Reconstruct the Joint List Now

More than any poll or study, the results of the election for the 21st Knesset, which dissolved a month after it was sworn in, provide an...

Trump: A history of inflammatory and 'racist' statements

U.S. President Donald Trump drew fresh accusations of racism Monday after he attacked four ethnic-minority Democrats in Congress, telling them to...

Abe’s stump speeches show his unfitness to lead ruling LDP

Political parties participating in the July 21 Upper House election have the campaign schedules of their leaders and executive officers posted on...

Four Corners exposé shows why you might be wearing slave-made clothes

WITH China’s western-most province of Xinjiang being turned into a mass internment camp, Monday's ABC Four Corners program reported on the...

Is hyper-globalization at a turning point?

A look back at history shows that the global economic systems of the past all underwent across-the-board transformations every 30 years or so. In...

Vietnam must act boldly to avoid getting trumped by the trade war

Racist rants from a sitting U.S. president are a tragic sight to see

Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, 36, became a refugee at age 8. She and her family fled their civil war-torn native Somalia and arrived at a refugee camp....

North Korea's absurd demand

OPCON transfer drill is not 'rehearsal for invasion' North Korea has hinted that it could boycott the envisioned working-level nuclear talks with...

$800,000 spent in one day on Malaysia ex-PM Najib’s cards

CREDIT cards belonging to Malaysia’s disgraced ex-leader Najib Razak were used to spend over US$800,000 in one day at a luxury jeweller in Italy,...

Prevent workplace bullying

Bullying in the workplace is not something that started just yesterday. The persistent pattern of mistreatment mostly by someone with authority...

Collaboration hopes to save Australia’s regional news media

When was the last time you picked up a newspaper from the local newsstand? Where do you consume your news these days? The post Collaboration hopes...

The fork is mightier than the wall

NEW ORLEANS - The word “migration” conjures images of war, natural disaster and severe economic distress. All are important reasons why people...

We all deserve an investigation into BBC Panorama’s propaganda 

The British public were subjected to an hour of anti-Palestine propaganda by the BBC last week when it aired a Panorama programme on the “anti-...

Israel’s inherent sense of racial superiority will backfire one day 

Hamas did a rare thing this week; it issued a press release contradicting one of its top officials, Fathi Hammad, who called for the killing of...

How one German political party is fighting Israel’s BDS crackdown

“The idea of agitating against BDS played a big role here: to defame any kind of criticism of [Israel’s] reactionary, imperialist government as...

Moon landing remembered ― Failure was not option

By John J. Metzler BONDVILLE, Vt. ― For those of us of a certain age, we vividly remember where we were on July 20, 1969, the date of America's...

Sumo: Beating the heat at Nagoya’s steaming hot summer basho

Grand sumo tournaments have been held six times a year since 1958, when the Nagoya basho was upgraded from a “quasi tournament.” Nagoya’s...

Trump wants to rewrite America’s founding myths – and it’s working

Commentary. Once Donald Trump enlisted the Mexican National Guard as an offshore security force, the flow of migrants was sharply reduced. Combined...

Wrecking Ball-In-Chief: Trump’s Withdrawals from International Commitments

During his presidency, President Trump has canceled several important international arrangements  and commitments. Directly after his inauguration,...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Več kot trideset let ni bilo žensk nikjer!

Namenoma in prvič, odkar obstaja Evropska unija, sta tokrat na najpomembnejša, najodgovornejša položaja postavljeni ženski, druga dva...

Dankov superstĺp, aký nám budú svety závidieť

Bývalí prezidenti, ktorí sa rozhodnú kariérne pokračovať v nižšej ústavnej funkcii, by nemali naďalej využívať rôznorodé finančné a...

Japan’s ‘trilemma’ in the Strait of Hormuz

BEPPU, OITA PREF. - The United States has raised with its allies, including Japan, the possibility of forming a coalition of the willing to protect...

Will allowing Palestinians from Gaza to work in Israel be a bribe or a defeat?

The Israeli occupation authorities are discussing the possibility of allowing Palestinian workers from the Gaza Strip to enter and work in the...

Truban a Beblavý: Stiahnuť bruchá

Premena je to síce pomalá, ale čo majú v Progresívnom Slovensku robiť, keď prišli o Filka, Štefunka a na výber im toho už veľa neostalo?...

There is no reason to be optimistic about the election of the Algerian parliament Speaker

It is funny to hear Arab and foreign television stations broadcast the news of the election of Suleiman Shanein MP as the new Speaker of the...

New claims of ‘war crimes’ emerge in Rakhine

MRAUK U, Myanmar (Reuters) — When 35-year-old Ah Hla showed up to a police station in western Myanmar in late April hoping to see her husband...

Rodrigo Duterte, protector of women's rights?

A law to create "safe streets and public spaces" in the Philippines has been signed into law by Rodrigo Duterte. But the law isn't an achievement...

Key steps needed for Cameroon peace talks

Switzerland has agreed to mediate talks between the government of Cameroon and separatist leaders aimed at faciliating a peaceful resolution to a...

Moon landing: Failure was not option

By John J. Metzler BONDVILLE, Vt. ― For those of us of a certain age, we vividly remember where we were on July 20, 1969, the date of America's...

One of those men who seems to have it in for women

By Ann McFeatters WASHINGTON _ Of course, the president was going to permit a strip club to host a tournament at one of his golf clubs, Trump...

¿Qué fue de la globalización?

No todo en este mundo es culpa de Donald Trump. Se suele culpar al proteccionismo de su gobierno por el retroceso en los patrones de integración...

Last eunuch's surname

By Mark Peterson When I was a student in Korea in 1977 I met a man introduced to me as the last living eunuch from the 1392-1910 Joseon Kingdom. At...

Living in harmony

By Lee Eung-tae The Bible says, "Man is born with the image of God," which means, I think, all of us were born with equal dignity and rights....

Germany's Green wave

By Michael Broning BERLIN ― If current polling trends continue, the next German chancellor could well be Robert Habeck, the co-leader of the...

Anthropologist ventures into the culture of online gaming

Summer break is the blessing of academic life, when we educators get to focus on our own scholarly or creative pursuits, which we put on the back...

'Go back' captures core of Trump political agenda

Go back where you came from. President Donald Trump's tweet on Sunday did more than take a shot at four Democratic lawmakers of color. In just a...

El desastroso legado de Santos

A muchos nos gustaría creer que Jesús Santrich no se ha fugado y que mañana 9 de julio se va a presentar ante la Corte Suprema de Justicia a...