The Incident in the Strait of Kerch: a Middle-Eastern Perspective

The Strait of Kerch, a location that is not often mentioned in the Middle Eastern media – or social media – has become rather more familiar in...

Why Does China Love Electric Cars? Beijing, Washington & The Fall of Rome

The numbers speak for themselves. 746,000 New Energy passenger cars were sold in China between January and October. By the end of 2018, all buses...

Why Do Fundamentalist Christians Support Israel – Right Or Wrong?

It appears that many fundamentalist Christians support the hard-line policies of the Israeli Government (currently consisting of the parties Likud,...

Psovka

Svetlana Makarovič je opsovala. Natančneje, navedla je primer psovke, ko je govorila o tem, kaj vse koristnega in lepega smo v dolgem trajanju...

Meng Wanzhou: how China could turn Huawei arrest in its favour

Ever since news broke of the arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, a top executive of the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, at the behest of the...

Henoko base row now much more than just a local political issue

Bulldozers have started pushing the first loads of dirt and sand into waters off the Henoko district in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, marking a crucial...

Bereaved kin of traffic victims main champions of road safety

Kyoko Suzuki, a 69-year-old artist, lost her son in a traffic accident 18 years ago. He was a university student. She penned this poem: "It takes...

Jupiter Falters

After less than two years, France’s youngest President, Emanuel Macron, is on his way to becoming the de facto leader of Europe, while being...

Biodiversity wins, even when all seems lost

NEW YORK – A glass-half-full attitude about our planet might seem naive in this age of melting ice caps, plummeting animal populations and warnings...

Kam s frustracijami?

Ena najbolj znanih nogometnih legend je tista, da je dal španski diktator Franco zgraditi znameniti Camp Nou v Barceloni zato, da bi lahko na njem...

Mlačen boj proti desnemu populizmu

Marc Saxer, nemški politični analitik, je v digitalnem mediju Socialna Evropa na zanimiv način utemeljil nemoč klasične levice v spopadu z...

How to make Hong Kong’s ailing health care system better

The report, “Fit for Purpose: A Health System for the 21st Century”, prepared by former health secretary Professor Yeoh Eng-kiong for Our Hong...

The reason the US-China trade talks will work: the personal touch

From Beijing and New York, I’m watching US-China trade negotiations with a sense of optimism. Cautious optimism, sure, but optimism nonetheless....

Multikáry plné štátov

To vyhlásenie bolo mienené vážne a po 26 rokoch môžeme konštatovať, že ho Slovensko so cťou dodržalo. Lenže vtedy málokto myslel na...

The torture of Theresa May

Now is the time for all good citizens to put their elected politicians on the rack. Torture is what tyrants visited – and, often, still visit –...

Leto porazov ni bilo pravično

Ob koncu leta se polagajo računi. Ti so odvisni od točke gledanja. Marjan Šarec lahko govori o letu, ki so ga zaznamovale zmage. Okej, res ni...

Bedni novi svet

Vse, kar je treba vedeti o globalni protimigrantski histeriji, vsebuje dejstvo, da je največja vojaška in gospodarska sila sveta, Združene...

How the West can engage with China without overreacting

Since the cold war ended, the West has invested huge amounts of resources in efforts to induce political liberalisation in China, including through...

For the US, Huawei is the heart of darkness

Huawei has over the past two weeks stirred a hornet’s nest of controversy that has stripped the veil away from Donald Trump’s tariffs and revealed...

Prospects for US-China Relations in 2019

NEW YORK – Throughout 2018, much of Asia has been shaken by the new and increasingly unpredictable dynamics in Sino-American relations. One year...

Fascists? Communists? No one speaks for the yellow vests

Commentary. This is a popular protest that does not fly the flag of any party, because they are not willing to be ‘represented’ by any of them....

Egypt journalist detained in public loo, ‘beaten’ by police at Edinburgh Airport

At 4pm on Thursday 14 December Egyptian journalist AbdulRahman Ezz was prevented from boarding his flight to France from Edinburgh Airport where he...

The real reason Western media & CIA turned against Saudi MBS

Following the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, western media and various entities, including the CIA, appear to have...

Hacking the STEM Syllabus

SAN FRANCISCO – After a prolonged honeymoon for the digital economy, the dark side of the Internet, social media, and “Big Tech” has become...

Why Wong Kam-po is still more cherished than Sarah Lee

Cyclist Wong Kam-po never won an Olympic medal. Sarah Lee Wai-sze has, but the retired Wong is still rated better than his fellow rider in the eyes...

How Britain stole $45 trillion from India

There is a story that is commonly told in Britain that the colonisation of India - as horrible as it may have been - was not of any major economic...

European investors’ confidence in Burma has tumbled, survey shows

THE number of European businesses losing confidence in Burma (Myanmar) has increased, a recent survey revealed, amid their concerns over how the...

From Haifa to Jerusalem

The most important political struggle in Israel over the past decade centers on the Jewish majority’s relations with the Arab community. With the...

Dissecting China’s volte-face on tiger, rhino protection

On Oct 28, 2018, China reversed a decades-old ban on the use of rhino horn and tiger parts for some medical and cultural purposes. Just under two...

How Asia’s leading low-cost carrier went from zero to digital hero

Malaysia's low-cost airline AirAsia was born with a desire to be digital-first — even though it wasn't a digital native to begin with. Bought for...

Making Climate Change Matter

PARIS – This has been a year of disruption and change, complete with escalating extreme weather events, the election of a climate-change denier...

How Putin and the Far Right Played the Paris Yellow Vests Protests

Russia didn’t trigger the Gilets Jaunes. But Putin and the far right want to see Paris burn and Europe weakened and divided, so they jumped at...

Anxieties about ‘new Malaysia’ go deeper than race

On December 8, in Malaysia’s biggest rally this year, 80,000 people gathered in Kuala Lumpur to protest against what many alleged were grave...

The surprisingly interesting psychology behind Japan’s train system

THE subtle working of Japan’s rail system may not be a topic that immediately whips you up into a flurry of excitement. But consider the billions...

Australia: Pell censorship shows there’s more than one way to gag the press

ONE of the biggest news stories in the world yesterday wasn’t reported to the very people who most needed to hear it. Australian Cardinal George...

The Great American Tax Heist Turns One

BERKELEY – It has now been one year since US President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans rammed their massive corporate tax cut through...

There's a Reason Why Washington would Draw Sunni States into a Military Gamble

In early November, Egypt hosted the largest international war games that the region has seen to date, codenamed Arab Shield 1. This military...

Yair Lapid, Israel’s Serial Protest Thief

Treat China like the bully it is

NEW DELHI – In clear reprisal for Canada’s U.S.-sought arrest of the Huawei founder’s daughter, China has detained two Canadians on charges...