Their Lives Are Worth Less

On Thursday, two more names were added to the growing list of construction worker deaths in Israel. The first of these was Xia Zheng Long, 44, of...

The distribution revolution

HIKONE, SHIGA PREF. - The domestic market for internet shopping has been growing steadily at an annual rate of nearly 10 percent, according to a...

Huawei in Central Europe: From “Strategic Partner” to Potential Threat

Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) came back to the center of the global debate on Huawei with the recent Prague 5G Security Conference’s emphasis on...

Poland's Militant Nationalists Are Targeting Scholars of the Holocaust, With Help From an Israeli Historian

Nationalist Poland's 'official history' of the Holocaust is based on the myth of Polish national innocence - and the state and its proxies have...

US-China trade war: here are Beijing’s options – and not one looks any good

From the volume of bellicose rhetoric in China’s state media, you might think Beijing is digging in for a bloody fight to the finish in its trade...

A Police Force of and for All Citizens

There needs to be public discussion of the relations between the police and Arab citizens. Recently there has been a string of murder cases in Arab...

There is one clear winner in Philippine midterm elections: Rodrigo Duterte’s popularity

Five points stand out to me from the just-concluded Philippine midterm elections, particularly its main event: the Senate race.First, the polls...

The Senkaku paradox

WASHINGTON - By strong and deep bipartisan agreement, America’s national security community is now focused on the risks of war against Russia or...

Austria's far-right show their true colors

The audacity and arrogance of Austria's far-right led to their premature undoing. DW's Barbara Wesel sees the FPÖ scandal as a warning for...

Eurovision demonstrates the power of empathy

This year's Eurovision Song Contest entries varied from a call to action to end capitalism to pure party songs. The winner won on a personal note,...

Shame on You, Germany

Germany, Shame on You and Your anti-BDS Resolution

The Deadly Consequences of a Dead-on-arrival Trump Mideast Peace Plan

When the U.S. ambassador states 'Israel is on the side of God,' he's voicing in off-base terms the Trump administration's one-sided support for...

One son and four daughters

By Hyon O'Brien When I was engaged to be married to Tim in 1968, he casually mentioned that he would like to have 17 children. Of course, I ignored...

Tales of corruption don’t even shock us anymore

Commentary. Lega is trying to sell the image of a party that has cleaned up its act after 20 years of them and Berlusconi being thick as thieves....

Proroctvá eurofóbov

Čo sa, prirodzene, berie ako dôkaz vyššie uvedeného. A dôvod osekávať všetko až na holú kosť. A tak ďalej. Európska krajná a...

Israel Claims Victory After Germany's BDS Ban at the Expense of Minimizing the Holocaust

The Bundestag has equated the boycott calls of an anti-occupation organization to those heard in 1930s Germany. The move is a coup for the Israeli...

Is there a way out of the U.S.-China trade fight?

The United States and China have been trading punches over trade for months. And the slugfest has only intensified this month. Claiming that the...

Thank You Iceland for Disrupting the Big Eurovision Deception

Singapore's timely peace plea to avenging superpowers

Dajte pokoj Delonovi

Fackoval ženy, podporoval Národný front Jeana-Marieho le Pena, útočil na homosexuálov, je rasista. Delon to ani veľmi nepopiera. Aj viacerí...

A Civilizational Clash Isn’t the Way to Frame US Competition With China

Directors of policy planning at the U.S. Department of State aren’t normally headline-makers. At least that used to be the case, until Kiron...

Vrata severa

Navajen pravilnih krožnih ciklusov letnih časov organizem možganom pošilja čudne signale - ne zbujaj se, ne vstajaj iz postelje, nimaš kam,...

Zala in Gašper v Evropi brez težnosti

Zdaj pa spat, so bile besede na trenutke zabavnega komentatorja Andreja Hoferja na prvi polfinalni večer letošnjega Evrosonga. Pripomba je bila...

Trump’s anti-Huawei measures will hurt not just China, but US too

Analysis. Trump wants to hit Huawei even at the price of hurting some American companies. His plan is to smoke China out by taking advantage of its...

Pridne roke: kako ravnati z zastavo

Toda kaj pravzaprav pomeni, če se vsak dan pred zastavo sprehajamo v spodnjem perilu ali še huje, počnemo druge stvari, ki praviloma sodijo med...

Marjan Donald Šarec Trump

Ko bom velik, bom Marjan Šarec, bi si verjetno rekel Donald Trump, če bi spremljal politično dogajanje v Sloveniji in bi vedel, da namerava...

Should the Eurovision Song Contest be politicized?

Orthodox rabbis and pro-Palestine activists are fiercely critical of the Eurovision Song Contest this year in Israel. But most people just want to...

Arab Emancipation and the Liberation of Palestine

The Palestinian problem finds its roots in the downfall of the Ottoman Empire, one of a series of catastrophic map-changing events associated with...

Proletarci Slovenije in Hrvaške, združite se!

Pred slabimi tremi stoletji, komaj je v Ameriko prišla novica o francoski meščanski revoluciji, so mizarji v Filadelfiji začeli stavko s pogumno,...

Zmagoslavje preteklosti

V zadnjem desetletju je nastala prava množica besedil, ki stanja in pojave v sodobni evropski družbi prepričljivo in upravičeno primerjajo s...

The exciting season the Bundesliga needed

The Bundesliga season is over, and although Bayern Munich have won the title for the seventh consecutive time, DW's Jonathan Harding thinks this...

Services: Performance of the future

Services have outperformed the economic leverage of manufacturing. The growth not only changes the structure and composition of economic activities...

'New economics' - the way to save the planet?

The science is in: the endless pursuit of economic growth is devouring the foundations of life on Earth, and no country – rich or poor – can...

Timelessness of Doris Day's ‘Que Sera Sera’ in a league of its own

Numerous buzzwords appeared in Japan between 1956 and 1961. Here are some examples: "Taiyo-zoku," which derived from "Taiyo no Kisetsu" (Season of...

Long-form journalism is the future of print

NEW YORK - Journalism is in trouble. Writers of articles pointing this out typically argue that this is really bad for democracy or America or...

Ignore the bravado, a US-China trade deal is still possible. But it’ll take a Xi-Trump one-on-one

DOOM AND GLOOM are clouding the China-United States trade relationship once more. Until two weeks ago, both Beijing and Washington had been saying...

Israel’s threat to world peace

Headlines this week about an apparent rift between top British and US military officers over Iran were a reminder of just how embedded the UK’s...

Israel’s brutal military occupation continues to crush West Bank Palestinians

During the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Israel. Fifty-two years later this brutal military occupation...

The assassination of Palestinian memory: Another tool of ethnic cleansing

While Israel was celebrating its independence day earlier this week, I heard two anecdotes. One story was related to me by Jerusalemite friends...

Israel is ‘weaponising culture’, erasing Palestinian history with Eurovision

Calls to boycott this year’s Eurovision song contest have focused on Israel’s brutal occupation. Mercury Prize-winning rock band Wolf Alice,...

Discrimination, division and demolitions: Life as a Palestinian citizen of Israel

Palestinian citizens of Israel – who number around 1.8 million people and amount to just over 20 per cent of Israel’s population – are often...