which ranks cities around...

BOJ gets extra innings just to hit a single

NEW YORK - Haruhiko Kuroda is miles from where he wants to be. About 200 miles (320 km). That’s the distance from Tokyo to Nagoya, where the Bank...

Modern monetary realism

AUSTIN - Is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) a potential boon to economic policymakers, or, as Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff recently argued, a threat to...

Bretton Woods at 75

RIO DE JANEIRO – The 1944 Bretton Woods conference established a multilateral framework for global cooperation on macroeconomic stability, trade,...

The Courage to Challenge the Smug ‘Masters’

The Israeli Army and Shin Bet were quick to hunt down the Palestinian who killed Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger and Staff Sgt. Gal Keidan and declare his...

US versus China -- a technology Cold War?

Solution to Korea jobless woes

By John Burton President Moon Jae-in faces a host of economic problems. Growth is slowing. Job creation is being hobbled by hikes in the minimum...

Stable Thailand will ride out any election disturbances thanks to economic growth

Thailand’s long-delayed elections to be held on March 24 have stirred concern among some analysts that we will see a fresh round of protests and...

Telling the Story of the Comfort Women

This is an excerpt from Park Statue Politics: World War II Comfort Women Memorials in the United States. Get your free copy here. In the mid-1930s,...

After Bleeding Thailand Dry, Soros is Going in for the Kill

The highly controversial figure of George Soros, the man who created a great many of various hedge funds including Soros Fund Management to become...

Japan needs a sound strategy for dealing with North Korea

Japan’s relationship with North Korea is fraught with knotty history-related issues and tensions stemming from the security threats posed by the...

Would the US destroy Venezuela to punish Russia and China?

The lights are coming back on in Venezuela, businesses are starting to reopen and the country seems to have suffered through the worst of the power...

The Missiles Will Wake Up Tel Aviv

The residents of Tel Aviv are not just indifferent to the distress of the residents of Gaza but also to Israel’s failure of strategic thinking...

The Answer to Israel’s Tech Labor Shortage Lies Just Over the Green Line

Mellanox employs 130 Palestinians, which not only provides badly needed jobs but fosters a dialogue of equals between the two sides

Global recession prophets have misread the US and Chinese economies

In the last few weeks the warnings have come thick and fast: the world economy is teetering on the edge of a new global recession, and sooner...

Xi holds key to North Korean nuclear deal

Attempt to prosecute Assad at ICC is aimed at undermining Syrian peace process

The announcement that “a group of Syrian refugees and their London lawyers” have found “a neat legal trick” to press for an indictment against...

The Great War and the Polish Question in Imperial Russia, 1914–1917

This is an excerpt from Great Power Policies Towards Central Europe 1914–1945. Get your free copy here. German‑Russian antagonism was a common...

Xi holds key to North Korea nuclear deal

No Choice and No Exit for the UK

LONDON – The United Kingdom’s protracted attempt to leave the European Union has upended the two illusions by which the world has lived since the...

Maduro’s Useful Idiots

LOS ANGELES – In his 1982 Nobel lecture, the Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez condemned the West’s insistence on “measuring us with...

Think Local, Develop Better

ISLAMABAD – In October 2018, Pakistani television news channels reported on how the local authorities in Pishin, a district in Balochistan...

The refugee crisis is not as Eurocentric as before, but it still exists

It has been three years since the European Union signed the “one in, one out” deal with Turkey on 18 March, 2016. The ongoing humanitarian crisis...

US is Behaving as True Looters Do

According to the agency South Front, the United States has transported approximately 50 tons of gold from the regions occupied by ISIS in the Deir...

Why Isn't Startup Nation Tapping Palestinian Talent?

Mellanox employs 130 Palestinians, which not only provides badly needed jobs but fosters a dialogue of equals between the two sides

ETF inversos, ventas en corto y apuestas contra el mercado

La venta en corto es una agresiva y potente estrategia de inversión especulativa que el mercado permite para apostar en contra de una compañía,...

BPO Outsourcing: El reto de la competitividad

El mercado de tercerización de procesos de negocio (BPO), en el Perú, crece a un ritmo de 12% por año y mueve cerca de US$9.600 millones al 2018,...

The New Zealand massacre is an example of hateful racism in the West

The Australian terrorist who committed the massacre at a mosque in New Zealand was calmly and even happily listening to music as he committed his...

Neither Israel nor Iran Trust Russia. But Only Putin Can Prevent War Between Them

Neither Iran nor Israel want to place crucial national security interests in the Kremlin's hands. But they need a third party to umpire their...

Christchurch attacks reminds us how toxic politics encourages hate

WHEN lives are tragically cut short, it is generally easier to explain the “how” than the “why”. This dark reality is all the more felt when...

Eastwood's film on Iwojima reflects lingering pain of islanders

Some people possess more finely attuned visual and audio senses that let them catch what others miss when analyzing the same information. As a...

Treat far-right terrorism as the serious threat it is

BERLIN - The deadly attacks on two New Zealand mosques should draw attention to an obvious fact: Terrorists linked to the far right are no less...

U.S. version of ‘one country, two systems’

WASHINGTON - I am writing this column in a Washington hotel room at midnight. Whenever my room is upgraded, I always watch two TV sets, one with...

German finance minister, hands off the German banks!

Deutsche and Commerzbank have confirmed they'll hold open-ended talks on a possible merger of Germany's two largest lenders. DW business editor...

A weekend of peaceful and not-so-peaceful protest in France

Reportage. Friday was the climate march, followed quickly by the March of the Century, organized by trade unions and civil society. The yellow...

New Zealand attack plays into jihadist hands: experts

White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of killing 50 people in the New Zealand mosque massacre in what he claimed was a blow against...

INSIGHTS into the WORLD / Summit had elements of game and show

History shows there are politicians at all times and places who are shrewd enough to present a trivial thing in a high-flown way to make it looks...

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As New Zealand grieves over the Christchurch terrorist attack, it must come to terms with how hatred was able to take root

Last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Christchurch were a devastating and tragic assault on New Zealand’s Muslim community and have shocked the...

Understanding the Fed’s Dovish Turn

NEW YORK – The US Federal Reserve surprised markets recently with a large and unexpected policy change. When the Federal Open Market Committee...

Zdvihnutý prst

Marian Kotleba má pomerne disciplinovanú volebnú základňu, ktorá sa dala iba čiastočne zlákať jeho hlavným rivalom v antisystémovej...

Fair demands and political exploitation of the Gaza protests against Hamas

The Gaza Strip has just witnessed a series of demonstrations against poor living conditions. They prompted widespread reactions critical of...

Hamas Deserves Blame, but Not for Gaza’s Economic Crisis

Gaza has grown completely reliant on outside aid and that has dried up. Now, it faces a humanitarian crisis and there's no one to help it

Christchurch terrorist fits the profile: white, male and angry about ‘replacement’

Report. New Zealand was thrown into mourning and reflection this weekend after a white supremacist killed 50 people at two mosques in Christchurch....

After Christchurch and Pittsburgh, U.S. Jews and Muslims Need Each Other More Than Ever

Standing together against a white supremacism that targets us for abuse and death is now, despite the tensions and sensitivities between our...

How long can Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stay in power?

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dominated Japanese politics ever since winning the national election in 2012 and returning from opposition for a...

An Iranian Hacking That Could Become an Assault on Israeli Democracy

The Iranian hacking of a smartphone belonging to the head of the Kahol Lavan party and former military chief Benny Gantz, disclosed last week by...

Why Muslims must be at the forefront of fighting anti-Semitism

On October 27, 2018, a gunman entered the Tree of Life Synagogue at the Squirrel Hill neighbourhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while Shabbat...

How Hamas Became an Enemy of the Palestinian People

When Gazans declare: 'We Want To Live,’ Hamas smears them as traitors, junkies and manipulated fools - then beats them up. No wonder Gazans now...

As China chases economic growth, pollution and poverty will take a back seat

If last year’s annual parliamentary session was a powerful demonstration of political force by the pre-eminent Chinese president, this year’s...

Christchurch shooting: Racism in New Zealand isn’t new and in the era of Donald Trump, what public figures say about race matters

At one point in the early 2000s, when I was at university in the United States, I returned to NewZealand for a visit. I grew up there after my...

Druhé kolo bez extrému

Zuzana Čaputová potvrdila, že výsledky prieskumov politických preferencií spred dvoch-troch týždňov neboli náhodné. Prvé kolo skončila...

Dve tváre zmeny

Kým liberálny elektorát tejto kandidátky chce pretrhnúť kontinuitu vládnutia súčasnej moci, štvrtine voličov, ktorá dala svoj hlas...

Chinese economics with Japanese characteristics

Max Kruse should be back in the Germany team

The Werder Bremen captain has been in sensational form for a while, lifting Bremen back into contention for a Europa League spot. DW's Jonathan...

Germany’s Merkel & France’s Macron Plan for EU Naval Air Power

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken the next step in consolidating the power of Germany’s Fourth Reich alongside Rothschild lackey Emmanuel...

Michael Jackson’s influence cannot be canceled

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT - The other night, as a sort of psycho-cultural experiment, I tried to watch “The Usual Suspects,” for many years one of...

"Kalashnikov" in India: a Success Story of Bilateral Collaboration

A great success has been achieved in one area of cooperation between India and Russia: the military and technical sphere. For quite some time now,...

Kenya's Gender Bill: Battling inequality, saving the constitution

On February 27, Kenya's national assembly once again refused to enact the Constitution of Kenya (Amendment) Bill 2018, also known as the Gender...

Herbert C. Hoover and Poland, 1929–1933: Between Myth and Reality

This is an excerpt from Great Power Policies Towards Central Europe 1914–1945. Get your free copy here. In Europe, and particularly in...

New US Ambassador to Azerbaijan is a First-Class Troublemaker

In early March Washington sent a new ambassador to Azerbaijan that was appointed by the sitting US president Donald Trump personally. As it’s...

The high costs of the new cold war

LONDON - It is convenient to call the escalating geopolitical contest between the United States and China a “new cold war.” But that...

New Zealand’s Loss of Innocence

WELLINGTON – After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Le Monde famously proclaimed that “Today, we are all Americans.” In the wake of...

Italy’s rush to be part of China’s Belt and Road alarms U.S., EU

ROME (Reuters) — The ancient Silk Road was a network of trading routes that stretched from China to Italy, transporting goods, skills and ideas...

Brutal executions by Kim Jong-un

By Chang Se-moon On Feb. 22, the Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) of Washington, D.C., and the North Korea Strategy Center (NKSC) of New York...

After massacre, New Zealand leader shows resolve, empathy

The attributes that helped Jacinda Ardern rise to become New Zealand's leader at age 37 include her optimistic outlook and bright personality. And...

Thousand-year border

By Mark Peterson Today, I want to return to an earlier theme that I like to write about ― that of the stability of Korean history. The stability...

Dobrá správa o Slovensku

V druhom kole volieb nebudeme nútení počúvať hrozby o tom, ako nový prezident hneď po nástupe do funkcie zruší všetky naše...

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'Islamic State' may fall, but will not vanish

The "Islamic State" has now almost lost all the territory it once controlled. But assuming this development means the scourge of jihadism will end...

If Palestinians Have 22 States, Israeli Jews Have 200

The notion that the Palestinians have 22 states to go to is a blend of malice and ignorance: The Palestinians are the stepchildren of the Arab...

A twist in the usual college sports scandal

The latest federal probe into the seamy underbelly of college athletics uncovered just the opposite of what we usually expect: Instead of paying...