How the Kushner Peace Plan Overturned Israeli Strategy
The Kushner plan will encourage people, both inside and outside Palestine, to think and act less in terms of two states and more in terms of advocating for the rights of Palestinian Arabs within a binational state. That shift will make it harder than ever to avoid comparisons between the Israeli ver…
Germany Chooses China Over the West
Berlin’s refusal to shut Huawei out of its 5G networks weakens Europe’s prospects of standing up to Beijing. Over U.S. and European Union objections, the German government is poised to put in place newly drafted security requirements that do not set clear limits on the Chinese telecommunic…
Albania gets religion
SKRAPAR, Albania — On a parched day in late August, tens of thousands of Sufi pilgrims wound their way up the dusty, unpaved road to Mount Tomorr, in southern Albania. At the summit, they ritually slaughtered thousands of sheep, lit candles and prayed during a weeklong ceremony to commemorate the 7t…
Swedish navy returns to vast underground HQ amid Russia fears
Cavernous docks can shelter warships, with miles of tunnels, offices, and a hospital Sweden’s navy HQ is returning to a vast underground cold war fortress designed to withstand a nuclear attack, in what has been seen as a defensive move against a resurgent Russia. Read the full article he…
US-China trade war imperils efforts to beat poverty, warns Bill Gates
Microsoft billionaire says economic strife undermines ‘world’s ability to work together’ The ongoing trade battle between the US and China poses a major threat to efforts to tackle inequality and poverty, according to billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. Read the full article here .
ERDOGAN DOESN’T WANT NUKES, HE WANTS TO BLOW UP THE SYSTEM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan surprised a lot of people when he told an audience last week that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) was unacceptable because some signatories — the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom — cou…
Biber u novoj knjizi: Balkanski autokrata – moguć samo uz žmurenje EU
Vladari na Zapadnom Balkanu su u nekoj vrsti špage: branili bi vlast svim sredstvima, ali moraju da očuvaju demokratsku fasadu i u tome imaju pomoć sa Zapada, piše u novoj knjizi stručnjak za Balkan sa Univerziteta u Gracu Florijan Biber. Read the full article here .
Major world economies are becoming increasingly isolationist. Except those in Africa.
The best word to describe the mood of the global economy these days is gloomy. The pessimism is closely tied to the loss of faith in free markets and free trade, the two forces that propelled the world economy for the past seven decades. The United States, long the staunchest supporter of these idea…
China isn’t the economic manipulator in this trade war. Trump is
The latest round of tariffs on $300 billion of Chinese goods imposed by Trump last week has seriously rattled world markets. The Chinese currency has now depreciated against the dollar, sending stock markets into a tailspin. Trump immediately blamed China for “currency …
How to Save a Sinking Island Nation
Weather-related events are estimated to displace 143 million people by 2050 – but rising seas are already threatening tiny tropical nations. Can anything be done to help them? The evidence of the climate crisis is now undeniable. But state responses to climate change often have social…