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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Libya: Why a New Flashpoint between Russia and the West?

Even though it is already a well proven fact that the core reason for Libya’s present troubles is the NATO intervention that took place in...

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

The Three Most Common Misconceptions About the Annexation

‘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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

‘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...

On Silvia Romano, Islamophobia and the white saviour complex

In November 2018, Italian aid worker Silvia Romano was kidnapped by gunmen linked to the Somali armed group al-Shabab in northeast Kenya. At the...

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

Redefining National Security for the Post-Pandemic World

WASHINGTON, DC – The world has spent the last 30 years trying to redefine “national security” in ways that will allow nation-states to prepare...

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...

US-China feud during pandemic puts world at risk

The US has no right to claim leadership of the free world

Donald Trump’s refusal to address the legitimate grievances of America’s black population has underscored, yet again, why his country does not...

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...

Follow Bhutan's lessons for post-coronavirus life

It can show the world green model for economic development

Israel and US are Staging a War while EU Stands By

On May 25, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that his new government has six key goals, the main one being to implement what US...

+ Za Kurza drugorazredni

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

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...

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...

+ (WASHINGTONSKE SKICE) Zgolj prestrašeni moški. Sam?

"Medtem ko se skriva za svojo ograjo prestrašen, sam, sem jaz z ljudmi, ki po uboju Georgea Floyda in več sto letih institucionalnega rasizma na...

US-China hostilities are moment of danger for Japan

Shinzo Abe must balance Washington's protection with Beijing's business

Autonómia, stará maďarská pesnička

Démoni minulosti, hoci oslabení, čakali kdesi v závetrí na svoju príležitosť. A tá prišla. Strana maďarskej komunity predložila...

Keď koalícia tlačí na pílu

Preto by legislatívna zmena v spôsobe jeho voľby mala prejsť najprv serióznou odbornou diskusiou a až na jej základe by sa mali predkladať do...

The Palestinian boycott of Israel’s occupation social media seems to be working

Palestinians recently launched a massive campaign to boycott Israeli social media pages and apps, especially those connected to Israel’s...

The Palestinians have an opportunity for strategic changes in the current crises

With the Covid-19 pandemic causing health, political, social and economic crises around the world leading to a new “normal” way of doing things,...

Japan’s Return to “Normalcy” amid SARS COV-2 Pandemic

In Japan, the process of returning to “normalcy” is often tied with the desire of the nation’s leadership to remove limitations imposed on the...

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...

Noam Chomsky: They’re protesting 400 years of brutal repression

Interview. We spoke with Noam Chomsky to understand the current moment in America. ‘The racism persists, though it is less rampant than before....

OCDE, ¿una organización cada vez más latinoamericana? Ventajas e inconvenientes de formar parte

El 15 de mayo, Costa Rica recibió la invitación oficial para unirse como miembro tras haber aprobado las evaluaciones técnicas y se convertirá en...

The Problem With "Whitewishing"

At this very moment in America, black Americans, and those who support the necessary human rights, dignities, equities, and safeties of black...

Blue and White Is My Race

+ (POGLED) Sindrom obsedenosti z Rusijo

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

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...

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...

+ (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...

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...

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...