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Trust Funds for All

WASHINGTON, DC – It is far from certain whether the post-pandemic recovery will be a lasting one that results in more sustainable and equitable...

What Will COVID-19 Do to Banking?

BARCELONA – The COVID-19 crisis has revealed banks to be not part of the problem for a change, but part of the solution. They have so far proven to...

Strange case of justice Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

By Christine Flowers I'm a sucker for horror movies, but not the new ones filled with blood, gore and articulate zombies. My tastes trend toward...

Memories of Srebrenica are being reawakened in Syria

“After Srebrenica, you said never again…Shame on you World!” These were the words written on the posters of demonstrators who gathered in...

Will the ‘Liar and Thief’ Be Brought Down by a Russian Hoax?

July 4, 2020, Independence Day in the United States, saw something that hasn’t happened in the US before, the American military turn on a sitting...

Finding Our Way Through the Disappointments

There is no question that disappointment is a part of life. Everyone gets their fair share now and again. But what is happening now during this...

Transphobia Raising Its Head on the Israeli Right

The battle of the statues: rewriting world history

Towards the end of Mozart's signature opera, Don Giovanni, the eponymous character meets his squire Leporello in a graveyard, next to a statue of...

Hardly a Palestinian #MeToo: Don't Slaughter the Sacred Cow Called Mahmoud Darwish

I have no interest in singling out national poet Darwish as a statue that must be toppled for my own liberation as a woman and my people's...

How Women Can Power the Green Transition

BRASÍLIA – The world needs to shift from the current fossil-fuel-based energy system to carbon neutrality. Most obviously, this will require...

Much ad-o about nothing: ‘Expert hate police’ slam YouTube over $60 worth of Trump & Biden ads on ‘extremist’ and RUSSIAN videos

Trump and Biden ads were shown ahead of videos from Ruptly, described as “a Berlin-based media outlet controlled by the Kremlin,” and channels...

£1k bounties for care homes to take Covid patients show BoJo can’t dodge blame for UK’s death toll

The uproar caused by PM Boris Johnson blaming care homes for the spread of coronavirus shows no sign of lessening, following revelations that cash...

China, if you think everyone’s against you, it’s time to reflect

If you feel as a person that everyone is against you, before blaming others you might want to ask what’s wrong with your behaviour. The same...

How the world wars of the 21st century may begin

The COVID-19 pandemic is a train wreck in slow motion. This crash could turn out to be the spark that ignites a whole-of-global-society meltdown...

Another unwelcome win for the PC brigade as Playboy puts a bloke, not a girl, on its cover

Playboy has just had its first solo male cover star (other than the magazine’s founder Hugh Hefner). The chap it has chosen for this honour is...

Australian Defence Policy Locked in Counter-Productive Mythology

One of the great geopolitical fallacies common throughout much of the western world is the belief that circumstances as they are now are as they...

Israelis, That’s How It Is When You’re Hurting

Fifteen years of BDS has united all Palestinians and their supporters

Today marks 15 years since the official foundation of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Palestine. The movement against...

Shut Down Israel's Army Radio

China as Economic Bogeyman

CAMBRIDGE – As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then the United States, pandemic-stricken countries found themselves in a mad scramble...

Opposition to Israel’s annexation plans must be followed by an end to its favoured status

The Israeli occupation authorities’ plan to annex most of the West Bank is but another form of the oppression that the Palestinians have been...

Britain is two-faced over Saudi Arabia

On 6 July, in a statement to the House of Commons, the Conservative Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab unveiled an important plank in Britain’s post-...

The Cabinet vs. the Public

Encouraging news from Samsung

Surge in chip demand helped to turn crisis into opportunity Samsung Electronics showed a stronger-than-expected performance in the second quarter,...

'Unprecedented’ disasters living up to hyperbolic media visions

Even though it has pretty much gone out of style today, "Jimmu konokata" (literally, "since Emperor Jimmu") is probably the most hyperbolic...

News for North Koreans

By Donald Kirk The insistence of a pair of brothers on scattering hundreds of thousands of leaflets from balloons fired over North Korea confronts...

Beating 'corona blues'

By Park Moo-jong The term "blues" can be understand basically as a music genre that originated in the United States around the 1870s among African-...

Preparing for a post-Abe agenda

In coming months, Japanese politics are poised to become more exciting. With little more than a year left before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s LDP...

Meet Trump’s new political football: TikTok

New York – It’s official. TikTok has become a political football. The surging social media app, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., is ensnared...

Why is Barr going after Google?

For months, President Donald Trump's Justice Department has hinted that it intends to crack down on Silicon Valley. It recently took a big step...

Middle Eastern rivals take fight to Jerusalem

By James M. Dorsey Israel, with the backing of the Trump administration, may have full administrative control of Jerusalem but that has not...

Mental health crisis looms

By Adam Borowski The governments keep warning us against the second wave of the coronavirus. Yet, there is another threat on the horizon for...

Cool idea whose time has come again

By Tom Purcell I'm getting a whole-house attic fan installed this week ― just like the one my father had installed in my childhood home ― and I...

This new coronavirus wave isn't like old wave

By Justin Fox When New York City's COVID-19 epidemic peaked in late March and early April, the city was reporting more than 5,000 new confirmed...

Taiwan must restrict Chinese investment to protect itself

Blanket ban would be harmful but much tighter controls are needed

On the Problems with Japan’s Course of Movement “Toward the Southwest”

In the strategic game that is playing out in the area around the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the presence of Japan is growing more prominent. The...

The Psychological Dimension of COVID-19 Disinformation

Better knowledge of precisely how disinformation erodes trust in states and institutions might point to reinforcing the psychological factor as a...

Peter and Ben

‘I had left my flock, and Ben had left his.’ After taking a walk through a remote Welsh valley, Peter committed himself to a life there, and...

From vice to crime

Consuming opium was once a tolerated vice in Southeast Asia. Nowhere was it universally accepted, but it was also not an absolute evil. Sovereigns...

It’s Abe's duty to get to bottom of Kawais vote-buying scandal

A Lower House lawmaker with a Cabinet portfolio on his resume and his wife, a rookie member of the Upper House, are facing criminal charges over a...

In the Next Big Power Rivalry, Turkey Stands pro-US

As I pointed out in one of my previous pieces for NEO, a cardinal purpose that the US wants to achieve through bashing China and casting it as an...

South Korea Trapped between China and US

Tensions between the United States and the PRC keep rising. In fact, the confrontation is starting to resemble a “new Cold War”. The...

Slavolok zmage

Drobnarije ne bodo nič pomagale, dokler svojega spomenika ne dobi največji zamolčani sin slovenskega naroda. Tito, Rupnik in Rožman so drobiž...

Teaching and Publishing in Cambridge and Moscow

This chapter describes the author's travel, stories and experiences teaching and publishing 20th Century Russian history books in Cambridge and...

How Serbia’s Justification for the Genocide of Muslims Has Gone Global

From Bosnia to Breivik: 25 years after Srebrenica, its perpetrators’ heirs are glorifying their genocide. Their claim to have 'saved' the...

The Government's Message for Israelis: You're on Your Own

Danon has exposed the fact that the UN has abandoned Palestine and the Palestinians

Israel’s outgoing Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, is not leaving the arena without his usual, unfounded claim that the international community...

The Dilemma of Broken Trust in the Workplace and the Ways to Revamp

Rebuilding trust among employees is one of the most needed tasks in an organization. There still a prime number of people who do not know how to...