Zimske noči

Žalostna južnjaška jesen z upognjeno glavo prepušča svoj rumeni prestol hladnokrvnim armadam zime. Nihče ne bo žaloval za njo, vse jeseni bodo...

Court rulings on disparity of votes let reluctant Diet off the hook

Most of the High Court rulings on the vote-value disparity cases concerning the July Upper House election have declared the election to be...

Asia Unites Against US Coup Attempt

The nations of Southeast Asia have united in efforts to prevent a US-backed coup aimed at fellow-Southeast Asian state Cambodia. Through a...

Ayatollah Sistani Defies Iran to Promote Self-Governance in Iraq

Hailed a liberator and a savior against ISIS after it dedicated its men, military expertise and efforts in neighbouring Iraq, Iran has now become...

Confronting Changing Geopolitical Realities

In the Australian media they have in recent weeks being waging an information war against China. One recent illustration of this was the publicity...

Russia Infrastructure Projects – A Year-End Review

It has been a rollercoaster year of US trade wars, the JCPOA dying a slow death, and the world economy sinking toward recession. The good news is...

Japan's ‘mask culture’ looks bizarre to the rest of the world

Every day, I notice a growing number of commuter train passengers wearing a face mask. Looking around the car yesterday, I noticed that about 20...

One in five Italians live on less than €842 per month

Analysis. The latest report from ISTAT shows sharpening inequality, with most of the benefits of economic growth going to those who are already...

Natural-born climate commitments

WASHINGTON – With the world gathering at the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid through Dec. 13, discussions are...

Bolsonaro government threatens Brazilian protesters with dictatorship-era law

Analysis. Jair Bolsonaro’s son and his economic minister both invoked the Institutional Act of 1968, which institutionalized torture, promising...

Why a 'Green New Deal' must be decolonial

Discussions of a Green New Deal (GND) have been all the rage these days, as hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets around the world to...

The Hong Kong protests have affected Taiwan’s election – but Beijing won’t back down

While Beijing is revving up its propaganda machine to trumpet China’s good governance and development plans as great contributions to the...

Is Jeremy Corbyn a 'threat' to British Jews?

Since the election of Jeremy Corbyn as its leader in 2015, Britain's Labour Party has been the target of a sustained campaign to portray it as rife...

Zaman

Ne, beseda ima indoevropsko poreklo in bogato semantično zgodovino ter pomeni "brezuspešno, brez haska". Ker je v teh jezikih veliko turcizmov,...

The dark side of the Nordic model

Scandinavians have it all. Universal public healthcare and education that is the envy of the world. Reasonable working hours with plenty of paid...

Corbyn v. Johnson leaders’ debate is won by… Labour’s Barry Gardiner

As leaders’ debates go (and I’m not a big fan of this particular US import), it wasn’t too bad. The BBC’s Nick Robinson chaired it quite...

Bundesliga sheds boring tag

In recent seasons, the Bundesliga has struggled to deliver a title-race as Bayern Munich have run away with the title year after year. The 2019-20...

'All roads lead to Putin': Impeachment ties Ukraine, Russia

House Democrats are bringing the impeachment focus back to Russia as they draft formal charges against President Donald Trump. Speaker Nancy Pelosi...

Netanyahu Is on His Way to a Plea Deal

Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to a plea deal. This is why he so badly needs “a few months” to negotiate from the position of prime minister. It...

Seoul Chooses to Avoid Confrontation Over GSOMIA

On 23 November 2019, the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) between Japan and South Korea was due to expire, and right up...

Vaping linked to rare lung disease: study

Doctors treating a patient with a rare lung disease usually caused by exposure to industrial metals say it may instead be the first case linked to...

Europe for Europe’s Sake

Oceans finally take center stage at COP25

World leaders are gathered in Madrid through Dec. 13 to negotiate global actions in combating climate change at the 25th Conference of Parties to...

Mohamed Ali, the man from Egypt’s operations room

Mohamed Ali, 45 years old, is an amateur actor whose company was involved in the Egyptian army’s contracting investments for 15 years until a...

Italy’s ‘pacifist’ government steamrolls purchase of 27 more F-35 jets

Commentary. We could never have imagined that a government consisting of the M5S, LeU and PD would give the go-ahead to the F-35 purchases, toeing...

Government Debt Is Not a Free Lunch

CAMBRIDGE – With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced...

Matúš Vallo Zvyšovateľ

Už po necelom roku strávenom vo funkcii sa dočkal prvých plodov svojej činnosti, a tak poslanci ako jeden muž rozhodli, že mu zvýšia plat...

Došlo už aj na Kisku

Už keď polícia vo februári tohto roka obvinila z daňového podvodu konateľa jeho firmy, Kiska spozornel. Tvrdil, že z odôvodnenia obvinenia...

What EU “Geopolitical” Power Will Cost

LONDON – With former German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen assuming the presidency of the European Commission, the European Union now has a...

Hillary hints at Trump grudge match, proving the Democrats are approaching political extinction

With uncanny timing, Hillary Rodham Clinton has hit the international talk show circuit, triggering heated speculation that she may be planning a...

A forbidden Lebanese revolution 

A financial, economic and currency collapse in Lebanon could be a heavy recipe for a crisis, easily escalating to a public rebellion that could...

Whilst Brexit dominates the election campaign, Syria moves into the shadows

General elections are intriguing times in British politics. Parties make headlines with spending commitments, their leaders are constantly on the...

Punitive compensation order

Discipline of banks is starting point for eliminating misleading selling The Financial Supervisory Service has ordered two local banks to pay the...

1519 a iné letopočty

Predstavme si scénu – po prúde rieky Guadalquivir, čo spája Sevillu s morom, sa plaví päť lodí. Čudná to flotila, zložená zo starých,...

Angela Merkel finds the right words during Auschwitz visit

Angela Merkel used her speech at Auschwitz to condemn anti-Semitism. She visited the former Nazi death camp at a time when making a commitment to...

NATO Ups the Military Ante against China and Russia

In the recent foreign ministers level NATO summit held in Brussels, the NATO leaders not only re-affirmed their commitment to the same...

Authority and Regulation in an Interconnected World

This is an excerpt from Reprogramming the World: Cyberspace and the Geography of Global Order. Get your free copy here. In 1975, the United States...

Making Room for Growth in Your Winter Garden

There is a beautiful but brief moment in early August when everything is in bloom and the garden feels full and fulfilled. Plenty is the word that...

Vsaka reka ima dva bregova

Pred leti sem si šel v Phnom Penhu ogledat zapor, v katerem so Rdeči Kmeri mučili in ubijali svoje politične nasprotnike, intelektualce, v do...

You Never Get Lost In This Ancient Exercise

It’s a sunny November day and I have found my meditative spot in the Iowa countryside—a labyrinth tucked into a grove of conifers at the...

Šarcizmi kot dobri amortizerji

‘Na dolgi rok smo vsi mrtvi,« je bil odgovor predsednika vlade Marjana Šarca opozicijskemu voditelju Janezu Janši na tezo, da ta vlada ne bo...

Wait until Trump hears about Europe’s carbon tax

NEW YORK – Next week, the European Union’s leaders will commit to cutting net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. This historic pledge...

The ECB Needs a New Mandate

BERLIN – The European Central Bank’s decision in September to pursue more monetary-policy easing was controversial, with one board...

How China can set the record straight about its GDP figures

Admitting to bigger quarterly ups and downs could highlight need for policy action

Opinion – What the US Exit from the Paris Accords Means for Women

The Trump Administration has officially made good on a promise to exit the Paris Climate Accords by 2020. The Administration also recently announced...