Thanks Iceland, Madonna for Disrupting Eurovision's Big Deception

Delighted by the Downfall of Austria’s Far Right? Hold On

We’ve prematurely celebrated the demise of Austrian Nazis one too many times. Despite the graft-and-corruption scandal that's just ousted the...

Australian Labor Party snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

CANBERRA - After leading in over 50 consecutive public opinion polls, and despite chaos, acrimony, divisions and dysfunction in the leaderships of...

Managing Japan-U.S. ties in the Trump era

Questions and criticisms have been raised as to the merits of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s approach to the Trump administration. He will have the...

Risks of unilateral governance of digital trade

CONTRIBUTING, WRITERS - Recent developments in the U.S.-China trade war, particularly on issues of digital trade, reflect the deficiencies of...

The rising tide of sustainable seafood

STOCKHOLM - McDonald’s. Hilton. IKEA. Each of these corporate titans enjoys an enormous customer base. But what most of their customers might not...

Japan needs to prioritize a ‘population health’ approach

SEATTLE - Japan’s population is aging and declining faster than that of any other country. As such, the government, research institutions and the...

Putting Africa’s Secondary Cities First

JOHANNESBURG – In the latest Mercer Quality of Living City Rankings , the highest-ranked African city, Port Louis, Mauritius, comes in at 83rd out...

Seoul's dilemma on N. Korea

By Tong Kim Tensions are rising again in Korea, albeit slowly, since North Korea conducted the testing of short-range ballistic missiles on May 4...

Vztrajna upornost “švejkov”

Praga je bila tistega daljnega leta 1985 hladna in vlažna kot te dni, sive so bile fasade dolgih nizov visokih hiš, siva notranjost hodnikov,...

The Syrian regime’s slogan ‘Assad or we burn the country’ must not become reality

The bombardment of Idlib by Syrian regime forces over the past few weeks has been relentless; the long anticipated offensive on the city in...

Undead army of the ‘woke’ will make sure GoT is the last show of its kind

In 2011, Game of Thrones premiered on HBO as an exceedingly well-acted and beautifully photographed fantasy drama of swords and sex, chock full of...

How Long Will the Dragon Wait? China and the Retrocession of Taiwan

Taiwan, Republic of China (ROC)[1] is a robust independent country of approximately 23 million people, who comprise a mix of Taiwanese, Chinese,...

A Vote for Populists Is a Vote for Putin

BRUSSELS – On May 18, European right-wing leaders assembled in Rome for a rally ahead of the European Parliament election this week. Among the...

Why did the talks between Sudan’s Transitional Military Council and protest groups break down?

If the walls of Sudan’s presidential palace could speak, they would tell of a stark difference in the atmosphere of the talks between the...

‘Economic cold war’ between U.S., China would be folly

Winston Churchill (1874-1965), one of the first statesmen to announce the beginning of the Cold War, declared in his famous speech of March 1946: "...

Fire and ice: Chinese fans love, loathe GoT finale

CHINESE fans faced their own battles to watch the “Game of Thrones” finale, scrambling for ways to see it after a delayed stream by...

Madonna’s Fake Revolution: Eurovision, Cultural Hegemony and Resistance

Rim Banna, a famous Palestinian singer who translated Palestine’s most moving poetry to song, passed away on March 24, 2018, at the age of 51....

Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change

DISCUSSIONS on how to address climate change have focused, very appropriately, on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly those of carbon...

Thailand’s emerging ‘New Right’ political movement seeks to suppress the country’s democracy

A strong electoral showing by the junta-backed Palang Pracharat Party in Thailand’s general elections in March can be attributed, for the most...

Robo-Apocalypse? Not in Your Lifetime

BERKELEY – Will the imminent “rise of the robots” threaten all future human employment? The most thoughtful discussion of that question can be...

In Defense of Europe

BRUSSELS – The geopolitical chessboard is back. Following a post-1989 interlude in which the direction of history seemed to tilt toward a...

Setting targets for dementia prevention gives false impression

A new government plan to cope with the problem of growing ranks of people with dementia could create potentially harmful misconceptions and...

Sant Kabir and spiritual rationalism in Narendra Modi’s India

When Sant Kabir, the 15th-century mystic and poet, walked out of the city now known as Varanasi, in northern India’s Uttar Pradesh, he must have...

Huawei's Asian partners right to defy Trump -- for now

What would happen if a war breaks out in the Gulf?

War is looming over the region more than ever before. While it is unlikely, at least for now, that the current tension will reach a level of a...

Russia’s environmentalist and anticlerical youth revolt echoes Occupy

Analysis. Hundreds of young people are protesting the construction of a church in a public green space in Yekaterinburg, capital of the Urals. They...

Indonesia’s Joko Widodo wins second term as president

Indonesia’s Joko Widodo won another term as president of the world’s third-biggest democracy, official results showed Tuesday, after his rival...

Italy’s occupation movement resembles the struggle against large estates

Commentary. It is reductive to talk about a ‘housing crisis.’ What we have is a ‘housing problem’ — a structural issue, with powerful...

Not your grandparents' Europe

Europe has come a long way over two generations, but it's not yet where it needs to be. The EU needs to reform its unequal voting system and give...

Women & unborn kids victimized as Dems and Reps weaponize abortion

Rekindled interest in abortion legislation is a clear reminder that the 2020 presidential elections are bearing down on the United States like a...

Tumpism or Trumtasy?

In November 2016, no one was more surprised at Donald Trump's victory at the polls than Trump himself. Beating Hilary Clinton, a career politician,...

Resisting normalisation harms the occupation

The international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement will not stop its activities despite the great efforts by the occupation...