Find compromise

Japan should change stance on compensation issue The tension between Seoul and Tokyo is escalating with both sides showing no signs of budging an...

Don't bow to pressure

Prosecutor general and prosecution should be ensured of political independence, neutrality Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl's comments made at a...

Nuclear deterrence has only raised risk of catastrophe

Hiroshima will observe the 75th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6. Detonated by the United States, the bomb and its...

Arye Dery and Moshe Gafni, the Keys to Change Are in Your Hands

TikTok sparks national security concerns

Maybe it is a generational thing, but I don’t get TikTok. The social media app allows users to share brief (15-second) videos — as if I need...

What does Vietnam think of America’s Indo-Pacific strategy?

Los Angeles – On July 13, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shifted U.S. policy in the South China Sea, prompting Southeast Asian counterclaimants...

COVID-19 and common sense

By Kaushik Basu ITHACA ― As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, our understanding of it is improving. Through a combination of epidemiology and physics...

Tokyo and Seoul must avoid tit for tat over wartime labor

Personal identity, outward action: The inner self in Japan and Canada PREMIUM

+ (POGLED) Letalski način na off

Vsakič, ko vlada posodobi sezname (ne)varnih držav, je marsikdo vesel, da ni imel dovolj poguma za načrtovanje daljše poti v tujino. Tačas je...

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Japan devours foreign ideas, but overdoing it may cause indigestion

A comical tale from a 17th century Chinese publication goes as follows. An impoverished student is dying to eat a "mantou" (steamed bun) but can't...

America’s Unholy Crusade Against China

NEW YORK – Many white Christian evangelicals in the United States have long believed that America has a God-given mission to save the world. Under...

How to fight disease in the 1880s: Fresh air

New York – America’s ambivalence about wearing masks has played a part in its COVID-19 woes. But there’s another factor beginning to receive a...

Virtual work strengthens the outsiders and the weak

New York – There’s more to the virtual work trend than days full of Zoom calls from a home office. It also means the possibility of new ways of...

Pricing COVID-19 vaccines too high could backfire on big pharma

New Delhi – Intellectual property is a convenient fiction. It is a right enforced by state power and international agreements, one that’s even...

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Melbourne/Seoul – Seventy-five years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki put beyond argument that nuclear weapons are the most...

Bolton memoir is guide for how not to negotiate with North Korea

By Van Jackson Even self-serving interpretations of history can be useful. Ambassador John Bolton's recent memoir, "The Room Where It Happened,"...

Chief prosecutor's words

Prosecutor general and prosecution should be ensured of political independence, neutrality Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl's comments made at a...

America means freedom to them

By Tom Purcell A friend of mine can't for the life of him understand why some Americans are clamoring to replace capitalism with socialism. Born in...

Can unpopular sect expect justice?

By Michael Breen The current investigation into Lee Man-hee, founder of the Shincheonji sect, moved a step forward last week with prosecutors...

Life without regret

By Kim Sun-ae This June, publisher of the magazine "Green Review" Kim Jong-cheol died. Until this spring I received much help from his newspaper...

Koga v Evropi res ščiti ameriška vojska

Nemški visoki politiki, pravijo, so bili ogorčeni, ker je ameriška vlada sklenila, da bo umaknila tretjino svojih vojakov iz Nemčije. (Še vedno...

Abandonad toda esperanza. Estamos en el infierno

Las recientes crisis que ha vivido la región –de una magnitud de energía que no se tiene recuerdo– han sido un acelerador de la ilegitimidad...

Avoiding the Japanification of Europe

BOLOGNA – As monetary and fiscal authorities have acted aggressively to blunt the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic impact, public debt and...

COVID Coin?

CAMBRIDGE – As the COVID-19 crisis accelerates the long-term shift away from cash (at least in tax-compliant, legal transactions), official...

Minding the Perils of Progress

CAMBRIDGE – It is always worth remembering that in the grand sweep of history, we are the fortunate ones. Thomas Hobbes’s description of life as...

Opinion – Protest, Interrupted? Climate Activism During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Covid-19's impact on climate activism is obvious. How can climate activists execute a mass mobilization-based strategy in a social distancing context?

Turkey's foreign policy and the myth of neo-Ottomanism

Over the past few years, Turkey's increasingly assertive foreign policy has been felt throughout its neighbourhood. In July, following the clashes...

Jammu and Kashmir on a new trajectory, a year after special status revoked

August 5, 2020 marks the first anniversary of the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), a watershed moment in India’s...

Opinion – Revisiting Paradiplomacy in the Context of COVID-19

If the local dimension is called to occupy a relevant space in the international arena, it will depend on the effort and creativity of local actors.

Lebanon is one long tale of disaster and crisis

Lebanon has a deserved reputation for resilience; an uncanny ability to rebuild and carry on when all seems lost. The last ten months, however,...

Systém a vražda

Naopak, odborná verejnosť aj advokáti obetí tento krok prijali pozitívne, pretože prípad je zložitý, a je len pre dobro veci, keď sudcovia...

The false promise of normalcy and development in Kashmir

This August marks a year since the Indian government abrogated Articles 370 and 35(a) of the Indian constitution, revoking Indian-administered...

The Case for Human COVID-19 Challenge Trials

MELBOURNE/LOS ANGELES – Last month, the vaccine advocacy group 1Day Sooner published an open letter to Francis Collins, Director of the US...

International students in the US are still facing precarity

On July 6, in a bid to reopen United States schools and universities as soon as possible, the administration of President Donald Trump issued a...

Complex calculations in Syria regarding oil and the Kurds

Oil was a card the U.S. regime pulled out last October to make President Donald Trump concentrate when it came to the Syrian game. Trump decided to...

BDS and BLM: Positionality, Intersectionality and Nonviolent Activism

The confrontational nature of Black Lives Matter and Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions is a wake-up call for those benefiting from a form of privilege...

Lives of Afghan Children during Coronavirus Pandemic

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world and its poor economy continues to pose immense challenges to its population. Among the...

In Wake of Beirut Blast, Lebanon Is Bound to Implode

Has Iran’s Nuclear Program Suffered Real Damage From Secret Operations?

Israel Playing Politics With Coronavirus Air Travel

Recovering from the EU’s Recovery Fund

NEW YORK – After arduous negotiations between member states’ governments last month, European Union leaders are celebrating their agreement on a...

Panic Stations: Australia’s Scramble to Defend Against China in the Asia-Pacific

China will make new demands, but the time has passed for Australia to adequately defend themselves militarily and a new formula for politico-...

Necropolitics and the Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugees in India

The ‘neglected spaces’ where people are destined to suffer indignity and harm are ‘socially sanctioned’ projects of dehumanization.

The State of Hezbollah After the Blast in Beirut

Libanonská tragédia

Je prehnané prirovnávať nešťastie, ktoré spôsobilo smrť (predbežne) viac ako sto ľudí a ťažké zranenia ďalších tisícok so zhodením...

Trump's TikTok fiasco shakes dollar, boosts Xi's grand plan for yuan

Dollar's slide suggests years of Trumpian caprice are finally taking a toll

Is the Coronavirus in North Korea, and if so, How?

On July 26, 2020, North Korea reported for the first time a case of a person suspected of having COVID-19. According to the Korean Central News...

Our Planet Missed Opportunity to Fight side-by-side against the Pandemic!

It is time to stop irresponsible finger-pointing. All over the world, as this essay is being written, well over 17 million COVID-19 cases have been...