+ (POGLED) Domovinsko pravico le trobilom in brezumju

Po basni o medijih premiera Janeza Janše novele ministra Vaska Simonitija ne presenečajo. Žanre oba rutinersko obvladata - tako po tehniki kot...

+ (POGLED) Kako živeti s pandemijo

Znanstveniki, vlade in izvedenci za javno zdravje se zaradi krize, ki jo je povzročila pandemija covida-19, še bolj trudijo razumeti odnos med...

U.S. forces must share info on virus cases with local officials

U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture have been hit by an outbreak of COVID-19 cases, prompting the U.S. military to lock down two Marine Corps...

Haaretz Cartoon

Fire goddess will judge if museum conveys message of Ainu culture

Toru Kaizawa, 61, who runs a traditional Ainu wood carving workshop in Nibutani, Hokkaido, still remembers one night from his long-ago childhood....

Mrtve ideje!

‘Ukaz št. 35: Nenadoma se je izkazalo, da je rdeča večerna zarja državi nevarna. Zato se zapre večerna zarja vsakokrat, ko se bo prikazala, v...

Belarusian Tales: Chernobyl’s Impact on Belarus and More

Both among the authorities and the opposition, there are good and bad people, there is no dividing line between them. That was also obvious in...

Israel regrets withdrawing from Gaza

In 2005, the Israeli army began withdrawing from the Gaza Strip as part of the unilateral disengagement plan, and with this anniversary many...

Russia in the Antarctic: 200 Years since the Discovery of the Continent

The ice-covered continent, Antarctica, spanning the Earth’s South Pole is rarely covered in news reports. For now, policies of the world’s...

Iran: a Historical Crime Committed by the United States

In the life of any nation there are painful dates that cause the entire nation to grieve, despite the long passage of time. This kind of sorrowful,...

Australia’s Defense Strategic Update and Force Structure Plan

In a major speech delivered in Canberra on June 30, Prime Minister of Australia Scott Morrison announced plans to overhaul “Australia’s defense...

Israel: COVID-19 Surge Puts Political Squeeze on Bibi

“With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.” – Otto von Bismark, German Chancellor,...

China's aggression is undermining its tech giants' global ambitions

ByteDance, Alibaba and others will face pushback from US as they try to expand

George Galloway: UK ban on Huawei is national self-harm. China’s riposte could devastate the ailing British economy

The British economy fell by 20 percent in the last quarter, a bell which tolled on the very day the government announced a raft of moves which can...

Zoom and The Voice Could Save the Center-left – and Israeli Democracy

Traditional political parties have been supplanted by empty shells serving the needs of their authoritarian leaders

Making the wearing of face masks compulsory is inconsistent, illogical, illiberal & divisive

Boris Johnson's government in Westminster has performed a sharp U-turn and announced that wearing face masks will now be compulsory in shops in...

Česká Pandorina skrinka

Slovensku patrí 25. miesto, jedno miesto pred nami je Maďarsko, za nami Chorvátsko. Na najvyššej priečke stojí Island. Českí politici sú...

Za všetko môže bulvárna politizácia, tvrdí Gröhling

„Čo bolo, to bolo! Terazky som majorom!“ hovoril Pavel Landovský vo filmovej komédii Čierni baróni. Takými hrdinami, ako bol major Haluška,...

Are Trident nukes the best way to spend £205bn with a massive financial crisis ahead of us?

Coronavirus has given the global economy a real kick in the teeth, with many countries seeing large swathes of their national economies grind to a...

In the world of ETHNOMATHEMATICS, 2+2=oppression and ‘achievement’ is a white supremacist construct

The ultra-woke educators of Seattle have pioneered the ‘decolonialization’ of education, in the process managing to defeat the purpose of...

Journalist Mohamed Mounir: Egypt’s Khashoggi died with the saw of coronavirus

“When I die, I hope that my biography will include just one line: Mohamed Mohamed Mounir Youssef participated in the revolution of January 25...

Trump and Putin by the Book

MOSCOW – We are increasingly ruled not by people but by characters. Donald Trump’s reality-show presidency or Vladimir Putin’s cartoon...

Israel’s annexation plan, not Turkey’s Hagia Sophia move, undermines regional peace 

Veteran journalist Dr Bora Bayraktar greeted his audiences to the Hagia Sophia by saying, “Welcome to the heart of the world.” His views have...

A Doomed Middle-East Peace

TEL AVIV – Twenty years ago this month, US President Bill Clinton invited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestine Liberation Organization...

COVID-19: El camino que tenemos por delante

Pocas cosas debieran poner más en valor la necesidad de solidaridad, colaboración y coordinación globales que una pandemia. Debiera ser una...

The racist double standards of international development

Year after year, the luminaries of international development, from Bill Gates to Jim Kim, Nick Kristof to Steven Pinker, line up to tell us about...

The EU still needs US help for a Serbia-Kosovo deal

It would not be a stretch to say that Europe has now given up on US President Donald Trump. Not that long ago, leaders across the pond held some...

The fight for DACA is not over

On June 19, DACA recipients across the country erupted in celebration. The United States Supreme Court struck down the Trump administration's...

Who are the real racists? The woke mob tries to redefine racism to hide their own bigotry

Racism is an evil thing. People who are branded with that title are given a massive scarlet letter, and are generally cast out of civil society....

The Politics of a COVID-19 Vaccine

NEW YORK – The global toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is enormous: more than a half-million lives lost, hundreds of millions out of work, and...

Biden will seek to extend the narrative that Israel is being ‘singled out’ 

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden may try to sustain the fable that he is an alternative to current US President Donald Trump, but for...

Escollos

Los asesores financieros suelen diferenciar entre inversiones en valores de poco riesgo pero con bajos rendimientos, de aquellos con mayor riesgo...

COVID-19 threatens sexual health of Africa´s women

More HIV-infected and unwanted pregnant women in Africa are feared by Evelyn Samba from the German Foundation for World Population. States invested...

Saving the Iran Nuclear Deal

BRUSSELS – Five years ago this week in Vienna, the P5 1 (the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany) and Iran...

Pandemic poster boy Rishi Sunak is being tipped to succeed BoJo. Are British people ready to vote for a BAME prime minister?

If anyone can be said to have enjoyed a good pandemic, it is wonderboy chancellor Rishi Sunak. But talk of him being a shoo-in as Britain’s next...

There’s no reprieve from the haters on holiday for right-wing activist Tommy Robinson. But should there be?

Nothing beats the feeling of finishing work and knowing your holidays have begun. Whether it’s to lounge around at home, dragging yourself out of...

Introducing Kanye Derangement Syndrome: Chance the Rapper asks why Joe Biden would be better than Yeezy… and the left goes crazy

Since Kanye West announced his intention to run for president, numerous theories have been thrown out by talking heads in an effort to make sense...

The Iranians Are Lulling Israel's Leaders to Sleep

Iran aims to entrench its deployment of missiles around us and is avoiding creating tension before the job is done. Meanwhile, Israel's army and...

How Would Black Economists Change Economics?

Egypt and Somalia had warm relations in the past, but now it is lukewarm at best

Ambiguity, tension and possible escalation surround the future of Egypt-Somalia relations due to the latter’s unclear position on the Grand...

Time for Japan to present a credible energy policy

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Japanese government has provided massive fiscal support, hoping that economic activities would return...

COVID-19 fear will keep the world in a slump

New York – To date, the economic damage wrought by the pandemic has been mostly hidden by massive government subsidy. That’s about to change. And...

Erdogan is erasing Ataturk’s stamp on Turkey

New York – Under normal circumstances, the most important news out of Turkey last weekend would have been a new law that, critics say, represents...

Are riots ever justifiable?

The upside of a new cold war with China

New York – The American founders believed that prolonged rivalry and conflict abroad would eventually degrade the country’s democracy at home....