The Salman Rushdie affair: Thirty years and a novelist later

Who still remembers, or cares to remember, or cares at all about the "Salman Rushdie affair"?     Thirty years ago, on Valentine's Day, February...

You, Jeremy Corbyn, Have Led Labour Into Authoritarianism, Mob Rule and Institutionalized Racism Against Jews

Dear Jeremy Corbyn, I became a member of the Labour Party 13 years ago. I joined as a student on the left of the party, a place in which I have...

Trump’s Venezuela gamble is turning out to be a beaten docket

It is not just Washington’s reputation that will take yet another grievous hit. So too will those European states which have shamefully rowed in...

Obe plati smučarskega uspeha v Areju

Ko se slovenski smučarji z velikega tekmovanja vrnejo z zlatom in srebrom, ko med 75 državami po osvojenem pristanemo na osmem mestu, potem je...

How Could Rashida Tlaib Get Caught Using Israeli Technology?

The Palestinian-American congresswoman isn't the only BDSer with a spotty boycott record, partly because Israeli tech is too ubiquitous, but partly...

It’s time for a change in Australia’s failing drugs policy

IN the early 2000s New South Wales became the first Australian state to introduce drug detection dogs for policing, with the aim of “targeting...

Faking It on Climate Change

STANFORD – Around the world, ever more countries and regions are promising to stop emitting carbon dioxide sometime in the future. The European...

Padli angeli in prezrta deklaracija

‘Ko je otrok bil otrok, ni vedel, da je otrok. Zanj je vse imelo dušo in vse duše so bile eno.« Kolesarim čez Theodor-Wolf park v berlinskem...

“Arab NATO” Explodes on Takeoff

It hasn’t gone unnoticed by the majority of geopolitical analysts that the Trump administration has been promoting the idea of a Middle Eastern...

Portugal’s economy chugging along, but at risk of derailing

LISBON — The passengers on a night train chugging along Portugal’s northern coast last month got the fright of their lives when the 40-year-old...

NK nukes and 'business logic'

By Lee Seong-hyon Through social media, a Korean friend of mine working in China in the financial sector asked me about how the second DPRK-U.S....

I Thought Bibi Was Amoral. He's Not. He's Evil. Thanks to Him, Kahane Lives

Netanyahu is looking to a viciously supremacist party called Jewish Power to put his re-election campaign over the top

Poetry-loving officer possessed true grit in postwar Japan

Historian Kojiro Naoki, who died on Feb. 2 at the age of 100, served in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. His former navy colleague...

The Sikorski Doctrine

WARSAW – Radosław Sikorski served as Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs for seven years, longer than anyone else since the transition from...

The PA refusal to participate in the Warsaw Summit doesn’t change its penchant for compromise

The Palestinian Authority described last week’s Warsaw Summit as a US-Israeli conspiracy; US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that the...

This is why Al-Quds is being silenced

If Al-Quds satellite station actually closes its doors and completely stops broadcasting, which is what is currently occurring, albeit gradually,...

INF Treaty in the Context of the Situation in the IPR

The announcement by President D. Trump of the intention to withdraw the United States from the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and...

Summit won’t shift N. Korea’s strategic calculus

The choice of Vietnam for the second Kim-Trump summit has been intentional to send Pyongyang the strongest of messages that former bitter enemies...

How not to organise a split in a Party: Britain’s Macrons go Laurel and Hardy

Just seven MPs announced their departure from Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party and though there may be others to come this was their first rank. And...

‘The Affluent Society’ revisited

WASHINGTON - I am rereading “The Affluent Society” with pleasure and profit. Written by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith and published in...

What North Korea could learn from Vietnam

BEIJING - Vietnam is more than a convenient neutral site for the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim...

Japan’s economy is far from hopeless

NEW YORK - Stop seeing Japan as a wasteland. The country’s economy, the world’s third largest, still matters. Japan isn’t stuck in a hopeless...

The Ideology Trap

LOS ANGELES – President Donald Trump has declared a national emergency at the southern border of the United States – where there is no emergency...

Getting Serious About Russia Sanctions

KYIV – On February 13, a bipartisan group of US senators led by Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrat Robert Menendez introduced legislation aimed...

A Bright Future for Africa’s Girls

LUSAKA – Education gives young people the tools they need – from cognitive and social skills to self-confidence – to succeed throughout their...

Borussia Dortmund's toothless attack a cause for concern

Borussia Dortmund's shaky defence has been the main concern in the past few weeks. But now their previously electric attack has stuttered too, the...

Mexico is a country to despair over

Mexico is the third most dangerous country for working journalists — a record that demands solidarity for survival. But all citizens of Mexico...

Happy birthday, Mr. Douglass!

By Casey Lartigue Jr. As a pre-teen growing up in Missouri City, Texas, I participated in my first leadership seminar: I read all three of...

México: una geografía económica desigual

Los datos panorámicos de la actual geografía económica de México nos dan la idea de un país que sigue marcado por desigualdades descomunales...

Por qué el mercado no es como el fútbol

Si va al estadio a alentar a su equipo de fútbol, quiere que pasen dos cosas que, en realidad, son una sola: quiere que su equipo gane y quiere...

The New York Times, a New Reich, and Those Greek Colonies

What’s the next liberal world order strategy? This is what comes to mind when the New York Times prints that Europe is alarmed by Trump, or Putin,...

Where’s the accountability for Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin?

TWO Royal Commissions reported adverse findings over the past couple of weeks. The report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking,...

Churchill was more villain than hero in Britain’s colonies

NEW DELHI - The recent flap over Winston Churchill — with Labour politician John McDonnell calling Britain’s most revered prime minister a...

Al-Sisi has started another coup in Egypt, this time against the constitution

The amendments to the Egyptian Constitution approved by parliament last week were a disastrous measure that will destroy what is left of political...

Should America Ever Apologize?

NEW YORK – Earlier this month, academics at the American University in Cairo declared no confidence in the institution’s president, following...

Russian Mediation: The Critical Messages of the Hamas-Fatah Talks in Moscow

The Russian-sponsored Palestinian unity talks in Moscow on February 11 were neither a success nor failure. Uniting Palestinian factions was not the...

When anti-Semitism Wears a Yellow Vest

Why has the yellow vests, which began as a social justice movement, been painting itself in anti-Semitic hues?

U.S. may have overshot in China trade talks

Brinkmanship has been one of the defining characteristics of the Trump administration, as the White House ramps up pressure to create a sense of...

Cold Warrior Elliott Abrams returns to battle in Venezuela

Shortly after right-wing figure Juan Guaido auto-proclaimed himself interim president of Venezuela in January - to the immediate applause of US...

Southeast Asia Stumbles over politics

Israel’s Dangerous Embrace of Europe's Ethno-nationalists

Likud has an affinity with European parties that extol ethnic identity, reject immigrants and are intolerant of minorities

Abe should come clean and stop being sycophant to Trump

Does Prime Minister Shinzo Abe really think U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize? Abe’s move to nominate Trump to the...

Thailand’s right royal election fiasco

POLITICAL drama of the type that beset Thailand on 8 February is not new. In the course of a single day, King Vajiralongkorn’s elder sister broke...

What Asia can learn from Brexit