Perils of debt bubble

Authorities should ensure fiscal health before it's too late Skeptical views about the global economy prevailed in the World Economic Forum (WEF)...

Caution against fake news

Anti-China sentiment won't help contain virus People at home and across the globe are increasingly becoming afraid of the rapid spread of a new...

Where Are You Going, Benny Gantz?

Now that Benjamin Netanyahu has withdrawn his immunity bid, removing the obstacles to launching legal proceedings against him, the rationale behind...

Bibi, Save Yourself and Defect to Trump's U.S.A.

There’s every reason why Benjamin Netanyahu would be wise to defect to Donald Trump’s America at this very moment. And not only because he’s...

Greta Thunberg, Donald Trump, and the Future of Capitalism

ATHENS – Steven Mnuchin, US President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, outraged liberal commentators at this year’s World Economic Forum...

Test in March on N. Korea

By Tong Kim North Korea is staying the hardline course: refusing calls for talks without U.S. acceptance of its demands and waging an all-out self-...

Kobe Bryant community

The news of Kobe Bryant's death flashed early Sunday afternoon and immediately emptied the day. Bryant was a professional basketball superstar...

Choose Korea: 2020

By David Tizzard It has been said by Viktor Frankl and Friedrich Nietzsche among others that if man has a "why" to live for, he can endure almost...

Ukraine Beyond the Impeachment Headlines

CHICAGO – If there is one thing that American politicians on both sides of the aisle agree on about the impeachment hearings of President Donald...

US-Iran brinkmanship threatens regional stability, nuclear order

By Rakesh Sood The Iran nuclear deal, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), appears headed for an untimely demise as both...

Will Erdoğan’s ‘the world is greater than five’ help to establish a new world order including Africa?

Following the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923, African affairs were regarded as a secondary issue in the new state’s foreign...

Anti-China sentiment must give way to fight virus

By Tom Plate There is no certainty as to where and when the coronavirus outbreak will end, but where it all began is not in dispute. And that...

Trump's Middle East 'peace plan' delivers neither

US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan is largely aligned with Israeli interests, while the Palestinians' concerns are ignored. It will...

Is an AI arms race more dangerous than a nuclear one? Yes, but not like in ‘Terminator'

It is inevitable that the increasing use of AI for military purposes raises the spectre of a Terminator-esque future where computers and autonomous...

Follow the Real Money Behind the New Green Agenda

Within little more than a year everyone imaginable seems to have jumped on the bandwagon of the new green agenda of radical measures to “stop”...

Cancer groups should form united front PREMIUM

Chinese Resilience and Silent, Simple and Steady Resistance – a Model for Mankind

In a positive appeal to the Chinese people, last Saturday, President Xi Jinping has called on the nation’s courage to defeat the deadly epidemic...

On Our Brains: We No Longer Need to Take a Side

My husband and I used to joke that together we had a complete brain. He was the scientist, a man of logical and rational thinking. I was the...

Brazil’s Biggest Economic Risk Is Complacency

WASHINGTON, DC – Brazil’s economy has endured a difficult few years: after a deep recession in 2015-2016, GDP grew by just over 1% annually in...

Asia must step up tech security as it hands Huawei 5G green light

Governments around world set to follow UK stance on Chinese telecoms giant

Trump and international decisions

The USA has witnessed a great controversy since Donald Trump assumed its presidency in 2016, for the man, as described by the American media, lacks...

The growing influence of radical Islam in Bosnia

Reportage. In the impoverished parts of Bosnia, where institutions are weak, Salafist Islam has taken hold. Post-war Bosnia has been a minor source...

Géraldine Schwarz: Then and now, indifference kills

Interview. 'Countries that avoid confronting their own past are the most vulnerable to populism, and that memory work helps to consolidate...

Sorry, Jared, This Time It’s Not the Palestinians Who Have 'Screwed Up,' It’s You

It is a special occasion when a peace plan commissioned by an American president to resolve the Israeli-Arab conflict is launched. But true to...

Why Trump's Apartheid Peace Plan Is So Dangerous – and Not Only for Palestine

The Trump Plan was never about freedom and equality for Palestinians. Instead, it was always about consolidating Israel's control over Palestinian...

To fight climate crisis, Japan should first stop burning coal

The growing global crisis posed by climate change allows no excuses for ignoring pressing tasks. In that context, let us examine the government’s...

‘Deal of the century’: America’s most generous proposal to Israel

Israeli President Donald Trump has revealed his long-awaited peace plan aiming, as he claims, to bring a “precise technical solutions” for the...

Big leap for India’s nuclear forces? New Delhi to develop 5,000km-range K-5 missile following successful test of sub-launched K-4

The state-of-the-art K-4 missile reportedly flew 2,200km (1,367 miles) after its launch from a submerged pontoon in the Bay of Bengal on Sunday....

Benjamin Netanyahu and Criminal Case 67104-01-20

The die has been cast: Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the dock. At the last minute, a few hours before the Knesset was slated to vote on...

As coronavirus spreads, we must not succumb to panic and rumor

Just the other day, I saw a Chinese tourist walk out of a store in central Tokyo with a large purchase of face masks. I immediately thought of the...

Brahim Ghali, re-elected as Sahrawi leader, ‘does not exclude armed struggle’

Interview. ‘The young people have lost patience, and they’re not the only ones. All Sahrawis feel that they have fallen victim to a lie. The...

Benny Gantz Got a Full-fledged Political Training

The main beneficiary of Israel’s current political paralysis is Kahol Lavan Chairman Benny Gantz. For him, the past year has been an intensive...

Are the Church’s Declarations Effective in Stemming anti-Semitism?

Before the gathering at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem of more than two dozen world leaders last week – as well as during and after – the question of...

In the next war, soldiers will leave their smartphones at home

LONDON – As the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division departed for the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran, their...

Coronavirus a disease of Chinese autocracy

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already infected over 4,000 people — mostly...

The Palestinians face a double battle as the repercussions of Trump’s plan emerge

Just a day before US President Donald Trump revealed the details of the purported “deal of the century”, the Palestinian Authority Prime...

Christian Democracy or Illiberal Democracy?

PRINCETON – For years, a conflict has been brewing between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the European People’s Party, the...

Article 9, ittaika and Japan’s liaison officer corps

PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA – On Jan. 20, Defense Minister Taro Kono explained to an Upper House committee that along with the Maritime Self-Defense...

What’s at Stake for Women’s Rights in 2020?

NEW YORK – From US Republicans’ effort to get the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that established a woman’s right to...

Why We Need Wetlands

GLAND, SWITZERLAND – It’s called the Extinction Wing. Located in a dark corner of the Paris Museum of Natural History, it houses a haunting...

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is simply another round of crumbs being thrown from the Apartheid table

There is no doubt that Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and millions of their compatriots living in squalid refugee camps in neighbouring...

'Little Polish hell'

By Adam Borowski Poles are highly critical of each other. Finding fault with others seems to be our national pastime. As a Pole, I know it all too...

We need to consider how the Egyptian revolution will succeed

Nine years have passed since Egypt’s 25 January Revolution, and this compels me to contemplate that historic moment in a nation that has not risen...

Hard work and strength of character made Kobe Bryant a star in Asia

Coronavirus could strengthen China

After initial shortcomings, Beijing has acted more efficiently against the coronavirus crisis than it did against SARS. But China still needs to...

¿Se puede dar marcha atrás a la dolarización o la "euroización"?

¿Qué beneficios tiene para un país perder su moneda y sustituirla por la de otro?  ¿Se puede dar marcha atrás?  ¿Qué se podría esperar de...

The Brain: We No Longer Need to Take a Side

My husband and I used to joke that together we had a complete brain. He was the scientist, a man of logical and rational thinking. I was the...

Cellphone Addiction: Nuisance or Serious Threat?

People outside the academic communities often wonder why teachers are so concerned about the flood of student cellphones into our nation’s...