Economic risks

Imminent challenges come from US, Japan Korea Inc. is facing greater external risks while it is vividly losing vitality. Japan has removed Korea...

US Seeks to Become World Political Schemers

On an practically daily basis, representatives of the present political élite of Washington and US media voice accusations of Russia, China and...

Translating ‘Queer’ Into (Kyrgyzstani) Russian

This is an excerpt from Sexuality and Translation in World Politics. Get your free copy here. As Gayatri Spivak famously wrote, ‘In every...

Netanyahu Endangers Israel

The rudeness that the government under Benjamin Netanyahu showed congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar is second only to the damage it has...

Trump and Netanyahu Just Broke the Special Relationship Between America and Israel

The historically deep ties that bind the United States and Israel were profoundly damaged Thursday when the government of Israeli Prime Minister...

Israel Presented Tlaib With a Cruel Dilemma: Her Principles or Her Family

Israel was too quick to celebrate Palestinian American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's apparent agreement to send a humanitarian request to visit...

What Trump really gains by calling China a currency manipulator

The Trump administration’s designation of China as a currency manipulator may be more a symbolic move than a substantive one, but it is yet...

Hong Kong's billionaires should give up power to save the city

With failure of arms treaty, powers risk new missile race

LONDON – For those who worried about the risk of the Cold War ending in catastrophe, the early to mid-1980s were the most alarming period since...

China-NK military talks

Pyongyang can become bolder, more aggressive A North Korean delegation, led by Kim Su-gil, director of the General Political Bureau of North...

A better way to teach kids foreign languages

KOBE – The Japan Times recently reported that third-year junior high school students were struggling with aspects of English in a nationwide...

How Home Office makes millions a week from outsourcing visas to Dubai-based firm accused of exploitation

The Home Office has increased its profit on UK visas by millions of pounds a week since outsourcing visa operations to a Dubai-based firm that...

Turkey & the US: Far from Allies in Syria

The recent agreement between the US and Turkey regarding the creation of a “safe-zone” in Syria notwithstanding, the underlying divergence of...

Democracies in danger

By Ngaire Woods OXFORD ― By abruptly revoking the special, constitutionally protected status of Jammu and Kashmir, India has become the latest...

Hong Kong for China

By Mahmood Elahi Decisions in China are taken by the president and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CCCPC), in consultation...

No one left to speak for me

By Chang Se-moon I am sure that you all heard of the statement, "No one left to speak for me," although you may not be aware of the story behind...

Opium addiction in Korea's past

William Franklin Sands, an American adviser to the Korean Government, posed in Korean clothing circa 1900s. Robert Neff Collection By Robert Neff...

Democrats at war with peace

By Jay Ambrose Heaven help us, because politics surely isn't. Now we have two Democratic presidential candidates saying that a white policeman was...

Pakistan: Prime Minister I. Khan Visits the US

There was an atmosphere of euphoria in Pakistan, and flattering epithets met Prime Minister Imran Khan during his official visit to Washington in...

Británia do recesie?

Niektorí odporcovia tvrdého brexitu sa domnievajú, že zverejnenie má pomôcť premiérovi Borisovi Johnsonovi pri nátlaku na európskych...

Israel’s Illegal Deportation of 13-year-old Child

With determination, expediency and callousness, 13-year-old Rohan, who is Israeli by circumstance, was deported from Israel, where he was born and...

Transitional justice in Korea

By Jason Lim As I write this column, Korea is celebrating the beginning of its Liberation Day, which, once again, has become all about Japan. In a...

Nerovnosť v praxi

S babami bola vždy kopa problémov, ktorýkoľvek klasik z dlhých uplynulých storočí potvrdí. A najväčšie problémy nastali vtedy, keď sa...

“Blackwashing Google”

The media is filled with attacks on Google Corporation and “whistleblowers” who now tell us that Google has just begun interfering in politics...

What some people would do for wood

Korean children and oxen with wood, circa 1903. Robert Neff Collection By Robert Neff The life of a wood merchant in the late 19th and early 20th...

Clash of cultures in Berlin highlights choice facing the Bundesliga

RB Leipzig poured cold water all over Union Berlin's big day in the Bundesliga, routing the newcomers 4-0. The meeting of two very different clubs...

The World is Angry

I haven’t done a comparative study, but it’s probably safe to say that rarely has there been so much anger during relatively ‘peaceful’ times,...

Tlaib and Omar Make Things Clear About South Africa’s Successor

Two American lawmakers helped reveal the truth about Israel to their country and the world. Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar should be...

Meet Donald Trump’s Most Desperate Sycophant: Benjamin Netanyahu

It’s official. Benjamin Netanyahu is Donald Trump’s poodle. >> Subscribe for just $1 now For those unfamiliar with the reference, Yossi Beilin was...

As arms treaty fails, big powers risk new missile race

For those who worried about the risk of the Cold War ending in catastrophe, the early- to mid-1980s were the most alarming period since the 1962...

The Many Humiliations of Sex Segregation

For a few years now I’ve been breaking all the secular-liberal-feminist laws and teaching women-only classes, on the sly. Why? Because I believe...

Politika za poletne dni

Že nekaj časa brskam po podstrešju neke domačije. Hiša ni posebno stara, dobrega pol stoletja. A na policah, odmaknjenih od oči in bivalnih...

Re-shelve civil rights, we need something stronger today

An American presidential candidate once told a story about an American general, John J Pershing, in the Philippineswho supposedly dipped bullets...

In Israel, a Bad Taste of Coercion by the Left

The director of Israeli reality chose to end the story of the concert in Afula in a very original and wise way. Both sides claimed victory. The...

How Israel Can Deter Iran

Hezbollah is said to have 130,000 rockets that could reach all of Israel, with Hamas possessing thousands of rockets that could cover southern and...

President Hernandez must end repression of protests in Honduras

For over a month, Eblin Noel Corea Maradiaga's family kept watch over his grave. They took shifts and even installed a light bulb above his...

New guidelines spell disaster for language skills in high schools

Japanese language education in Japan is the featured subject of recent issues of "Subaru" and "Bungakukai," both monthly literary magazines. Under...

Trump moving to make immigration whiter, wealthier

The Trump administration is on a course to remake the face of immigration in America in ways that would turn it whiter and wealthier. It is a...

US-Turkey Showdown on Kurdish Security Zone

We have all been here before. Turkey has troops lined up on the Syrian northeast border and announced it will proceed alone with its incursion...

US Meddling Continues in Cambodia, But With Setbacks

Two Cambodian employees of US government-funded “Radio Free Asia” (RFA) face espionage charges for continuing to work for the foreign...

China And the Zombies Of The Past

The hybrid war, being conducted against China by the United States and its gaggle of puppet states from the UK to Canada to Australia, has entered...