In Australia, concerns mount that China could use TikTok to spy on users

In an age of isolation, video-sharing platform TikTok has emerged as a bonding force for many. But recent headlines allege the service, owned by...

New North American trade pact puts toll on Asian companies

+ (POGLED) Rog in roganje

Nedelja, 8. julija 1990, je bila sončna, vroča in nabita s čustvi. Spravna slovesnost na gozdni jasi v bližini jame pod Krenom v Kočevskem rogu...

Iran describes dueling crises: COVID-19 and US unilateralism

Report. While the Islamic Republic grapples with a surge in contagions and nine provinces become red zones, Foreign Minister Zarif took stock of...

Trump is goading China, hoping to revive his troubled campaign

Commentary. With the warships roaming in its waters and the crescendo of barbs towards China’s leadership, we will have to rely on the steely...

Court's denial of extradition

Toughen sentencing guidelines for digital sex crimes quickly The Seoul High Court rejected an extradition request from the United States, Monday,...

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Silk trees tougher than they look, after a good night’s sleep

The rising mercury spells the arrival of a seasonal hiatus in the blooming of flowering trees and shrubs. Hydrangeas are mostly past their prime,...

Despite cutback plan, Japan maintains stance of relying on coal

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on July 3 announced plans to minimize power generation from low-efficiency coal-fired power plants that...

Trump's bluster can't beat a virus, calm a restive nation

Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the ornate East Room of the White House. The night before, his impeachment trial...

Trump and Hoover show what happens when businessmen be-come president

By Dick Polman Can we finally nix the myth that what this nation needs is a businessman who will "run America like a business"? If mining magnate...

Pandemija, neoliberalizem in teorije zarote

Kako vemo, da se ta zgodovinski ciklus končuje? Tako, da se spet vprašamo, kaj vemo. To vprašanje je bilo namreč na njegovih začetkih. In...

Landmark ruling against North

Former POWs win damage compensation suit A local court made a landmark ruling Tuesday that North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un should pay 21...

Hong Kong: British asylum for 3 million

By Gwynne Dyer "We will grant British National Overseas (BNOs) five years' limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to work...

Harnessing Malawi's youth bulge

By Jireh Mwamukonda LILONGWE ― Malawi is facing a massive youth bulge, with more than half the population under the age of 18 ― a share that is...

Reckoning

By Deauwand Myers I lived through the national travesty of the impeachment and imprisonment of ex-President Park Geun-hye. Massive marches...

Life with and without smartphones

By Kim Ae-ran More than ever, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our apostolate is also making an effort to meet with such a turning point by creating...

Keep the Geeks in Charge of the Internet

LOS ANGELES – The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly transformed the Internet into the most critical infrastructure on Earth. By enabling people...

Netanyahu Is Trying to Blame Democracy and the Public for Israel's Sorry Coronavirus Response

Do Five Million Syrian Lives Matter? Ask Russia and China

UK Shadow Minister for International Development: Open border crossings are critical for Syrians. Without them millions will starve, and face...

Gitmo or bust: Ghislaine Maxwell must avoid the fate that met Jeffrey Epstein and help put pedophiles behind bars

The story is so fantastic it is tempting to dismiss it out of hand as pulp fiction or conspiracy theory. It is alleged that members of the global...

Next up, conversion therapy: The new left says you’re a bigot unless you have sex with EVERY gender

Suck the d**k, bigot. No, really! In today’s increasingly strange world, in order to show full allegiance to those who tick the final letter of...

The UN has found that the US killing of Qassem Soleimani broke international law. It’s right, but nothing will happen as a result

On paper, it sounds very copesetic: “... a single strike, one or two cars targeted, 10 individuals killed, in a non-belligerent country, surrounded...

The return of the martyr’s remains was a new victory for Algeria’s colonial resistance

Last week, the skulls of 24 freedom fighters were returned to Algeria by the French government. The 24 men were killed in 1849 during the French...

Pripravte sa na uťahovanie

A tak dnes máme naozaj prázdnu špajzu, ako sa tým často oháňa premiér Igor Matovič. Hoci zabúda dodať aj to B, že nám počas súčasnej...

Malaysia's economy has a serious political problem

Squabbling current and former prime ministers prevent meaningful reforms

La crisis climática y la fiebre española

Hace 100 años la humanidad se recuperaba de la peor pandemia global que se haya vivido, al menos reflejada en el número de muertes (se estiman...

Cities are sexist because skyscrapers look like penises, says Guardian in unironic rehash of 1980s comedy

It’s taken almost 40 years, but the Guardian is now unironically publishing jokes as news. To shake up its pages a bit, it took a break from...

Komu prvému v koalícii rupnú nervy?

Lopta bola na ich strane a keby sa chceli zachovať principiálne, mohli streliť tvrdý smeč smerujúci priamo na Kollára. Až potom by sa...

Return of skulls of freedom fighters a step towards reconnecting Algeria with its glorious past

The skulls of 24 Algerian freedom fighters, who resisted French colonialism in the middle of the 19th century, arrived in Algiers on Sunday. An...

It’s never enough: ‘Cancel Hamilton’ calls demand musical creators swear fealty to BLM AGAIN

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The showrunners of the Tony Award winning musical ‘Hamilton’ have been criticized for (insert...

Don’t Scapegoat Migrants for the Pandemic

NEW YORK – Let’s be clear: COVID-19 initially spread around the world as a result of well-heeled travelers returning home from cruises, foreign...

Iraq: Is Prime Minister Al-Kadhimi facing the same fate as Lebanon’s Rafic Hariri?

Political and media circles in Iraq and beyond have been disturbed by the vile attack that claimed the life of Hisham Al-Hashimi, a researcher into...

OPINION: African Union turns 18 but still hasn't grown up

The African Union marks its 18 birthday on July 9, 2020. Launched to help transform Africa into an oasis of peace and development, the AU's dream...

The Call of the Tribal

LONDON – Why do politicians make the choices they do? And why do voters then choose to support them? One possible answer is that voters prefer...

The Dangerous Mix of Netanyahu's Two Biggest Obsessions

Netanyahu’s fixation with controlling the media is dangerous enough; controlling law enforcement will be worse

How addressing so-called ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘unwitting racism’ could be the first step to brainwashing

These days we are told that, unless you can prove otherwise, you are presumed to be a racist. This is why Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer...

Shia LaBeouf accused of brownface & Halle Berry quits her transgender role… to please woke crowds, we must simply #cancelacting

Halle Berry has announced she is stepping away from a role as a transgender character after causing outrage, while Shia LaBeouf is being accused of...

Greedy Britain’s morality-preaching sanctions list immediately made worthless by pandering to warmongering Saudi Arabia

If there ever was a case of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing, Britain’s shameful and shambolic 24-hours are it. To great...

Iraq has a historical opportunity for progress which its Prime Minister must take

It does not look as if Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi wants a direct confrontation with the factions which make up the Popular...

India’s China Strategy Is Changing

NEW DELHI – After last month’s clash in the Ladakh region’s Galwan Valley killed 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops, the...

Conservatives Versus Trump

NEW YORK – For a while now, the most interesting critiques of US President Donald Trump and Trumpism have come from the right. By right, I don’t...

On Tocqueville in Algeria and epistemic violence

The news that Princeton University had finally given in to years of student protests and calls to change the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of...

A photo of a dead Kashmiri and the making of a macabre narrative

Perhaps it does not require a moral compass to feel outrage and fury over the image of a three-year-old Kashmiri child sitting on his slain...

How New Zealand's media endangered public health

New Zealand's health minister, David Clark, has been forced to resign and the nation's hyperactive media have claimed their latest scalp. In the...

China's economic bullying will never work

Beijing has threatened Australia, Japan and others with tariffs and tourism cuts