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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Transphobia Raising Its Head on the Israeli Right

Peter Beinart's One State Solution Sounds So Perfect It's Practically Utopian

I’d love to live in Beinart’s peaceful hyphenated state of 'Israel-Palestine.' But I can’t vote for it. No one actually living here is proposing...

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...

Sovereign Creditors Must Not Rewrite the Rules During the Pandemic

NEW YORK – In the wake of COVID-19, there is an urgent need for sovereign debt restructuring, including debt relief. In the circumstances caused...

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...

Taiwan must restrict Chinese investment to protect itself

Blanket ban would be harmful but much tighter controls are needed

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...

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...

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...

Is Indonesia moving towards Japan and away from China? Just follow the railway tracks

Japan, after being outbid by China for the Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway project, has been working with the Indonesian government to develop a...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

£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...