Two can play Section 230 game: Trump’s EO uses key statute against social media censorship

Though the First Amendment to the US Constitution prohibits the government from restricting freedom of speech, social media platforms have long...

+ Anonimna demokracija

V času, v katerem živimo, je sklic na demokracijo in svoboščine, ki so zagotovljene in samoumevne, pogosta praksa tako tistih, ki jih kršijo, kot...

Controversy over Olympic parody shows no love for political satire

While the nation was still under a state of emergency but moves to reopen the economy were starting to pick up speed, there was one news item that...

Japan is going for broke, minus the broke part

New York – In putting a floor under the world's third-largest economy, Japan is going for broke. Minus the broke part. The central bank has...

Anxiety and COVID-19: The Role of Ontological Security and Myth

Myths that lift the collective morale, that does not necessarily ‘other’, but instead strengthens bonds, may be positive and necessary in these...

A Plea for Kindness

In a graduation speech this month to his alma mater, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the doctor helping to steer our country’s response to the coronavirus...

China’s Hong Kong Gamble

What COVID-19 means for the Japan-U.S. alliance

Washington – On May 11, media reported that Admiral Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, would...

The Limits of Extreme COVID Monetary Policy

LONDON – With output having collapsed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are wondering how far monetary policy can be stretched to support...

The post-epidemic recovery should focus on rights, not the economy

Commentary. Is our goal to return to normal, or do we want to design a new idea for our society? The truth is we can never go back. written by...

The rushed easing of lockdown measures could devastate Italy

When the novel coronavirus began spreading across the world earlier this year, Italy quickly became one of Europe's worst-affected countries and...

The road to a blue-green recovery

If there were ever a tide in human affairs that should be taken, this is it. A pitiless pandemic has befallen us, bringing sadness and sacrifice...

Ten years after Israel’s hijacking of the Mavi Marmara, we cannot forget those who it killed

It is ten years since a live broadcast from the Mediterranean on Aljazeera TV came to an abrupt end. On 31 May 2010 I was watching human rights...

Everything's disposable for fame-seekers: Myka Stauffer turned adopted autistic son into YouTube money machine, then ‘rehomed’ him

Despite the acclaim, money, and worshipful followers she’d racked up after styling herself the saintly, self-sacrificing caretaker of the...

Shocking spike in Covid-19 jail suicides should end Britain’s obsession with imprisonment

Britain’s justice system, like many of its prisons, is stuck in Victorian times. And recently there’s been a proliferation of the 'throw away the...

ad Obnovovanie Európskej únie

O tom, že táto pieseň má nadčasový kontext svojím poukazovaním na spoločenské zlo, svedčí jej popularita v súčasnosti. Je paradoxné,...

Forget the race-baiting scare tactics, Trump has every right to go after ‘thugs’ as Minneapolis burns

In one swift moment, the main story in the United States is no longer the coronavirus, and certainly not social distancing, as Minnesota’s...

Minnesota riots coverage: This is why Trump called mainstream media ‘enemy of the people’

When Trump tweeted that the media were the enemy of the American people, it caused fury around the world. The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @...

Mainstream media tries to paint Britain as a Dis-United Kingdom that’s polarised like the US. The truth is very different

The British media, and parts of the political class, seem keen to portray the UK as a hideously divided country. When Jeremy Corbyn was leading...

Normalising Israeli violence during the pandemic 

In April, the Israeli Civil Administration stated that it would halt the demolition and destruction of Palestinian dwellings during the coronavirus...

The Uncertain Pandemic Consensus

PARIS – What is the COVID-19 crisis teaching us about the role of the state? And what lasting lessons will our societies draw from it? It is...

+ (GLOBALNA ARENA) Kronika izgubljenega desetletja

Da bi pregnal svoje največje strahove pred prihodnjim desetletjem, sem se odločil napisati turobno kroniko tega obdobja. Če se do decembra 2030...

Tokyo should not be blind to plight of refugees in virus crisis

The new coronavirus pandemic is threatening to ravage the world's most vulnerable people. In many parts of the globe, internal and international...

Ethiopia’s Unconventional COVID-19 Response

ADDIS ABABA – To the surprise of many, African governments have responded swiftly and boldly to the COVID-19 crisis. Ethiopia’s unconventional...

Be humble before COVID-19

Time to review our fight against the pandemic The latest infections at "contact-free" business facilities illustrate that the COVID-19 pandemic...

Policy on platform work

Trilateral accord is first step toward establishing digital economy Unions, management and the government have reached their first social consensus...

Who Has the World’s Largest Economy?

CAMBRIDGE – The World Bank’s International Comparison Program has just released its latest measures of price levels and GDP across 176 countries,...

Working in China

By Adam Borowski The world is divided into three groups of people: those who believe in eternal salvation or damnation after death, those who see...

Big data or Big Brother

By Steven L. Shields I read an interview recently with the CEO of a biomedical company. He was extolling recent privacy rulings that would allow...

California sues, again, to protect planet from Trump administration

By Kerry Cavanaugh California and 22 other states are taking the Trump administration to court _ again _ in an attempt to block President Donald...

Face of modern-day feminism in Seoul

By Andrea Plate "If I Had Your Face," Frances Cha's debut novel (Ballantine Books), tells the story of four young women struggling to succeed in...

Lepo je tudi, če ne moremo daleč

Mogoče smo se, vsaj za kratek čas, zavedeli, kaj pomeni to naše nenehno potovanje, od bolj ali manj nujnega tovornega transporta do potovanj in...

Improving productivity is key to establishing telework in Japan PREMIUM

The United Nations, Self-Determination, State Failure and Secession

Secessionist states are unlikely to gain membership as the principle of territorial integrity holds primacy, initially showing it to be a foe to...

The Case of UN Involvement in Jammu and Kashmir

The Security Council limited the Kashmiri people to accession into either India or Pakistan, in fact privileging another norm: the existing...

The fight for ‘Anglo-Saxon’

Since September 2019, medieval scholars have heatedly debated the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’. The dispute began in relation to claims of racism and...

Matovičov valec

Igor Matovič patril v minulosti medzi hlasných kritikov takéhoto prístupu a pred voľbami hovoril o potrebe odpolitizovania verejnej správy. Aj...

Úchylná kolekcia

Renomované nakladateľstvo, ktoré až do privatizácie v roku 1996 patrilo ministerstvu obrany, vydalo kalendár „osobností“ Tretej ríše....

The destruction of the joint Arab action groups

It has been five months since the employees of the Arab Land Transport Union received their salaries, which means that their salaries were withheld...

Policy on platform work

Trilateral accord is first step toward establishing digital economy Unions, management and the government have reached their first social consensus...

Sudan is lining up as another member of the Arab axis of normalisation with Israel

The Sudanese military continues its normalisation with the Israeli government at a steady pace, with cover provided by the government in Khartoum....

Country club conservatives dodge defending liberty

By Michael Shannon Breitbart has an interesting interview with conservative Alabama Republican Rep. Mo Brooks, who believes China Flu lockdown...

Hit them ever harder, Mr. President! The tyranny of Big Tech is the biggest threat to democracy in our lifetime

Western society has relegated democracy to the dustbin of history. Sadly, we are now ruled by oligarchs within a narrow dual-justice oligarchy: one...

Gaming journalists hate gamers and don’t care about games. This agenda-driven press needs to go

Video game website VG 24/7 recently uploaded an article claiming popular streamer Skyrim Grandma was dialing back content “for the sake of her...

COVID the War Crime

As May 2020 comes to an end and Americans demand “freedom” from an ineffective lockdown policy that was enacted with no national testing regime...

Australia and How the Corona Crisis Raises Wider Geopolitical Issues

The coronavirus pandemic that is currently causing enormous social and economic disruption is curious for a number of reasons. The first...

The COVID-19 Chronicles: Eastern Europe

Like much of Asia, Eastern Europe appears to have weathered the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) crisis relatively well, at least in terms of...

El negocio detrás de las mascarillas

Todos hemos sido testigos de la debacle del empleo y el mundo del trabajo, globalmente. Día a día, la pérdida de puestos laborales se dispara, y...

Six deadly lockdown sins

Canberra – The debate over the stringency of and exit from the lockdown measures is usually framed as a choice between public health outcomes and...

The Silicon Valley cyber-monopolies are a threat to free speech

Of the articles I have written so far this year, one of the most popular has been a piece I wrote in January for The Electronic Intifada, about an...