Ikata ruling a warning against optimism over nuke safety risks

The Hiroshima High Court’s decision to order a halt to operations of the No. 3 reactor at the Ikata nuclear power plant in Ehime Prefecture is a...

[INTERVIEW] A stitch in time: preserving traditional Korean embroidery

By Hwang Jae-ho The Han Sang Soo Embroidery Museum. Courtesy of Kim Young-ran Greeting the New Year, as Korea's biggest holiday approaches, suddenly...

Korea's solution to the Middle East crisis: Go for zero

In this file photo taken on Nov. 19, 2019, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (left), the air-defense destroyer HMS Defender and the guided-...

Govorite angleško?

Kje so razlogi, zaradi katerih naj bi angleščina ostala med uradnimi jeziki EU? Ni jih. Na Malti in Cipru je pomožni jezik, na Irskem drugi. Če...

A prayer as final entrance exams under current system start

The National Center Test for University Admissions, a two-day standardized university entrance test, which more than 400,000 applicants have taken...

Species’ extinction could be a new beginning

KUALA LUMPUR – There was nothing cute about the Chinese paddlefish. Its most notable features were its length, which could exceed 3 meters, and a...

A transformative deal for nature

NEW YORK – This October, representatives of the 196 parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will gather in...

China and the things that lurk in shadows

In this April 10 2017, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, accompanied by Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi, left, attends a...

12 tips to write a winning admission letter to American universities

By Estelle Liotard The application process for U.S. universities is different from that in Korea. So if you want to become a student at one of the...

Prizes for all (paying customers): Why 4 in 5 UK students now get a top degree

Like previous secretaries of education, the present occupant of this post, Gavin Williamson, has vowed to put an end to the ‘continuous drift’...

Cancel culture strikes again and kills Apu from ‘The Simpsons’ – where does this nonsense end?

Azaria announced the decision this week and said it was one made with the producers of the show. The seeming abandonment of the character follows...

Snowflake culture soars as children could be banned from heading balls in Scotland

In recent years playgrounds have seen the game of conkers banned, lunchtime tag replaced by "gentle hands," and now football might be joining the...

The politics of polarization are losing ground in Turkey

The former half of the past two decades of politics in Turkey was marred by polarization. The division between secularists and religious...

Putin’s Meaningless Coup

PARIS – Vladimir Putin may be setting himself up to remain Russia’s leader well beyond the end of his presidency, to no one’s surprise. In his...

Iran is not about to collapse

There is seething unrest in Iranian society — but the situation cannot be compared to that of the revolution of 41 years ago, says guest...

Beijing should tell Taiwan and Hong Kong what it has to gain from them

The US president is not that keen on the government of Taiwan. In fact, he is about to cut the island loose and leave it to the Chinese Communist...

Why America’s war on terror can’t be a great example for India

India celebrated its 72nd Army Day on January 15 with many firsts. The most significant one is that the nation has just got its first chief of...

Reforestation is not necessarily about planting more trees

Last year, the journal Science published a study that made a bold - and elegantly simple - claim: To mitigate climate change, plant a trillion new...

Cambridge Analytica and the end of elections

In the early hours of January 1, 2020, a Twitter handle, @hindsightfiles, allegedly run by Brittany Kaiser, a former employee of Cambridge...

Turkey, Russia and the Libyan conundrum

Since the outbreak of the Libyan revolution in 2011, which saw the intervention of NATO countries and the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi's regime,...

Free Jonathan Pollak

Back in my mid-twenties, I went off to Palestine to become a solidarity activist. I volunteered with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) –...

BC: Social Psychopathy and Tyranny

BC stands for NEO’s Banned Classic. This article was originally published by our journal on 06.07.19  For some reason, this article is missing...

US War of Terror Continues: Assassinating Iran's Top Anti-ISIS General

The US has eagerly taken credit for the killing of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani amid a series of military strikes carried out by US forces...

Brainwashing – A Silly Cold War Propaganda Concept

In the United States, one phrase you cannot avoiding hearing on a regular basis is “This is the greatest country in the world” or “America is...

Leaders of the World, Unite!

Ever since Marx and Engels got together almost two hundred years ago to try to protect the people who were building the modern world, largely with...

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A Worrisome Demographic Trajectory: Are We on the Brink of Extinction?

According to an estimation provided by the UN, the global population is bound to reach some 11 billion people in the near future, with annual...

A Policy Brief on Sanctions and Collateral Damage

In the wake of recent developments in the Middle East, it seems like a good for an objective assessment of US policy and strategy in the region....

Update on Issues Stemming from Border Disputes between India and PRC

The 22nd Meeting of the Special Representatives for Settlement of the India-China Boundary Question was held on December 21, 2019 in New Delhi....

Donald Trump really is Xi Jinping’s friend. The phase one US-China trade deal proves it

Since Donald Trump became the American president in January 2017, he has frequently called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping “a friend”, even...