+ (POGLED) Je prav, da voditeljico kdo kliče gospa Erika?

Ko moderatorka pri osrednji informativni oddaji nemške ZDF najavi katerega od politikov, pa naj je to zunanji minister Heiko Maas, gospodarski...

+ (POLEMIKA OB ZAPIRANJU BANK) Država je za državljane, ne banke

Ob novici, da bo Nova Ljubljanska banka (NLB) spet ukinila nekaj svojih bančnih poslovalnic po Sloveniji, med drugim tudi na Koroškem, v Mislinji,...

After Turkey, Iran and Israel, is it Ethiopia's turn to penetrate the Arab world?

Border skirmishes between Sudan and Ethiopia are nothing new; they date back decades and are frequent. The causes are both countries’ failure to...

Down on one knee, boy! White penitence over racism and George Floyd’s murder plunges new depths of piousness and pointlessness

Footage and photos have emerged of an open-air prayer group being held in Houston, Texas. The images of black and white Texans praying together as...

As Liverpool FC’s footballers take the knee, all hail the champions of hollow gestures and virtue signalling

The aftershocks of George Floyd’s death are still ricocheting in all sorts of directions. And throwing their hat into the ring to be part of it all...

Systemic racism is the real 'American carnage'

A majority of white Americans still cannot come to terms with what black people have known forever: Racism is systemic, systematic, and nowhere...

Detailed records must be kept to assess response to virus outbreak

How should the government act to protect the lives and livelihoods of the public from outbreaks of infectious diseases? To answer this, it is...

America is burning and the tyrant is barricaded in the palace

Commentary. This national uprising is taking place in a country of 40 million unemployed, after 100,000 dead due to COVID-19, the virus that has...

‘Will I be next?’ Coco Gauff leads athlete protests

'Am I next? I am using my voice. Will you use yours?' The violent subordination of black people is a subject on which sports stars often speak...

Fear is at the root of America’s race problem

London – It’s been a bad week in the United States: six nights of protests, huge anger, rioting and looting in 50 cities, hundreds arrested or...

China’s border invasion will push India toward the U.S.

Washington – A flare-up in a long-running border dispute between China and India has raised the temperature in their bilateral relationship. Yet...

Russian derangement syndrome

EASTERN SHORE, MARYLAND – On May 21, the U.S. Department of State announced a $250,000 grant for “Exposing Russian Health Disinformation,” to...

What the Democrats Must Do

BERKELEY – Like almost all other countries, the United States has become poorer since the COVID-19 pandemic began, because Americans can no...

Wonderful world of K-golf

By Bernard Rowan Golf has come to Korea big time! On the heels of such standouts as Pak Se-ri, K.J. Choi, Grace Park, and many others, Korea has...

How one man’s efforts saved Japan’s postwar democracy and the SDF

Kobe – Sixty years ago this month, as the protest demonstrations raged over the ratification of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty,...

No more shrimp sandwiches, please

By Choi Sung-jin Few nations in the world may yearn more for international recognition than Korea. That explains in part why Koreans are proud of...

China steps up its offensive against the Senkaku Islands

On May 8, two China Coast Guard (CCG) ships intruded into the territorial waters of the Senkaku Islands and pursued a Japanese fishing boat that...

The secret of Japan’s success in combating COVID-19

The government on May 25 lifted the state of emergency declared over COVID-19 as the number of new infections with the novel coronavirus decreased...

An Interview with Barak Barfi

The Planet After the Pandemic

BASEL – Scientists have little doubt: the destruction of nature makes humanity increasingly vulnerable to disease outbreaks like the COVID-19...

Storytellers, we are

By Kim Ae-ran Each of us has our story. Our life with ups and downs creates an interesting story as well as a touching testimony to life. We like...

Learning to live with COVID-19

By Ngaire Woods and Leany Lemos Ngaire Woods Leany Lemos OXFORD/PORTO ALEGRE ― One of COVID-19's paradoxes has been the way in which some...

Fever of K-pop culture

By Choe Chong-dae When I visited Europe last year, I was surprised to see many groups of young people who were dancing and singing to K-pop music....

Looters and rioters trampling memory of George Floyd

By Christine Flowers It has been suggested to me that as a white woman, I should back off when it comes to certain issues. I find this ironic,...

What lies behind Cambodia's surprise coronavirus success?

Government's strong hand and international aid have led to zero deaths from COVID-19

Lyubov: love in Russian

The Nobel Prize-winning Belarusian author Svetlana Alexievich is best known for her oral histories, which confront difficult subjects such as the...

The medicalised life

In 1793, a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, where the founding father and physician Benjamin Rush advocated aggressive bleeding – the...

Why Indonesia won’t let Beijing forget the Philippines’ South China Sea arbitration win

Indonesia’s low-key diplomatic protest at the United Nations against China’s disputed claims in the South China Sea last week made some analysts...

Saving the Most Vulnerable from COVID-19

CAMBRIDGE – In Massachusetts, which has a population of close to seven million, over 6,000 people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of...

Defendant No. 1 Tweets Again

Next year in Jerusalem 

In the Jewish Diaspora, the prayers for Passover and Yom Kippur end with the plea: “Next year in Jerusalem.” At least since roughly the 15th...

Americans fight to breathe as society again chokes on racism

In the United States, the name Karen has lately become social media shorthand for a white woman who typically demands to “speak to the manager”...

Neglect of workplace safety

Industrial accident deaths increase despite toughened punishment The number of workers who died from industrial accidents in the first quarter...

Haaretz Cartoon

Terms of success

'New Deal' program requires deregulation, innovation The Moon Jae-in administration's economic stimulus program has taken concrete moves to...

Miri Regev’s Mizrahi Theme Park

Vaša tišina bo naš zvok

‘Veliki glasbenik ni tisti, ki se ga najbolj sliši, ampak tisti, ki najbolj posluša drugega.« Epidemije je konec, in čeprav kdo v vladnih...

White Supremacist Provocateurs Are Tipping U.S. Protests Into a Race War

Palestinian Refusal to Negotiate With Israel and Trump: A Cowardly, Fateful Mistake

As a former Palestinian negotiator, this is my urgent message to the old, stale, failed Palestinian political elite: Rejectionism won’t stop...

Latest Acts of Piracy by US Against Iran

A new intense confrontation between Iran and the United States is expected to take place in the future. And it could very well turn into a full-on...

Lifting of 2010 Sanctions? No, Just Another Pitiful Move from Seoul.

Several times, when writing about what President Moon Jae-in could have done to develop inter-Korean dialogue, this author has outlined that a real...