Netanyahu Is Up to His Old Tricks and Shticks

How Do You Rebuild a Nation After a Genocide?

How does genocide affect survivors' national and political identity? And how they relate to the perpetrators and their heirs? How Bosnian Muslims,...

India’s Hindu nationalists reverse the tide of history

New Delhi – Last week, an Indian prime minister, dressed like a priest-king in a saffron scarf, a silver crown and a lockdown-lengthened beard,...

Blocking TikTok opens a can of worms for Facebook and Google

New York – Be careful what you wish for. You might think that the Trump administration banning Chinese ownership of video-sharing app TikTok in the...

Vaccine confronts humanity with next moral test

New York – The coronavirus pandemic has stress-tested the world. Beyond challenging human fortitude, national health services and international...

Climate change

By Kim Ae-ran The world is getting warmer every day. The Korea Times also mentioned the boom of stick insects and gypsy moths as an effect of the...

Strah pred Karantenijo

Izobraževalni zavod za javno zdravstvo dr. Andrije Štamparja v Zagrebu je blizu pokopališča Mirogoj, glavnega mestnega poslednjega počivališča,...

If an atomic bomb had not been dropped on city of Nagasaki

A day after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, U.S. military officers in Guam said Tokyo should be the next target, not a small...

Capitalizing on Women’s Ventures

LUXEMBOURG – If you are a venture capitalist, you are almost certainly a man. But you would do well to know that your best chance to outperform...

There’s more to Saudi involvement in Syria than meets the eye

Buried within the explosive accusations against Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, the most attention grabbing of which was that a...

‘China literacy’: Vietnam’s key to combating COVID-19

The rise of Vietnam could well represent one of the shifts in global balance of power that takes place after the COVID-19 pandemic. Vietnam’s...

Can Vaccines be Allocated on Antiracist Terms?

NEW YORK – A safe and effective vaccine could play a significant role in mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, even if such a vaccine is found, it...

Ryu Ho-jeong: the future of Korean politics?

By David Tizzard David Tizzard In 1973, South Korean president Park Chung-hee introduced the Minor Offences Act which mandated limits on the length...

Climate change: China must seize the day on coal, or a toxic cocktail of winter smog and coronavirus awaits

I am not a particularly religious person, but I do feel like there is some kind of reckoning going on. Over the past four or five years, we have...

Studies, more support needed to combat child poverty in Japan

Approximately one in seven, or 13.5 percent, of all children in Japan are living in a state of poverty, according to the Comprehensive Survey of...

The horrifying spectre of a SDF-US oil deal

A state which very reluctantly offers its visa only after receiving allegiance to the centralism of Turkey and to the leadership of the Turk...

The missing role of women in the Afghan peace process

After decades of war and violence, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan fell apart following the military intervention of the NATO and American forces...

Why shouldn't Moscow 'denigrate' doddery Biden and the xenophobic 'anti-Russia' establishment? In fact America should do so too!

The statement released on Friday says, in part, that Russia is employing “a range of measures to … denigrate former Vice President Biden and what...

Brent Scowcroft Remembered

CAMBRIDGE – Brent Scowcroft, who died on August 6, aged 95, was the model of a modern lieutenant-general. A graduate of West Point whose career as...

UFP closes in on DPK

DPK, UFP should wake up and smell coffee It had seemed unlikely that the main opposition United Future Party (UFP) would ever get close to the...

Minimize flood damages

Time to take bolder measures to prevent disasters Heavy rainfall is wreaking havoc on the country in this persisting monsoon season, causing severe...

Stronger hurricanes, worsened wildfires, record heat : the climate warnings march on

After a stifling hot July that saw 25 days of 90-degree-plus weather _ breaking a record that stood for nearly a century and a half _ August swept...

Whose India?

NEW DELHI – As India prepares to celebrate the 73rd anniversary of its independence on August 15, a growing number of Indians are coming to...

US election and two Koreas

By Tong Kim With less than three months left before the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 3, there is a growing interest to see who is going to...

Avoiding the Trump Trap

CHICAGO – With Joe Biden’s lead in the polls, many Democrats and Republican Never-Trumpers are increasingly optimistic that US President Donald...

Powerful organization learns little people can fight back

By Michael Shannon From day one the Trump HR operation has been the Chernobyl of Human Resources. Instead of hiring some of the 63 million people...

Should US, China, two Koreas sign end-of-war declaration and peace treaty?

By Kwak Tae-hwan The United States has not yet proposed a "new method of calculation," as required by North Korea for the process of...

New Zealand says South Korean diplomat row separate from WTO chief pick

Country's ambassador to South Korea responds to Nikkei Asian Review article

Gaza’s solidarity with Lebanon is being expressed in blood

I know about pain, and I know when other people are in pain. I have seen it, felt it and lived it many times. Ever since I was born, the Gaza Strip...

Autobusy vyžmýkajú mestá

Bezplatné cestovanie nie je zadarmo, niekto ho bude musieť zaplatiť. Autobusy budú naftu páliť i naďalej. Šoféri jazdiť zadarmo tiež...

Opinion – Making Sense of China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomacy

A new brand of Chinese diplomat is emerging. Unlike the older generation these so-called 'wolf warriors' are known for their aggressive, proactive...

Plato’s allegory of the cave

Warning: this film features rapidly flashing images that can be distressing to photosensitive viewers. ‘It is the task of the enlightened not only...

How Aztecs told history

I gripped the steering wheel as the car started to slide. Slowly, slowly I manoeuvred the tyres back into the sandy tracks of what they called the...

Hope for a New “UN Moment”

WASHINGTON, DC – On September 21, 2020, the United Nations will mark its 75th anniversary with a negotiated declaration to be endorsed at a...

The costs and benefits of artificial intelligence

New York – The robots are no longer coming; they are here. The COVID-19 pandemic is hastening the spread of artificial intelligence, but few have...

Why choice of running mate matters more than usual this year

For all the secrecy and speculation that typically surrounds the search for a vice presidential candidate, the decision rarely sways an election....

Strange bedfellows: German SPD vacates middle ground in build-up to post-Merkel election, making overtures to ex-Communist Left

With a national election 12 months away, the stars seem to be aligning for Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), giving them a real shot at...

Belarus protests pose a real threat to Lukashenko

The Belarus election was a farce and the dictator's re-election was rigged — but it was also a victory for civil society, says DW's Christian F....

A Letter to the District Psychiatrist From a Concerned Israeli Citizen

When It Comes to Human Rights, I Rather Be a Purist Than a Hypocrite