Thailand's March 24 vote will not matter

The people of northeast Thailand have learned to be resilient. More than a century ago, local power was lost to Bangkok which viewed their...

Welcome to hell: The Peruvian mining city of La Rinconada

La Rinconada, which lies at over 5km above sea level, is the highest settlement in the world; a gold mining town, a concentration of misery, a...

Gantz Refuses to Be an Alternative

Kahol Lavan chairman Benny Gantz was interviewed on the three main television networks on Wednesday. His answers to most questions were...

Will the New Zealand gun law changes prevent future mass shootings?

AS she foreshadowed in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre last Friday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has just announced a ban...

No rights will be lost as long as the resistance is behind them

Aren’t those who race towards normalisation and into the arms of Israel ashamed of themselves when they see a young man, still at the beginning of...

To build back the left, equality is the first block

Commentary. Equality does not mean generalized misery, but rather a rich life for all: it is not a flattening of all distinctions, but a reasonable...

Social Democracy Revealed to America

After spending most of my adult life in various Eastern and Western European countries, I returned to the US just before the turn of the...

Purim Lets Women Live Out Repressed Fantasies. Justice Minister Shaked Followed Suit

Some girls fantasize about being a call girl, others about being justice minister in a fascist regime

Beijing's credibility deficit

Big Tech Is Watching – and Being Watched

CAMBRIDGE – The maturation of the digital revolution has defined the first two decades of the twenty-first century. The central economic disasters...

What can we expect from Thailand's March 24 vote?

The people of northeast Thailand have learned to be resilient. More than a century ago, local power was lost to Bangkok which viewed their...

Israel’s courts are under attack from the right-wing

This week, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled to ban Michael Ben Ari – the leader of the extreme-right-wing Otzma Yehudit party – from running in...

Netanyahu Is Sinking

The submarine affair underscores what we've known all along – we can no longer turn a bind eye to the prime minister's stinginess and greed

A case against a moratorium on germline gene editing

SHOULD researchers put the brakes on genetically engineering babies? Leading scientists and ethicists recently called for a moratorium on clinical...

The Rich Can Fight Inequality, Too

NEW DELHI – When wealthy people espouse left-wing causes, such as redistribution of wealth, those on the right often label them hypocrites. “If...

Ichiro fans filled with sorrow over star's retirement announcement

During my reporting stint in the United States years ago, I chased Ichiro Suzuki, who had just started playing his first season with the Seattle...

Active debate needed to raise low turnout rate in local elections

Official campaigning has kicked off for Japan’s quadrennial unified local elections. The official campaign period started March 21 for...

Brexit and the Speaker’s Tale

OXFORD – The Speaker of Britain’s House of Commons, John Bercow, is all over the news in the United Kingdom at the moment. And, as the Brexit...

Salvini uses Milan bus fire to stoke racism

Commentary. While a bus full of children set of fire is an outrage, at the same time, it’s easy to find buses where passengers with darker skin are...

US FDA Lifts Ban on GMO ‘Frankensalmon’

Frankenfoods is a term developed by consumer groups questioning the health and safety of genetically modified plants or GMO. The US Food and Drug...

Israel’s US Lobby rocked by hate-filled tweets

One of the most influential donors to the powerful AIPAC pro-Israel lobby group will not be speaking at its annual conference this weekend after...

Germany's relentless campaign to silence pro-Palestinian voices

Against the backdrop of Israeli efforts to falsely equate Zionism with Judaism and dismiss any criticism of the Israeli state as anti-Semitic,...

What’s Next for Kazakhstan?

ASTANA – On March 19, the only president that independent Kazakhstan has ever known, Nursultan Nazarbayev, announced his resignation after almost...

Volebná kampaň: žiadne sväté vojny!

Dôležité bude, ako sa so záležitosťou vyrovná jej tábor. Pretože tak, ako je zrejmé, že ide o reálny problém, zrejmé je i to, že...

Women activists and 5 men who have disappeared in the Saudi prison system

With Human Rights Watch releasing a statement on 21 March on behalf of Saudi women activists brought to court in Riyadh a week earlier, world...

Grenfell Tower and Christchurch, 2 prime ministers, one leader

I had not heard of New Zealand’s 38-year-old prime minster Jacinda Ardern until the recent mosque massacres in Christchurch in which over 50...

Trump's Golan initiative is ignorant and dangerous

Israel captured the area in the 1967 Six-Day War and formally annexed them in 1981. Now US President Donald Trump intends to defy the international...

Why China Still Isn’t Winning its War on Pollution

China’s policy-makers certainly won’t be amused to learn that the average concentration of PM2.5 increased by 5.2 percent in the year’s first...

White nationalism is a terrorist threat, but not like radical Islam

WASHINGTON - In the aftermath of last week’s massacre of 50 Muslims at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, it has become common to equate...

In defense of freedom

By Donald Kirk President Moon Jae-in almost accidentally stepped into a battle that did not have to happen with journalists for foreign news...

After New Zealand, non-Muslims should show support

Following last week's attacks, German Muslims are worried that their places of worship might be targeted, too. DW's Christoph Strack writes that...

New Turkey-Iran-Qatar axis is rising in Middle East, and it has Saudi Arabia furious

The aftermath of over eight years of war in Syria has changed the regional dynamics in a way almost certainly never envisioned by the United States...

The ICC and NGOs: Modern Day Manifestations of "The White Man's Burden"

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is not international nor a legitimate court, but is most certainly criminal. It is an institutionalized tool...

White Helmets Under Black Banners

During the recent Third Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria, in Brussels, the USA decided to allocate $5 million to the White Helmets, a...

Companies won’t meet 2020 target to end deforestation – report

MAJOR corporations that have committed to eradicating tropical deforestation from their operations by 2020 are not going to meet their self-imposed...

The global threat of white terrorism

OSLO - Last week, a far-right extremist killed at least 50 people — including a three-year-old child — worshiping at two mosques in the New...

Trump’s Counter-Intelligence Strategy

ATLANTA – For more than two years, US President Donald Trump has heaped praise on the world’s authoritarians, disrespected America’s democratic...

Izravnane javne finance za vsako ceno? Ne.

Začnimo s popularno maksimo, da bi morale biti javne finance vedno izravnane, kot je »normalno« za vsako gospodinjstvo, saj mora tudi država...

Netanyahu Must Be Questioned Under Caution in Submarine Affair

Netanyahu committed breach of trust in the holy of holies of Israel’s security systems, raising heavy suspicions of bribery and criminal wrongdoing

The Ambition Europe Needs

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron recently launched his platform for the upcoming European Parliament elections. Official reactions to his...

Yemen’s forgotten war is entering its fourth year. Is anyone listening?

Despite the fact that Saudi officials thought the sortie in to Yemen would only last a few weeks, we are now in the fourth year of the war on...