The Execution of a Helpless, Mentally Ill Palestinian

Last week Israeli soldiers killed Mohammed Khabali, a 22-year-old mentally disabled resident of the Tul Karm refugee camp in the West Bank. They...

The hypocrisy of the US war on China’s Huawei

The arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou is a dangerous move by the Donald Trump administration in its intensifying...

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RIP George H. W. Bush and the Rest

The death of former President George H. W. Bush last month has spurred many an analyst to take up their swords and pens of partisanship for either...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Airbnb

Prvo pravilo za preživetje v sodobnem svetu: karkoli, samo na hrup ne bodite občutljivi. Naj vas, denimo, ne moti tekanje malih otrok brez copat...

V Londýne nič nového

Kríza a vnútorné rozbroje v radoch konzervatívcov pokračujú ďalej s nezmenenou intenzitou, akurát teraz už bez možnosti aspoň iluzórnej...

The Myth of the Brainy Israeli

Noble Prizes and Startup Nation notwithstanding, the average Israeli has a pretty poor set of basic skills. The tech sector is starting to feel the...

How Benjamin Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist

After redefining 'Jew' and 'anti-Semitism' to fit his political objectives, Israel's PM is now rewriting the Holocaust, whitewashing Polish and...

The Government's Way: Fear and Hatred

Employing fear is Netanyahu's most authoritative baritone but not to worry, it almost always comes with salvation

Why Are Netanyahu, Erdogan, Trump and Orban So Afraid of Soros?

The leaders have joined forces against a formidable and strong common enemy who is the greatest of all global builders of the dream of an open...

Benjamin Netanyahu, Art Critic

The only thing Netanyahu expresses about art in the broad sense seems to be related to one question: Is there a nest of “lefties” here, and can he...

CY Leung’s tormentor is a political spent force

The fortunes of politicians are a lot like the stock market: they go up and down in unexpected ways. This week, for example, has been good for...

Globalization must center on people

MADRID – Globalization and the technological revolution go hand in hand, in a way that is now inseparable. But they both need to revolve around...

A Climate-Friendly Financial System

BEIJING/FRANKFURT – The climate conference now underway in Katowice, Poland, has been billed as the most consequential since the 2015 summit,...

Europe in Disarray

NEW YORK – It was not all that long ago – just a few years, as hard as that it is to believe – that Europe appeared to be the part of the world...

Quiet, We’re Shooting

The Israeli army's Spokesperson’s Unit may believe that by lying, they are protecting soldiers but in fact they are protecting crime

Tale of two uprisings: Ukraine’s Maidan got McCain & cookies, French Yellow Vests get shunned

With the streets of Paris ablaze for a fourth weekend in a row, as a swarm of Yellow Vests assert themselves against a French government which,...

How Netanyahu Became a Holocaust Revisionist

After refining ‘Jew’ and ‘anti-Semitism,' Netanyahu is now rewriting the Holocaust, whitewashing Polish and Hungarian involvement in the murder...

Keeping close eye on the sky to free our society of air pollution

About half a century ago, Osaka’s Nishi-Yodogawa Ward was in perpetual gloom, even in broad daylight. Situated downwind of a heavy industrial...

Vienna Boys Choir gets Christmas off: headlines from 40 years ago

Faulty Hong Kong-made toy hair dryers being recalled from France, and the Vienna Boys Choir being banned from performing during Christmas because...

Svoboda, enakost, akbar

Francoski predsednik ima sijajno priložnost, da postane faraon v najboljši tradiciji moderne egiptovske politike. Med socialnim uporom pride do...

Talks on the Sidelines of the G-20 Summit

From the point of view of developments in the “game” of global politics, the most interesting thing about the recent Group of Twenty (G-20)...

The Case for Increasing US Military Spending and Expansion

Despite being the world’s biggest military power, spending a lot more than the combined defence budgets of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United...

The strengthening case against Trump

WASHINGTON – Though he rarely admits even the slightest discontent with the job he schemed for in unprecedented ways and somewhat accidentally...

December: A month to decide what to stop doing

With 2018 about to wrap up, our lives — which have become busier due to technology and the unprecedented pace of change sweeping the world —...

A new direction for Japanese agriculture

SINGAPORE – The government should try to promote overseas agricultural production by Japanese farmers, rather than the export of agricultural...

Trump’s Anti-Service Economy

WASHINGTON, DC – In the nineteenth century, more than 70% of American workers were farmers. By 2017, that figure was under 2%. In 1970, about 32%...

Germany Is Still Playing Defense

BERLIN – An old joke among non-Americans is that they, too, deserve a vote in US presidential elections, given how central that office is to...

‘Social justice warriors’ ruin Heisman Trophy winner’s big day

Let’s start this with a caveat: homophobia is abhorrent, wrong and downright despicable. The gay community need universal support in coming out,...

Kono’s rebuff of media questions raises even more questions

Foreign Minister Taro Kono ignored questions from reporters as many as four times at a Dec. 11 news conference. Kono’s unprecedented behavior,...

Let's get physical

By Park Moo-jong "To be, or not to be: that is the question" is the world-renowned opening phrase spoken by Prince Hamlet in a scene from William...

Huawei CFO Sabrina Meng’s arrest: why it’s not all bad

It’s amazing that the story which knocked Brexit off the international front pages wasn’t Donald Trump’s impeachment, or that Santa Claus is...

Asking hard questions

By Donald Kirk It's fine to talk to the North Koreans about their nukes and missiles. Go ahead and tell them they're a threat to the world, the...

The only way Hong Kong’s pan-dems can win back the public

Lawmaker Eddie Chu Hoi-dick has been unreasonably disqualified from a rural representative election. The returning officer for the election of non-...

Brasil, socio fundamental en el desarrollo de Chile y la región

El domingo 28 de octubre, el pueblo brasileño concurrió a las urnas para votar y escoger a quien asumiría el poder por los próximos cuatro años....

Interference, if it Only Were Russia

What happened in America during the last presidential election and, to an extent, during the recent mid-term elections, is now starting to...

Australia’s energy crisis is making it uncompetitive globally

SOARING energy prices have long been notorious among Australians trying to settle the house bills. The country of 25 million has been plagued with...

A spotlight on Japan’s criminal justice system

KYOTO – When Japan came out of its centuries of isolation in the latter half of the 19th century, legal system reform was a matter of some...

Indonesia, Singapore, Burma among world’s ‘most generous’ countries

A NEW survey found that Indonesia, Singapore and Burma (Myanmar) are placed among the top 10 most generous countries in the world based on their...

Hong Kong’s plan to remove tax waivers threatens wealthy landlords

HONG KONG'S government is considering the removal of billions of dollars worth of tax exemptions in a proposal that threatened to deal a blow to...

The dangers of NGO-isation of women's rights in Africa

The emancipation of women is one of the most significant aspects of social and cultural transformation around the world. Women are gradually moving...

The Referendum Risk

OXFORD – Now that British Prime Minister Theresa May, facing certain defeat, has postponed Parliament’s vote on the deal she concluded with the...

Why you probably shouldn’t risk using Twitter in China

There's a major nationwide operation to crack down on Twitter users in China. Cybersecurity authorities have detained and interrogated dissenting...

While Israel kills, the US condemns Hamas

Last week, the United States submitted a resolution to the UN General Assembly condemning Hamas for attacking Israel. The resolution was supported...

Why political attacks on central banks may be the new normal

These are tough times for the world’s major central banks. In advanced economies, a decade of cheap money is giving way to the gradual...

Italy’s Salvini said what the international community knows it can’t say: ‘Support Israel’

It is no secret that the right wing has appropriated and manipulated the definition of “peace” in today’s poisonous political climate. Peace is...

Two Shootings in Israel and Palestine, Equally Criminal

Israel is shaken up by gunfire at settlers at the entrance to their illegal settlement but ignores the shooting of helpless Palestinians

How do Arabs scream in Arabic?

"We have the tape," US President Donald Trump finally admitted that there is a tape-recording of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi - but then he...

Why white supremacists and Hindu nationalists are so alike

Over the last few years, especially after Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 US presidential election, we have been witnessing the normalisation ,...

If America’s ‘core values’ mean anything at all, then anti-BDS laws must be repealed

Last month, Airbnb, an American company that allows homeowners to list their properties for rental to visiting tourists, announced that it will...

Why Europe fears collapse of the Iran nuclear deal

Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s nuclear chief and former foreign minister, has warned that Iranians are running out of patience with the European...

Why Netanyahu likes Salvini: He’s a ‘racist neo-fascist’

Interview. We spoke with Yitzhak Laor, the Israeli poet and essayist, about Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s trip to Israel. ‘In the...

Čo jeden hlupák skazí...

Ak by šéfovi národniarov skutočne záležalo na slovenských poľnohospodároch a spracovateľoch, tak by hľadal iné spôsoby, ako im pomôcť....

India’s Modi seen forgiving farm loans as he seeks to win election

NEW DELHI/MUMBAI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is likely to announce loan waivers worth billions of dollars to woo millions...

Chile: el aporte de las agrupaciones científicas de mujeres a los logros del 2018

Es realmente un motivo de orgullo que entre los 100 jóvenes líderes 2018, dados a conocer por la revista Sábado, de El Mercurio, hace pocos...

Malaysian mall takes on landmark autism-friendly effort

MANY parents of special needs children with the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) would find shopping with their families a challenging experience,...

Australia’s Brexit strategy needs less Britpopulism, more Eurovision

Though the headlines about Brexit seem pretty grim for Britain, it will continue to remain an obvious market for Australian exporters. But Europe...

Trump’s Economic War of Choice

OTTAWA – The brewing conflict between the United States and China is typical of zero-sum contests among countries, firms, and individuals. The US...

Netanyahu is pushing the region to explode

All the signs suggest that the terrorist Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing the Middle East towards instability and the brink of an all-out war. They...

Turner Prize entry refutes Israel claim Umm Hiran killing was terror attack

In the early hours of 18 January 2017 Keren Manor was filming a raid on the unrecognised Bedouin village of Umm Al-Hiran in the Naqab desert, just...

Tunisia eight years after Bouazizi’s self-immolation

December 17 marks the eighth anniversary of what is called the “Arab Spring”, which started in Tunisia before spreading to the rest of the Middle...

Fukuoka -- a booming population in aging Japan

‘Trump will achieve nothing with tariffs’: former WTO head blasts US policy

Pascal Lamy does not mince words. That may be because he is no longer burdened by his position as director general of the WTO, which he held...

A very British coup: The spies who went out to the cold – by George Galloway

The British spies hiding out there have been brought in from the cold by good old-fashioned journalism. Or rather “ex-spies” if their legend is to...

Svet za republiko

Štiri gesla so označevala zbor Sveta za republiko, ki ga je odstavljeni katalonski predsednik Puigdemont v soboto sklical v Bruslju. Gesla, ki so...

Iz našega neravnovesja ni možno pričakovati hitrega izhoda

Svoboda in prostodušnost sta v zmešnjavi vsega napačno razumljena pojma demokracije, ki zahteva predvsem razumno pojmovanje spoznanj in tudi...

Zbohom baniam!

Zlá správa je, že sa tak stane až v r. 2023. Splodiny vznikajúce spaľovaním nekvalitného hnedého uhlia tak budú znečisťovať ovzdušie...

Making Retirement Work

MILAN – In most developed countries, a retirement of leisure is one of the great socioeconomic innovations of the past century. But it is quickly...

If Huawei’s CFO isn’t safe from the US, then neither is Hong Kong trade

Now do you believe it when I say don’t put it past the United States to revoke the special trading status it grants Hong Kong? By going after top...

Europe must stand up to Erdogan

Turkey tortures supporters of Fethullah Gulen in secret prisons, according to Germany's ZDF TV broadcaster. Europe should toughen up and follow...

A reality check for Indian PM Narendra Modi

The latest state election results have shocked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party headed by PM Modi. Still it won't be an easy walk for the...

Singapore’s residential property prices to be at ‘standstill’ next year

BROKERS in Singapore's real estate have forecasted the prices of residential properties in city-state to remain stagnant or even dip next year. The...

How House Democrats can fix the North American trade deal

Donald Trump has thrown down a trade gauntlet to the Democrats who will take control of the House of Representatives in January. The day after the...

Raja Zaatry Has a Right to Be Deputy Mayor of Haifa

It’s no surprise that Benjamin Netanyahu joined the mission that Interior Minister Arye Dery took on: barring Raja Zaatry, leader of the Hadash...

Cities Hold the Key to Food Sustainability

AUSTIN – Living in a city turns you into a cannibal. That, at least, is the metaphor preferred by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered cities a...

Macronovi kostlivci

Emmanuel Macron, miláčik politického stredu, doma vyfučal ako deravý balón. Aj tá najmodernejšia a v módnych témach najpodkutejšia...

Smartphone Wars: Yandex & Huawei Challenge Western Monopolies

The arrest of Chinese telecommunications CFO Meng Wanzhou has sent shockwaves through the global markets. The context of the smartphone industry...

Proof the Mainstream Media is the Enemy of the People

You can’t make this stuff up: When the president of the most powerful nation in the world, nuclear armed to the teeth, announces that he will save...

Israeli Non-racists, First We Take Haifa!

Netanyahu is upset because, according to an agreement in Haifa, the new Jewish mayor must condemn all expressions of racism, even if it comes from...

How the media and elites fuel racism in British football

Over the weekend the two biggest British newspapers, the Sun and the Daily Mail, reported on the racist abuse suffered by Manchester City forward...

The pro-Israel lobby’s weaponisation of anti-Semitism takes a hit in the US

The pro-Israel lobby’s ongoing efforts to weaponise anti-Semitism has been dealt a major blow after a prestigious American university refused to...

Cyber Power and The Return of Major War

In 1998, Michael Mandelbaum declared major war to be obsolete. “The great chess game of international politics is finished,” he announced, and...

How did the American Otto Warmbier Actually Die?

On 10 October 2018, several American doctors, who were involved in caring for and treating the fairly well-known Otto Warmbier, confirmed the...

How a tragedy changed hillside development in Malaysia

YESTERDAY marked the 25th anniversary of a major tragedy Malaysian history in which the Highland Towers condominium in the outskirts of Kuala...

Britain, you haven't got time

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a vote of no confidence. And yet with the clock ticking towards a hard Brexit, Britain doesn't seem to...

US partnership offers alternative to Chinese investment in the Pacific

ON Tuesday, the United States became the latest country to pledge their support to infrastructure development in the Pacific Islands, aiming to...

Washington using legal cover to conceal economic banditry

This hegemonic conduct by the US is undermining international law and leading to chaos. The recklessness of American unilateral diktat is...

Palestinians await both their relief and their downfall from the US

The Trump administration has made Mahmoud Abbas do what no other ally has done before – renounce America’s role and turn his back. Mahmoud...

Super-rich spend most for Hong Kong’s ultra-prime properties

HONG KONG has topped the list as the most expensive global ultra-prime real estate market for the world's super rich, according to an international...

Nissan affair risks damaging Japan Inc push to hire foreign managers

Stay alert this year-end party season, get home without hassle

Time flies, and it's already mid-December. No doubt, many people will be going to year-end parties this week and/or next week. But one thing we all...

Eight decades on, no end in sight to Nanjing toll row

KAWAGUCHI, SAITAMA PREF. – The Chinese claim 300,000 people died in Nanjing at the hands of the Japanese military in December 1937 and January...

Angela, Annegret in “nova normalnost”

Zamenjava na vrhu bo nemškim krščanskim demokratom (CDU) v naslednjih tednih vsaj prehodno najbrž – ker se to pač običajno zgodi – prinesla...

METI’s clerical error excuse does nothing to explain JIC mess

Nine executives of an organization resigning en masse is an anomaly that invites the obvious question of why. President Masaaki Tanaka, three other...

As the US and the rest diverge, here’s what 2019 holds for investors

This was the year the global environment diverged as the United States powered ahead while the rest of the world stumbled. Looking ahead, tighter...

Amnesty calls Italian government ‘repressive.’ Salvini: ‘My conscience is clear’

Report. In its report, the NGO paints a bleak picture of Italy due to the growing climate of mistrust and racism towards foreigners. written by...

It’s Time for French Museums to Return Cambodian Artifacts

The debate as to whether international museums and governments should return cultural artifacts acquired during the colonial period is not a new...

APAC businesses outperform Western peers in digital transformation race

The US and the UK have always been leading the race to digital adoption — but according to a new study by Telstra and the Economist Intelligence...

Are universities responsible for graduate employability?

In a highly competitive world, a degree is no guarantee of a job. As a result, many question the value of the qualification and often, blame falls...

If a death threat isn’t a ‘violation’ of Twitter’s rules on abuse, what is?

It’s another example of the double standards of the social media giant and how, if you don‘t have officially-approved ‘victim’ status, you...

Will population decline create a richer society?

The Cabinet Office regularly publishes its Economic and Fiscal Projections for Medium to Long-Term Analysis outline. The latest projection,...

Indian central bank chief's exit signal retreat of liberal economics

The hot mess that is the US-China trade negotiations

Who knew trade could be so exciting? Aside from trying to outrun Somali pirates in speedboats chasing your freighter with AK-47s in hand or...

India -- retreat of liberal economics

Macron attempts to calm revolt, but dissent remains

Reportage. President Emmanuel Macron is throwing the protesters an olive branch, calling them 'right in many respects.' But opposition parties have...

Chile: mayor vigilancia de la sociedad ante prácticas corruptas

Los múltiples escándalos de corrupción conocidos en el último tiempo han gatillado un deterioro en la confianza de la sociedad, hacia diversas...

Pacto migratorio, lo mejor que podía hacerse

Al final algunos de los asistentes se tomaron las manos, celebraron y rieron, incluso hubo aplausos. Lo que fue acordado en julio de 2018 en la...

The Lethal Consequences of Misclassifying Dolphins

PRINCETON – The annual dolphin hunt in the Japanese town of Taiji began in September. By next March, despite global condemnation and mounting...

New India central bank head's arrival signals retreat of liberal economics

The Secret Jewish Plot Against Turkey

Erdogan, who rose out of a party whose leader compared Jews to bacteria, likes to name-drop 'The Mastermind': a Jewish conspiracy preventing Turkey...

Chinese deflation? A risk for 2019

‘Boy Scout’ Canada caught in a nasty fight between two superpowers

Two predictions made by some old China hands immediately after the arrest of Huawei’s No 2 Sabrina Meng Wanzhou in Canada have turned out to be...

These destinations are Asia Pacific’s rising tourism stars

JAPAN may be the top choice for travellers in the Asia Pacific, but two other Asian destinations are rising fast as preferred destinations - South...

Who’s Afraid of China’s Influence?

HONG KONG – Since the Cold War ended, the West has invested huge amounts of resources in efforts to induce political liberalization in China,...

The Revolution Europe Needs

STRASBOURG – The spontaneous street protests in Paris over the past month come almost exactly 50 years after the mass revolt of May 1968. But that...

West must stick to values, despite reality of China's power

With Beijing's growing economic and military clout in world affairs prompting talk of a new China standard, The Asahi Shimbun asked China expert...

Central bank chief's exit signals decline of liberal economics in Modi's India

What the world can learn from China on wage growth

It’s now official: workers around the world are falling behind. The International Labour Organisation’s latest Global Wage Report finds that,...

In Syria the Entire Nation Mobilized, and Won

Yes, there is rubble, in fact total destruction, in some of the neighborhoods of Homs, Aleppo, in the outskirts of Damascus, and elsewhere. Yes,...

What is rape? Despite #MeToo, few really know

A woman cannot change her mind once sex has started. If she flirts on a date, she cannot cry rape later - even if she hasn't consented to sex. And...

Skokani roka

Prejavili štedrosť aj voči ostatným ústavným činiteľom. Najväčšiu radosť môže mať prezident, na osobnom účte mu každý mesiac...

Nissan affair risks damaging Japan Inc.'s efforts to hire foreign managers

Co-opting a Fetus for Their Land Grab

How obtuse and insensitive does one have to be to exploit a young mother’s tragedy? But this won’t be the first or, unfortunately, the last...

It’s Not Just Likud's Nava Boker. You Won’t Find Women’s Solidarity in the Knesset

Female legislators in Israel are party members first, and only afterward, if at all, on the side of women

Putin's hypocrisy on human rights

Russia's government is celebrating the hundredth birthday of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn while at the same time persecuting the...

Haifa Residents Can Die of Pollution, as Long as There’s No Arab Deputy Mayor

Never mind the frenetic development of the Oil Refineries and the petrochemical industries, for the government the worst thing happening in Israel...

How English testing is failing Chinese students

If any “English as a second language” test has an oversized footprint in China, it is the International English Language Testing System (IELTS)....