Goldman Sachs apologises to Malaysia over multi-billion dollar scandal

GOLDMAN SACHS has issued an apology to the Malaysian people for one of its former banker's role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB)...

How Jews Became 'Too White, Too Powerful' for U.S. Progressive Activism

The Women’s March anti-Semitism saga exposes the profound failure of identity politics and inclusion. We're told we must 'work through' the pain...

Seks, televizija in psihoterapevtske modrosti

Desnico po novem občudujem. Iz »svojega« novinarja na nacionalni TV je naredila sveto kravo; nacionalkino vodstvo ji zadnje čase še drekov ne...

Beijing finally shows the market some respect

War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel agenda became US priority

The Israeli-US war declared on the Palestinian boycott movement is coming to a head, culminating in a well-orchestrated effort aimed at suffocating...

Results are out: These are the world’s most punctual airlines

ONCE AGAIN, Jetstar Asia is the most punctual low-cost carrier (LCC) in Asia-Pacific. It is also one of the top 10 safest low-cost airline,...

Foreigners need to be included in response efforts to disasters

The 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, which ravaged the city of Kobe, engendered a new wave of disaster response efforts in Japan, including greater...

Invading Ramallah, bursting the bubble

Over the last two weeks, the Israeli army has been invading the Palestinian city of Ramallah and conducting a series of military incursions which...

Saving Children from Having Children

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA – My country is overwhelmed with teen pregnancies. In 2013, the United Nations Population Fund estimated that Guyana had the...

McJesus in Palestine: Using bad art to whitewash Israel's crimes

Hundreds of Palestinian Muslims and Christians descended on the Haifa Museum of Art last Friday to  protest  the display of various artworks that...

Is Duterte seeing the beginning of the end?

A THIRD of the way through his presidency, is Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte already a spent force? He would seem to think so himself. The...

The Trump Administration’s Farewell to Aims

STOCKHOLM – Every now and then, a US political leader descends on Cairo to deliver an address outlining America’s policy objectives in the...

Malaysia’s Dr M to become first Asean leader to address Oxford Union

AT 93, Malaysia's Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad is the oldest premier in the world and now he looks set to break another record to become the...

The False Innocence of Jewish Terrorism

Jewish terror has been around since Israel's founding, but an increasingly radical ideology has changed the nature of the threat it poses

Carrie Lam is wrong to cut elderly welfare, but will she admit it?

Another day, another piece of warped thinking. Some government policies are the product of a small mind and a cruel heart. To this ignoble list...

Tamika Mallory and Jeremy Corbyn Have the Same Problem With Jews

New job not living up to your expectations? – You’re not alone

HAVE you ever started a new job and had the realisation quickly dawn on you that you may have been deceived in the interview and, in fact, the...

Trump wants out of NATO: A gift to Russia, or a gift to Germany?

Just this week, the New York Times released an explosive report which alleged that US President Donald Trump had “suggested a move tantamount to...

The new Trump doctrine: proxy war against Iran

Commentary. But if Iran is the villain, what does that make the United States, after causing hundreds of thousands of deaths and tens of millions...

Prosecutors need convincing proof in Ghosn case

Was Kim’s China visit an economic lifeline for border development?

In the past year, a growing sense of detente on the Korean peninsula has brought about a wave of optimistic real estate purchases in the Chinese...

The Return of Militarism

Idol worship is here once again: Militarism has returned. Not that it ever left us, but following the 1973 Yom Kippur War, there were a few good...

Fake News? Not at Hebrew University

We are an Israeli university and proud of it. We are a pluralistic university that believes in equality for all and freedom of opinion, and we’re...

Are China, Russia winning AI arms race?

LONDON - On Oct. 31, Chinese teenagers reported to the Beijing Institute of Technology, one of the country’s premier military research...

Bikini-clad Russian swims to safety, protests in Beijing: past headlines

A bikini-clad Russian girl swimming to freedom in Australia and a Hong Kong teenager cross-dressing to get a job made the headlines four decades...

Does Kim need Trump?

By Donald Kirk U.S. President Donald Trump is facing such excruciating trouble on his own home front that you have to wonder when he's going to get...

Europe’s economic woes are more troubling than China’s

For a snapshot of financial market anxiety about a global economic slowdown, look no further than the performance of the Dax, Germany’s benchmark...

It's the air, stupid!

By Park Moo-jong Mexico City, home to 20 million people, is notorious for air pollution. In a somewhat exaggerated expression, even birds would...

Israel’s Six Day War on the Internet

The fundamental failure of the Arab world to understand the significance of communications, public relations and now the internet has served to...

Will Washington be able to Cloak and Dagger its Way to Total Control over Afghanistan?

It does take a genius to realize that Washington’s operation in Afghanistan has come to a screeching halt. Seventeen years after the initial...

Japan: Cutting-edge hotel replaces robot workers with humans

A HIGH-TECH hotel in Japan which boasts being largely staffed by robots is doing away with many of its automatons, replacing humans to perform...

The Most Dangerous Thing Trump Could Do Yet, and Its Nightmare Fallout for Israel

Trump pulling the U.S. out of NATO increases Israel's vulnerability just when threats to its security are intensifying. Netanyahu must use all his...

Hanshin quake anniversary a time for prayer and vigilance

The day after the Great Hanshin Earthquake, Tsutomu Korenaga rushed to Nishinomiya City Hall in Hyogo Prefecture as a disaster relief volunteer....

Maribor je naš, Ljubljana pa tudi

Eno drugo čudno pleme, ki pa to seveda ni in noče biti, namreč mariborsko, pa se je predstavljalo po zaslugi neke druge obletnice - stoletnice SNG...

Shaked’s Responsibility

The case of Israel Bar Association president Effi Nave, who has been arrested on suspicion of advancing judges’ appointments in exchange for sex,...

How worried should Asia be about Brexit? Here’s the number to watch

There is an academic experiment that demonstrates the “wisdom of crowds”. It consists of placing a large jar of jelly beans on a desk and asking...

Al-Aqsa under threat as Israeli elections loom

When Muslims first prayed, they faced Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem rather than Mecca. When Prophet Mohammed (Peace be Upon Him) ascended to heaven,...

“Sand and Death” Trump Says It All in Geopolitical Doublespeak

One thing is certain; there is no definitive transcript for what is going on in Syria and who is benefitting the most from pulling out of Syria and...

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Anthem law offers a chance to educate

The expected introduction of a national anthem law apparently has some educators worried. Their fear is whether teachers are obligated to report...

Theresa May’s Brexit plan isn’t dead yet

LONDON - The poet Rupert Brooke voiced the exhilaration of those Britons who welcomed the war in 1914 as a chance to escape monotonous normality,...

Korea’s Year of Living Diplomatically

SEOUL – South Korea probably endured more political turbulence than almost any other country in 2018. On the domestic front, the new liberal...

Africa’s Historic Pivot

ABIDJAN – The year 2018 was marked by tremendous economic and political turbulence around the world. And yet, for future historians, it may well...

An American Consensus: Time to Confront China

The foreign policy establishment in Washington has recently come to the realization that a new strategy is needed in the American relationship with...

Are the US and the West really concerned about freedoms of Sudanese protesters?

On 19 December, the Sudanese government decided to triple the price of bread, prompting a wave of anti-government protests which swiftly escalated...

Taiwan’s Newly Reshuffled Cabinet Looks a Lot Like Its Old Cabinet

Taiwan’s cabinet resigned en masse on Friday, a move meant to rejuvenate the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) after its heavy losses in...