+ (NA ZAHODU NIČ NOVEGA) Edinost, sreča, sprava

Edinost, sreča sprava, k nam naj nazaj se vrnejo. Hrepenenje po enotnosti je del slovenskega nacionalnega genoma. Vsaj v poeziji in teoriji. V...

Public support needed for firms during COVID-19 but with limits

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has compiled a recommendation for extending more than 10 trillion yen ($93 billion) in public support for...

Embracing Anti-asylum Seeker Activist, Minister Ohana Also Embraces Abuse of the Weak

For the Radical Left, Gantz Is to Blame for Everything. But He Won, and Netanyahu Lost

Účelová a vágna novela

Tak ako chorvátsky, aj slovenský prípad by bol v európskych pomeroch skutočne ojedinelý. No kým Dražen Jelenič sa pred týždňom pod tlakom...

How the Hong Kong Calamity Will Play Out

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – China’s decision to crack down on Hong Kong with a new security law has shocked the world. But to those who read the...

Learning lessons of pandemic

By Javier Solana MADRID ― Among its many other effects, the COVID-19 crisis has intensified the pre-existing geopolitical rivalry between China...

Hotel Panorama si strčte za klobúk

Je absolútne strašné, že táto manická predstava premeny prírody a životného prostredia živých bytostí vôbec, doteraz z nášho étosu...

Seven days in May - quiet days speak loudly to us all

By Martin Schram This was the week when despairing global leaders ― with an urgency unlike anything since World War II ― looked to the modern...

No need to be perfect

By Kim Sun-ae At this vegan cafe where I sometimes drop by, customers can enjoy vegan beverages and deserts. The husband who is a barista uses soy...

Why wait? The 2020 Tokyo Olympics should be cancelled immediately. It has no place in a post-pandemic world

Montreal 1976 was an iconic Olympics. Gymnast Nadia Comaneci achieved the first perfect 10. It was so groundbreaking, the three-digit scoreboard...

Rapid Escalation of Events in Libya

Events in Libya have escalated rapidly in recent days, accompanied by an information and propaganda war between the opposing sides. A written...

Los ganadores y perdedores en la crisis por el coronavirus

En las condiciones actuales de mercados turbulentos, incertidumbre sobre la duración de la crisis y la efectividad de las medidas tomadas por los...

The nation is emerging from dark days amid fresh green

Green maple leaves, among early summer foliage, stand out for their exquisite beauty and have been appreciated from ancient times. Yoshida Kenko, a...

Beijing draws the line with Hong Kong

The Chinese government has emerged from the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak confident and ready to assert itself ever more vigorously at home...

China tests global diplomacy and economy

New York – Long-repressed contradictions have a way of flaring up in public in times of stress. China is suddenly at the center of two of them,...

The impact of COVID-19 on Africa

New York – The African continent’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has provided valuable lessons for the rest of the world in meeting this...

Money and modern life

Georg Simmel was born in the heart of Berlin in 1858. That city epitomised the tensions of Germany’s special path to modernity. Rapid urbanisation...

Israel's Despondent Center-left Impotent Against Netanyahu’s Masked Mutiny

His viral photo with masked Likud ministers seemed taken from grotesque horror-comedy hybrid about Contagion and The Hunger Games in Zombieland

The Future of Global Power

BERLIN – The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the first truly global crisis of the twenty-first century. The only modern historical parallels to the...

Kidnapping family members is Bin Salman's tactic to intimidate Saudi dissidents

Details are emerging about the kidnapping of two young people within Saudi Arabia which appears to be the latest desperate move by Crown Prince...

Nigeria’s Mental Health Desert

ABUJA – To most Nigerians, mental illness is “when someone starts running around naked.” It is a shocking misconception, yet a full 70% of...

How the Middle Kingdom is Bringing Down the Greatest Empire

Americans need to stop equivocating and admit that China is in a payback situation vis a vis the Western world that abused it for centuries. As a...

Turks and Kurds as ‘cowboys vs. natives’

Let’s assume that you are a –for some obscure reason an utterly uninformed- foreign diplomat arriving in Ankara. You have some vague knowledge...

Trump Promoting anti-Semites Won’t Stop pro-Israel Jews Voting for Him

25 percent of U.S. Jews are convinced the president is their best friend. There is nothing Trump could do or say, short of bombing Israel, that...

If Only the World Would Force Israel’s Hand

The Lonesome Death of Hong Kong

Big Brother benefits: Covid accelerates transition to cashless society – but does it mean more safety or less freedom for us?

The drive towards a cashless society was well under way even before we’d ever heard the words ‘Covid-19’ but it’s been greatly accelerated in...

Japan must start drafting an Indo-Pacific charter

After watching dozens of webinars, including one co-hosted by the Canon Institute for Global Studies and the Stimson Center, it seems clear that no...

NASA should beware of viruses from outer space

Kuala Lumpur – This summer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch a rover designed to collect samples of the Martian...

Perpetual Bonds Could Save the European Union

By embracing perpetual bonds – or Consols, as they are known in the United Kingdom and the United States – George Soros believes the EU can...

Univerza – čista hiša?

Na temo univerze kot čiste hiše se je pred kratkim odvijala polemika med nedvomno kvalificiranimi bralci, med drugimi dekanom Fakultete za...

Middle East - Not a Hydrocarbon Hot Spring but a Hotbed of Conflict

Historically low oil prices and the severe impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on trade and the economy are being painfully felt in the...

UK and China's 'golden era' comes to abrupt end

Coronavirus, Hong Kong and trade war questions shake relationship

La pandemia y sus consecuencias: no culpen a los economistas

Cuando se revisa el reporte del Imperial College de Londres que indujo al gobierno británico a establecer políticas severas y obligatorias de...

Lockdowns haven’t proved they’re worth the havoc

New York – My junior and senior years in high school were 1968 and 1969; five decades later, I can still remember some of the main events of that...

The Country Held Hostage

If Trump Loves Jews So Much, Why Does He Celebrate America's Biggest anti-Semites?

Time to Keep Your Word to Ethiopian Jews, Netanyahu

In the post-pandemic conflicts to come, Asia will have to fend for itself

With the scale and impact of the coronavirus pandemic, we are told to expect a different kind of world when lockdown and quarantine regimes are...

Citizens of the World, Reunite!

WASHINGTON, DC – The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a dangerous state of disequilibrium, in which the siren call of populist...

Japan must learn from failure of Abe's Russia policy

Putin has used potential transfer of Southern Kuril Islands to manipulate Tokyo

Hong Kong's national security law is end of city's freedom

When the Criminal Liars Shout, “Conspiracy Theory!” You Should Stick to the Facts

Do you know who coined the curse, “conspiracy theory” or accusation, “you are conspiracy theorist!” – It was nobody less than the CIA in the...

Africa’s Future: The Gravest Untruth Will Tell

There is a 21st-century scramble for the remaining resources of Africa. The Anglo-European scavengers who drained African blood the last two...