Netanyahu, Don’t Drag Your Trial Out

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Ramallah’s attempt at independence, at least in healthcare

Reportage. Palestine has already begun to reduce its dependence on Israeli hospitals. But cutting ties is easier said than done: developing the...

‘Civic assistants’ would be victims of Italy’s forced labor regime

Commentary. The semantic fraud that is Italy’s ‘citizenship income’ has birthed a new idea to push people into ‘civic assistant’ roles,...

A tap of a finger on a smartphone can destroy someone’s life

From the 1980s through the 1990s, a serial TV show titled "Neruton Benikujira-dan" aired in Japan. Now that I think about it, this was probably the...

+ (GLOBALNA ARENA) Zakaj je tokrat drugače?

Kako se bo končala sedanja megakriza zaradi covida-19? Tega ne vem niti jaz niti nihče drug. Zato je verjetno bolj koristno, da razmislimo, kako se...

LG's relocation overseas

What have relevant officials done to keep manufacturers at home? The Gumi branch of the Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) staged a...

Truths about Gwangju

By Donald Kirk Details about what happened at Gwangju during those terrible days from May 18 through May 27, 1980, remain elusive four decades...

Saving Han Myeong-sook

By Park Moo-jong On Aug. 25, 2015, about 150 people, including several lawmakers of the then opposition party, held a "ceremony" to see off a...

End of Europe's Chinese dream

By Mark Leonard BERLIN ― A paradigm shift is taking place in relations between the European Union and China. The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a...

Learning to Live with COVID-19

OXFORD/PORTO ALEGRE – One of COVID-19’s paradoxes has been the way in which some wealthy, high-capacity countries (particularly the United States...

If the US doesn’t respond to Iran’s challenge, its reputation is on the line

Fully-loaded Iranian oil tankers roam the oceans of the world and pass through strategic straits and waterways heading for two main destinations:...

Will the lives of people in the Middle East ever really matter to the West?

In the three months that countries around the world have imposed widescale lockdowns that paralysed their economies and decimated trade, we have...

Value of telehealth in response to COVID-19

By Ann Mond Johnson The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) was formed by trailblazing researchers, clinicians and academicians over 25 years...

Trump Is dragging dead woman through mud

By Dick Polman Timothy Klausutis, an innocent American who was despicably victimized on social media this month by Donald Trump, has written an...

Dealing with disruptive dislocations

By Michael Czinkota The global uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus disruption intensifies. Questions of human safety and business continuity...

‘Bill Gates is the most interesting man in the world’! He gives millions to MSM to laud his aims, while the NYT does it for FREE

Bill Gates has been getting an awful lot of press lately. Which might be considered odd since the planet is currently in the grip of an actual...

Hostarji, kolesarji in kultura à la Tomčeva

Z Janezom Janšo se strinjam. Vsaj v eni točki. Čas je, da po 75 letih zapustimo hoste in se družno podamo na pot postmodernega razvoja....

Contact tracing apps in Italy won’t work if no one downloads them

Analysis. Contact tracing apps that use the DP-3T algorithm are private. But experts wonder if they’re even useful, since they are only effective...

Liza

For his short film Liza, the French animator Bastien Dupriez aimed to create ‘a kind of visual transcription’ of the George Gershwin song Liza...

The trolley problem problem

Much recent work in analytic philosophy pins its hopes on learning from imaginary cases. Starting from seminal contributions by philosophers such...

China's virus diplomacy: Global savior or 'Wolf Warrior'?

China has played two roles in the global battle against the coronavirus: a benevolent donor of aid, filling the US void, and combative superpower...

Cooperate with China or Suffer

HONG KONG – As governments worldwide confront the terrible choice between saving lives from COVID-19 and protecting people’s livelihoods,...

Who Has the World’s Largest Economy?

CAMBRIDGE – The World Bank’s International Comparison Program has just released its latest measures of price levels and GDP across 176 countries,...

In the West - Propaganda, Hysteria and Truly Foul Breath!

If it wasn’t so tragic, it would be laughable: the political brigands in North America and Europe are fuming, spitting and rolling their eyes...

Hana Kimura's death highlights Japan's poor approach to mental health

Cyberbullying, stigma and lack of resources combine to drive up suicide rate

Twitter needs Trump more than Trump needs Twitter: Why @realDonaldTrump should do a Joe Rogan to punish the social media giant

Joe Biden was bang on the money when he recently christened Donald Trump with the nickname “President Tweety.” The president’s social media...

Three ways Congress can save the U.S. economy

New York – The U.S. economy desperately needs help. Unemployment, already at the highest level since the Great Depression, is expected to get...

Opinion – Updating the 1951 Convention for Refugees

The 1951 Refugee Convention is required to be amended so that “climate refugees” are given a place within the gamut of the refugee law regime.

Nácko numerológom

Čím vibrujú hodnoty uvedené na šekoch, ktoré rozdával Marian Kotleba ako župan v Banskej Bystrici vybraným rodinám? Ezoteriky v nich...

It is time for the US to end its deadly exchange programmes with Israel

Yet another brutal killing of a black American by law enforcement officers has hit the headlines, especially on social media. George Floyd, 46, was...

Grand Trianon Tours

Komu zostane trochu sily, odšúcha sa radšej k Malému Trianonu, ktorý bol akýmsi vidieckym sídlom manželky Ľudovíta XVI., Rakúšanky Márie...

Japanese companies must stop gloating about cash-hoarding

They should have been returning money to shareholders instead of letting it pile up for a rainy day

Mike Cernovich’s HOAXED exposes mainstream media’s relentless BIAS – but deploys same partisan tricks it says it hates

Hoaxed , the movie about the fake news phenomena in the mainstream media, produced by right-wing firebrand Mike Cernovich, has not generated much...

Ministerská anketka o minimálnych mzdách

Pán minister by rád pomohol firmám udržať ľudí, a tak zvažuje zmrazenie najmenších platov. Tie totiž majú na budúci rok vyskočiť...

Saudi Arabia and its Uncertain Future

The unprecedented scale of the Coronavirus pandemic; the sudden fall in oil prices, caused by Riyadh’s incompetent policies, and the looming...

New Evidence of US Ties to Terrorists in the Middle East

Globally, it is widely believed that the United States tends to use terrorist organizations as hired guns in order to pursue its own interests all...

Weak economy threatens China’s one-party system

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has admitted the country faces major challenges. It is struggling to keep its economic growth up. DW's Dang Yuang argues...

No podemos bajar la cortina

Estos días se ha escuchado mucho sobre el impacto del COVID-19 en la hotelería y sobre todos esos hoteles que han cerrado y yo no estoy de acuerdo...

Is dividing Libya a possible compromise to end the conflict?

Since 2011, Libya’s territorial integrity and future has never been so deeply intertwined with the fate of one person, as it stands now. In 2011,...

Moscow has secret Covid-19 CURE for chosen elite: Western media’s favorite Russian pundit voices new conspiracy theory

A handful of Russian ‘experts’ frame the narrative in the US/UK media. The most widely featured include Tatyana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Center...

AFRICOM's gambit: Why a US military command is waging a ‘media war’ on Americans

Most countries in the world divide their own territory in military areas of responsibility. Not so the US, whose combatant commands span the entire...

Brits are happy to carry out regime change abroad, but millennia of monarchy have made us weak and subservient at home

Another week, another posh English bloke accused of wrongdoing, another flicking away of public opinion like a fly from a tweed jacket. Another...

The impact of compensation politics on Japan’s defense

Pyeongtaek, South Korea – Despite COVID-19 dominating headlines, the decision on where to place Aegis Ashore in Japan once again made the news...

Russian Derangement Syndrome

EASTERN SHORE, MARYLAND – On May 21, the US Department of State announced a $250,000 grant for “Exposing Russian Health Disinformation,” to...

Russian and Turkish involvement connects the crises in Syria and Libya

There have been frequent reports that Russia has transferred a fleet of MiG-29s and two Sukhoi 24s from Hmeimim on the Syrian coast to Al-Jafra in...

Race war or bust? MSM smothers racial unity over police killing of Minneapolis man by reminding blacks & whites to hate each other

Liberals and conservatives alike were horrified on Monday by a widely-circulated Facebook video showing a white police officer choking an unarmed,...

Netanyahu pushes for West Bank annexation in his fight to avoid jail. But he is setting the Middle East on fire

Even Israeli security chiefs are increasingly alarmed by Netanyahu’s push to expand the country’s borders. In a dubious historic first this week,...

Taiwan's success in containing the virus should be a lesson passed on

The new coronavirus pandemic has provoked an international debate on what kind of political system is best equipped for the battle against this...