(VEČERNO BRANJE) Drugačni pogledi na sanacijo bank

Prof. dr. Mejra Festić je objavila svoj pogled na sanacijo bank. Nekatere njene trditve so v nasprotju z nam znanimi dejstvi, ki jih je v kazenski...

Israel’s Right Must Stop Splintering – and Reach Out to the Arab Community

The voter who describes himself as center-right has only two options: Likud or the right-wing bloc that must be formed. The right, which has been...

Xi's visit to North

Meeting with Kim hoped to break deadlock Chinese leader Xi Jinping's June 20 to 21 state visit to North Korea is drawing much attention, as it...

Boris Johnson: The last betrayal?

LONDON - It is not as if the British nation or, for that matter, any even half-awake observer around the world does not know what they are getting...

Don’t blame Trump for Iran’s aggression

WASHINGTON - As U.S. President Donald Trump mulls a comprehensive response to what he says was an Iranian attack on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf...

Hurá do izolácie?

Pellegrini dodáva, že o potrebe zvoliť zvyšných šesť kandidátov na sudcov ÚS bude síce hovoriť so svojimi straníckymi kolegami...

Violence, women and marriage

Violence, women and marriage By Bernard Rowan I'm writing about another cause for high divorce rates in South Korea. Violence against women in...

Time for M&A to rationalize corporate Japan

Does answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

By Younghoon David Kim Such are the dire predictions about climate change these days that there seem to be only two courses open for society:...

Hey, America! We need another baby boom!

By Tom Purcell America's declining birthrate has given me pause. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of babies...

Machines meet the physics of the social

Interview. We spoke with Alessandro Vespignani, whose new book ‘The Algorithm and the Oracle’ examines the predictive abilities of machines....

Revival of rural economy

By Mark Peterson I wrote in November of a trip to visit a traditional village in the rural countryside. I was quite pessimistic and titled my...

German politician's murder is an attack on democracy

Politician Walter Lübcke may have been murdered by a right-wing extremist. If that turns out to be the case, the killer was targeting the heart of...

Change and stability

By Arthur I. Cyr W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the great British musical maestros, declared in their 1882 light opera "Iolanthe" that Great...

When the Deep State Controls Deep Thinking and Russophobia

As citizens interested in policy, we can learn a great deal from the quasi-academic studies on Russian foreign relations strategies. A cursory...

Gobernadores priistas frente a AMLO: abrumados, perdidos y derrotados

En uno de los episodios finales de Los Simpsons, el soporífero y aturdido octogenario abuelo es reclutado como esquirol para romper una huelga en...

Mongolia Playing Stabilizing Role in Situation on Korean Peninsula

First, a short history lesson. According to records, the relationship between Mongolia and Korea spans 800 years. Mongolian annals from the 13th to...

Presente y futuro de la financiación mundial de la salud

Los análisis a nivel mundial del gasto en salud de cada país son muy importantes para la planeación y las políticas públicas. La literatura ha...

When Palestinians Dehumanize Jews, the Israeli Left Is Silent

Jewish settlers were filmed at a Palestinian wedding. Their host was fired by Fatah and denounced for facilitating a 'despicable act.' Why won't...

Morsi’s death was a political assassination by a vindictive regime

Mohamed Morsi will forever be remembered as Egypt’s first democratically-elected President, something that his enemies can never take away from...

What can we learn from Asia’s election season?

This year, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia all held elections. About 1 billion voters were involved, all within a few weeks of one...

Justice for Journalists

AMSTERDAM – It has been more than eight months since Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and critic of his home country’s government who...

How ‘bungling Boris’ bounced back from his 2016 setback

We could, quite easily, have already been three years into a Boris Johnson premiership. The Latin-spouting blond-haired Old Etonian was hotly...

Israel Must Let the Foreign-worker Mothers and Children Stay

One hundred female foreign workers, most of them from the Philippines, and their children who were born in Israel are due to be deported this...

As Its Economy Tanks, Iran May Have to Talk With America

The regime is growing desperate as the forecasts tumble from a bit of growth to deep bear territory, and other options just aren't there

Officer who was stabbed had gun stolen, not issued ‘secure’ holster

The opening scene of Akira Kurosawa's 1949 film "Nora Inu" (Stray Dog) starts with this line: "What? A pickpocket stole your pistol?!" The service...

The fate of Japan, and everyone else

WASHINGTON - If you want a peek at the future, try looking at Japan. It’s a sobering exercise. Here’s how economist Timothy Taylor, managing...

Australia’s pristine beaches have a big, smelly problem

AUSTRALIANS love our iconic coastal lifestyle. So many of our settlements are spread along our huge coastline. Real estate prices soar where we can...

New Zealander jailed for sharing mosque shooting video

A New Zealand man was jailed for 21 months on Tuesday for distributing gruesome livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks that killed 51...

After 10 years

Businesses, government should cooperate to tide over crisis "No company can say for sure they will be around 10 years from now." So said Samsung...

Purging critics of Israel is no way to fight anti-Semitism

With Israel seeking to purge public spaces of its critics, the decision by the New York Times to ban its publication of political cartoons entirely...

The occupied West Bank is on the verge of a mass uprising

When US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman commented on Israel’s “right” to annex land in the occupied West Bank — as a dutiful Zionist he...

How global tyrants enable apparently perfect murders

Reality check: Mohamed Morsi is dead. Dr Morsi, the first and only democratically-elected President of Egypt slumped over in court on Monday, and...

Does the answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

By Younghoon David Kim Such are the dire predictions about climate change these days that there seem to be only two courses open for society:...

Africa's gig opportunity

By Olga Morawczynski and David Porteous TORONTO ― The growth of digital platforms in Africa could offer new opportunities to bridge the current...

Čisté víno

Vlastne to ani nie je podvod, veď prívlastok vlašský je taliansky… Pred tridsiatimi rokmi by zrejme nikomu ani vo sne nenapadlo, s akými...

Alone in Europe, Salvini seeks the protection of ‘America First’

Analysis. As Salvini met with Mike Pence and Mike Pompeo in Washington, his overt goal was to make Italy “the most steadfast and consistent ally...

Turkey, the S-400 and the new arms sale geopolitics

LONDON - Sometime next month, Russia may begin shipping its S-400 air defense system to Turkey. It is a move that divides NATO, may see the Turkish...

China earthquake quake kills 11, injures 122

THE toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 11 dead and 122 injured on Tuesday, as rescuers pulled survivors from...

Nations must get past differences to cooperate on the environment

Global environmental problems know no national borders. Efforts by many nations to solve them can be easily gummed up by a small number of...

The Israeli Opposition's Real Problem

If the leaders of Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan party want change, there will be change. To our regret, however, they want to be Likud’s Siamese twin

Success or failure for Abe in Tehran?

NIIGATA - How did Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s first foray as a conflict mediator go when he traveled to Tehran last week? In a joint news...