K-pop: revolutions, terror and the future

By David Tizzard David Tizzard In a 2018 academic article titled "Regulating the Idol: The Life and Death of a South Korean Music Star" co-written...

Memory Laws: Censorship in Ukraine

Ukraine had about 5000 Lenin statues placed during the former Soviet Union. Their removal seemed logical and natural: after all, what was Lenin to...

Political Islam’s quest for symbols in Turkey

Today, Turkey abounds in all kinds of distorted symbols, figures and ideological currents. These ideological currents are based on two sources. One...

Unilateral passage

The Assembly should not succumb to one-party dominance The National Assembly, unilaterally led by the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, moved with...

New security lineup

Talks with N. Korea will require acute coordination President Moon Jae-in's bigger-than-expected reshuffle of his security team sends the clearest...

+ (POGLED) Pandemija plastike

Nihče ne more zanikati, da je plastika za enkratno uporabo odigrala vlogo rešiteljice v boju proti covidu-19, zlasti za medicinsko osebje v prvih...

Haaretz Cartoon

Not your dad's North Koreans

By Jason Lim North Koreans of the "arduous march" generation ― those who starved to death in mid-1990s in quiet desperation while waiting in...

Improving Korean education

By Mark Peterson I'm really hesitant to give my opinion on the Korean education system, but on the heels of my article last week about the Harvard...

Congress must extend unemployment insurance benefits

As painful as the COVID-19 recession has been for many Americans, the abrupt downturn could have been far worse. And perhaps the smartest action...

Bolton's revenge memoir

By Arthur I. Cyr John Bolton abruptly departed as national security adviser to President Donald Trump in September 2019, after just under a...

A European Green wave may be coming — finally

Whether in France, Ireland or Germany, Green parties are gaining ground in Europe. Even when they don't make inroads into national governments, the...

Instead of tearing her down, we should be rallying for Nicola Sturgeon to be the next UK prime minister

There’s a difference between constructive debate and whipping up hysteria. Scotland and its First Minister has suffered the latter for too long,...

Why is Pakistan spending so much money on defence amid COVID-19?

The Pakistani government does not seem willing to shift its spending priorities despite the burgeoning COVID-19 challenges.  Pakistan has emerged...

Britain’s working class need a New Deal that overhauls housing, education and benefits to see them through the post-Covid crisis

Boris Johnson’s ‘Build Build Build’ plan won’t help the UK’s working class survive the impending financial Armageddon. A revolutionary New...

It’s NOT ‘rehabilitating Stalin,’ but mainstream media portrays Russia as VILLAIN to trigger alarm

Russia is not rehabilitating Stalin. However, Western commentators who purport to be so concerned about this unlikely prospect would do well to...

When My Daughter Called Israel an Apartheid State, I Objected. Now, I'm Not So Sure

In the shadow of annexation, the embodiment of power prevailing over justice and international law, I am running out of counter-arguments. This is...

What was the deadly India-China border clash really about?

On the evening of June 15, hundreds of Indian and Chinese troops laid aside their arms and took on each other in a brawl on the ridge of a mountain...

Nuclear-armed China and India fight with fists, stones and clubs

Canberra – Albert Einstein said while he didn’t know the weapons to be used in World War III in the nuclear age, the war after “will be fought...

Haacaaluu Hundeessaa: A towering musician and an Oromo icon

There are not many artists in East Africa who get to witness their own stellar achievement in their lifetime. Haacaaluu Hundeessa, the undisputed...

+ (KOMENTAR VOLITEV) L(ij)epo v desno

Koliko silnih obratov je bilo mogočih, preden so uradno zaprli volišča na Hrvaškem. Bo zmagala SDP s svojo koalicijo, ki so ji predvolilne...

Najzásadnejší problém Slovenska

Ak by v dôsledku koronakrízy každý deň nepribúdalo nezamestnaných a vyhliadky našej ekonomiky by sa nezhoršovali, tak čert to ber. Zvykli...

Older Israeli Protesters: Your Struggle Is Important, but You're Living in the Past

Ayman Odeh in Ramallah, a Bridge to Peace or Ragged Red Carpet?

In Israel, Coronavirus Could Set #MeToo Back by Five Years

Vybielené kapitoly

Césaire bol černošský básnik a filozof, ktorý prenikavo povedal to, čo dedičia osvietenstva nechceli počuť: sotva obhájite svoje...

Italy after COVID-19 is increasingly unequal, but more cohesive and civic

Report. New data from the Italian research agency ISTAT reveals the unequal consequences of a pandemic that has profoundly changed the way we live...

Post-Brexit EU Defence Policy: Is Germany Leading towards a European Army?

In the wake of Trump's unilateralism, France and Germany have repeated proposals to create a European army, but different ideas persist about what...

Signs

Whenever things get really bad in my life—really bad—I receive a sign that lets me know I’m not alone. The first time I remember this happening...

The Prime Minister of Despair

Putin wins 16 more years of reckless behavior

Washington – It was quite a week for Vladimir Putin. The Russian autocrat won a constitutional referendum clearing the way for him to remain in...

The war on terror survives Rand Paul’s attempt to end it

Washington – It seems quaint to note in the summer of 2020 that America’s global war on terror will soon enter the last year of its second decade....

Road to COVID-19 enlightenment

By Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE ― Certainty is like a rainbow: wonderful but relatively rare. More often than not, we know that we don't know. We...

Israel's Government Is Disconnected From Reality

How Israel Discriminates Against Evangelical Christians

When Israel shuts down a channel run by one of the world's largest Christian broadcasting networks, it appears that the country's much-touted...

A significant number of foreigners experience housing discrimination in Japan

It’s not uncommon for Japan to be described as some kind of utopia. The temptation is certainly understandable. Violent crime is exceptionally...

U.S. Jews Are Clear: We Won’t Back Bibi’s Conspiracies, Colonial Inclinations or Corruption

We believe in a Jewish and democratic Israel. We feel no obligation to defend Netanyahu’s pathological viciousness, monumentally stupid...

If 2020 wasn’t strange enough, printers are staging a comeback

The COVID-19 pandemic is creating a deeper appreciation for things such as one’s health, getting together with friends, the great outdoors —...

Germany takes the EU Council presidency, setting post-COVID priorities

Analysis. The whole future of the EU will play out during the next chapter of EU governance, from the post-COVID rebuilding, the development of the...

Why would Iran issue an arrest warrant for Trump?

On June 30, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's address to the UN Security Council calling for an arms embargo on Iran to be extended was expected...

+ Janez. Ivan. In jaz

Opomba: nisem navdušen nad takšnimi teksti. Preveč besed za vprašljiv učinek. A v časih, ko smo trenutek od tega, da ponovno dvignemo roko drug...

Kdor ne laže, ni Slovenc

‘Narod je glup« so zgodovinske besede Zmaga Jelinčiča. Vse drugo, kar je sledilo o napaki, da so študentje dobili pomoč in bone, je pač...

+ (ŠESTI DAN) Lepo je biti “glup”

"Kako je lepo biti glup,/baš te boli šta ti rade,/ ko te laže, ko te krade,/o, kako je lepo biti glup." (Riblja čorba) "Kako je lepo biti...

Public naturally anxious about COVID-19 amid lack of a strategy

For two days in a row, Tokyo reported more than 100 new cases of the novel coronavirus, and there are signs of a spike in prefectures neighboring...

In Sardinia, the right wants to destroy the ancient coasts for real estate

Reportage. Among the archaeological areas at risk is the Punic necropolis at Tuvixeddu. At least two-thirds of the necropolis has already been...