Miscalculation of virus relief aid demands review of faulty stats

A number of unexplained factors are hurting the reliability of government statistics, which is manifesting itself in gross underestimation of...

Innovative mobility partnership

Hyundai Motor, Naver set to experiment with new possibilities The country's biggest automaker and top search engine platform have reached an...

Shortage of ships

Steps urged to help exporters in need of ships The nation's shipping companies have decided to operate more ships to help exporters suffering from...

Visiting Dubai Is Like Standing on the Sidelines During a Gang Rape

We won’t be drawn into further reopening, health minister warns as numbers rise

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said Monday that Israel will halt moves to ease the nationwide lockdown and may even put more restrictions into...

Peru should give its latest president a chance

With the Nov. 17 swearing-in of Francisco Sagasti as interim president, Peru has its third head of state in a little more than a week. Sagasti's...

Pyongyang's reticence on Biden

By Tong Kim For weeks, North Korea has been silent on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. Since Joe Biden was recognized as the U.S....

Korea's policy choices amid increased global uncertainties

By Dr. Jeffrey I. Kim The results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election can be recorded as one of the most unusual happenings in American history....

Asian nations take major step forward

By Arthur I. Cyr A comprehensive new trade agreement among the nations of East and Southeast Asia promises greatly to increase production in the...

Crafting diplomacy-first US foreign policy

By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Alexandra Stark Anne-Marie Slaughter Alexandra Stark WASHINGTON, DC ― U.S. President-elect Joe Biden has made it...

Why China's hard-line position on human rights is a strategic folly

Beijing will pay dearly for its uncompromising stance

Iran’s enemies are spoiling for a fight, so how will it respond to top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s assassination?

A day after Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a leading Iranian nuclear physicist, was assassinated while travelling in his car on the outskirts of Tehran, the...

Update on the Issue of Gilgit-Baltistan in the Context of the “Kashmir Problem”

The former principality of Kashmir was among several hundreds of territories with varying degrees of autonomy on the Indian subcontinent, and in...

A long and winding road to US terror charges against Islamic State ‘Beatles’

WASHINGTON (AP) — As two Islamic State militants faced a judge in Virginia last month, Diane Foley listened from home through a muffled phone...

Western White arrogance as the big COVID-19 killer

White racism as the largest slaughterer of … Whites. Yes, the heading of this blog post sounds offensive. But you know what would be more...

Maradona's audacity of hope

I for one am grateful to and humbled by like many other millions in all the continents of our world, Maradona if not for the spectacle he offered...

5 Positive Changes I’ve Observed in Israel This Year

Living in Israel can be a frustrating experience. For most people who live here, that probably doesn’t require elaboration. But just when...

The Pitfalls of Facebook Discourse

I freely admit that I am a Luddite lacking a Facebook page, an Instagram account, or a Twitter account.   Our four children, having been convinced...

The Importance of Listening to America’s Allies

Embed from Getty Images The incoming administration of President-elect Biden has stirred up conversations across the Middle East about America’s...

Understanding IHRA

Discussions about Israel, often passionate, occasionally get sidetracked by a descent into—or accusations of—antisemitic rhetoric. When does...

We Need a Democratic Party in Israel

In a recent conversation with some friends in the USA, I shocked them by telling them that their political situation is much better than ours in...

Fake Data = Fake Culture

In my two previous blogs on second-hand dealers of ideas and critical theory I pointed to the role of intellectuals and media in becoming...

Was The Creation of the State of Israel Miraculous?

Is it right to call the feat of the creation of the State of Israel miraculous? Though its conception may not meet the criterion of conception that...

Letters and Voices, Part 1: Ed from Miami Beach

Death and divorce prevented my brother Cooper and me from knowing our grandparents. My mother’s parents both died in 1959 before I was 3 years...

Grim period awaits Istanbul as pandemic spirals out of control

Regardless of whether or not one thinks that all but shutting down Istanbul's (and the country's) restaurants, bars and cafes is a good idea, a...

Like ‘Mad King George:’ Trump spends days after vote muttering ‘I won, I won’

US President Donald Trump has spent the last few weeks since the election continuing to deny his loss, surrounded by those who would  only tell...

Iran said distributing pictures of suspects in killing of nuclear chief

A London based Iranian journalist claimed late Sunday that Iran has distributed pictures of four suspects in the killing of top nuclear scientist...

China blocks Australian copper imports – but from solar cells to beating Covid-19, global demand for copper is set to soar

SIMPLY REDIt is less than a decade since China was last buying up vast amounts of copper in the global metals market. In February 2011, the price...

Homeless youth build America’s 1st Tiny House shelter village

OAKLAND, California — For years, the abandoned gas station parking lot sat empty in the shadow of Oakland’s Coliseum Stadium, filling with the...

At nuke chief’s funeral, Iran defense minister vows response to killing

Speaking at the funeral of a top Iranian  nuclear scientist who was killed in an assassination widely blamed on Israel, Iran’s defense minister...

The Tariq Ramadan case exposes even more French double standards

Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron's government to abandon legislation which...

US is Losing in the Militarily Race against Russia and China

The Trump administration, pursuing its adventurous policy and inciting hostility towards Russia and China, has recently repeatedly tried to...

Noh: Traditional theater, contemporary fashion through new lens PREMIUM

Nuke chief’s killing is a major blow to Iran, but the price may be high

The killing of Iran’s military nuclear architect outside of Tehran on Friday struck a major blow to the Islamic Republic, both in practical and...

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The Iron Ceiling

‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients’ rock art found in Amazon forest

Tens of thousands of paintings dating back to the ice age have been revealed for the first time since they were discovered in the Amazonian...

Diego 1960–[neskončno]

Ko si najstnik, potrebuješ vzornika. In mit. On, Amigo, novinar zagrebških Sportskih novosti Zvonimir Magdić (1930–2018), nas je s svojimi...

Jewish author pens novel on US teens who refused to debate the Final Solution

Kveller via JTA — On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking officials from the Nazi party and the German government got together in a villa at Wannsee,...

Biden chooses an all-female senior White House press team

WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) — US President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, reflecting his...

Anxieties and Apologies

If, like me, you are prone to anxiety, you have no doubt found that a global pandemic is anything but a nurturing environment. In June, after three...

Nightmare scenario in Gaza as COVID overwhelms the health system

Analysis. Gaza has only 100 respirators, and most are now in use. Doctors warn that in a few days, they will 'no longer be able to care for...

Reruns among this year’s hit products amid the pandemic

Around this time every year, organizations announce their annual rankings of big hits, harking back to products and events that were talked about a...

Cabinet okays transfer of tax revenues to Palestinians as PA renews cooperation

The security cabinet authorized late Sunday the transfer of some NIS 2.4 billion ($725 million) in tax revenues that Israel collects on behalf of...

Nuke chief killed with Israeli weapons controlled by satellite – Iranian report

The attack that killed the alleged architect of Iran’s nuclear weapons program on Friday was carried out using an Israeli-manufactured weapon...

Impact of War and Prospects for Peace between Russia and Ukraine

This is an excerpt from Crisis in Russian Studies? Nationalism (Imperialism), Racism and War by Taras Kuzio. Get your free download from E-...

UAE’s Etihad Airways joins new Israeli program to foster travel tech

Arieli Capital, a holdings and investment company, said that Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will be a partner in...