Unjustified fear, mistrust of strangers harder to end than virus

Last week a subway train was brought to a screeching halt in the city of Fukuoka. A passenger pressed an emergency button when someone coughed in...

The Two Faces of Pharaoh

JERUSALEM – The Roman historian Sallust remarked that the way states are established determines how they are ruled. This dictum can be applied to...

No food for thought: the surreal semi-quarantine of Milan

Reportage. Milan appears under siege. As the wave of fear washes over Italy, Milanese rushed the stores to buy whatever they could, as if a war or...

Načo je moratórium?

Napriek tomu celé Slovensko na sociálnych sieťach i mimo nich živo diskutuje o „tajných“ prieskumoch, na ktoré sa vyzbierali ľudia, keď...

Assange's ongoing trial

By Gwynne Dyer The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellberg stole and published the "Pentagon Papers" in 1971, revealing the...

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China’s COVID-19 Moment

HONG KONG – Last October, the 2019 Global Health Security Report included a stark warning: “National health security is fundamentally weak around...

The Challenges of Argentina’s Debt Renegotiation

NEW YORK – Argentina has just passed a critical juncture with respect to its debt. The International Monetary Fund’s mission to the country has...

Are Independent Central Banks Passé?

LONDON – US President Donald Trump’s decision to nominate economist Judy Shelton for one of the vacant positions on the Federal Reserve Board has...

DefExpo India 2020: Military Cooperation between Russia and India is as Good as Ever

For some time now, India has been one of the main importers of Russian weapons and military equipment. According to the data provided by the...

Ireland: The Old Guard Tries to Ignore a Bomb

The country most affected by Brexit, apart from the UK itself, is the Republic of Ireland. The border between the Republic and British-controlled...

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On Hanging from the Blades of a Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian 

How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must one consult to formulate and...

The Philippines’ ABS-CBN network is again fighting to survive, 34 years after liberation from Marcos

On February 24, 1986, rebel soldiers liberated the Philippines’ ABS-CBN Corporation from the brutal control of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship....

Trump leaves New Delhi as Modi’s biggest advocate, but US still presses ‘true friend’ India on trade

Trump and First Lady Melania left India for the US on Tuesday, after a jam-packed itinerary of photo opportunities, meetings with government...

The whole Democratic primary is an Obama lookalike contest (and everyone's losing)

Democratic candidates are jumping through hoops to grab a piece of the halo that has (however undeservedly) accrued to the 44th president, and they...

It is time to negotiate with al-Shabab

In the first two weeks of 2020, the Somali armed group al-Shabab carried out five attacks in Kenya, killing more than a dozen people. On January 2,...

One year on from India’s Balakot airstrikes: How MSM’s targeting strengthened Modi at home

There was no way for India to ignore what it believes was Pakistan’s macabre 2019 Valentine’s Day gift. Adil Ahmad Dar, 23, made a video in which...

COVID-19 complacency is worse than panic

NEW YORK – Don’t think about a white bear. What did you just see in your mind’s eye? If the answer was “a white bear,” you’ll have grasped...

The dawn prayer protests provide an example of Palestinian steadfastness 

Palestinian Muslims in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem are engaged in an initiative known as the Great Fajr (Dawn) Prayer protest in mosques...

Pisa disease specialist: ‘We lack a culture of infection control’

Interview. The delay with which the Lodi outbreak was detected was due to a combination of errors and bad luck. ‘There is an underlying problem:...

To Protect Democracy, Reform It

LONDON – Democracy may be “the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time,” as Winston...

Coronavirus to test nations’ coordination in a globalized economy

Has Trump surrendered Afghanistan to the Taliban?

Two decades after its invasion of Afghanistan, the United States has come to the inevitable conclusion that it must end its military intervention...

Asian leaders underestimate danger of Trump's reelection

US-China conflict would worsen and existing alliances would suffer

Assange extradition hearing is Damocles sword over journalists’ heads. But UK mainstream media participate in his crucifixion

Having myself been born onto the path of resistance and having by reason of chance and circumstance little choice but to resist, I am drawn to...

Ankara has Shot Itself in the Foot in Syria

Recently, Ankara has crossed the line by transforming its supposed anti-terrorist operation in Syria into a full-fledged invasion. Essentially, it...

Convenient hysteria: US is no longer sugar-coating the fact its nuclear drills are aimed at Russia

Any operational directive (or combat order) starts with an overall “enemy” assessment which includes data about the “enemy’s” political...

How will Malaysia fight the coronavirus with no health minister amid political turmoil?

There’s no such thing as a good moment for a country to endure political chaos and instability but Malaysia’s timing seems particularly...

Companies must move supply chains further from China

Virus shows Southeast Asian factories too dependent on imported production inputs

Trial Evasion in French

The trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to begin two weeks after the election, on March 17. Based on past precedents, one can...

Divisive politics

April 15 election makes fight against virus harder One of the worst things happening in South Korea as the new coronavirus spreads rapidly in some...

Trump's attack on 'Parasite'

Doubling down on 'America first' even in culture and art is wrong U.S. President Donald Trump vented his unfiltered anger at "Parasite," the South...

Abe must weigh his May visit to Moscow on a historical basis

Moscow will host a ceremony on May 9 to mark the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...

Viral outbreak underscores value of Hong Kong’s ‘one-country, two-systems’ policy

HONG KONG – The COVID-19 epidemic now sweeping across Asia may damage the global economy more than the 2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory...

60 years on, alliance with U.S. still Japan’s best option

BEPPU, OITA PREF. – The 60th anniversary of the revised Japan-U.S. security treaty fell on Jan. 19. When it was revised in 1960, popular protests...

Has Australia's luck run out?

By Carl Bildt MELBOURNE ― By any reasonable standard, Australia is a long way off from most other countries. Sydney is closer to the South Pole...

Realistic US approach to North Korea in 2020

By Troy Stangarone Every U.S. president ideally wants to head into their re-election campaign with foreign policy successes to tout to voters....

Creating an engaging culture in the workplace

By Kim Jong-nam Working as an organizational development consultant, I undertake many projects related to organizational culture, leadership, and...

Težave s stvarnostjo

Če je bil potreben še kakšen dokaz za to, da niti v Nemčiji »nič več ni, kot je bilo«, ga je minuli konec tedna priskrbelo tradicionalno...