Israel Still Pursues its Old Policy
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in his third term, and he has yet to get an invitation to visit Washington. Despite the fact that there are numerous subjects for discussion. Consider, for example, how strongly everyone around the world, including Americans, condemned the far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call for the Palestinian town of Huwara…
UK Football Presenter Succeeds Where “Politicians Have Failed!”
In 1947 the socially notorious Welsh poet Dylan Thomas wrote the untitled poem beginning “Do not go gentle into that good night”. In it he exhorts the unknown addressee, often presumed to be his dying father, to “Rage, rage against the dying of the light”. In the pitiful backwater that is Brexit Britain, friendless, alone…
Further aggravation of the domestic political situation in Pakistan
The NEO last commented on the situation in Pakistan in connection with a large-scale terrorist attack on the (apparently) heavily guarded grounds of a Shia mosque on January 30 in Peshawar, capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Once again, the author has to state with regret that terrorist acts and simple guerrilla warfare in “problematic”…
On the outcome of the ROK’s Conservative Party congress and the parliamentary vote against the arrest of Lee Jae-myung.
Perhaps the author’s articles focus too heavily on South Korean domestic politics, but even so, when he describes the lengthy planning for an event, he should at least briefly summarize how it went. Recently, there have been two such events that are crucial to the country’s future. Each would have…
Turkish opposition has settled on a single candidate
The closer the next general presidential and parliamentary elections in Turkey get, the more obvious the peculiarities of the internal political conflict between the opposition and the government become. Last week, one of the members of the Alliance of Six (in particular, the leader of the Good Party, Meral Akşener) refused to support…
Georgian Media and NGO Activity on the Level of Potemkin Democracy!
What is now attracting all the media hype these days in Georgia is a proposed law most people should care less about, at least at first impression? However, when you dive deeper into the murky waters you realise much more is involved than meets the eye. The ones complaining about it the most are the exact same ones…
Israel: A Fractured Civil Society
The current situation in Israel is so complex and tense that the local media is increasingly focusing on whether and when a civil war is about to start. Even the mere mention of such a turn of events would have been dismissed in the blink of an eye not long ago. But, as the sages of old used to say, everything flows-everything changes. Of course, political violence has occurred...
If You Missed: The Collapse of the Soviet Union, Come to the UK 4-The Remake
Few nowadays remember how the fall of the Eastern Bloc actually played out in real time. In the West, the perception was that the system was so tightly controlled that it was impregnable. As long as Westerners heard the old slogans, it convinced them Communism was alive and well, and as evil as ever, as they saw it. In the actual…
Reality and Reflux: Tug of War—Georgia, Ukraine and Russia
Lots of things are going on now in the nexus between Georgia and Ukraine. Different camps are being organised, as if sides are lining up for a tug-of-war over Georgia having friendly relations with both Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The US government and some opposition parties don’t want Georgia and Russia to resume flights, and the US State Department…
Good Riddance: Many Calls for Joe Biden’s Impeachment
US politics is something I have tried to keep a safe distance from, with all its "ins and outs" - considering how deep the political swamp is in the US, and its undulating waves. I consider the political elite as being cut from the same material, whether Democrats or Republicans or most of those on the fringes, and it is a shitty design at that. However, there are a few rare exceptions...
Fumio Kishida “Reformatted” the Cabinet of Japan
On August 10, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the new personal composition of the country’s 19-minister government. Only five members of the previous cabinet, including Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, retain their previous posts. Of the 14 new ministers, nine had never been at this level of government, the other five had previously...
Yoshihide Suga will Not Run for Re-election as Leader of the Ruling LDP
On September 3 this year, the current Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced that he would not run for president of the ruling (still and for now Liberal Democratic Party. It also means that he will not be able to retain his top government position in case of a (not predetermined LDP victory in the upcoming regular...