Fascists' Terrifying Solution to the Climate Crisis

“Our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future...

Macron warns UK could become US vassal state. I bet he asked Merkel first

Of course, what Emmanuel Macron didn’t admit during his meeting with the PM in Paris is that the situation is little better for him. Neither...

Israeli Arabs Want In, Center-left Says No

In a week that featured the horrific specter of the ruling party advocating for the disqualification of Arab political representation in the...

Israelis, Demonstrating Isn’t Enough – Strike!

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abhors strikes. In his failed coalition negotiations following the April 9 election, he was presented with a...

Strategic decision

Ending GSOMIA can determine nation's future South Korea has refused to renew a bilateral agreement it signed with Japan in 2016 to share sensitive...

Abe's provocation backfires

Dwindling Korean visitors deals blow to Japan's tourism industry The state-funded tourism agencies of Korea and Japan have released their...

China holds the key to 5G technology’s growth

The most closely watched technology in the information and communications field today is the next-generation superfast mobile network. The...

Korea's UNESCO man: Paik Seung-gil

By Kim Ji-myung On July 26, 2001, my conference organizing company ConvEx Korea was selected as the planner-organizer for the "ICOM Seoul 2004"...

Korea's UNESCO man

By Kim Ji-myung On July 26, 2001, my conference organizing company ConvEx Korea was selected as the planner-organizer for the "ICOM Seoul 2004"...

George Orwell's '1984' revisited: rise of the civilizationalists

By James M. Dorsey The rise of a critical mass of world leaders including Donald Trump, Xi Jinping and others in Europe, Asia and Latin America who...

Vast Asia ― and US

?By Arthur I. Cyr On August 2, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea. He is working to mitigate...

Trump rule makes immigration classy

By Martin Schram The little boy was warned: SSHHH! He, his sisters and his parents were hiding from the guys with badges. They were stowing away in...

GSOMIA decision: Moon Jae-in's nuclear option

President Moon Jae-in receives a briefing on the National Security Office's recommendation to scrap the Korea-Japan military intelligence-sharing...

Doing Sex Right in Nepal: Activist Language and Sexed/Gendered Expectations

This is an excerpt from Sexuality and Translation in World Politics. Get your free copy here. As I met S. back in 2009, he introduced himself as a...

Aggravation in the Korean-Japanese Relations: the Japanese Angle

The trade war between Japan and South Korea is going on, and the author needs to clarify why Tokyo lost its temper at last. The South Korean mass...

There’s Nothing Shocking About a Tool for Sussing Out anti-Semitism

In his August 2 Hebrew-language op-ed for Haaretz – following up on his July 3 English-language piece “Maybe when it comes to anti-Semitism, no...

The decades-old war on Palestinian workers

Over the past month, the Lebanese authorities have unleashed a brutal crackdown on Palestinian workers. In June, Lebanese Minister of Labour Kamil...

Actually, American Muslims are at the centre of the resistance

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant, but we also know that too much of it can land you in hospital. It can even give you cancer. It is a lot...

Is Britain going to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem? 

The administration of US President Donald Trump has come to be defined by racism on the domestic front and recklessness on the international stage,...

Action, not outcry will save the Amazon

The Amazon rainforest is on fire and it's all Bolsonaro's fault. The world is outraged, but that's not going far enough. The global community will...

Right-wing Populism and the Attack on Cooperative International Security

The contemporary political environment has seen a paradoxical hijacking of key liberal peace and security concepts which helped to secure the post-...

Epstein is Dead, But His Legacy Will Be Inflicted On Us All

The alleged suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has become one of the few things the currently very divided US population can broadly agree on. Epstein and...

El verdadero desafío es recuperar el Amazonas, no sólo apagar el fuego

La catástrofe desatada por los incendios forestales en el Amazonas nos enfrenta a un daño imposible de medir. lamentablemente, es una catástrofe...

Trump's 'disloyal' jab may boost base, not Jews

President Donald Trump's branding of American Jews who vote for Democrats as "disloyal" to their religion and Israel prompted alarms of...

How can we trust the state when its enemies keep dying before trial?

NEW YORK – There is no other way to say it: It was a political assassination. Osama bin Laden was unarmed. SEALs captured him alive. Following...

South Korea to scrap military intel-sharing pact with Japan

SOUTH Korea said Thursday it will terminate its military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, sparking protest from both Tokyo and Washington amid...

Trump’s Economy

The Power of Cash for Refugees

ROME – The world is experiencing the highest levels of forced migration on record. Conflict, natural disasters, and other emergencies have driven...

The flame of hatred still burns around Al-Aqsa Mosque

On the fiftieth anniversary of the infamous act of arson at Al-Aqsa Mosque, when the flames of hatred were ignited and engulfed the Noble...

Japan should look at itself to avoid being like China

A friend of mine showed me a shard of glass saying it was a souvenir from Hong Kong. My friend picked it up after students stormed Hong Kong's...

Hong Kong demo soon to exceed duration of umbrella revolt

There seems to be no end in sight for Hong Kong's mass demonstrations. Looking at the faces of young people overflowing the streets, I was reminded...

Family of missing UK consulate worker rejects ‘made-up’ report

THE family of a staffer at the UK consulate in Hong Kong have rejected a "made-up" report by Chinese state media that he was detained in the...

The pitfalls of Malaysia’s palm oil defence

As palm oil trade tensions drag on, Malaysia has slated another round of EU lobbying and a joint World Trade Organization (WTO)...

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Ne razumem sicer, kako je mogoče, da so informacije o mojem tajnem delovanju dosegle celo najoddaljenejši otok najoddaljenejšega jadranskega...

Is Peace with the Taliban Possible?

CANBERRA – Despite ongoing peace negotiations between the United States and the Taliban, the bloody conflict in Afghanistan continues to take a...

Reševanje vojaka Hladnika - Milharčiča

V vaški trgovinici v Donjem Prilišću sem si napolnil čutaro z žganjem, kupil cigarete in se odločil, da bom počakal na mrak. Skril sem se v...

Taiwan's new centrist political party is struggling for space

Še eno darilo bogatim

Upam, da je postalo jasno, da obvezno zdravstveno zavarovanje ni tako solidarno, kot razglašamo, čeprav zanj vsi plačujemo enak odstotek od...