In Australia, concerns mount that China could use TikTok to spy on users

In an age of isolation, video-sharing platform TikTok has emerged as a bonding force for many. But recent headlines allege the service, owned by...

New North American trade pact puts toll on Asian companies

+ (POGLED) Rog in roganje

Nedelja, 8. julija 1990, je bila sončna, vroča in nabita s čustvi. Spravna slovesnost na gozdni jasi v bližini jame pod Krenom v Kočevskem rogu...

Iran describes dueling crises: COVID-19 and US unilateralism

Report. While the Islamic Republic grapples with a surge in contagions and nine provinces become red zones, Foreign Minister Zarif took stock of...

Trump is goading China, hoping to revive his troubled campaign

Commentary. With the warships roaming in its waters and the crescendo of barbs towards China’s leadership, we will have to rely on the steely...

Court's denial of extradition

Toughen sentencing guidelines for digital sex crimes quickly The Seoul High Court rejected an extradition request from the United States, Monday,...

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Silk trees tougher than they look, after a good night’s sleep

The rising mercury spells the arrival of a seasonal hiatus in the blooming of flowering trees and shrubs. Hydrangeas are mostly past their prime,...

Despite cutback plan, Japan maintains stance of relying on coal

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on July 3 announced plans to minimize power generation from low-efficiency coal-fired power plants that...

Trump's bluster can't beat a virus, calm a restive nation

Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the ornate East Room of the White House. The night before, his impeachment trial...

Trump and Hoover show what happens when businessmen be-come president

By Dick Polman Can we finally nix the myth that what this nation needs is a businessman who will "run America like a business"? If mining magnate...

Pandemija, neoliberalizem in teorije zarote

Kako vemo, da se ta zgodovinski ciklus končuje? Tako, da se spet vprašamo, kaj vemo. To vprašanje je bilo namreč na njegovih začetkih. In...

Landmark ruling against North

Former POWs win damage compensation suit A local court made a landmark ruling Tuesday that North Korea and its leader Kim Jong-un should pay 21...

Hong Kong: British asylum for 3 million

By Gwynne Dyer "We will grant British National Overseas (BNOs) five years' limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to work...

Harnessing Malawi's youth bulge

By Jireh Mwamukonda LILONGWE ― Malawi is facing a massive youth bulge, with more than half the population under the age of 18 ― a share that is...

Reckoning

By Deauwand Myers I lived through the national travesty of the impeachment and imprisonment of ex-President Park Geun-hye. Massive marches...

Life with and without smartphones

By Kim Ae-ran More than ever, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our apostolate is also making an effort to meet with such a turning point by creating...

Keep the Geeks in Charge of the Internet

LOS ANGELES – The coronavirus pandemic has rapidly transformed the Internet into the most critical infrastructure on Earth. By enabling people...

Netanyahu Is Trying to Blame Democracy and the Public for Israel's Sorry Coronavirus Response

The Call of the Tribal

LONDON – Why do politicians make the choices they do? And why do voters then choose to support them? One possible answer is that voters prefer...

The Dangerous Mix of Netanyahu's Two Biggest Obsessions

Netanyahu’s fixation with controlling the media is dangerous enough; controlling law enforcement will be worse

How addressing so-called ‘unconscious bias’ and ‘unwitting racism’ could be the first step to brainwashing

These days we are told that, unless you can prove otherwise, you are presumed to be a racist. This is why Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer...

Shia LaBeouf accused of brownface & Halle Berry quits her transgender role… to please woke crowds, we must simply #cancelacting

Halle Berry has announced she is stepping away from a role as a transgender character after causing outrage, while Shia LaBeouf is being accused of...

Greedy Britain’s morality-preaching sanctions list immediately made worthless by pandering to warmongering Saudi Arabia

If there ever was a case of the left hand not knowing what the right is doing, Britain’s shameful and shambolic 24-hours are it. To great...

Iraq has a historical opportunity for progress which its Prime Minister must take

It does not look as if Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi wants a direct confrontation with the factions which make up the Popular...

India’s China Strategy Is Changing

NEW DELHI – After last month’s clash in the Ladakh region’s Galwan Valley killed 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese troops, the...

Conservatives Versus Trump

NEW YORK – For a while now, the most interesting critiques of US President Donald Trump and Trumpism have come from the right. By right, I don’t...

On Tocqueville in Algeria and epistemic violence

The news that Princeton University had finally given in to years of student protests and calls to change the name of the Woodrow Wilson School of...

A photo of a dead Kashmiri and the making of a macabre narrative

Perhaps it does not require a moral compass to feel outrage and fury over the image of a three-year-old Kashmiri child sitting on his slain...

How New Zealand's media endangered public health

New Zealand's health minister, David Clark, has been forced to resign and the nation's hyperactive media have claimed their latest scalp. In the...

China's economic bullying will never work

Beijing has threatened Australia, Japan and others with tariffs and tourism cuts

How to Live with the Pandemic

NEW YORK/SINGAPORE/LOMBOK, INDONESIA – The COVID-19 crisis has caused scientists, governments, and public-health experts to scramble to understand...

Facebook and Zuckerberg disappoint once again

New York – Facebook Inc. still doesn’t get it. A widely anticipated meeting on Tuesday between the social media giant and the civil rights...

The fight over a coronavirus vaccine will get ugly

Berlin – For most people, a vaccine against the new coronavirus can’t come soon enough, as it will be the only tolerable way to achieve herd...

America’s Hong Kong approach does more harm than good

Guangzhou, China – While squabbling about the deteriorating situation in Hong Kong, many barely noticed that the year of 2019 was a “year of...

Watch China’s unconventional levers of power in world affairs

Washington – Chinese security forces’ recent remarkable escalation of tensions along disputed boundaries with Japan, Taiwan, India and Southeast...

A special ‘birthday gift’ for Hong Kong

China has forced a new national security law onto the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. While the new law was anticipated, few thought it...

Don't Slaughter the Palestinians' Sacred Cow Mahmoud Darwish

I have no interest in singling Darwish out as a statue that must be toppled in my revolution of liberation as a woman and of my people as a nation

France directs EU foreign policy against Turkey, and the bloc is too weak to stop it

It is rare to see a government throw a sustained tantrum against another due to differences over foreign policy, especially without first...

What next? Now woke police think David Walliams’ kids’ books are racist, fat-shaming and woman-hating

Laughs have recently been a sparse commodity, but the furore raging among the ‘enlightened’ middle classes over children’s literature provides...

Seizing the Health Opportunity

SAN FRANCISCO – The COVID-19 pandemic and its repercussions have devastated communities and economies around the world. Barely six months old,...

I was born in New York, and I’ve never seen the city so scared and uninhabitable. I fear we’re on the brink of a second civil war

The world is under attack from a well-organised and well-funded group of anarchists who have launched an ideological cultural revolution to further...

The discovery of a Leicester sweatshop sums up how UK’s workers have been let down by spivs and politicians over the last 20 years

I don’t buy into the right-wing argument that black and brown people and migrants are currently most at risk from Covid-19 because of their own...

George Galloway: If you think Scottish nationalism is bad now, you ain't seen nothing yet

“Some men hate a crab. It runs sideways, not straight, disturbs the sand thirstily. They chase it madly, across the beach, with sticks.” Forty...

The Political Logic of China’s Strategic Mistakes

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – Some of the Chinese government’s recent policies seem to make little practical sense, with its decision to impose a...