New U.S. Stance on Israeli Settlements Is Akin to ‘Thou Shalt Murder’

Donald Trump is turning out to be one of Israel’s most dangerous foes; he’s doing everything possible to corrupt it, deepen its rot and make it...

Humans Can Survive Underwater

DALLAS – The latest alarming news about climate change is that huge swaths of densely inhabited land will be underwater by 2050, with their cities...

Why Value Pluralism Is Essential for Sustainability

BONN – For much of 2019, news broadcasts and social media have been filled with unsettling images of forests engulfed in flames, leaving behind...

By abandoning Asia's multilateral organizations, US empowers China

TPP, CPTPP, APEC, EAS, ASEAN, RCEP -- Donald Trump dislikes them all

Furious China vows to ‘fight back’ after Congress backs HK democracy

China on Thursday accused the United States of seeking to "destroy" Hong Kong and threatened retaliation after Congress passed new legislation...

Malaysia arrests almost 700 Chinese over cyber scam

Almost 700 Chinese nationals were arrested in Malaysia when authorities raided a building and busted a major online investment scam operation,...

Power of Mothers’ Solidarity

The chasm between the accolades for the Israel Defense Forces, the parade of former generals through the television studios and the silence of the...

Ehime citrus farmers dealing proactively with climate change

Locals say they have “three suns” in the coastal communities of Ehime Prefecture, one of Japan’s citrus-producing centers. It means that in...

Truth about ultrafine dust

Joint research holds China accountable for air pollution China's contribution to ultrafine dust in Korea has been confirmed in concrete figures for...

Japan’s global leadership in the G-Zero world

On Monday, geopolitical risk firm Eurasia Group held its second G Zero Summit in Tokyo. Key themes revolved around the end of American hegemony,...

Global condemnation of US decision on settlements is void of action

In an unsurprising move which exposes the ongoing US commitment to establish new paradigms for Israel in which Palestine is completely eliminated,...

Transparency for Big Tech: least-bad option

By Phil Kerpen A new Wall Street Journal expose finding that "Google has increasingly re-engineered and interfered with search results to a far...

Not ROC but Taiwan

By Hu Young-sup Some Taiwanese people have been pushing to change their country's official name from the Republic of China (ROC) to Taiwan. As...

Mindful Coupling

About a year ago, I was approached by a publisher about possibly writing a book about mindful conflict resolution. I consulted with friends and...

(BRANJE) Voznikova smrt

Enkrat v srednji šoli nam je odpadla psihologija. Dobili smo zaposlitev, ki smo jo z levo roko in brez pretirane zavzetosti opravili v petnajstih...

Kiskove mimikry

Je pravdou, že na rozdiel od SDK, ktorá vznikla rok pred voľbami a päť strán tak malo dostatok času, aby „zladili krok“, teraz veľa času...

The Bomb Is Back

Will Libya back away from allowing Gaddafi to stand trial at the ICC?

It appears that Libya’s Minister of Justice, Mohamed Lamloum, underestimated the public reaction to his statements before the International...

The West’s Arrested Social Development

BERLIN – After three decades of worsening economic inequality, advanced-country populations are angry, and they are taking their grievances to...

Midwest plea to Trump: Do China trade deal

At the moment, the American economy is really two economies. One is chugging along at a respectable rate of GDP growth, with the stock market up by...

The logic of Indo-Pacific (Part 2)

By Vishnu Prakash Indeed, the arms race and tensions in the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR) are getting sharper ― whether on the Korean Peninsula or in...

Leave the judgment to God: The role of Islamic discourse in addressing suicide 

A mother came to me in the wake of her son’s suicide. She had consulted a Sheikh – in this case someone who claimed to be a religious leader –...

Extinction Rebellion — nothing matters to this doomsday cult

Extinction Rebellion founder Roger Hallam has downplayed the Holocaust. The statement disqualifies him as a spokesman and casts an unflattering...

La crisis en Hong Kong, sin soluciones a la vista

Las imágenes que nos llegaron este fin de semana desde Hong Kong las conocemos de sobra: cañones de agua, barricadas en llamas, bombas...

Do You Have A Psychiatric Advanced Directive?

In August, 2014, following the tragic suicide of comic genius Robin Williams, Kay Redfield Jamison published an article in the NY Times titled...

Misplaced calls for Myanmar sanctions threaten wrong people

EU trade restrictions in response to Rohingya crisis would hurt ordinary workers

Israel’s Attorney General Must Decide on Netanyahu Before the Next Election

The mandate given to Kahol Lavan Chairman Benny Gantz to form a government expired at midnight, and the chances that Israel is facing a third...

Salvini faces kidnapping charges for trapping 164 people aboard a rescue ship

Reportage. The former Italian Interior Minister prevented the Open Arms migrant rescue vessel from docking at Lampedusa in August, imprisoning...

Decapitated Sumatran elephant found dead in Indonesia

A Sumatran elephant was found decapitated with its tusks ripped off in an apparent poaching of the critically endangered subspecies, an Indonesian...

A Historic Weekend for Tel Aviv – and All of Israel

This weekend it’s finally happening – 110 years after the founding of the city, Tel Aviv residents, visitors and tourists will be able to use...

Decrying the Commodification of Nazism – While Self-promoting

An Israeli lobby by the name of the European Jewish Association has chalked up another achievement. The check, one may assume, is already on its...

Abe’s claims regarding cherry blossom event strain credibility

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Nov. 20 admitted his involvement in the process of selecting guests for the annual state-financed cherry blossom...

Asia’s twin curse: Dams and droughts

NEW DELHI – River systems help sustain lives and livelihoods. But, thanks to excessive damming and drastic overuse of their water resources, some...

Nogometna Slovenija na obrobju, peti del

S porazom je Slovenija zaključila lov na veliko tekmovanje. Ta v Varšavi ni bil usoden. Pred končnim izletom je bilo nemogoče najti še najbolj...

So Pompeo Said It

Oom-pah-pah, oom-pah-pah, Trump-Pompeo, Trump-Pompeo. “The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se...

Hunger strike with no cause

Opposition leader should return to parliament Hardly anyone can understand why the leader of the main conservative opposition Liberty Korea Party...

Slashing U.S. forces

By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON ― Here's a view I've been hearing around here about why President Donald Trump is demanding huge sums from both Japan...

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