Po mimoriadnych voľbách: Veľa šťastia, Británia

Áno, dá sa namietať, že strany, ktoré nechceli brexit, dostali spolu viac hlasov ako víťazný Johnsonov tím a ďalší euroskeptici. Ale pri...

Riyadh Agreement: The start of a peace process or the beginning of a new war?

At the beginning of November, warring parties from Yemen’s south reached a power-sharing deal which aimed not only to defuse tensions among Arab...

Nosilci ekonomskih politik so miselno ostali v obdobju pred letom 2008

V zadnjem desetletju po izbruhu velike finančne krize se je gospodarska realnost v razvitih državah dramatično spremenila. Iz obdobja optimizma...

¿Aramco? Claves de la salida a bolsa más grande de la historia

Resulta tremendamente paradójico que en la semana de la nueva cumbre anual del clima de Naciones Unidas (conocida como COP25 y desarrollada en...

‘Knives out’ – new film from ‘The Last Jedi’ director Rian Johnson – sharpens the blade of anti-white racism

I recently watched The Birth of a Nation (1915), D.W. Griffith’s century old ode to the Ku Klux Klan. Griffith’s masterpiece is a disgusting piece...

Descifrando a Greta Thunberg, una líder inusual

En mayo de 2019, Greta Thunberg apareció en la portada de la prestigiosa revista Time que la nombró "líder de la próxima generación" por su...

Australia’s bush fires: the burning issue Scott Morrison refuses to discuss

Australia is on fire. The sun sits low over Sydney, an angry red wound in the sky, glowering amid its shroud of soot. Visibility in the city is...

I Never Saw a World So Fragmented!

It is amazing how easily, without resistance, the Western empire is managing to destroy “rebellious” countries that are standing in its way. I...

The Immune System Did Its Job

The fact that Israel has to hold a third election within such a short period of time reflects a grave political crisis. The fact that millions of...

India's citizenship changes are immoral and self-defeating

Making it harder for Muslims to become citizens risks global backlash

Achieving human liberation through AI

KIZUGAWA, KYOTO PREF. – Roughly half of Japan’s workforce would lose their jobs if artificial intelligence replaces intellectual human labor to...

Child’s play: Coding booms among Chinese children

Wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses and a red T-shirt, an eight-year-old Chinese boy is logged in for an online coding lesson -- as the teacher....

New Zealand troops complete daring volcano mission to retrieve bodies

Elite soldiers retrieved six bodies from New Zealand's volatile White Island volcano on Friday, winning praise for their "courageous" mission...

Two dead in India as police fire at demo against citizenship bill

Police in northeast India opened fire Thursday on a crowd demonstrating against a new citizenship bill, killing two people and wounding several...

Netanyahu’s Atonement

Polls ahead of the next election predict an advantage of four-to-five Knesset seats for Kahol Lavan over Likud. These figures are most likely...

The New Coffins Along Netanyahu’s Route

“Justice Minister Amir Ohana has ordered the attorney general and state prosecutor to stop issuing statements ‘signed by the Justice Ministry,’...

Webster’s opts to take ‘they’ to new gender-free level as 2019 top word

Merriam-Webster, Inc., the American publisher of the eponymous dictionary, reveals its Word of the Year each December. Last year, the honor went to...

Indemnity medical insurance

Fundamental steps needed to rescue underwriters mired in chronic loss Indemnity medical insurance provided by private companies has emerged as a...

Biegun's visit

North Korea should not stick to year-end deadline U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun will arrive in South Korea, Sunday, for...

Ordinance on hate speech welcome but needs monitoring

The Kawasaki municipal assembly has unanimously adopted an unprecedented ordinance to crack down on hate speech. Under the ordinance, criminal...

How much would you pay to work less?

NEW YORK – Companies from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to Monsanto Co. have gotten serious about making work more flexible. Thanks to apps and...

Primátori už nepradú

V Bratislave napríklad od roku 2015 narástli takmer o polovicu. Po vlaňajších komunálnych voľbách však obsadili mnohé radnice politici,...

Economic Growth Is the Answer

STANFORD – December is usually a time for looking back on the past year and forward to the year ahead. In 2019, we have witnessed rising...

Oil consumption tracking is all about Asia

Oil market analysts must make sense of a bewildering array of statistics about production, consumption and inventories, compiled and published with...

Macron option for Korea

France's President Emmanuel Macron, second from left, and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, look at U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkey's...

Grandpas in kitchen

By Kim Ji-myung Hanging in the kitchen of my countryside home is a plate that reads: "Danger! Men Cooking." The phrase serves as a handy test...

Erdogan: The revolutionary enigma who holds the West in sway

There are few political enigmas these days – strongmen, yes, but not enigmas. We have US President Donald Trump, who is far from it; we have UK...

Trump's most dangerous behavior on Ukraine

By Trudy Rubin When the House of Representatives draws up articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the list might not include one of...

Uijeongbu's Eunhye Community, a place of grace

The Eunhye Community house stands with Mount Dobong in the background. /Courtesy of Eunhye Community By Richard Pennington So much of what we hear...

Female soldiers from North Korea

By Nam Sang-so Schools were in recess and students were helping their parents transplant rice saplings. Under the warm sunbeams in June 1950, I too...

The Disappointing Aftermath of NATO’s 70th Anniversary

The summit marking the 70th anniversary of NATO held at Watford near London was, quite predictably, a disappointment. The media has already dubbed...

Despite Crisis, NATO will Still Survive

The latest NATO summit in London on December 5 was historic not only because it set the organisation’s military profile a lot higher for future,...

Boris wins, but the UK loses

We're quick to bandy about words like momentous, stunning and historic. But this is such a moment. The outcome of the election will define the UK...

Aung San Suu Kyi: from Nobel laureate to ‘ethnic cleansing’ apologist

Report. Suu Kyi’s downfall—from an icon of the struggle for democracy to a shill defending the most heinous crimes—shows how universal rights...

Two Nigerians on holiday in Croatia were rounded up and sent to Bosnia

Reportage. We spoke with the two by phone in a detention center in Bosnia, where they remain locked up one week after newspapers first reported the...

Where is Hamas today, 32 years after it was founded

Hamas released its first statement on 14 December 1987, just five days after the start of the first intifada. The intifada was triggered when an...

Cronies Everywhere

Trump’s Racist Ban on Anti-Semitism

NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump thinks that anti-Semitism is a serious problem in America. But Trump is not so much concerned about neo-Nazis...

Trump’s order to combat anti-Semitism makes Israel sacrosanct & sets up Jews for discrimination

What he is doing, however, is setting a dangerous precedent which may end up fueling acts of hatred against Jews. Trump’s executive ruling...

When Trump outdoes the Zionist movement

Donald Trump, one of the more bizarre presidents in the history of the United States, is once again making decisions of a strategic aspect...

Labour’s failure to realise this was a 2nd Brexit referendum hands Britain to Boris

There was no other game in town, this was the Brexit election and the only way to win it was to promise to get Britain out of the EU and put...