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Robert Reich: Must We Choose Between Saving Democracy And Saving The Earth? – OpEd

Some people tell me that I should be talking more about the climate crisis than the crisis of democracy. But you know something? We can’t deal...

02.08.2025 9

Robert Reich

Takeover Of The China TikTok Trojan Horse In The US – Satire

This apparent conversation was recorded in a Republican leader’s handphone which had an erased TikTok account. The phone is alleged to have Chinese...

02.08.2025 1

Eurasia Review

The Origins Of FDR’s Teutonophobia – OpEd

By Ryan Turnipseed If you ask any American libertarian who the worst presidents of all time were, you are likely to receive the same answers,...

02.08.2025 2

Mises

Ninth Circuit Shoots Down California’s Background Checks For Ammunition Purchases – OpEd

California’s law requiring background checks to purchase ammunition is unconstitutional, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week....

02.08.2025 1

K. Lloyd Billingsley

Malaysia In A Bind Whether To Support Hamas Or Calls For A Two-State Solution For Palestine – OpEd

A high-level United Nations General Assembly conference has concluded after a debate the “States have until the Beginning of September to endorse”...

02.08.2025 1

Murray Hunter

The Basic Knowledge On Ukraine: A Short Historical Perspective

Historically, the German occupation forces were those who were the first Great Power to create and recognize any kind of at least a short-lived...

02.08.2025 1

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic

Diplomatic Merchandise: Exploiting The Issue Of Palestinian Recognition – OpEd

They have been the playthings of powers for decades, and there is no promise that this will end soon. Empires and powers seem to come and go, yet...

02.08.2025 3

Binoy Kampmark

Another Nail In The Coffin Of Russian Villages: Rural Post Offices Closing Across The Country – OpEd

There has long been a debate about what closures in rural areas mark the approaching death of towns and villages. Most point to the absence of jobs...

02.08.2025 1

Paul Goble

From Shenzhen To Gwadar: Lessons In Transformation Pakistan Can No Longer Ignore – OpEd

In the early 1980s, if one had stood on the shores of Shenzhen and looked inland, the view would have been unremarkable—modest fishing hamlets,...

02.08.2025 1

Saad Hafiz

The American Academy Of Pediatrics: Mining Children For Profit – OpEd

American healthcare is currently providing us with an excellent lesson in what capitalism looks like in the absence of a moral framework. The...

02.08.2025 1

David Bell

Robert Reich: Be Warned The Financial Bubble Will Soon Burst – OpEd

This isn’t an investment letter and I’m not an investment advisor. But I want to warn you. The financial economy — stocks, bonds, and their...

01.08.2025 4

Robert Reich

A Frenemy Named Donald Trump – OpEd

Well-known author, fund manager and columnist for the Financial Times Ruchir Sharma wrote this week that the perception that the US President...

01.08.2025 1

M.k. Bhadrakumar

Growing Old In The Princes’ Islands: A Glimpse Into The Silent Crisis – OpEd

The Princes’ Islands, often called the jewel of Istanbul, have long been celebrated for their serenity, natural beauty, and historic charm. But...

01.08.2025 1

Haluk Direskeneli

Protect The Lifelines Of Youth And Community-Led HIV Programmes – OpEd

Youth-led, rights-based and gender transformative HIV response is key. “Community-led programmes are lifelines of the HIV response, reaching those...

01.08.2025 1

Shobha Shukla

Speaking To Pakistan In The Language It Understands – OpEd

Just the other day, Pakistan’s Foreign Office [FO] issued a statement in which it accused New Delhi of launching Operation Sindoor “without any...

01.08.2025 1

Nilesh Kunwar

How About Hamas? – OpEd

Can 28 foreign ministers be wrong? That was the number who put their names to a joint statement published on July 21 largely condemning Israel for...

01.08.2025 2

Neville Teller

The Unseen Strategy Behind The Chaos – OpEd

The long-standing unrest in Balochistan is not a strictly native rebellion anymore; it has gravitated more to a geopolitical chess board where...

01.08.2025 1

Dr. Sahibzada Muhammad Usman

Indian Priests Are Dying In Silent Desperation – OpEd

The Catholic Church in India faces a crisis it barely acknowledges. Behind the familiar rituals and parish duties, priests are taking their own...

01.08.2025 2

Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

Time To Rethink The Caste System In India – OpEd

India today stands at a defining juncture—poised between a modern future and the pull of its deeply entrenched past. Among the most pressing...

01.08.2025 2

K.s. Venkatachalam

The Fed Says It Is ‘Data-Driven, But The Data Isnt Any Good – OpEd

By Ryan McMaken It’s been a big week for “the data.” At Wednesday’s FOMC press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell announced that the Fed was...

01.08.2025 2

Mises

What Most People Don’t Know About Our 250-Year History (Part II) – OpEd

As we approach our country’s 250th birthday, there is no better time to reflect on where we have been and how we got here. Yet Americans are...

01.08.2025 1

John C. Goodman

Safeguarding Desert Ecosystems: New Book Explores Mexico’s Fragile Arid Zones – Review

Arid and Semi-Arid Zones of Mexico: A Comprehensive Exploration of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Conservation is a multidisciplinary reference from ...

01.08.2025 1

Eurasia Review

US-Pakistan Trade Deal Provokes Reversal Of Strategic Priorities – OpEd

The new trade agreement between Pakistan and America is more than a customs duty realignment—it is a sign of the rebalancing of regional relations...

01.08.2025 1

Umair Khan

Somalia Between Red Sea And ‘GERD’ Faultline – OpEd

I don’t know who coined the phrase ‘a pessimist is an experienced optimist,’ but I find some comfort in it when analyzing current and the...

01.08.2025 2

Abukar Arman

Pakistan: Time For Political Change – OpEd

With nearly one and half year in power, the ruling illegitimate coalition in Pakistan has failed to deliver things successfully. This is not the...

01.08.2025 2

Shoukat Ali

Trump’s Craziness On The Fed – OpEd

The second quarter GDP report came in roughly in line with expectations. The surge in imports from the first quarter was reversed, which meant that...

01.08.2025 1

Dean Baker

Japan’s Statement On Myanmar’s State Of Emergency: Understanding The True Stakes Behind Diplomatic Words – OpEd

As Myanmar’s military junta lifted its state of emergency on July 31, 2025, and announced elections for December, Japan’s Foreign Minister IWAYA...

01.08.2025 40

James Shwe

Is A State The ‘Reward’ For Genocide? – OpEd

Most Israelis are too focused on the atrocities that Hamas committed on October 7 to acknowledge, much less denounce, the atrocities their...

31.07.2025 2

John Feffer

The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions And The Criminalization Of Dissent – OpEd

The government’s war on homelessness—much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on...

31.07.2025 1

John And Nisha Whitehead

The Art Of The Deal? – OpEd

By Jake Scott As of Sunday, July 27, the United States and the European Union have signed a new trade agreement, imposing a 15% tariff on most EU...

31.07.2025 4

John C. Goodman

The Modern Slave – OpEd

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky Most people hear...

31.07.2025 2

Joshua Stylman

The Paranoia Of Officialdom: Age Verification And Using The Internet In Australia – OpEd

Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers. Be it perceived threats to...

31.07.2025 2

Binoy Kampmark

Reality Check: The Hard Economic Data Are Not Good – OpEd

I was listening to this NPR piece on the continuing rise in the stock market Sunday morning and was struck to hear this: “Despite the concerns...

31.07.2025 1

Dean Baker

Ralph Nader: Toady Speaker Johnson Closing Down The House To Cover For Trump’s Scandal – OpEd

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson—probably the worst Speaker in American history—shut down the House early this week before...

31.07.2025 2

Ralph Nader

The Escalating Tensions: Russia’s Threats, NATO’s Response, And The Shadow Of World War III – OpEd

In recent months, the world has been gripped by a tense and uncertain reality: Vladimir Putin’s Russia has issued stark warnings of nuclear...

31.07.2025 1

Henry Davies

What Most People Don’t Know About Our 250-Year History (Part I) – OpEd

As we approach our country’s 250th birthday, there is no better time to reflect on where we have been and how we got here. Yet Americans are...

31.07.2025 1

John C. Goodman

Storing Gold In The Right Place And In The Right Way – OpEd

By now, I’m pretty sure that all of my clients and regular readers fully understand why allocating a part of their wealth to physical precious...

31.07.2025 1

Claudio Grass

Revitalising ASEAN: Strengthening Conflict Resolution For Regional Stability In Southeast Asia – OpEd

Southeast Asia functions as both an essential economic bloc and a vital global trade hub, which maintains fragile regional peace during continuous ...

30.07.2025 1

Simon Hutagalung

Federation Council Holds Political Dialogue With Somalia, South Africa And Uganda – OpEd

The Federation Council, which is Russia’s upper chamber of legislators, continues to show its highest commitment to the principles of parliamentary...

30.07.2025 1

Kester Kenn Klomegah

An 80-89 Year Conflict That Should Have Been Avoided – OpEd

The Jewish memorial date of Tisha B’Av is the one day on the Jewish calendar when the topic of the unrestrained hatred of other Jews (sinat khinam)...

30.07.2025 1

Rabbi Allen S. Maller

Decoding Huckabee’s Contradictory Statements – OpEd

By Daoud Kuttab Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, is a self-professed Christian Zionist who unconditionally supports the state of...

30.07.2025 1

Arab News

United Russia Party More Flexible Than CPSU And More Sensitive To Threats To Its Position – OpEd

There is a widespread notion that today’s United Russia Party is like the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and thus like its predecessor won’t...

30.07.2025 1

Paul Goble

Cambodian Migrant Workers In Thailand Attacked Amid Border Tensions – Interview

As border tensions between Thailand and Cambodia erupted to five days of fighting before a ceasefire was declared, reports of Cambodian migrant...

30.07.2025 1

Paul Goble

The Sanseito Surge: How Japan’s Populist Turn Could Reshape Asia – OpEd

The ultraconservative Sanseito party gained control of 14 upper house seats in the July 2025 election, while the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)...

30.07.2025 1

Simon Hutagalung

Kazakhstan: A Prime Example Of A Multivector Foreign Policy – OpEd

This year alone, Kazakhstan has hosted numerous forums, summits, and high-level delegations, reinforcing its status as a strategic bridge between...

30.07.2025 2

Derya Soysal

Freedom In A Post-Covid World – OpEd

The Covid era cut through traditional ideological paradigms like knives on tissue. Nothing behaved as we might have expected. The civil...

30.07.2025 1

Jeffrey A. Tucker

Why Classical-Liberal Constitutionalism Has Failed – OpEd

By Ryan McMaken During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the party of laissez-faire and free markets—known today as “classical...

30.07.2025 1

Mises

Distrust And Diplomacy: The Road To US–North Korea Normalization – OpEd

The United States maintains an extremely difficult and dangerous diplomatic relationship with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea...

30.07.2025 1

Simon Hutagalung

Pediatricians Organization Says Eliminate Almost All Vaccine Exemptions For Children – OpEd

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) distinguished itself as an obsessive shots pusher and freedom theatener during the coronavirus crackdown....

30.07.2025 1

Adam Dick

Obama Colluded With The Surveillance State Against Trump – OpEd

It is true that Barack Obama used the surveillance state apparatus in an effort to undermine the first Donald Trump administration with the...

30.07.2025 1

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Robert Reich: Must We Choose Between Saving Democracy And Saving The Earth? – OpEd

Robert Reich

Takeover Of The China TikTok Trojan Horse In The US – Satire

Eurasia Review

The Origins Of FDR’s Teutonophobia – OpEd

Mises

Ninth Circuit Shoots Down California’s Background Checks For Ammunition Purchases – OpEd

K. Lloyd Billingsley

Malaysia In A Bind Whether To Support Hamas Or Calls For A Two-State Solution For Palestine – OpEd

Murray Hunter

The Basic Knowledge On Ukraine: A Short Historical Perspective

Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic

Diplomatic Merchandise: Exploiting The Issue Of Palestinian Recognition – OpEd

Binoy Kampmark

Another Nail In The Coffin Of Russian Villages: Rural Post Offices Closing Across The Country – OpEd

Paul Goble

From Shenzhen To Gwadar: Lessons In Transformation Pakistan Can No Longer Ignore – OpEd

Saad Hafiz

The American Academy Of Pediatrics: Mining Children For Profit – OpEd

David Bell

Robert Reich: Be Warned The Financial Bubble Will Soon Burst – OpEd

Robert Reich

A Frenemy Named Donald Trump – OpEd

M.k. Bhadrakumar

Growing Old In The Princes’ Islands: A Glimpse Into The Silent Crisis – OpEd

Haluk Direskeneli

Protect The Lifelines Of Youth And Community-Led HIV Programmes – OpEd

Shobha Shukla

Speaking To Pakistan In The Language It Understands – OpEd

Nilesh Kunwar

How About Hamas? – OpEd

Neville Teller

The Unseen Strategy Behind The Chaos – OpEd

Dr. Sahibzada Muhammad Usman

Indian Priests Are Dying In Silent Desperation – OpEd

Dr. Fr. John Singarayar

Time To Rethink The Caste System In India – OpEd

K.s. Venkatachalam

The Fed Says It Is ‘Data-Driven, But The Data Isnt Any Good – OpEd

Mises

What Most People Don’t Know About Our 250-Year History (Part II) – OpEd

John C. Goodman

Safeguarding Desert Ecosystems: New Book Explores Mexico’s Fragile Arid Zones – Review

Eurasia Review

US-Pakistan Trade Deal Provokes Reversal Of Strategic Priorities – OpEd

Umair Khan

Somalia Between Red Sea And ‘GERD’ Faultline – OpEd

Abukar Arman

Pakistan: Time For Political Change – OpEd

Shoukat Ali

Trump’s Craziness On The Fed – OpEd

Dean Baker

Japan’s Statement On Myanmar’s State Of Emergency: Understanding The True Stakes Behind Diplomatic Words – OpEd

James Shwe

Is A State The ‘Reward’ For Genocide? – OpEd

John Feffer

The New Gulag: Mental Health Detentions And The Criminalization Of Dissent – OpEd

John And Nisha Whitehead

The Art Of The Deal? – OpEd

John C. Goodman

The Modern Slave – OpEd

Joshua Stylman

The Paranoia Of Officialdom: Age Verification And Using The Internet In Australia – OpEd

Binoy Kampmark

Reality Check: The Hard Economic Data Are Not Good – OpEd

Dean Baker

Ralph Nader: Toady Speaker Johnson Closing Down The House To Cover For Trump’s Scandal – OpEd

Ralph Nader

The Escalating Tensions: Russia’s Threats, NATO’s Response, And The Shadow Of World War III – OpEd

Henry Davies

What Most People Don’t Know About Our 250-Year History (Part I) – OpEd

John C. Goodman

Storing Gold In The Right Place And In The Right Way – OpEd

Claudio Grass

Revitalising ASEAN: Strengthening Conflict Resolution For Regional Stability In Southeast Asia – OpEd

Simon Hutagalung

Federation Council Holds Political Dialogue With Somalia, South Africa And Uganda – OpEd