Zaman

Ne, beseda ima indoevropsko poreklo in bogato semantično zgodovino ter pomeni "brezuspešno, brez haska". Ker je v teh jezikih veliko turcizmov,...

Svetlana Slapšak

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Zimske noči

Žalostna južnjaška jesen z upognjeno glavo prepušča svoj rumeni prestol hladnokrvnim armadam zime. Nihče ne bo žaloval za njo, vse jeseni bodo...

Marko Tomaš

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Court rulings on disparity of votes let reluctant Diet off the hook

Most of the High Court rulings on the vote-value disparity cases concerning the July Upper House election have declared the election to be...

Editorial

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Natural-born climate commitments

WASHINGTON – With the world gathering at the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid through Dec. 13, discussions are...

Sally Jewell

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The Hong Kong protests have affected Taiwan’s election – but Beijing won’t back down

While Beijing is revving up its propaganda machine to trumpet China’s good governance and development plans as great contributions to the...

Wang Xiangwei

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The dark side of the Nordic model

Scandinavians have it all. Universal public healthcare and education that is the envy of the world. Reasonable working hours with plenty of paid...

Jason Hickel

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Why a 'Green New Deal' must be decolonial

Discussions of a Green New Deal (GND) have been all the rage these days, as hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets around the world to...

Vijay Kolinjivadi

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Japan's ‘mask culture’ looks bizarre to the rest of the world

Every day, I notice a growing number of commuter train passengers wearing a face mask. Looking around the car yesterday, I noticed that about 20...

Vox Populi

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Vaping linked to rare lung disease: study

Doctors treating a patient with a rare lung disease usually caused by exposure to industrial metals say it may instead be the first case linked to...

Asian Correspondent Staff

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Europe for Europe’s Sake

Ps Commentators

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Oceans finally take center stage at COP25

World leaders are gathered in Madrid through Dec. 13 to negotiate global actions in combating climate change at the 25th Conference of Parties to...

Atsushi Sunami

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Mohamed Ali, the man from Egypt’s operations room

Mohamed Ali, 45 years old, is an amateur actor whose company was involved in the Egyptian army’s contracting investments for 15 years until a...

Rania Mostafa

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Italy’s ‘pacifist’ government steamrolls purchase of 27 more F-35 jets

Commentary. We could never have imagined that a government consisting of the M5S, LeU and PD would give the go-ahead to the F-35 purchases, toeing...

Giulio Marcon

Il Manifesto Global

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Government Debt Is Not a Free Lunch

CAMBRIDGE – With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced...

Kenneth Rogoff

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Matúš Vallo Zvyšovateľ

Už po necelom roku strávenom vo funkcii sa dočkal prvých plodov svojej činnosti, a tak poslanci ako jeden muž rozhodli, že mu zvýšia plat...

Martin Krno

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Došlo už aj na Kisku

Už keď polícia vo februári tohto roka obvinila z daňového podvodu konateľa jeho firmy, Kiska spozornel. Tvrdil, že z odôvodnenia obvinenia...

Martin Kováčik

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What EU “Geopolitical” Power Will Cost

LONDON – With former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen assuming the presidency of the European Commission, the European Union now has a...

Daniel Gros

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Hillary hints at Trump grudge match, proving the Democrats are approaching political extinction

With uncanny timing, Hillary Rodham Clinton has hit the international talk show circuit, triggering heated speculation that she may be planning a...

Robert Bridge

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A forbidden Lebanese revolution

A financial, economic and currency collapse in Lebanon could be a heavy recipe for a crisis, easily escalating to a public rebellion that could...

Youssef Masrieh

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Whilst Brexit dominates the election campaign, Syria moves into the shadows

General elections are intriguing times in British politics. Parties make headlines with spending commitments, their leaders are constantly on the...

Zaki Kaf Al-Ghazal

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Punitive compensation order

Discipline of banks is starting point for eliminating misleading selling The Financial Supervisory Service has ordered two local banks to pay the...

Guest Column

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1519 a iné letopočty

Predstavme si scénu – po prúde rieky Guadalquivir, čo spája Sevillu s morom, sa plaví päť lodí. Čudná to flotila, zložená zo starých,...

Igor Grexa

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Angela Merkel finds the right words during Auschwitz visit

Angela Merkel used her speech at Auschwitz to condemn anti-Semitism. She visited the former Nazi death camp at a time when making a commitment to...

Ines Pohl

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NATO Ups the Military Ante against China and Russia

In the recent foreign ministers level NATO summit held in Brussels, the NATO leaders not only re-affirmed their commitment to the same...

Salman Rafi Sheikh

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Authority and Regulation in an Interconnected World

This is an excerpt from Reprogramming the World: Cyberspace and the Geography of Global Order. Get your free copy here. In 1975, the United States...

P.j. Blount

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Making Room for Growth in Your Winter Garden

There is a beautiful but brief moment in early August when everything is in bloom and the garden feels full and fulfilled. Plenty is the word that...

Carrie J Knowles

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You Never Get Lost In This Ancient Exercise

It’s a sunny November day and I have found my meditative spot in the Iowa countryside—a labyrinth tucked into a grove of conifers at the...

Patricia Prijatel

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Wait until Trump hears about Europe’s carbon tax

NEW YORK – Next week, the European Union’s leaders will commit to cutting net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. This historic pledge...

Chris Bryant

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The ECB Needs a New Mandate

BERLIN – The European Central Bank’s decision in September to pursue more monetary-policy easing was controversial, with one board...

Marcel Fratzscher

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How China can set the record straight about its GDP figures

Admitting to bigger quarterly ups and downs could highlight need for policy action

Logan Wright

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Opinion – What the US Exit from the Paris Accords Means for Women

The Trump Administration has officially made good on a promise to exit the Paris Climate Accords by 2020. The Administration also recently announced...

Katelyn Jones And Rashelle Brownfield

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China stealing Middle East from under America’s nose

Granted, Washington’s influence in the Middle East has been steadily disappearing for some time. It became clear this was the case after the US...

Darius Shahtahmasebi

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PTM is on a peaceful quest to free all Pakistanis from oppression

In his seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire states: "Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit,...