US gun nuts said they needed firearms to resist tyranny. When it came, they cheered

Gun-rights debates in the US invariably involve pro-gun evangelists invoking the Second Amendment right to bear arms as the highest safeguard of...

Public review of Samsung probes

Prosecutors may request arrest warrant for Lee Jae-yong Samsung Group is trying to save Lee Jae-yong, the heir-apparent of the nation's largest...

Haaretz Cartoon

Public support needed to link My Numbers with bank accounts

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has drafted a bill to allow the government to link each citizen's national identification number, or My...

The Polish Opposition’s Last Chance

WARSAW – Poland’s democratic opposition is approaching its last chance to stop Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jarosław Kaczyński from...

Black pain

"A riot is the language of the unheard." ― Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Deauwand Myers I was going to write about Korea's response to COVID-19....

Life and disease ― and fear

By Arthur I. Cyr The media COVID-19 focus continues, even as we begin to reopen and return to a more normal existence. To provide context, media...

COVID-19 drives isolationism

By JeongWon Bourdais Park COVID-19 has killed nearly 386,100 people globally as of June 4. The World Bank estimates that global gross domestic...

Hong Kong pushed to the edge with passage of security law

By Dr. Nehginpao Kipgen President Donald Trump has found one reason after another to continue his tirade against China. The latest wave of verbal...

From riots to reform in America

By Jorge G. Castaneda MEXICO CITY ― The wave of anger and indignation sweeping the United States in response to George Floyd's death at the hands of...

Memory of my late sister-in-law

By Chang Soon-hee A Japanese officer in the black police uniform leading three Korean men strode into a farm village in now North Gyeongsang...

Naši teroristi

Osama bin Laden, Abu Bakr El Bagdadi in general Kasem Solejmani v nebesih gledajo televizijo. Bin Laden in El Bagdadi gledata posnetke nemirov v...

House: after five years of living

Designed, constructed and then occupied by the celebrated husband-and-wife US designers Charles and Ray Eames, the Los Angeles building fondly...

Where did the grandeur go?

In 1978, the science-fiction author Michael Moorcock wrote the celebrated essay ‘Epic Pooh’ that lambasted J R R Tolkien and his ilk for...

For the Settlers in the West Bank, It Will Never Be Enough

As Coronavirus Rages in Brazil, Bolsonaro’s Embrace of Israel Puts Jews at Risk

With COVID-19 claiming 1000 lives a day, Jair Bolsonaro waves Israeli flags at anti-lockdown, anti-democracy protests. For a Brazil already...

Rapid-response woke celeb squad wants to ‘defund the police’ – will they be as adamant if riots reach their doors?

Hollywood’s response to violent protests across the US over Floyd’s death has been odd, to say the least.  Celebs like Seth Rogen have cursed...

‘Star Wars’ actor who joined protests doesn’t care if it DESTROYS his career. But he forgot Hollywood only punishes the OTHER side

“I’m speaking to you from my heart,” Boyega told a crowd at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London on Wednesday. “Look, I don’t know...

The United States as a World Military Power: The Rhetoric and the Reality

In his farewell speech in January 1961 the outgoing United States President Dwight Eisenhower warned against the growth and influence of what he...

Why We Need the Spirit of Bobby Kennedy Now

NEW YORK – As a hospital physician in New York City, I see the clinical impact of COVID-19 daily: failed lungs, inflamed hearts, and blocked...

Companies Must Defend Digital Rights in the COVID-19 Era

LONDON – The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted – and intensified – our dependence on digital technologies, with social-distancing rules forcing...

Coronavirus is no excuse for companies to ignore Uighur exploitation

West should not buy equipment from Chinese businesses allegedly using forced labor

There’s no justice, just us

In the early 1970s, the famous comedian Richard Pryor joked: “If you’re going [to the courthouse] looking for justice, that’s what you’ll find...

Boris Johnson promised strong leadership over Covid-19 but delivered an omnishambles

As the Covid-19 lockdown is eased again this week, one thing has become abundantly clear: the UK government’s handling of the pandemic is an...

An Ode to Lost America and Her Hoodlum President

The United States is being called out for her hypocrisy now. The world has finally caught sight of an American dream turned into a nightmare. The...

Between Politics and Policy: International Cooperation Beyond COVID-19

The real challenge for practitioners is dealing with complexity; every case – not least COVID-19 – involves a unique mix of actors, institutions,...

Has racism exacerbated the COVID-19 crisis?

New York – The new coronavirus pandemic has exposed some unpleasant things about human society — in particular the way systematic discrimination...

The Saudi-UAE axis should learn to live with Qatar’s independent foreign policies

Absolute judgments do not work in evaluating the hostility towards Qatar announced by the Saudi-UAE axis three years ago. To say that it added...

Yes Black Lives Matter, but we mustn’t allow being white to become the new original sin

Why do I feel like throwing up when I watch a group of white people sitting on the ground with their hands up in the air dutifully repeating the...

Israel’s piracy against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla exposed Zionism’s ugly face

We all go through many experiences in life that leave lasting impressions, especially if they are positive. Thus, when something bad happens, we...

Don’t get race-baited about the US riots: It’s about the economy, stupid!

The riots taking place across the United States are being spun to the gullible as being all about race and “systemic racism”, but they’re...

Call for $14 trillion in slavery reparations while riots rage in US is extortion, not justice

Following the death of George Floyd and in the context of mass rioting, on Monday, BET co-founder Robert L. Johnson, the first black American...

Education Is Crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 Response

WASHINGTON, DC – African political leaders have their hands full: rising COVID-19 infections, fragile health systems, increasing food insecurity,...

Perils for Pentagon as Trump threatens to militarize response to civil unrest

"Battlespace" was the word Defense Secretary Mark Esper used to describe protest sites in the United States. The top U.S. general reinforced that...

Japan’s outlawed monster Amabie makes comeback due to COVID-19

Social media in Japan was abuzz this past spring with posts about Amabie, a mythical half-human, half-fish supernatural "yokai" creature with a...

A smart, not confrontational, China strategy needed

In a recent American Interest article penned by an anonymous official of the Japanese government titled “ The Virtues of a Confrontational China...

Bending the Curve of Fake Pandemic News

OXFORD – Would you believe that the coronavirus was developed by a government to weaken its foreign rivals? Or that “patriots” created it to...

More prisons and fewer hospitals as the destruction of Egypt continues

The real catastrophe in Egypt is not the Covid-19 pandemic reaching its peak, but the peaking of stupidity and disregard for citizens’ needs. The...

Is the PA exchanging security coordination for civil coordination with Israel?

The presenter on Palestine’s Ajyal Radio asked me: “What are Israel’s options for dealing with the President Mahmoud Abbas’ convoy? Will it...

Nigel Farage blasts British government and media for ignoring criminal trafficking gangs dumping illegal immigrants on UK beaches

Nigel Farage, the man whose tireless campaigning for more than 20 years secured Britain’s exit from Europe, should be enjoying a well-deserved...

Racism and inequality, the two threads of anger

Commentary. What is happening today is more than just a desperate revolt. The uprising is now representative enough to be unable to be ignored, and...

Fruits, vegetables and drugs: Inside Italy’s criminal logistics trade

Report. It’s not easy to run a business and restore legality to agromafia territory, even if you’re a state-appointed judicial administrator. This...

A beast with its knee on the human spirit

Commentary. Everyone applauded when James Baldwin, summoning the Biblical echoes of a great spiritual tract, warned: “The Fire Next Time.” Well,...

Deglobalization Will Hurt Growth Everywhere

CAMBRIDGE – The post-pandemic world economy seems likely to be a far less globalized economy, with political leaders and publics rejecting openness...

Colin Kaepernick did the right thing. Black celebs like Jay Z and Beyonce aren’t doing nearly enough in the fight for justice

The eruption of civil disorder across the USA leads back to one man: Colin Kaepernick. He was a star in the NFL, a quarterback who used his speed...

Anders Tegnell was a god among anti-lockdowners. Who will they worship now that he admits he was wrong?

Some people say never meet your heroes, but I say don’t bother having heroes – because they’ll only let you down. Fine, you might get lucky with...

Abbas Wants Annexation

Unprecedented extra budget

Time to maximize effect of economic stimulus It is rare for a government to draw up a third supplementary budget in a year, but the Moon Jae-in...

America’s Dilemma Explodes

COVID-19 has also closed other people's houses

By Francis Wilkinson In 1826, Frederick Douglass, a young enslaved orphan, was shipped from a plantation on Maryland's Eastern Shore to a home in...