What About Equality at Military Funerals?

The committee headed by Maj. Gen. (res.) Roni Numa that examined the data on Haredi enlistment in the army didn’t come up with any surprises. What...

The New Normal Should Be Cashless

NEW YORK – In December 2019, the Swedish central bank departed from a negative-interest-rate policy that it had maintained for almost five years....

Russia Is Set to Welcome Africa to Nuclear Age

The enormous continent of Africa, full of various resources, has, for centuries, attracted the interest of leading world nations. Its worth in...

The Divine Right of Populists

Collecting Bodies

Every Israeli ought to be worried by the video clip of an army bulldozer dragging the body of a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli soldiers in...

What is the US’ New ‘Central Asia Strategy’ All About?

While rolling out new strategies regarding strategically important regions in Asia is a US policy tradition, the fact that the latest ‘Central...

Operation Barbarossa II: Some Further Thoughts

In a recent article published in NEO an alarming picture of United States and NATO forces encroaching ever closer to Russia’s borders was set out....

Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians is ongoing; we need a united response

In line with the demographic goals of the Zionist occupation state, the recently announced Trump deal includes a clause to move the Triangle region...

India should not exclude Huawei from its 5G rollout

US warnings about Chinese telecoms company are unsubstantiated

A continuum of crises: Two viral attacks under two presidents in less than a decade

People wearing face masks walk past the "I.Seoul.U" sign near Seoul City Hall in central Seoul, Monday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul By...

Double standards: MSM goes with alarmist headlines over Russia’s coronavirus measures… which are milder than those in EU

We all love a killer virus movie. That’s why Hollywood keeps churning them out: ‘Contagion’, ‘Outbreak’, ‘Patient Zero’, ‘Shivers’,...

Forget substance, Trump gets the optics he craved in India

From the moment he touched down on Indian soil on Monday to the time he stretched out in his presidential hotel suite in the capital in the...

India's media is failing in its democratic duty

The protests in India against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which grants a fast track to citizenship for certain religious-minority...

A Bernie Sanders presidency could be a nightmare for Saudi Arabia

Picture for a moment Senator Bernie Sanders winning the US presidential election this November and then heading to a scheduled meeting next year...

The Trump plan threatens the status quo at al-Haram al-Sharif

Apart from its many other faults and its overall one-sidedness, and despite its authors' claims to the contrary, the US plan for Israel-Palestine,...

Thought-police come for Koch-funded ‘anti-Greta’ - but unlike ‘real Greta,’ her conflicts of interest are in public view

Naomi Seibt has been attacked as a “climate change denier” for working with the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think-tank funded by oil and...

Good riddance to Harvey Weinstein, a repugnant pig who brutalized both women and cinema

The first blockbuster that Harvey Weinstein produced was Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. In that movie there is a male rapist named Zed, who...

Prikrita racionalnost brexita

Racionalni politični razcepi, ki smo jim priča v ključnih zgodovinskih trenutkih, se pogosto zgodijo iz popolnoma napačnih razlogov. Tipičen...

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Blind soccer player builds virtual pitch in her mind to win

I watched a women's blind soccer international friendship match on Feb. 22 in the city of Saitama. The game was played on a pitch little larger than...

Gloom prevails over economy

Time to take radical steps to fend off difficulties Pessimistic forecasts are prevailing over the Korean economy. Most analysts say stunted growth...

Democrat centrists shouldn’t worry — Sanders isn’t radical

NEW YORK – Watching panicky corporate-owned Democrats twist on the devil’s fork of Bernie Sanders’ “political revolution” is almost as much...

Fears over COVID-19 threaten globalization rule book

LONDON – As the Ebola virus ravaged West Africa in 2014, civilian air traffic in and out of the most affected countries of Sierra Leone and...

Fresh Philippines fiasco leaves vacuum for China to fill

HONOLULU – A recent decision by Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States was...

COVID-19 crisis could get much worse

As China appears to be getting a grip on the COVID-19 outbreak, there is mounting concern that Japan is now a hot spot, with health experts warning...

Why Bernie Sanders and why now?

JACKSON, WYOMING – For the last 50 years, almost every U.S. presidential election has brought a new swing of the national political pendulum....

Can the U.S. and Japan handle cyberattacks?

WASHINGTON – Information technology has enabled the United States to achieve dominance in on the battlefield. However, it also has become a...

A Radical Way Out of the EU Budget Maze

PARIS – In 2003, I co-authored a report on the future of the European Union – the Sapir report – in which we observed that the expenditures,...

Virus and votes

By Choi Sung-jin Politicians do anything to win votes, and nowhere else may this be truer than here in Korea. The new coronavirus outbreak seems to...

Respect for elders

By Yi Woo-won One of the salient features of the two traditional holidays, Seollal and Chuseok, is to observe ancestral rites. This time-honored...

Globalization and Our Precarious Medical Supply Chains

The grave risks and dangers in the process of worldwide out-sourcing and so-called globalization of the past 30 years or so are becoming starkly...

Abe government needs a reshuffle on casino plans as doubts arise

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration has often responded to scandals and problems by making specious, hollow promises to “listen to the...

The Sumo Scene: Mystical fight to the death deeply etched PREMIUM

Israel’s Bizarre Role Reversal Pits Gantz’s Conservative Center-left Against Netanyahu’s Revolutionary Right

What makes the upcoming March 2 election different than all other elections? 1. For the first time, the leading candidate is a criminal defendant...

Mubarak dies at 91 but his legacy lives on: Corruption, impunity, brutality 

When former President Hosni Mubarak was acquitted of corruption in January 2015, analysts had already predicted it as a foregone conclusion. For...

Credibility of European Court of Human Rights lies in ruins after judges’ links to Soros revealed

The European Center for Law and Justice is an NGO which often appears at the court to campaign on social, family and religion-related issues. I am...

With Trump's visit, the world can't ignore India protests

PM Modi has made India into a force that cannot be ignored by the US. But the violence during Trump's visit shows that the issues currently shaking...

Políticas públicas para la equidad de género en México

Todo gobierno que pretenda la justicia social debe buscar la justicia de género. La igualdad de las mujeres y los hombres no sólo debe ser un...

Step up healthcare system

'Maximum containment' aimed at checking virus The Moon Jae-in administration has decided to take "maximum containment" measures to stem the rapid...

Speaking against settlement expansion is just a chore for the EU 

The European Union’s fluctuations on Israel’s colonial settlement expansion are more prominent since the bloc’s refusal to issue a statement...

Wall Street Can’t Burn Bernie

NEW YORK – The narcissism and Panglossian cluelessness of the Wall Street elite is a marvel to behold. Sitting on their perches of power, and...

End of EU's Brexit bounce

By Mark Leonard BERLIN ― After the United Kingdom voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, policymakers and political leaders across Europe...

Chopsticks

By Bernard Rowan I don't know about you, but I still struggle with chopsticks. They fall between my fingers. I can't pick up an egg. I've improved...

Barr was right, the left was wrong

By Jay Ambrose It is a sign of our times that Attorney General William Barr tried to do something right and some illiberal liberals, including not...

Tisíc bytov sem, 25-tisíc tam

Výsledkom sú hausnumerá stúpajúce až k tisíckam nových bytov. Ročne by sa ich tak malo podľa najsmelších sľubov postaviť 25-tisíc!...

Unión Europea y América Latina: ¿un futuro común?

En la relación de América Latina y la Unión Europea, siempre ha estado presente la idea de un futuro común. Pero aún no hemos precisado en...

Sorry, Western Media: Delhi violence is unlikely to upset Trump or Modi

India feels the sideshow of violence in the capital, even as the United States president Donald Trump wraps up his two-day visit on Tuesday, is...

Let ‘em eat cake: UK’s ban on wet wood & coal for cleaner air will hit the poor who can’t afford electric heating – who cares?

The UK government’s ban on the sale of coal and wet logs to burn in domestic fireplaces, to be implemented between 2021 and 2023, is...