‘You don’t deserve my movies’: Seth Rogen cursing out fans in BLM post shows entitled celebrities feed partisanship

Millionaire Rogen bravely took to his Instagram account, which has over eight million followers, on Monday and posted support for the Black Lives...

The Murders of Eyad Hallaq and George Floyd Are Not Alike

Time for a Great Reset

GENEVA – COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is...

BoJo’s decision to throw Huawei 5G deal on the scrapheap shows UK poodle still obeys its US master

When Boris Johnson announced earlier this year Huawei had been given the green light to supply the UK with non-core equipment for its new 5G...

+ Za Kurza drugorazredni

Potem ko evropske države previdno, a zanesljivo odpirajo svoje meje, je najmanj, kar bi pričakovali od prijateljskih sosedskih držav, ki imajo...

What the new Chinese security law means for Hong Kong

"Hong Kong Will Become Xinjiang! Stanley Will Become Qincheng," read placards held by protesters in Hong Kong, after China's parliament moved to...

‘Wolf Warrior Diplomacy’: Israel’s China Strategy in Peril 

Israel’s balancing act that allowed it to reap America’s unconditional and, often, blind support, while slowly benefiting from China’s...

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...

Joe Biden's Muslim state of exception

The COVID-19 pandemic has led many communities in the US, especially those on the margins who are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of...

Trump’s war on black Americans is a desperate political gamble in election year

The sight of US army boots on foreign ground has been a common sight over the past seven decades. According to one estimate, Washington’s...

George Floyd protests: Australia must look in the mirror to see its own deaths in custody

“I can’t breathe, please! Let me up, please! I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe!”These words are not the words of George Floyd or Eric Garner....

Asia’s economies should pull together to recover from coronavirus

In 1984 Hollywood blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the film’s title character faced a tough decision. While crossing a rickety...

Black Americans and Palestinians ‘can’t breathe’ because of injustice 

Over the past week, two brutal events added more sadness to the morbid climate of the coronavirus pandemic. In Minneapolis, a black American...

Towards an ‘American Spring’ of Justice and Equality?

The George Floyd protests and earlier movements in the MENA region prove that values such as dignity, equality, and justice are not exclusively...

+ (BORZNI KOMENTAR) Imuni za koronakrizo

Na krilih zgodovinsko obsežnih davčnih in denarnih ukrepov, ki vračajo optimizem za ponovni zagon gospodarstva, je osrednji ameriški borzni indeks...

The Three Most Common Misconceptions About the Annexation

No to unilateralism

Ruling party can afford to be more cooperative Having a numerical majority must be a confidence booster. That is how it looks for the ruling...

Deglobalization Will Hurt Growth Everywhere

CAMBRIDGE – The post-pandemic world economy seems likely to be a far less globalized economy, with political leaders and publics rejecting openness...

Time for the world to embark on a Great Reset

Geneva – COVID-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing, but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is...

America’s mis-police state

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – George Floyd’s death at the hands — and under the knee — of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has triggered a...

From Riots to Reform in America

MEXICO CITY – The wave of anger and indignation sweeping the United States in response to George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis...

Coming together to save NPT right now

By Tuya Nyamosor These days the world is consumed by worry and concern related to the global COVID-19 outbreak. In due time, one would wish to see...

New morning in news

By Peter Funt The New York Times made a quiet disclosure recently that speaks loudly about the state of news media today. Its newsletter, "The...

Restore moral high ground

By Park Yoon-bae The alleged misappropriation of donations for the surviving victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery is at the center of a...

Trump wants armed conflict. Don't give it to him

By Sewell Chan America is in peril. The days and hours ahead could define our nation, in the same way that the turmoil of 1968 did. On Monday,...

Will foreign counter-revolutionaries succeed in sabotaging Tunisia? 

Observers can’t miss the campaign against the Tunisian revolution by both domestic and foreign parties as they try to derail this beautiful...

Follow Bhutan's lessons for post-coronavirus life

It can show the world green model for economic development

Aesop’s fables and the Amakusa Esopo fabulas in Japan’s moral divergence PREMIUM

Last autumn, I attended a meeting in Europe to consider the planning of some university courses that would be taught in English to students from a...

I Can't Stop Fighting

When I first had my stroke two years ago I went through the seven stages of denial.  I knew the traditional Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ five stages...

Don’t Confuse the Struggle of African Americans With the Struggle of the Palestinians

US-China feud during pandemic puts world at risk

Blue and White Is My Race

It's Now Clear: Gantz's Party Isn't Seeking to Stop Netanyahu's Dangerous Moves

+ (POGLED) Sindrom obsedenosti z Rusijo

Ameriško zunanje ministrstvo je 21. maja naznanilo podelitev 250 tisoč dolarjev vredne subvencije tistim, ki bodo razkrivali ruske dezinformacije...

Resumed WTO proceedings

Japan should lift export controls as soon as possible South Korea has decided to resume its complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) over...

These Are Israel's New Political Punching Bags

Bus service in Ken Shimura’s hometown steps up to help locals

Ginga Tetsudo (Galaxy Express), a bus company in the western Tokyo city of Higashimurayama, is decidedly unconventional in its approach to doing...

Troubling trends demand that Japan take action at sea

Uh oh. There really isn’t a better way to respond to Toshi Yoshihara’s troubling new study of Chinese views of Japanese seapower and the...

Don’t only bet on fast vaccines, root for COVID-19 treatments

New York – As companies and countries pour money into the effort to develop COVID-19 vaccines, timelines keep getting more ambitious and dates...

Xi Jinping’s strategic folly in Hong Kong

Bengaluru, India – Last week was among the most critical in Hong Kong’s history since the 1997 handover of the territory to the People’s...

Biden’s old-time liberalism finds its moment

Washington – As racial unrest has spread to more and more cities following the police killing of George Floyd, the far left has been busy...

Svoboda enako mislečih

Pisalo se je leto 1996: dostop do interneta je imelo (globalno) kakšnih 40 milijonov ljudi, spletnih strani pa je bilo (prav tako globalno)...

The pro-Kurdish HDP’s document on the “new era”

Turkey has been going through a noticeable political impasse since the spring of 2013, in parallel with the failure of the economic model of the...

The time is ripe for Japan to end exports of coal-fired plants

With the global climate crisis growing graver, Japan must quickly withdraw from coal-fired power generation that emits high volumes of carbon...

Another Long, Hot Summer in America

NEW YORK – Could the United States be facing a reprise of the summer of 1968? Then, too, the world saw images of popular rage boiling over in...