World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The World Cup is a sporty and stubborn human dream. In 1930, in Uruguay, this international event was born and drove the residents of the planet into a kind of addiction. Every four years, the ninety-year-old celebration rejuvenates and doubles its sparkle. It resisted the hurricanes that swept the…

When Lewis Carroll’s Alice says she can't believe impossible things, the White Queen gives the smart politician’s reply: “I daresay you haven't had much practice. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Rishi Sunak, the UK’s pragmatic new prime minister,…

What we are witnessing today of attempts to impose “values” and ideas on the whole world and to involve politics in sports is nothing but racism, not freedom, as some claim to be the case. It reaches the point of barbarism in various fields. What is known and simple is that your freedom ends…

In recent years, a swelling chorus of Americans has grown critical of the nation’s billionaires. But in the extraordinary week gone by, that chorus was drowned out by a far louder and more urgent case against them. It was made by the billionaires themselves. One after another, four of our best…

There is a theory that, other than Uruguay at the inaugural tournament in 1930, every World Cup winner has been in some way influenced by the wave of great Hungarian coaches scattered across the globe in the aftermath of World War I. It’s not entirely tenuous, even if some are skeptical. Nobody,…

For all the controversy surrounding his purchase of Twitter Inc., Elon Musk has at least one thing right: Twitter really is “like open-sourcing the news.” The world’s richest man has long been an advocate for “citizen journalism,” but since his takeover of the social media site he’s been…

The characterization of the events in Iran does not differ much from the characterization of what happened in Syria, so it is okay to summarize. Here too, the scenes are straight out of a movie. Indeed, the images and clips being recorded and shared by Iranian protests aim to document the flood in…

Last Tuesday, 22/11/2022, is no longer just another day on the global calendar. That day, the Saudis weaved a story that will remain engraved in the world’s collective memory, in the minds of the West more than the East and rivals more than friends. The victory of the Saudi national team…

Like a one-trick pony, Iran’s ruling mullahs have played unpredictable so often that they have become predictable in their unpredictability. Facing a nationwide uprising that seems to continue despite massive repression and shaken by the International Atomic Energy’s unexpectedly tough stance…

Iran has no friends left. It buys friendships with weapons, as it is doing with Russia and Armenia, leaving death and victims behind it. That is how Hezbollah managed to leave Lebanon without friends. By the way, we must pay tribute to the Iranian national football team currently playing in the…

When news broke that Khomeini’s home in the city of Khomein (central Iran) had been burned down, the political significance of this development was not the first thing to come to mind, or this significance chose to come at us circuitously. The implicit and concealed facts of the matter, i.e., the…

The Iranian drones that Iran had given to Russia for use in Ukraine were recently inspected, and the results showed that half of their components were US-made, while around a third of the rest were made by companies in Japan and Europe. The ‘Wall Street Journal’ reported the news, citing a…