China plastic waste ban throws global recycling into chaos

FROM grubby packaging engulfing small Southeast Asian communities to waste piling up in plants from the US to Australia, China's ban on accepting...

Israel’s anti-BDS tactics mirror White South Africa’s defence of apartheid

The Israeli state and its supporters frequently accuse its critics of being motivated by anti-Semitism, and although they usually concede that it...

Fatah Supporters' Harmful Self-delusion Is a Sign of Their Weakness

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The Israeli Army Chief's Secret Weapon: The Spokesman's Unit

Brexit: compromise or chaos?

LONDON - The saga of Brexit continues, stretching now possibly months ahead to the last permitted exit date of Oct. 31. Is there any end in sight,...

Is Winter Coming to the EU?

BERLIN – A popular narrative holds that the European Parliament elections in May will be “Act Three” in the populist drama that began in 2016...

How to make politics a creative and attractive vocation

The report “Women in Parliament in 2018” by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), originally established in 1889 and said to be the first...

Why Sri Lanka and why now?

COLOMBO - For most Sri Lankans, the Easter Sunday of 2019 started off like any other Sunday. Those belonging to the Christian minority, which...

Europe turning Japanese? No. it's much worse.

Rovn(ak)osť

Odkázali ho na slovenského distribútora, ktorý mal v ponuke nápoj obsahujúci kukuričnú izoglukózu. Detail, ktorý ľuďom prekážal a...

Where to go from here?

By Choi Sung-jin Few words have been used more frequently than "sandwiched" to describe the diplomatic situation facing Korea, and South Korea in...

Turnout falling at European elections

Voter turnout in European Parliament elections has dropped steadily over the years, hitting a record low of 43 percent at the last poll in 2014....

Divorce in Korea today

By Bernard Rowan According to the Statistics Korea website, the divorce rate here was 4.4 per 1,000 people in 2017. Divorces have declined from...

Brexit capital still struggling with divide

In the 2016 referendum, the market town of Boston in eastern England was the epicenter of the Brexit vote that shocked the world. Fast-forward to...

El año perdido de Miguel Díaz-Canel

Cuando la prensa extranjera publicó que un ingeniero sin el apellido Castro llegaba a la presidencia cubana, las expectativas internacionales se...

Will Reiwa lean on history or carry us forward?

So, it’s Reiwa. Or should it be Leiwa? In Japanese, the sound of the first letter is certainly much closer to the latter, but non-Japanese media...

Terrorism rears ugly head in Sri Lanka blasts, killing hundreds

The Iwakura Mission, a special diplomatic mission named for its leader, Tomomi Iwakura (1825-1883), serving in the role of plenipotentiary...

Okinawa election result again calls for major shift in Henoko base plan

The outcome of the Lower House by-election in Okinawa Prefecture on April 21 is a reminder of local voters’ indomitable will to refuse to give in...

One year in, Díaz-Canel struggles to modernize Cuba in the face of US pressure

Analysis. Trump’s aggressive policies hit Cuba while the reform process was effectively in mid-stream. While Miguel Díaz-Canel has begun to...

Another G-20 Summit

The annual meeting of political leaders of countries from twenty of the world’s leading world economies (The Group of 20, G-20) will be held this...

Notre Dame of Gaza: Our Mosques and Churches are Also Burning

As the 300-foot spire of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris tragically came tumbling down on live television, my thoughts ventured to Nuseirat...

Labour & ‘anti-Semitism’: Real goal of establishment smear campaign is to deny socialists power

There have been 673 allegations of anti-Semitism by Labour Party members and, since the new general secretary started a crackdown on this issue...

The international economic policy game

Until relatively recently, specialists in international relations had little interest in game theory; some were even “frightened” to hear the...

The Arab Spring’s Second Chance

NEW YORK – Mass protests in Algeria and Sudan have recently removed two aging autocrats, ending 20 and 30 years, respectively, of absolutist rule....

The Arabs on board the Titanic have a story waiting to be told

This month marks the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, which sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic in the early morning of 15...

Kako se počuti sedemnajstletnica?

Izgubil sem pol ure, za 500 metrov, se je minuli teden v Londonu jezil voznik in vsi, še posebej Ljubljančani, smo ga razumeli: vsaka...

Trump tightens the rope on Iran, Tehran threatens oil blockade

Analysis. The US president is attempting to dictate oil export terms for a block of countries, provoking support from allies and indignation from...

¿Nosotros versus ellos?: por qué la llegada de la IA al mundo laboral es más lenta

En muchos aspectos la adopción de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA), en el ámbito corporativo, está ofreciendo mayor resistencia que en el...

Arab aid for the PA continues to marginalise the Palestinian people and their rights

The Arab League has pledged $100 million per month as aid to the Palestinian Authority in its ongoing financial crisis, as long as there is no...

Sri Lanka’s pain is going to spread

NEW DELHI - In Sri Lanka, memories of war and terrorism are very much alive. The decades-long civil war between the Sinhala-dominated government in...

Did Sudan’s autumn come too soon?

We rejoiced and had high hopes for the revolutionary movement in Sudan, which overthrew the head of the tyrannical authority, Omar Hassan...

Algeria’s Moment of Truth

ALGIERS – To understand what is behind the mass protests in Algeria, it helps to remember that the country’s outgoing president, Abdelaziz...

Renault-Nissan -- Why not a proper merger?

Israel’s elite undercover units are increasing their activities against the Palestinians

In recent weeks and months, Israel’s elite undercover Special Forces units, known as the Musta’ribeen (Mista’arvim), have increased their...

Why US & Saudi Arabia fear Iran-Pakistan cooperation

Someone clearly hates the idea of peaceful dialogue between Iran and Pakistan. Whether a coincidence or not, the timing of an attack in Pakistan...

Sri Lanka bombings bear hallmarks of Islamic State attack

The Sri Lankan government has blamed a little-known Islamist group for the suicide bombings that left more than 300 people dead in Sri Lanka on...

Netanyahu: Leading global right-wing politics

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro caused a big uproar in Israel after he addressed a group of evangelical pastors in Rio de Janeiro, saying that...

Lukewarm foreign support turns ‘Benghazi Championship’ into a deadly stalemate

Commentary. Haftar’s main error was to believe that Tripoli would be delivered into his hands on a silver platter. His allies are playing both...

Yellow vests: ‘Notre Dame is not us’

Reportage. Yellow vest protesters were indignant that the French president postponed an address ‘because of a fire at a cathedral.’ written by...

Can Armenia Survive the Western Clock and Dagger Infiltration?

Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, The United States considered itself the sole global hegemon that is entitled to decide the fate of...

Look at the Photos, Netanyahu

The reality in the occupied territories is conveyed to the citizens of Israel almost exclusively via the Israeli army spokesman. But photographs...

Sri Lanka is no stranger to extremist violence, but the latest attacks seem different

SRI LANKA has long been subject to extremist violence. Easter Sunday’s coordinated bomb blasts, which killed almost 300 and injured hundreds more,...

Narendra Modi: The making of a majoritarian leader

Narendra Modi says he developed a "strong hatred towards the Congress party" early on. He was only six years old when Vadnagar, the small village...

More plastic bags than fish: East Asia’s new environmental threat

IN MARCH 2019, the fourth Session of the UN Environment Assembly convened in Kenya to discuss the environmental and climate challenges outlined in...

Israel’s Construction Accidents: Not Mishaps, but Negligence

Just a few months after construction workers in Israel were abandoned by the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, which put contractors’...