Fiscal Money Can Make or Break the Euro

ATHENS – It’s a curious feeling to watch your plan being deployed to do the opposite of what you intended. And that’s the feeling I’ve had...

The World Is Running Out of Time

WASHINGTON, DC – In 2015, the international community launched a renewed effort to tackle collective global challenges under the auspices of the...

US will not ‘stumble into’ war with Iran by mistake. If it happens, it will be by design

Last week, Donald Trump pinned the blame for the attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman squarely on Iran. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,...

Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong to be released from prison today – party

JOSHUA Wong, the student leader who became the face of Hong Kong's "Umbrella Movement" democracy protests nearly five years ago, will be released...

Masked Men: The Ugly and the Beautiful

Fawzi Ibrahim bequeathed courage to his sons, against his will and theirs: The courage to oppose the continued theft of their land by the Jewish...

By Demonizing BDS, Germany Is Betraying the Fight Against anti-Semitism

The Bundestag mixed up the struggle against anti-Semitism with support for the most right-wing, populist government ever to rule Israel. Will...

Hong Kong extradition protests: ‘one country, two systems’ is good for business – and for Beijing

Demonstrations, tear gas and rubber bullets on the streets. You can see why the business community is in a flap. At first glance the events of the...

Lindsey Graham, America's Most Unlikely Campaigner Against Israeli Annexation

Now the anti-annexation, pro-two state 'resistance' has been joined even by the fiercely pro-Israel Trump confident and loyal Netanyahu ally...

Colau keeps Barcelona, and Madrid goes to PP with help from Vox

Analysis. The Catalan mayor Ada Colau accepts the support of Manuel Valls to remain in her seat, while the capital changes hands. written by Luca...

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U.S. Anti-pinkwashing Activists Don't See LGBTQ Israelis as Real People

This year, like last year, I slathered on layers of sunscreen, threw on my group’s wine-colored t-shirt, stocked up on bottled water and headed out...

China stays mum as Hong Kong protests extradition bill

CHINESE state media remained largely silent as an estimated two million Hong Kong people took to the streets Sunday to protest an extradition bill,...

Expanding paternity leave in Southeast Asia

STATUTORY rights to maternity leave are available to working women in 185 countries, but only 78 offer statutory rights to paternity leave. Nordic...

Competing visions about civilian rule make any agreement in Sudan unlikely

Historians and political scientists who have followed recent events in Sudan closely will point to the irony of the current dispute between the...

China risks killing the Hong Kong golden goose

Has Trump painted himself into Israel’s corner over war with Iran?

Is America preparing to go to war with Iran? This is the question dominating discussions around dinner tables as well as boardrooms. Confined not...

Marketing verzus fakty

Asi sa nepomýlime, keď budeme predpokladať, že predstavitelia väčšiny z nich by povedali, že ich strany sú určené pre tých občanov,...

Rozdelené Slovensko – rozdelený parlament

Samo osebe počet subjektov nemusí znamenať nejaký zásadný hendikep pre vládnutie – v roku 1998 vládla vcelku úspešne „koalícia...

When Palestinians Dehumanize Israeli Jews

Jewish settlers were filmed at a Palestinian wedding. Their host was fired by Fatah and denounced for facilitating a 'despicable act.' Why won't...

Corrupt ties with suspects

Police losing credibility due to negligence, incompetence Police are increasingly losing the public's confidence due to their slipshod...

Time to resume dialogue

Kim should prove promise with concrete action President Moon Jae-in last week wrapped up his eight-day visit to three Scandinavian countries ―...

Is Immigrant-Bashing a Vote Winner for the Left?

LONDON – Is a hardline position on immigration the key to electoral success for Europe’s beleaguered center left? Denmark’s Social Democrats...

Why So Many Newborns and Mothers Still Die

WASHINGTON, DC – Wash hands? Check. Monitor heart rate? Check. Prepare essential supplies? Check. These might seem like obvious steps for medical...

Why this time turned out different for Hong Kong

NEW YORK - Hong Kong protesters have won a stunning victory. Saturday’s suspension of an extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to...

Why this time turned out 
different for Hong Kong

NEW YORK - Hong Kong protesters have won a stunning victory. Saturday’s suspension of an extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to...

Gulf ‘attacks’ on oil tankers are a cover for a bigger agenda

The attacks on two Japanese oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week have raised both concerns and exasperation in the region. Saudi Arabia,...

Asia-Pacific's smaller states can be active players in great-power rivalry

Halting Latin America's economic slide

By Mauricio Cardenas BOGOTA ― "Nobody's backyard: The rise of Latin America" was the headline on the cover of The Economist on Sept. 11, 2010....

How Korea can win World Cup

By Vee Chansa-Ngavej South Korea's youth team reaching the 2019 U-20 World Cup final was a noteworthy and commendable achievement. The players and...

Time to resume dialogue

Kim should prove promise with concrete action President Moon Jae-in last week wrapped up his eight-day visit to three Scandinavian countries ―...

World wary of China-centered connectivity

In late April, representatives from more than 100 countries, including 37 leaders of foreign governments, were in Beijing to attend the second...

Fake capitalism misguides youths

By Dr. Jeffrey I. Kim I have resumed teaching economics in the university ― currently economic development. The class is a good mixture of local...

Resuscitating denuclearization talks

By Tong Kim Donald Trump does it again. He raises the possibility of resuscitating stalled denuclearization. Since Trump said he had received...

El intento de restauración autoritaria en Sudán

La metáfora estacional para referirse a las revueltas populares de 2011, en Oriente Medio ("Primavera Árabe"), deriva de su asociación con la "...

US-backed Agitators Go "Missing" in Asia - Why?

The Western media along with multiple US and European funded “rights” groups have sounded the alarm over what they claim is a wave of...

Is the US on a Major About-turn on Iran?

In May 2018, more than a year ago, when the US threw the hard-negotiated nuclear deal with Iran out of the window of the Oval office, it did not...

Andrés Manuel López Obrador y las instituciones elitistas del Estado

Comienzo reconociendo lo muchísimo que le debo a una gran institución del Estado: El Colegio de México. Ahí estudié mi licenciatura, lo que me...

Hong Kong protesters’ fight evokes images of ‘Attack on Titan’

I still recall how excited I felt the first time I read “Shingeki no kyojin” (Attack on Titan), an enormously popular Japanese manga series....

Bernie Sanders: A refugee from the 1930s

WASHINGTON - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, is a man from the 1930s. If you didn’t...

What if the U.S. could fight only one war at a time?

WASHINGTON - Over the past 18 months, the Pentagon has been pursuing a radical change in U.S. defense strategy. The Department of Defense has been...

Continued action needed to totally root out hate speech in Japan

This month marks the third anniversary of the coming into force of the law to crack down on hate speech, or forms of expressions denigrating...

Is U.S. attention on the Mideast yet again?

I am writing this piece on my return flight from Washington. Coincidentally, I was visiting the U.S. capital while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in...

How the U.S. can keep the Strait of Hormuz open

WASHINGTON - The summers are long and hot in the Persian Gulf. I deployed to those waters half a dozen times during a long navy career, and have...

Hold the Brexit Con Artists to Account

PARIS – In late May, the Westminster Magistrates’ Court decided to hear a complaint brought by activist Marcus Ball, who had accused Boris...

China-Philippines ‘hit and run’: Duterte’s deafening silence is sign of his Beijing dilemma

“I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep,” Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, the...

Saudi Arabia and the UAE belong on the UN 'list of shame'

In the coming days, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will finalise his annual list of governments and armed groups that have committed grave...

The confusion in the Middle East is being stage managed to benefit Israel

What exactly is happening in the Arab region? Events are running into each other with no end in sight. Everything is tangled and intertwined, as if...

Hong Kong protests should inspire Americans

By Trudy Rubin Those Americans who fear for the future of American democracy should be inspired by the massive pro-democracy demonstrations...

Pruning

By Kim Ae-ran In spring, we planted almost 5,000 seeds of rose moss in the garden, but what a pity it is to say that about 15 rose mosses...

Trump and the Taiwan Gambit

Taiwan has become a new “eastern pivot” for Donald Trump. Against all international laws and UN charters, he is approaching Taiwan, as indicating...