Learning From the Beirut Disaster

The Other Global Power Shift

CAMBRIDGE – Since 2017, America’s National Security Strategy has focused on great power competition, and today much of Washington is busy...

What the new Iran-China partnership means for the region

In early July, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announced that Tehran is close to entering into a long-term strategic partnership...

Can China’s ‘community of shared future’ grow amid Malaysia’s internal trust deficit?

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s concept of a “community of shared future” seeks to advance the good of humankind, and Malaysia is emerging as a...

Hanmi's perseverance

Drugmaker's ceaseless R&D investment bears another fruit Hanmi Pharmaceutical has succeeded in exporting new drug technology that could lead to...

Drop strike threat

Doctors should join efforts to boost public health Medical doctors and trainees have threatened to go on strike to protest a government plan to...

Avoiding bad news

By Donald Kirk VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia ― The pandemic is deceptive. You know it's here, all around you, but you can't see it or hear or feel it....

Morgue Testing the US Economy

BERKELEY – US national income and output in the first quarter of 2020 was 1.25% below what it had been in the fourth quarter of 2019, but still...

Why Zoom can't save the world

By Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE ― Before COVID-19, spending on business travel totaled $1.5 trillion a year (about 1.7% of world GDP). Now it is down...

A Female Veep Nominee: After Two Whiffs, A Potential Winning Hit

It's a waste of time to write or read speculative stories about who's trending up or down in a veep hunt. I'm old enough to remember 1968, when...

Truth is relative when it comes to 'mostly peaceful' protests

By Rich Manieri Are the riots in major cities around the country really happening? It's a question that should only require a simple "yes" or "no"...

Mandatory 14-day self-quarantine

By Lee Sun-ho Since April 1, anyone coming to Korea from overseas has had to mandatorily self-quarantine for 14-days from the day of entry to...

Seoul: A "tasteless" city?

Park Moo-jong Seoul, the capital of South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a megacity that has an official history of 628 years,...

Solos

Barcelona’s squares (plaças in Catalan, plazas in Spanish) are the beating heart of the Catalonian capital – beloved to residents and tourists...

Mummies among us

The pharaoh was dead. Now the embalmers and the priests went to work: over the next several weeks, they prepared the body at length. They removed...

75 years after the atomic bombing, humans remain close to disaster

Seventy-five years ago today, students in the second-year west class of Hiroshima Prefectural Second Girls’ High School suffered from the atomic...

The specter of financial socialism

The specter of financial socialism is haunting global financial markets. Where free markets and the magic of the invisible hand were always the...

Trump’s Secret War Plan for the South China Sea

Talk of war with war between the US and China is the only real news, but is it? With the planet paralyzed from COVID 19, military operations are...

Letters to the Editor: We Need a Populist Left

Global alliance against nuclear weapons should expand further

“Hiroshima was firebombed.” “It appears that (the city) has suffered slight damage.” These passages are part of a very brief Asahi Shimbun...

China’s Great Wall of Water

LONDON – The East Asian monsoon is pummeling China this summer. As of late July, flood alerts had been issued for 433 rivers, thousands of homes...

Europe has a weak dollar problem

London – How much is too much of a good thing? The euro has strengthened 5 percent versus the dollar this year — a fair reflection of the...

Other Putin on Europe's doorstep

By Mark Leonard BERLIN ― Is Turkey the new Russia? That question is increasingly being asked in European capitals as Turkish President Recep...

Power, sit-ins and nuclear weapons in Germany

By Marc Herbermann Germany is officially a non-nuclear-weapon state. Every German government has so far renounced the nuclear armament of the...

Remembering Israel’s 2014 attack on Gaza’s universities

Six years ago, Israeli occupation forces targeted the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) in one of the deadliest military offensives against the two...

Boj za Džingiskanovo dediščino

Donaldu Trumpu moramo biti prebivalci z vzhoda Evrope za njegovo zgodbo hvaležni. Naredil je nekaj velikega. Nekaj, česar sami nikoli ne bi...

Israel Is in Shock, in a Sickening Show of Hypocrisy

+ Ivan Gale na kanapeju občudovanja

Me veseli, da se bo Ivan Gale začel politično udejstvovati. Ali da tako vsaj pravi. Potem bo domovina zagotovo rešena in problemov ne bo več....

UK’s plan to pump billions into broken housing system won’t help those weeks away from post-Covid homelessness

Although the sun is shining, August 2020 will be a dark month for millions of people as companies start to realistically look at their businesses...

It is way too early to celebrate Najib's historic corruption sentence

Former PM's court appeal raises fears that convictions could be overturned

The Robot Question

NEW YORK – The robots are no longer coming; they are here. The COVID-19 pandemic is hastening the spread of artificial intelligence (AI), but few...

From the UN to Australia, Israel is making diplomatic inroads for colonial expansion

After five years as Israeli Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon has been appointed as the Zionist state’s Ambassador to Australia, although he...

Are Financial Markets None the Wiser?

LONDON – In an April commentary about the wild gyrations in financial markets during the February-March phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, I noted...

The visitor that nobody invited and everybody hated

The French self-proclaimed philosopher, author and journalist Bernard-Henri Levy, infamously known as “BHL”, suddenly appeared in Libya on an...

Sniffing out the coronavirus: how dogs are helping in the fight against Covid-19

What does a pandemic smell like? If dogs could talk, they might be able to tell us.We’re part of an international research team, led by Dominique...

The US May Lose in Trump’s TikTok War

NEW YORK – Following US President Donald Trump’s vow to block US access to TikTok, the popular short-video app’s Chinese parent company,...

China - Great Britain: the End of the “Golden Era”?

The title of this article, to a certain extent answering its own question, reflects the author’s understanding of the current state of...

US Withdrawal from Afghanistan and its Consequences for India

It is widely acknowledged that from a geopolitical point of view, India is caught between a rock and a hard place. It shares its land borders with...

Mars colonization is ever more likely, but don’t get too excited – it’ll be billionaires deciding who gets there, and how

On a clear night, there’s nothing better than gazing towards the heavens, wondering what’s out there, but if the answer to that eternal question...

Michelle Obama’s ‘low grade depression’ may very well be real but framing it politically smacks of attention seeking point scoring

Mrs Obama says she is suffering from “low grade depression”, coincidentally she also has a new podcast to promote but we’ll leave that to one...

China's rise must be managed, not contested. Australia knows how

Liberal powers need to counter Beijing's tactic of picking nations off one by one

+ (POGLED) Libanonski klobčič

Libanonsko prestolnico Bejrut je v torek stresla izjemno močna eksplozija, zaradi katere je po do zdaj zbranih podatkih umrlo več kot sto ljudi,...

A Sovereign Citizen revival could spark anarchy – but our leaders are bringing it upon themselves

As disproportionately repressive laws are introduced under the auspices of the Covid-19 lockdown, some people have reached boiling point. Trapped...

Social justice is a tumor, and it just killed a Kindergarten Cop screening

A normal person would not consider the 1990 film very controversial. Back when it premiered, it was a successful comedy starring the...

The future is ‘CLEAR’ and it’s Dystopian: Virus hype ushers in a Covid 19-84 nightmare of restricted access

“Originally launched in May, Health Pass is an extension of Clear’s mobile app. The service links COVID-19 related data like a health...

Druhá vlna na obzore

U nás iba s časovým posunom kopírujeme vývoj v ostatnej Európe. Vývoj vo Francúzsku, v Španielsku alebo v Grécku ukazuje, aká je...