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,...

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