Asian stock exchanges are getting ahead of themselves

Improved jobs report

Rash self-praise could breed distrust in government policy In August, the Korean economy recorded the largest job additions in August since the...

Summit in New York

It is good for Moon, Trump to meet at opportune time President Moon Jae-in plans to hold talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York City on...

Big Data, the Nuclear War on Your Soul

By the 1990’s the bridge between media, academia and spy agencies had disappeared. Publishing, lecturing, every aspect of journalism or...

Remembering miracle of 1989

By Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM ― This year marks 30 years since Europe ― and human civilization generally ― began to undergo a miraculous...

Israel’s Election, the Corrupt and the Corrupting Occupation

We are once again going to the polls. Because of the corruption, the battle this time is over the corrupt and the corrupters. >> The election is...

The National Rifle Association versus America’s youth

NEW YORK – If any doubts remain about the nefarious influence of the National Rifle Association (NRA) on the political life of the United States,...

The Hatoyama administration’s significance

KOBE – Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe implemented a long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle. Personnel matters are not Abe’s forte; worse, he...

Zrúti sa Bugárov historický projekt?

Slovenskí Maďari však za štyri roky získali oveľa viac ako za osem rokov, keď boli zastúpení v dvoch Dzurindových vládach, ktoré sa...

EU must react to pressure from Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is using Syrian refugees as a bargaining chip to blackmail the EU. Europe must step up and decide how to...

Schadenfreude, Korea style

By Jason Lim I have to admit that I am surprised at the groundswell of outrage that seemed to take over the Korean society against recently...

Taiwan's struggle to rejoin UN

By Hu Young-sup The United Nations will open the 74th General Assembly at its New York headquarters Sept. 17, which will run through Sept. 16,...

Who is to blame for bad economic policies?

By Chang Se-moon Recently, I read some newspaper articles criticizing the economics department of Seoul National University. The criticism appears...

How Come Lynching hasn't Gone Anywhere in the US

It’s nearly impossible to argue these days with Die Zeit, that states that no country comes close to the US with its high percentage of the...

Inviting Taliban to Camp David was a mistake

It's probably good news that President Donald Trump smothered his over-the-top-as-usual plan for a summit meeting with the Taliban and the...

'If Netanyahu Wins, Turn Out the Lights': Meet the Most Die-hard Opponents of Israel's 'Crime Minister'

"In these elections, if Benjamin Netanyahu is chosen as prime minister, we can turn off the lights." That’s what Elisheva, an 80 year-old...

Are the Palestinians Really Still 'Plotting to Destroy Israel'?

No recent poll has shown the Democratic Union - the product of a merger of the left-wing Meretz and the centrist Democratic Israel party - coming...

Jewish Israelis Should Cast a Solidarity Vote for the Arab Joint List

Reminder No. 1: There are such things as solidarity and identification, even if it’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about them....

Netanyahu Is Destroying Israel’s Democracy to Survive

The election of Israel’s 22nd Knesset will take place Tuesday, five months after the last election, which was also held earlier than originally...

Bernie Is No 'Jewish Bolshevik' and He's Not Bringing the Gulag to America

Many of us in the Jewish community are familiar with a certain character, whom we'll call Misha. >> The election is coming. Subscribe now - save...

India's citizenship question and the never-ending Assam imbroglio

The controversy, trauma and trouble over the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India's northeast state of Assam does not seem to go away. The...

Xi Jinping’s biggest headache isn’t Hong Kong. It’s the price of pork in China

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that we’re in the Year of the Pig. Rarely has a single food source played as big a role in the nation’s politics as...

Junket journalism in the shadow of genocide

A week after Damascus feted a delegation of the European far right, Bashar al-Assad's regime ushered in a new set of suitors. On Sunday, the...

The Gift That Never Stops Letting Israel Avoid Peace

On October 26, 2004, with 67 of the Knesset’s 120 MKs in favor – including Benjamin Netanyahu – the legislature approved the cabinet’s...

Dobre in slabe univerze

V zadnjem času je bilo mogoče prebrati kar nekaj novic in tehtnih domačih komentarjev na temo kakovosti univerz po svetu in pri nas doma. Tako so...

Don't vote? The Trump campaign would like a word with you

Ashley Arentz is a political unicorn. The 28-year-old Marine from Jacksonville, North Carolina, didn't vote in 2016, and she wasn't even registered...

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This Borussia Dortmund can win the Bundesliga

Borussia Dortmund's season started with a stutter but a dominant win over Bayer Leverkusen saw them purring along at their best. This team, playing...

Friendly fire: In trade fights, Trump targets U.S. allies, too

President Donald Trump has risked turmoil in the financial markets and damage to the U.S. economy in waging his trade war with China, America's top...

Živeti v teoriji zarote

Atentat na Kennedyja, Titova smrt in v različnih lokalnih okoljih, predvsem takšnih, kjer se je vladalo z železno roko, smrti lokalnih...

Verbal nitpicking can be fun, even enlightening at times

It's probably safe to say that not a day goes by that we don't read about global warming, climate change or greenhouse gases in a newspaper. I...

A long history of resisting self-service

NEW YORK – Poor Oregon. Not content to be one of only two states that still ban self-service gas stations, it may soon decide to limit to two the...

How Pooling Can Beat Stunting

PARIS/LOMÉ – In many developing countries, women come together on a regular basis to contribute their earnings to a common pot. Together, these...

Of Paradise Lost and Last Straws

Although the Bahamas are ruled by a governor-general appointed by Queen Elizabeth, given that many wealthy Americans spend their winters there...

Crackdown on freedom of speech claims victims in Morocco

On August 31, Akhbar Alyaoum journalist Hajar Raissouni was arrested. Suspicion spread immediately on social media, primarily for the reasons...

The Dutch Don’t Need Big Subs to Watch the Bay

The Netherlands are currently studying their options, for the planned replacement of their 4-strong fleet of Walrus subs. It is likely that, for a...

When Will the US and Iranian Leaders Meet?

The key element of the current system of international political, economic and military relations is the ability of the US and Iran to keep the...

Verbalne pasti

Nekaj podobnega se na popolnoma pritlehni ravni dogaja v najbolj preprosti disciplini nacifašistične propagande, izmišljanju imen in nazivov za...

Why the Kremlin launched Stalinist-style mass raids

This week, President Vladimir Putin launched the biggest security operation of his 20 years in power. Since the early hours of September 12, raids...

A Tense Time for Relations between Japan and South Korea: The GSOMIA and Moon’s Relations with the USA

On August 22, 2019, South Korea’s National Security Council adopted a resolution to withdraw from the General Security of Military Information...

Your new moon

By David Tizzard When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see...

The Need for Peace Diplomacy in South Korea

South Korea’s Moon Jae-in government, which once indulged itself with a fast-tracked détente with North Korea, has recently faced a set of...

The G7's Growing Irrelevance

The Group of Seven (G7), comprised of the “most advanced economies in the world,” includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United...

Court ruling in Kadena suit a fresh reminder of state’s inaction

A recent high court ruling in a noise pollution suit filed by residents living near the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture regrettably...

Allende’s niece: ‘The Saturday before the coup, I asked my uncle for a gun’

Interview. Maria Inés Bussi was Salvador Allende’s favorite niece. She lived with him while he was president, and she fled Pinochet’s soldiers...

Why soaring pork prices are a touchy problem for China’s leaders

For the Chinese people, eating meat (which usually refers to pork) is not only an essential part of their daily diet, but also a time-honoured...

Democracy will be the loser of Tunisia's presidential election

Tunisians will head to the polls on September 15 to elect a new president in the second such vote since the country's 2011 revolution. The upcoming...

Draghi’s ‘bazooka’ and the Keynesian trap

Commentary. The central banks are providing massive liquidity. So why isn’t the economy expanding? Obviously, the real problem is endogenous, and...