Ideologija genetike

Vedno nastane problem, ko komentator izgubi voljo, bralstvo pa zaradi tega ploska. Ker, kaj češ komentirati v deželi, kjer poslanec ukrade sendvič...

‘1st contact’ with melted nuclear debris points to nightmare ahead

Traffic safety classes are often held for the benefit of elementary school pupils. But one given earlier this month in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture,...

Thank you for cutting US financial aid

Those examining the world looking for the effects of US financial aid would find that its results were not in the best interest of those receiving...

If Saudi’s MBS remains in control, more tensions with Morocco will come

Saudi-Moroccan relations are witnessing an unprecedented period of tension. Morocco has decided to pull its Ambassador from Riyadh. The Ambassador,...

Does the Covert Militarization of Japan Serve its National Interests Well

According to Japan’s ministry of defense, Tokyo has recently adopted a set of guidelines aimed at strengthening its national defense potential...

Kdo bo v Bruslju kradel sendviče?

‘En sendvič na dan odžene poslanca stran,« je ena od domislic, ki so jih sproducirali tisti, ki so se naslajali ob zgodbi poslanca Darija...

In Germany, the Green New Deal works

BERLIN - Opponents of the U.S. congressional Democrats’ Green New Deal point to Germany as an example of a country where similar policies have...

Monolog o evtanaziji

Javni pismi akademika dr. Janka Pleterskega in učiteljice Alenke Čurin Janžekovič, ki sta v skrajni zdravstveni stiski zaprosila za zdravniško...

Neumen in bolj neumen

Nekoč smo imeli na urah materinščine – ne vem, ali to obstaja v šolah še danes – »branje z razumevanjem«. Ko smo obvladali abecedo in...

Be realistic on Brexit and US-China trade war, or risk massive fallout

Two major divorces are in the making in March. The obvious one is Brexit, which officially occurs on March 29. The other is the deadline for the...

Afghanistan: Russia Starts the True ‘Intra-Afghan Dialogue’

It wasn’t long ago when top U.S. military officials had accused Russia of supplying weapons to the Afghan Taliban, an accusation that the...

Las Kopras

Prejšnji petek me je naključje odpeljalo v Koper. Malo po deseti uri zvečer sem zavil z avtoceste in zapeljal proti mestnemu središču. Pot me...

Gene-edited food not an issue to be rushed; public needs more info

A health ministry expert subcommittee on genetically altered foods has drafted a report on its discussions over regulatory responses to food...

On US imperialism, Israel is more attack dog than client state

One particularly frank imperialist described the logic of the hoped-for British patronage of the Zionist movement, as the empire stood on the brink...

Poštenost, resnica in domovina (vrstni red je poljuben)

Stanje na desnem polu, še posebno v Janševih imperialnih medijih, lahko zdaj edini opiše skatolog Vinko Vasle, ki najuspešneje plava v tej...

Odtajani revizionizem, iredentizem in fašizem

Prav tragikomično je že, kako se italijanska populistična vlada zapleta v spore z vsemi sosedami, celo z Francijo in Avstrijo, pa seveda, glede...

Real ‘obscene masquerade’: How BBC depicted staged hospital scenes as proof of Douma chemical attack

Riam Dalati is on the BBC production team based in Beirut and describes himself, on his Twitter page, as an “esteemed colleague” of Quentin...

One woman can beat Donald Trump in 2020 – if only she would run

Another day, another Democratic would-be presidential candidate. Seriously, what’s up with everyone and their mum clambering over each other to...

Why Pakistan should not take Saudi money

This weekend, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is visiting Pakistan with his entourage of over  1,000 people , including investors,...

Can the Astana process survive the US withdrawal from Syria?

On February 14, leaders of the Astana process - Russia, Iran and Turkey -   held a trilateral summit in the Russian Black Sea resort, Sochi, for...

US-China trade war: Beijing must tackle structural issues

As top Chinese and American negotiators huddled in Beijing on Thursday and Friday to haggle over a comprehensive agreement to defuse the trade war,...

‘We’ll accept whatever the Palestinians accept’

“We’ll accept whatever the Palestinians accept” has become a slogan used by several Arab states under various circumstances over the years. It...

Trump emergency declaration faces uncertain fate in coming court fight

Let the lawsuits begin. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency along the southern border Friday and predicted his administration...

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For Israel's Golden Intel Boys, It Starts With Terror and Ends With Greed

Veterans of Israel’s famed signal intelligence corps, already well versed in violence against the helpless, are now indulging in rotten meddling...

Golden visas and passport trade undermine EU

Nationals of non-EU countries can buy citizenship in many member states by coming in as investors. This practice is ultimately harmful to the...

Poland's 'Holocaust Law:' The Wound Is Still Open

Over six months have passed since the storm erupted over the joint declaration by the prime ministers of Israel and Poland over the Polish law...

The kids reclaiming Baghdad: ‘This is the real face of Iraq’

Reportage. Students, musicians, boys with slick hair and girls with or without a veil: the volunteers and activists gathered here in Baghdad have...

Electronic waste is recycled in appalling conditions in India

More than 95 percent of India’s e-waste is processed by a widely distributed network of informal workers of waste pickers. The post Electronic...

Emmanuel Macron should save his virtual sympathy and clean up his own act first

Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that his country is making 24 April a National Day for the commemoration of the Armenian...

Gender Troubled? Three Simple Steps to Avoid Silencing Gender in IR

In many respects, the development of feminist and gender scholarship in the discipline of IR is nothing short of a success story. Since the 1990s,...

Why Zionists are afraid of Ilhan Omar

Over the past week, yet another recently-elected progressive congresswoman found herself in the eye of a media storm. On February 10,...

Netanyahu's Fight Against the State Knows No Bounds

To hear Benjamin Netanyahu, his request to receive millions of dollars from two tycoons who testified in Case 1000 (champagne and cigars) to pay...

US–South Korea military negotiations could cost the alliance

INTER-Korean rapprochement, ushered in by the series of North–South summits and working-level meetings that took place in 2018, is changing the...

Taking Vaccines the Last Mile

GHAZIABAD, UTTAR PRADESH – A four-year-old girl recently came to the emergency room where I work as a resident doctor. She was writhing in pain,...

What Next for Venezuela?

MEXICO CITY – The world has witnessed many sharp economic declines over the years, but Venezuela’s is surely one of the worst to date. The country...

No joke! Ukraine’s presidential choice: an oligarch, a gas princess or a comedian

For Ukrainians able to vote in next month’s presidential election, the choice is now pretty clear. There are three options: the incumbent...

Israel’s anti-BDS strategy simply peddles more myths and lies

Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs has released a report called Terrorists in Suits: The Ties Between NGOs promoting BDS and Terrorist...

Saudi Arabia and the Upcoming Secret Nuclear War

With Israel issuing direct threats against both Syria and Iran of thermonuclear devastation if either nation retaliates against Israeli bombing...

Divadlo jedného herca

Ak možno roztržku medzi premiérom Petrom Pellegrinim a predsedom Smeru Robertom Ficom v tejto chvíli nazvať názorovou, potom jej podstatou nie...

The Crybabies on the Left Are Preparing for the Day After

Disdain for Netanyahu and the right reflects the ideological collapse of the left. Don’t be surprised if in a few years Gideon Sa’ar, Gilad Erdan...

Is the US under Trump sliding into a kakistocracy – rule by the worst?

In my youth, the KKK stood for just one thing – the Ku Klux Klan. You knew they were bad, meeting at night in secret places in weird white hooded...

Access rules needed on youth database

When it is anyone’s guess where the next leak of personal information will come from, a proposal to collate the data of 1 million Hongkongers under...

How Hong Kong can strengthen its anti-corruption agency

Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption celebrates its 45th anniversary on February 15, so it is perhaps an appropriate time to...

Asian Cup win is a victory for Qatar’s soft power

A dusty suburb on the outskirts of a city in the Gulf region would seem to be an unlikely epicentre for some of the world’s most compelling...

Prehod v pomlad kot čudež narave

Kadar me kdo vpraša, kateri čas leta mi je najbolj všeč, vedno rečem, da nimam najljubšega dela leta. Vsak mi je po svoje pri srcu, vsak ima...

Nigeria's Buhari has failed to deliver

Nigeria's President Buhari hopes to be re-elected on Saturday. When he took office four years ago, he made sweeping promises – which he has...

Donald Trump's emergency ruse is a wake-up call

In a play to his base, President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency to fund his promised border wall after Congress declined to provide...

El Chapo, el Estado y el crimen organizado

El jurado deliberó y encontró culpable a Joaquín Guzmán Loera, mejor conocido como El Chapo. En unos cuantos días, el juez de la causa lo...

¿Por qué el alcohol sí y el cannabis no?

En el año 2016, hubo 452.000 muertes vinculadas al uso de drogas, según la Organización Mundial de la Salud. De ellas, el 19,1% fueron causadas...

How Come the World is Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome

It may sound incredible, but it is true: in countries that have been damaged, even totally robbed and destroyed by the West, many people are still...

The Hypocrisy of the University Cartel

The fuel that is igniting the campaign against Ariel University is purely political and ideological

Reasons for cautious optimism in Hanoi

CANBERRA - Last year’s Singapore summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was a global ratings success as...

Dátumy klamári

Slovensko má všetky dôvody považovať sa za zakladateľský štát OSN, od 26. júna 1945. Slováci Vladimír Hurban, Ján Papánek, Ivan Krno a...

Korean soups and stews

By Bernard Rowan It's winter in much of the Northern Hemisphere, and despite the growing effects of global climate change, it's cold. In Chicago,...

Let's organize world trade

There is broad historic agreement that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been one the most successful international institutions; its...

Dostojni protesti

Besede iz naslova – ki se bodo morda komu zdele kot oksimoron (saj, za božjo voljo, kako so lahko protesti spodobni, bi rekli tako imenovani...

Iran and the investment in Daesh’s survival

The geographical area occupied by the Daesh organisation is on the verge of diminishing, according to Pentagon assertions, but the organisation...

Heads of Israel's Labor, Meretz Parties Falling Victim to Chronic Leftist Syndrome

This pathology grows stronger in the face of the stability of right-wing rule, especially the imperial kind like that of Prime Minister Benjamin...

Ugly Hongkongers who demonise migrants

One-way permits for mainland migrants into Hong Kong are not the cause of overcrowding in public hospitals, lengthening queues for public housing,...

How is China’s economy doing? Don’t look to the GDP numbers

“Crosscurrents” seems to be the buzzword for global markets in 2019. And one of the oft-mentioned risks for 2019 is the ongoing slowdown in...

One day, we may mourn a robot's death, the way we do a friend's

When an old tool is ready for retirement, a traditional ritual known as "dogu kuyo" is practiced throughout Japan to thank it for years of service....

Capitalism works for communist Vietnam. Why not North Korea?

As everybody knows, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has a lot to learn from the capitalist success of nearby communist countries. No example is...

U.S. spies say China and Russia are getting closer

WASHINGTON - Substance often runs a distant second to drama in the age of U.S. President Donald Trump. So it was when America’s intelligence...

Hong Kong anthem law almost impossible to violate – unless you want to

The national anthem bill was introduced into the Legislative Council last month. We can expect heated debate and controversy in the months ahead as...

Hong Kong Sevens must learn vital lesson from best in the world Vancouver

As a Canadian, I don’t like to boast much, but sometimes it’s tough. A World Rugby internal evaluation has my hometown of Vancouver atop the list...

Modi: promises, promises

Iran and investment in the survival of Daesh

The geographical area occupied by Daesh is diminishing, according to the Pentagon, but the organisation itself will not disappear. The US Secretary...

Bezos v. Trump: 3 Major Divisions in the American Ruling Class

Jeff Bezos, considered to be the richest man on earth in terms of measurable wealth, and Donald Trump, arguably the most powerful man on earth as...

The Road From Thatcherism

LONDON – The last few years, with the rise of populism across the developed world, have seemed like the ending of an age. This is perhaps most true...

Europe’s Power Deficit

WARSAW – Former German Minister of Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel and Zaki Laïdi of Sciences Po deserve credit for writing dueling commentaries...

The World Must Save the Uyghurs

“Son, they are taking me.” Those were the last words 34-year-old Kuzzat Altay heard from his father, in a WeChat message almost exactly a year...

The spectre of Cambridge Analytica still haunts African elections

Elections are big business, and look no further than the ongoing frenzy over the upcoming Nigerian election for proof. It is hard to miss how much...

All the rage… Constant barrage of ridiculous outrage is getting me really angry

Here are a few outrage-triggering mundanities I’ve noticed over recent weeks. Some muslims in Britain, and by ‘some’ I mean hardly any, were...

Abe’s gripes on cooperation with SDF recruitment way off the mark

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has started arguing a new flimsy case for his drive to amend the Constitution. He says codifying the constitutional...

The resistible rise of the Lega in the South

Letter. How is it possible that so many—more and more—southerners are voting for the party that is their worst enemy? The explanation is that they...

Australia: well placed to join the Moon mining race … or is it?

Australia has a well-earned reputation as a mining nation. But do we have the drive and determination to be part of any mining exploration of the...

Mahmoud Abbas has just made an openly defeatist speech

In his speech at the Forum on Freedom and Peace at the presidential headquarters in Ramallah on Wednesday, in the presence of Israeli politicians,...

How US hardliners ensured Soviet withdrawal did not lead to peace in Afghanistan

February 15, 1989. The date when the Soviet Army left Afghanistan for the last time. Trying to defend the left-wing government in Kabul from...

The Looming Taiwan Crisis

NEW YORK – Much of lasting significance happened in 1979. There was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iran’s Islamic Revolution, which...

The Joint List Has No Right to Exist

Putting all Arab representatives together is an obstacle to the possibility of creating a civic national discourse that crosses ethnic and communal...

Ide o obsah správ

Je veľmi dôležité, aby ľudia mali presné informácie a vytvorili si objektívny pohľad na dianie okolo seba. Vytvoriť obsah nie je vôbec...

As Democratic field expands, Biden waits on the sidelines

Former Vice President Joe Biden will headline his first public event in about three weeks on Saturday— in Munich, Germany, nearly 5,000 miles...

Will China let Belt and Road die quietly?