The End of America’s China Fantasy

WASHINGTON – A long-overdue shift in America’s China policy is underway. After decades of “constructive engagement” – an approach that has...

The notion that the US is in Syria for ‘stability’ is just plain nuts

Just in recent days, the Islamic State has seized 700 hostages in a part of Syria controlled by US-backed forces and are executing some ten a day...

Slavoj Žižek: Will our future be Chinese 'capitalist socialism'?

Official Chinese social theorists paint a picture of today's world which basically remains the same as that of the Cold War. Thus, the worldwide...

Ken Livingstone: Stop double standards, sanction Saudis for Yemen war, kidnappings & killings

After more than two weeks of lies and deception, Saudi Arabia has finally admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed, but it is clearly another...

Uslužbenci Sove naj bi danes zamrznili stavko

Neuradno smo izvedeli, da naj bi uslužbenci Slovenske obveščevalno-varnostne agencije (Sova) danes zamrznili belo stavko, ki traja že od...

Pri plačilih za jutranje varstvo za učence 2. in 3. razreda šole vsaka po svoje

Osnovna šola je dolžna organizirati jutranje varstvo učencev prvega razreda, le zanje ga tudi financira ministrstvo za izobraževanje, znanost in...

Waste management: Asia can’t afford to make the same mistakes as Europe

AS Asia's cities continue to boom and the standard of living increases across the region, the head of Antwerp's inter-municipal waste management...

Relax. Trump Won't Put All the Jews in Camps. Only the Democrats

How India's Modi Chose Moscow's S-400 Missiles, Defied Trump and Spurned Israel

Despite Trump's threat of sanctions, India's Prime Minister Modi has signed a massive arms deal with Russia, signaling that, despite close defense...

How Abe can make TPP great again

After the Midterms, Could a Threatened, Volatile Trump Flip on Israel?

Ostensibly, Netanyahu's a key beneficiary of this White House's unorthodox foreign policy approach. But for the sake of tentative gains, he's...

Baseball brings Big Data to the mound to help with analytics

The bunt, the steal and the hit-and-run are actually all ill-advised, self-defeating tactics, as their success rates for an entire season are low....

It’s an ill wind that thwarts push for offshore wind power

If renewable energy is to become a main power source in Japan, the use of wind power needs to be sharply expanded. The share of wind turbines in...

Impatient Hongkongers? Blame the MTR

Patience is a virtue, so they say. But I have trouble getting a handle on that concept in Hong Kong, which surely is among the most impatient...

US ready to blow another arms control treaty to feed its war economy

President Donald Trump’s announced intention of withdrawing the US from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty is but the latest...

Undoing Sovereignty/Identity, Queering the ‘International’: The Politics of Law

This article has been shortlisted for the 2018 Article Award In November 2017, the Yogyakarta Principles on the application of international human...

Nabrušeni tako robniki kot tekmovalci

Konec tega tedna se na ledeniku Rettenbach nad Söldnom v Avstriji že tradicionalno začenja nova sezona v svetovnem pokalu alpskega smučanja. Na...

Êdna, etno skupina, ki obeta

V sodobni popularni glasbi se generalno sicer nadaljuje trend globalne unifikacije, a zadnjih nekaj desetletij ob tem vse bolj prodira zavedanje...

(INTERVJU) Gledam le interes Maribora, ne interesov strank

Po več letih praznine, ko Maribor ni imel mestnega arhitekta in tudi ne urbanistične komisije, ki bi jo župan resnično upošteval kot svoje...

Na dialóg treba dvoch

Keby sa v Európe nestal dialóg preferovaným riešením sporov, sotva by sa táto najnepokojnejšia oblasť sveta z prvej polovice 20. storočia...

Chaos na náš účet

Zmluva o obmedzení nosičov krátkeho a stredného doletu, ktorú v roku 1987 podpísali Ronald Reagan a Michail Gorbačov, patrila k hlavným...

Israel-China Ties Are a Very Good Thing

#MeToo movement in China: Powerful yet fragile

Since last January, China has been experiencing a firestorm against sexual predation that reached universities, media outlets, sports teams, NGOs...

Lantau project not just a question of money

“Experts” for the government’s mega reclamation project for Lantau Island are out to paint its opponents as ill-informed and irrational,...

America’s disturbing plunge into protectionism

WASHINGTON – The descent of American capitalism into a racket is being greased by professed capitalists in government, in collaboration with...

The end of INF: Another nuclear treaty bites the dust

On October 20, US President Donald Trump announced that he intends to withdraw the United States from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...

No weapons for Riyadh, right for the wrong reason

Germany should not be exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia, writes DW's Matthias von Hein. But it should be because of the war in Yemen, not the...

What city’s women must learn about being strong and beautiful

Women, and some men, around the world are shaking up society’s traditional view of female beauty. In South Korea, an increasing number of women...

Renegotiate the INF agreement, don't withdraw!

US President Donald Trump wants to withdraw from the 1987 INF treaty, saying Russia has violated it for years. Doing so would make a new...

Behind the Scenes / Young offenders study for return to society

Juvenile training schools (see below), group homes for boys aged 12 to 20 who have committed an act of delinquency, are promoting new initiatives...

Fewer guns, more freedom: The students walking to change Colombia

Reportage. University students gathered in the streets of Bogota and across Colombia this month to demand the right to education. With the war...

Paradojas en torno a la desaparición de Jamil Kashoggi

Jamil Kashoggi era un periodista de nacionalidad saudí que formaba parte de la “oposición leal” en su país. Es decir, respaldaba la monarquía...

Dnevnik neke skupnosti, ki je kot take ni več

Pet let je, odkar je svoja vrata za vedno zaprl Cafe Open. To je tisti lokal, ki ga je javnost najbolj poznala, kot bi pikro pripomnila njegova...

Why a Sino-American Cold War Won’t Happen

OXFORD – It is often said that the US and China – superpowers at economic, geopolitical, and ideological loggerheads – are heading toward a new...

Stable ties are good for China, Japan, the region and the world

The first full-scale summit of the leaders of China and Japan in seven years is as much a cause for celebration as the event it also marks, the...

Defining Post-truth: Structures, Agents, and Styles

The extensive discussion on post-truth politics in the past two years is suffering from a lack of shared conceptual understanding. Different...