Violence breeds more violence in Kashmir

On February 14, 2019, a four-wheel drive loaded with 200kg of explosives rammed into a convoy of Indian armed forces in the Pulwama district of...

Rashida Tlaib and Benjamin Netanyahu's anti-Zionist Alliance

They're the strangest of bedfellows, but both want to destroy the Jewish state. At least Tlaib is honest about her support for a one state...

Sleazy journalism can serve the public good

ATHENS, GEORGIA - There are plenty of reasons to sympathize with Jeff Bezos in his battle with the National Enquirer. If true, the accusations of...

Pakistan’s Quest for Inclusive Growth

ISLAMABAD – Last year, Pakistan witnessed the second successful democratic transition in its 71-year history, with Prime Minister Imran Khan...

Syria cannot be Europe's Guantanamo Bay prison

US President Donald Trump is pressuring Europe to take back its citizens who were captured in Syria while fighting for the Islamic State group....

Robert Biedron is leading a feminist, pro-LGBT Polish ‘spring’

Interview. Robert Biedron, the first openly gay politician in Poland, is calling for equal pay for women, the closure of all coal mines in the...

El poder negociador de China ante Estados Unidos

En diciembre pasado, las exportaciones chinas cayeron 4,4%, mientras sus importaciones alcanzaban su menor nivel desde 2016. Pese a ello, China...

El populismo y el rechazo a las élites

Una cosa comparten los populistas de izquierda y derecha: su rechazo a las élites. En su discurso maniqueo, todo lo bueno de una sociedad se debe a...

Why a US-China Trade Deal Is Not Enough

WASHINGTON, DC – As Chinese and American trade negotiators meet in Washington to try to forge an accord on trade, observers are largely focused on...

Simple choice, stand up to US' phony cold war or face decades of unjustified conflict

We know now, following the release of virtually all Soviet government documents, that Joseph Stalin had no intention of launching a conflict with...

Corporate governance is improving, but not by enough

Quick test: Two banks “A” and “B” offer interest rates of 2 percent and 5 percent on deposits, respectively. All else being equal, at which...

Syria and the Road to Return to the Ranks of the Arabs

Two themes have recently attracted the attention of media and social networks in the Middle East. The first is the trend towards a gradual...

How queer-friendly texts could fight homophobia in schools

An extensive amount of educational research has demonstrated schools are enjoyable and productive places for some students, but not others. As much...

Why is Russia standing aloof on the Korean Peninsula?

For more than a year there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity on the Korean Peninsula. But Russia is conspicuously absent from the big game....

Munich Security Conference: Gavin Williamson strikes again

This annual conference, held in the city that will forever be associated with the Allies’ craven appeasement of Hitler and Nazi Germany in 1938,...

Probe shows challenges posed by melted fuel at Fukushima plant

A specially designed, remotely controlled probe touched melted nuclear fuel debris at the bottom of a ruined reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...

A Palestine-Jordan Confederation is becoming a very real possibility

There has been more talk recently from the Palestinians, Israelis and Jordanians about the option of a confederation as an alternative to the two-...

(POGLED) Svinjak, imenovan Ema 2019: Leo Sirk splet raztrgal

Vlačuga, ki jo plačuje erteve, se je spozabila. Komentar anonimneža, ki se je na spletu, preden sem ga zbrisal, znašel pod razvpitim...

How China Became Pakistan's Partner in Jihadist Terror

China blocks international efforts to sanction Pakistan's Islamist terrorists, who foment insurgencies on India's borders and export their violent,...

Who are the Uyghurs and why is the Chinese government detaining them?

China’s President Xi Jinping has overseen a hardline approach towards Muslim minorities living in Xinjiang, especially the Uyghurs. But why? Find...

The Arab World Just Trashed Trump's Mideast 'Peace' Plan

Despite U.S. envoys' exaggerations and pretense, the Warsaw conference burst the Trump Mideast team's biggest delusion: that Arab states would back...

Why I, an Egyptian Woman and Author, Decided to Meet Israel’s Ambassador

I knew I would pay a price for my decision to meet with ‘the enemy’ – but years of hatred left me exhausted and I care about the future too much

Australia's offshore refugee policy has failed

Conducting Amnesty International's investigation on Nauru, one of the island nations where Australia sends its unwanted refugees, I felt furious...

From Oslo to Warsaw is a long way down; be still my aching heart

The sight of Arab foreign ministers meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Warsaw was reminiscent of the meeting between the...

Trump -- losing Asia?

Why can't Nigeria get its election timetable right?

Had everything gone according to plan, Nigeria by now would have had a new elected president.  But the Independent National Electoral Commission...

'Rule of law' in the Trudeau era

Hubris. Eventually, it infects, often fatally, all so-called Western "liberal" democracies. Still, some regimes fall prey to the corrosive conceit...

Ending America’s World Bank Monopoly

NEW YORK – The nomination earlier this month of David Malpass, a senior US Treasury Department official, for the post of World Bank president came...

Indian R&D -- time to solve the puzzle

The endgame of Brexit is approaching at last

LONDON - As Britain struggles through the Brexit maze it has now reached the situation where one of three things can happen. First possibility:...

Stav núdze

Stav núdze nie je zasa takou ojedinelou zriedkavosťou. Pri rozličných príležitostiach ho vyhlasovali i Trumpovi predchodcovia. Barack Obama...

Japan’s opportunity to take a leadership role on climate change

WASHINGTON - The time is right for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to assume an even greater global leadership role on climate change as it...

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Is Europe still complicated and mysterious?

In 1939, Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma resigned after making the famous statement, “With the conclusion of a non-aggression treaty between...

Israel’s Dangerous European Embrace

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

Kaj pa, če nihče ne bo prišel?

To je bilo vprašanje, ki sem ga dobil od naše prostovoljke samo nekaj minut pred začetkom prvega mednarodnega kulinaričnega festivala na...

Attitude adjustment

By John Burton It is said that generals always fight the last war. The same can be said of much of the commentary that is coming out of Washington,...