Can Israel go to war against Iran?
EMRE GÖNEN For the first time in a long while, Israel cannot count on clear backing from the U.S., because of the very hesitant and sometimes criminally unintelligible U.S. […]
Can this ancient Chinese philosophy save us from global chaos?
By Zhao Tingyang February 7 2018 A scroll shows court members of the Zhou dynasty, which brought the tianxia system to prominence. (Yan Liben/Wikimedia Commons) Zhao Tingyang is one […]
The Threat of Human Cloning
A Report of the Witherspoon Council on Ethics and the Integrity of Science The Threat of Human Cloning Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action Executive Summary • Preface: Cloning Then and Now • 1. Scientific and Historical Background 2. The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children • 3. The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research 4. Cloning Policy in the United […]
Foreign policy for sale: Greece’s dangerous alliance with Israel
Feb 06,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Ramzy Baroud For a brief historical moment, Alexis Tsipras and his political party, Syriza, ignited hope that Greece could resurrect a long-dormant Leftist […]
Impact Bonds : Switzerland: a hub for innovative social financing
By Anand Chandrasekhar in Zurich This content was published on February 6, 2018 The UBS Optimus Foundation invested in a DIB to help girls attend school in rural India […]
Threatening letter sent to Greek minister over talks on Macedonia’s name
Reuters International This content was published on February 2, 2018 Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Foreign Ministry in Athens, Greece, January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas (reuters_tickers) ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has launched an investigation after its foreign minister received a letter […]
Wilders, Dutch far-right protesters decry Islam, government
#Politics Wilders’s party will compete in Rotterdam against Denk party, backed by Turkish and Moroccan communities Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, left, leads protest in Rotterdam on Saturday (AFP) MEE […]
Trump Has Created Dangers We Haven’t Even Imagined Yet
By Jonathan Chait@jonathanchait Trump. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images When the president tweeted out a boast claiming credit for the lack of commercial airplane fatalities in 2017, it seemed like a […]
Indonesia to add hundreds of counter-terrorism police to monitor IS
Reuters International This content was published on December 29, 2017 By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s counter-terrorist police force is to get 600 extra personnel next year to monitor Islamic State networks and head off so-called lone wolf attacks, the chief of police in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country […]
The Top Ten South Asia Stories of 2017
Blog Post by Alyssa Ayres December 29, 2017 Rohingya refugee women cry while crossing the Naf River with an improvised raft to reach to Bangladesh in Teknaf, Bangladesh, November 12, 2017. Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters As 2017 comes to an end, it’s time to assess which stories from South Asia had […]
EU gives itself June deadline for deal on refugees
Reuters International This content was published on December 15, 2017 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, the Czech Republic’s Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attend the Visegrad Group meeting in Brussels, […]
Revisiting Dictatorship in Indonesia: The “Good Old Days”?
December 12, 2017 Endy Bayuni The late Soeharto has become something of a poster boy for leadership as the nation searches for a president who can effectively deliver the […]
Middle East leaders paint ‘dark picture’ at Rome conference
Reuters International This content was published on December 2, 2017 By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – When Italy organised a conference focussed on the Middle East, the Gulf and North […]
PAKISTAN, WHERE BLACKMAIL WORKS: Pakistani Islamist group to call off nationwide protests after government backs down
Asif Shahzad, Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A Pakistani hardline Islamist group on Monday said it would call off nationwide protests after the government agreed to its demands and the […]
Tehreek-e-Labaik using Facebook to incite hatred; social media ‘inaccessible’ in Pakistan
Major social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter have been shut down on Saturday in major areas of Pakistan, according to reports. It is being said that the decision has been […]
Mohammad bin Salman: 95 percent of suspected billionaires agreed to settlement
Mohammed bin Salman said that many prominent members of the Ritz crowd had already publicly pledged allegiance to him. (SPA) Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Friday, 24 November 2017 […]
SWITZERLAND: Exclude or integrate? How politicians would deal with Islamic fundamentalists
By Peter Siegenthaler This content was published on November 21, 2017 According to the Social Democrats, most Muslims live their faith in a way that fits into Swiss society.(Keystone) […]
Sri Lanka arrest 19 after Buddhist-Muslim violence; four injured
Reuters International This content was published on November 18, 2017 COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankan police arrested 19 people after a clash between “extremists” from the majority Buddhist and minority Muslim communities in which four people were injured, a spokesman said on Saturday. Tension has been […]
Divided Srebrenica awaits Mladic verdict 22 years after massacre
Reuters International This content was published on November 15, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former […]
Islamophobes want to recreate the Crusades. But they don’t understand them at all.
They weren’t a clash of civilizations, or a war of Christianity against Islam. By Matthew Gabriele June 6 Follow @prof_gabriele Matthew Gabriele is a professor of medieval studies in the department […]