Why don’t we get rid of families and cash? Soros-funded progressive globalists using Covid-19 to push own ‘technocratic solutions’

Under the time-honored rubric of "never let a good crisis go to waste," the usual suspects have come out of the woodwork to tout their favored "...

Litzman, Go Home Now

It’s difficult to imagine a clearer expression of the cynicism and disrespect for Israelis that characterizes the establishment of the new...

A Palestinian guide to surviving a quarantine: On faith, humour and 'Dutch Candy'

Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all...

How to prevent outbreaks of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19

By now billions of people around the world are following advice to practise social distancing and "shelter at home" to prevent the alarming spread...

Brad Roberts

China's push to develop intermediate- and medium-range missiles is a growing security concern for nations in Northeast Asia. Meeting this challenge...

Haaretz Cartoon

Building on Ruins or Patching up the Possible? Reinscribing Fieldwork Failure in IR as a Productive Rupture

This is an excerpt from Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations. Get your free copy from E-International...

The Lessons Dictatorships Teach Us on the Coronavirus State of Emergency

In her book “Illness as Metaphor” (1978), the essayist and cultural critic Susan Sontag objected to the demonization of cancer, calling it just...

Shut the door on the North’s cyberarmy

Washington – Several times last month North Korea launched a handful of short-range ballistic missiles in defiance of the international...

Coronavirus Plus Oil Crash Could Cost Israel and Iran Their Key Gulf State Contact

The streets of Muscat, Oman’s capital, are strangely quiet. Public transport, places of worship, tourism sites, gyms, malls and beauty salons...

COVID-19 and the 'curb-cut effect'

In nearly every White House press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic through the first week of March, healthy young members of the general public...

Coronavirus has exposed the diseased heart of the global economy

Many non-Americans (and likely many Americans) would have been amazed at the dirty linen being aired on global news networks over the past...

World Bank's 'third shock' threatens to reverse Asia's economic progress

After trade war and COVID-19, continent-wide recession would put millions into poverty

Pandemics and the G20: One last shot at relevance

Canberra – The Diamond Princess was quarantined in February in Yokohama for a month. On March 19, the Ruby Princess was permitted to dock in...

In the world’s informal economy, there’s no shelter from the virus

Kuala Lumpur – Locking down India for 21 days may slow the spread of the new coronavirus, but it’s quickening the misery of the hundreds of...

Treasures along the river: The two brothers

The monument at night ― looking toward the Haengju Mountain Fortress. Robert Neff Collection, December 2017 By Robert Neff When out riding along...

What Might Have Been Lost: Fieldwork and the Challenges of Translation

This is an excerpt from Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations. Get your free copy from E-International...

Silver lining in pandemic

Korea can help other countries fight coronavirus The government is still struggling to contain the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak here. Confirmed...

Náš štvrtý apríl

Paradoxne pandémia vyriešila spor o kontroverznom rozhodnutí mestskej samosprávy spred niekoľkých rokov organizovať 4. apríla oficiálne...

Midterm evaluation

Election should be battleground for new visions Only nine days are left before the April 15 general election in the unprecedented situation of...

O zhnitej mrkve a kultúre v čase koronakrízy

Uťahovala si zo situácie, keď esesáci nútili tých, čo boli ešte „k dispozícii“, odvláčať mŕtvoly do pekla. Ženy boli schopné...

Midterm evaluation

Election should be battleground for new visions Only nine days are left before the April 15 general election in the unprecedented situation of...

Oldest border in the world

By Mark Peterson The fifth point on my top 10 list of evidence for calling Korean history peaceful and stable is the nature of the border with...

Pastors who continue to risk lives deserve jail

Scientific research suggests that prayer has the power to calm the mind, increase resistance to temptation and make people happier. One thing...

Worthy paycheck fight

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. If you have been out to dinner with South Koreans, it is likely that you have arrived at The Paycheck Moment (TPM): Who will...

China and America are failing pandemic test

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― COVID-19 is confronting humanity with its most severe test since 1918, when an influenza pandemic killed more...

What can I do?

By William Roger Jones In these times of travail and vexation causing sorrow, pain and suffering one may ask: "What can I do?" I submit that...

Coronavirus has lit the fuse on a time bomb in China’s economy: debt

The coronavirus outbreak has already taken a great toll on the Chinese economy, with all headline readings pointing towards a record slowdown in...

Can We Trust the WHO?

The most influential organization in the world with nominal responsibility for global health and epidemic issues is the United Nations’ World...

The crucial future of power-sharing in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan Should Focus more on Coronavirus!

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

Even During the Coronavirus Crisis, Netanyahu Spurns Us 'non-Jews'

The non-Arab prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, never misses an opportunity to prove how racist and petty he is, even during these days of deep...

Covid-19: Restoring trust in government is key to addressing panic buying

Amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis, the phenomenon of panic buying has gone full circle. As the pandemic spreads, panic buying that started in Hong...

Sistem, ki mu ni mar za življenja

Seveda, primarno smo zdaj zazrti v medicinsko znanost. V velikem upanju čakamo novice o odrešitvi v obliki cepiva ali učinkovitega zdravljenja....

Za domovino s Hojsom naprej

Spoštovani gospod minister Aleš Hojs, moram priznati, da že od vsega začetka pozorno spremljam vaš neutruden, požrtvovalen in, rekel bi,...

AI Arms Race: Future of Warfare

The truth about artificial intelligence (AI) and the process of machine learning (algorithms which learn on their own rather than perform tasks...

Smisel politike

Na kratko je predstavil največje nevarnosti epidemije in njene najbolj občutljive žrtve – tiste z vojnih območij, begunce, ranjene, lačne in...

Mr Bennett, don't teach us lessons about humanity

In response to a humanitarian appeal launched by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza to obtain $23 million in urgent aid, in addition to...

Bravo President Moon!

By David Tizzard A few months ago, the success of BTS and Bong Joon-ho's movie Parasite were the latest South Korean exports to be lauded in the...

Globalized Authoritarianism: The Expansion of the Chinese Surveillance Apparatus

In recent debates on the globalization of authoritarianism, China is considered one of the central, if not the single most important actor....

Israel's Anti-annexation Warriors Should Simply Surrender

Kahol Lavan’s Benny Gantz faction will not give up their last stronghold. Its leaders will fight it until the last drop of blood (except, of...

The Battle Over Knesset Control Is a Test of Gantz's Power

Acute disappointment was the response to initial reports that Benny Gantz was going to be the Knesset speaker. The feeling was that “his true...

Domestic workers in Middle East risk abuse amid COVID-19 crisis

Governments around the world have imposed restrictions on movements of citizens to counter the threat of COVID-19 and limit its spread. But for...

Boosting resilience to COVID-19

Geneva – More than 180 countries and territories have confirmed at least one case of the coronavirus, and the number of cases worldwide has...

How to design a lockdown

Brussels – As governments introduce social distancing rules of varying strictness to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of how long these...

The shape of a Japan-U.K. free trade agreement

After a series of delays, the United Kingdom left the European Union at the end of January. While Tokyo never wanted to see Brexit happen, it now...

Covid-19 conspiracy theories are spreading faster than the virus

Analysis. Conspiracy theories are based on unreliable mechanisms for interpreting reality, and are not always the result of holding false beliefs....