Netanyahu’s Blood Libel That Bashes the Media

Israeli Theater Is on the Verge of Moral Bankruptcy

“Vojna je mir”

Geslo »Vojna je mir« emblematično označuje sprevrženost jezika v totalitarni družbi. Dolgo časa smo verjeli, da je bila ost Orwellovega...

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One chemist was world-famous, the other is now long forgotten

You are a bona fide science buff if you know Julius Lothar Meyer (1830-1895) was the German chemist who discovered the periodicity of elements in...

Fear for the Great Barrier Reef made climate change feel urgent

MEDIA coverage of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef may have been a major tipping point for public concerns around climate change,...

North Korea made $120m a year from joint factory park – report

NORTH Korea raked in more than US$120 million a year from a symbolic cross-border industrial zone that Pyongyang and Seoul are pushing to re-open...

Eliminate school irregularities

Inspection needs to help private universities raise transparency The Ministry of Education has begun conducting a general inspection of 16 major...

Time to move forward

It is disappointing to see no Korea-Japan summit President Moon Jae-in will engage in active diplomacy when he visits Osaka, Japan, this week for...

Bad News for the World’s Poorest

WASHINGTON, DC – The global economic mood is souring. At their meeting in Fukuoka, Japan, earlier this month, G20 finance ministers and central...

Trump has But One Opportunity to Blow his Second Term

It has recently been reported that Donald Trump kick-started his 2020 campaign with a rally at Amway Center in Orlando in mid-June. Over the course...

The Commodified Queer Sublime

This is an advance preview from Sexuality and Translation in World Politics, forthcoming soon. My mom and I were discussing the relation of...

The Bard and the Bank Regulators

LONDON – Banking supervision teams at the Bank of England “now receive the equivalent of twice the entire works of Shakespeare of reading each...

‘Readiness for full spectrum of conflict’: Trump’s pick to lead military is staunch anti-Chinese

For someone who platformed his election campaign on ending unnecessary wars and focusing more on making his country “great again,” Donald J....

Trump’s Unsung Marshall Plan for the Palestinians

Palestine and Kenya: Our historic fight against injustice is one and the same

In 1948 my grandfather, along with thousands of Badrasawis, was expelled by Israeli military forces from our ancestral village of Beit Daras in...

Anachronistic nonsense just one reason for low fertility rate

Japan’s total fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, was 1.42 in 2018, down 0.01...

Japan-China warming: People power at work

HONG KONG - As the orange and white bus closed its doors at Terminal 2 of Narita International Airport, the passengers settled down for the...

Is Japan becoming a country of immigration?

As the revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act enacted last December took effect in April, the government set in motion newly...

Is Economic Development the Key to Mideast Peace?

STANFORD – At a workshop this week in Bahrain, White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner presented an ambitious economic-development initiative for...

Don't feed Donald

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TOKYO ― What do French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe have in common? For one thing, they...

Politically correct movies

By Kim Rahn Two Disney movies that remind me of my younger days have been released recently ― "Aladdin" and "Toy Story 4." I had no reason to...

Last chance for German carmakers

Emissions-cheating scandals hitting German car manufacturers have strained relations between policymakers and the auto industry in the country. But...

High cost of clinging to coal

For a long time, the threat of climate change caused by carbon dioxide emissions was distant and abstract. But the evidence suggests it's now an...

Three-step newspaper challenge

By Adam Borowski Newspapers hold powerful educational potential. Please consider the following activity aimed at maximizing the role of newspapers...

Immoglu imperils the AKP’s penchant secret tenders for major works

Interview. We interviewed the Turkish journalist Murat Cinar about the new dynamics in Istanbul after the CHP confirmed its grip on the mayor’s...

Georgian Protests: Not Spontaneous and Not Ordinary—Part of Wider US Agenda?

Upwards of 10,000 protesters attempted to storm Georgia’s parliament building on June 20. The crowd swarmed the building during what at first...

Trade and horsetrade: Top five hot-button G20 issues

GLOBAL trade, geopolitical hotspots around the world and even horse-trading over top EU jobs, G20 leaders have a lot of their plate when they meet...

US ‘Peace to Prosperity’ conference actually offers Palestine little hope

The Trump administration’s vision for a futuristic-looking Gaza Strip is like something dreamed up by a Hollywood theme park, with pristine...

Will Italy go ahead with a ‘mini-TAV’ rail project?

Interview. We spoke with Marco Ponti, the economist whose cost-benefit analysis of Turin-Lyon high-speed rail project, known as the TAV, showed it...

Israel’s Rape Indictment of Palestinian Reveals the Moral Rot

The military advocate general’s announcement Tuesday that he was withdrawing the indictment of Mahmoud Qatusa on a charge of raping a 7-year-old...

Why India should not outlaw Huawei

What Lies Behind the Absurd Claim That Netanyahu Is Good for Israeli Arabs

There is no parity between ethnic cleansing in Palestine and Jews’ exodus from Arab states

British Conservative MP Theresa Villiers blundered into a debate on Israel and Palestine last week. In doing so, the former Northern Ireland...

The G20’s Full Plate