+ (GLOBALNA ARENA) Zakaj je tokrat drugače?

Kako se bo končala sedanja megakriza zaradi covida-19? Tega ne vem niti jaz niti nihče drug. Zato je verjetno bolj koristno, da razmislimo, kako se...

LG's relocation overseas

What have relevant officials done to keep manufacturers at home? The Gumi branch of the Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) staged a...

Saving Han Myeong-sook

By Park Moo-jong On Aug. 25, 2015, about 150 people, including several lawmakers of the then opposition party, held a "ceremony" to see off a...

Truths about Gwangju

By Donald Kirk Details about what happened at Gwangju during those terrible days from May 18 through May 27, 1980, remain elusive four decades...

The impact of compensation politics on Japan’s defense

Pyeongtaek, South Korea – Despite COVID-19 dominating headlines, the decision on where to place Aegis Ashore in Japan once again made the news...

Three ways Congress can save the U.S. economy

New York – The U.S. economy desperately needs help. Unemployment, already at the highest level since the Great Depression, is expected to get...

End of Europe's Chinese dream

By Mark Leonard BERLIN ― A paradigm shift is taking place in relations between the European Union and China. The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a...

Cooperate with China or Suffer

HONG KONG – As governments worldwide confront the terrible choice between saving lives from COVID-19 and protecting people’s livelihoods,...

Dealing with disruptive dislocations

By Michael Czinkota The global uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus disruption intensifies. Questions of human safety and business continuity...

Trump Is dragging dead woman through mud

By Dick Polman Timothy Klausutis, an innocent American who was despicably victimized on social media this month by Donald Trump, has written an...

Value of telehealth in response to COVID-19

By Ann Mond Johnson The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) was formed by trailblazing researchers, clinicians and academicians over 25 years...

Hostarji, kolesarji in kultura à la Tomčeva

Z Janezom Janšo se strinjam. Vsaj v eni točki. Čas je, da po 75 letih zapustimo hoste in se družno podamo na pot postmodernega razvoja....

Hana Kimura's death highlights Japan's poor approach to mental health

Cyberbullying, stigma and lack of resources combine to drive up suicide rate

‘Civic assistants’ would be victims of Italy’s forced labor regime

Commentary. The semantic fraud that is Italy’s ‘citizenship income’ has birthed a new idea to push people into ‘civic assistant’ roles,...

Liza

For his short film Liza, the French animator Bastien Dupriez aimed to create ‘a kind of visual transcription’ of the George Gershwin song Liza...

The trolley problem problem

Much recent work in analytic philosophy pins its hopes on learning from imaginary cases. Starting from seminal contributions by philosophers such...

Russian Derangement Syndrome

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

Contact tracing apps in Italy won’t work if no one downloads them

Analysis. Contact tracing apps that use the DP-3T algorithm are private. But experts wonder if they’re even useful, since they are only effective...

AFRICOM's gambit: Why a US military command is waging a ‘media war’ on Americans

Most countries in the world divide their own territory in military areas of responsibility. Not so the US, whose combatant commands span the entire...

In the West - Propaganda, Hysteria and Truly Foul Breath!

If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be laughable: the political brigands in North America and Europe are fuming, spitting and rolling their eyes...

Brits are happy to carry out regime change abroad, but millennia of monarchy have made us weak and subservient at home

Another week, another posh English bloke accused of wrongdoing, another flicking away of public opinion like a fly from a tweed jacket. Another...

Moscow has secret Covid-19 CURE for chosen elite: Western media’s favorite Russian pundit voices new conspiracy theory

A handful of Russian ‘experts’ frame the narrative in the US/UK media. The most widely featured include Tatyana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Center...

Race war or bust? MSM smothers racial unity over police killing of Minneapolis man by reminding blacks & whites to hate each other

Liberals and conservatives alike were horrified on Monday by a widely-circulated Facebook video showing a white police officer choking an unarmed,...

Netanyahu pushes for West Bank annexation in his fight to avoid jail. But he is setting the Middle East on fire

Even Israeli security chiefs are increasingly alarmed by Netanyahu’s push to expand the country’s borders. In a dubious historic first this week,...

Is dividing Libya a possible compromise to end the conflict?

Since 2011, Libya’s territorial integrity and future has never been so deeply intertwined with the fate of one person, as it stands now. In 2011,...

Netanyahu, Don’t Drag Your Trial Out

Taiwan's success in containing the virus should be a lesson passed on

The new coronavirus pandemic has provoked an international debate on what kind of political system is best equipped for the battle against this...

Haaretz Cartoon

A tap of a finger on a smartphone can destroy someone’s life

From the 1980s through the 1990s, a serial TV show titled "Neruton Benikujira-dan" aired in Japan. Now that I think about it, this was probably the...

Ramallah’s attempt at independence, at least in healthcare

Reportage. Palestine has already begun to reduce its dependence on Israeli hospitals. But cutting ties is easier said than done: developing the...

Russian and Turkish involvement connects the crises in Syria and Libya

There have been frequent reports that Russia has transferred a fleet of MiG-29s and two Sukhoi 24s from Hmeimim on the Syrian coast to Al-Jafra in...

Opinion – Updating the 1951 Convention for Refugees

The 1951 Refugee Convention is required to be amended so that “climate refugees” are given a place within the gamut of the refugee law regime.

China's virus diplomacy: Global savior or 'Wolf Warrior'?

China has played two roles in the global battle against the coronavirus: a benevolent donor of aid, filling the US void, and combative superpower...