Long fight ahead

There are still loopholes in virus prevention Despite the government's strengthened "social distancing" measures, the new coronavirus is showing...

NK fires missiles yet again

Provocation overshadows 'friendly' letter to President Moon North Korea launched what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles toward the...

How to minimize likely lawsuits from COVID-19

By Chang Se-moon Rightly or wrongly, numerous lawsuits will be filed in many countries affected severely by COVID-19, once the health issues from...

Stop Announcing Israel's Coronavirus Deaths

Stop announcing the deaths from the coronavirus. There’s something very misleading about the nightly recitation of the names of the latest...

As Coronavirus Lurks, Millennials Better Drop the 'Me Me Me'

We’re at war, and it’s not the kind we’ve been preparing for since kindergarten. The enemy of course is the coronavirus, and the means to...

Tax incentives needed to promote recurrent education

Beppu, Oita Pref. – There are no countries in the world that do not wish for eternal prosperity. Nothing can ensure such prosperity except...

Forget social distancing, what's happening is criminal

By Christine Flowers I got an email from the ACLU the other day. I have absolutely no idea how I got on their mailing list, since I've written...

Everyone is responsible

By William Roger Jones Since thoughts are duty-free, I would like to share with you a few of my opinions about what is going on now in the world in...

Mestu a svetu

Cítil, že to mesto Rím i celý svet potrebujú. Veď len v Taliansku denne zomiera na zákernú chorobu okolo 800 ľudí. Na obrovskom...

No, China will not get away with rewriting history

Beijing mainly cares about convincing its domestic audience, not the global one

Coronavirus Has Killed Neoliberalism

It’s obvious that at this point there is no way of assessing the implications of the coronavirus on politics, the economy and society, not globally...

Coronavirus: China can’t suppress it, US military can’t kill it. Covid-19 is the real Godzilla

The central truth to emerge from the Covid-19 outbreak is that all human beings share a common destiny, as it is the first time the whole world has...

Preparing for a post-pandemic world

Politics, people and markets are similar in how they respond to crisis, from natural disaster, to financial slump, to the onset of war. The...

Slavoj Zizek’s Covid-19 lockdown survival guide: Guilty pleasures, Valhalla Murders & pretending it's just a game

Let me begin by a personal confession: I like the idea of being confined to one’s apartment, with all the time to read and work. Even when I travel,...

The Danger of an Economic Collapse in Israel

New restrictions are being imposed on Israel’s population almost daily. At week’s end more drastic measures were announced, restricting people...

Does Netanyahu Really Believe in Democracy? Global Freedom Experts Aren't Sure

With the release of V-Dem’s democracy report last Friday, all the three big democracy rating indexes have published their yearly reports for 2020...

China’s misplaced pandemic propaganda

Claremont, California – Barely a month ago, China was in the grip of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Thousands of new infections were...

Democrats need to unite behind their nominee, whoever he may be

On March 26, as President Donald Trump predicted the nation would get back to normal "pretty quickly", the United States overtook China as the...

UNRWA suspends food aid to Gaza to prevent Covid-19 spread

Report. There are now 97 cases in the Palestinian territories, nine of which are in Gaza. 'We are asking the UN and the international community to...

Female Prosecutor Politicians & Their Love For War

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned,” wrote the playwright,William Congreve in 1697. Though Congreve is long forgotten, his quote has been...

The Three Blind Spots of Leadership in Afghanistan

DISCLAIMER – The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of The...

COVID-19 and the neoliberal state of exception

In late February 2020, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben criticised the Italian media and government for prescribing quarantining and social...

How Iraq's sectarian system came to be

In December 2002, a group of 350 Iraqi opposition politicians gathered for a conference titled "To Save Iraq and Achieve Democracy" in the Hilton...

Scientists must look dispassionately at Covid-19 so they can see what it is, not what they fear: rushed science can be bad science

It is inevitable that the “something must be done” demands to stem the coronavirus are placing immense pressure upon governments and scientists....

Flattening COVID19 curve in developing countries

By Ricardo Hausmann LEE, MASSACHUSETTS ― COVID-19 is ravaging advanced economies such as Italy, France, Spain, and the United States. Beyond the...

Potres

V stanovanju imamo shrambo, dolgo je nismo pospravljali. To je kotiček v devetem nadstropju (novo)zagrebške stolpnice na Sigetu, ki ga redno...

Remembering the ‘Spanish flu’ in Asia

Lexington, Kentucky – The eruption of COVID-19 has focused the attention of the world’s political authorities, but has also made them cognizant...

260,000

By Jason Lim That's supposedly the number of men who paid "Baksa" meaning a Ph.D., up to $1,200 in cryptocurrency to receive a link that would take...

What's essential? In France: pastry, wine. In U.S.: golf, guns

The coronavirus pandemic is defining for the globe what's “essential” and what things we really can't do without, even though we might not need...

South Korea: sex, society and reform

By David Tizzard The recent revelations of a series of privately operated digital chat rooms in which teenagers and young women were operated as "...

Hasty burials during pandemic days

In normal times, mosque yards are crowded for funerals. “Funeral ceremonies are the cocktail parties of the secular” they say, jokingly. But these...

Trump is prioritising the economy over the vulnerable

It is one thing to provide hope during a crisis - it is quite another to address people's fears with empty promises. Unfortunately, US President...

Privileged America on a Permanent Coronavirus Spring Break

The coronavirus crisis exposes America’s inequalities, racism, rotten information sources and compromised morals every single day. President...

Writing a greener story in Asia and the Pacific

Rising economic prosperity and poverty reduction may not tell the whole story of progress in Asia and the Pacific. Telling signs in the natural...

A Devious Elimination

One thing has been troubling me since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s TV interviews last Saturday, when he shared with the public the...

Haaretz Cartoon

State’s credibility at stake over new refusal to probe land sale scandal

The Diet on March 27 enacted the fiscal 2020 budget, designed to finance more than 100 trillion yen ($925 billion) in government spending for the...

Not the High Court’s Place

The High Court of Justice’s aid in ousting Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein will bring the Netanyahu haters temporary gains, such as a speaker of...