World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

The terror attack which took place in a pedestrian street in Istanbul was a fearful reminder of past such attacks all over Europe and many parts of the world a few years ago. Turkish police detained a woman who is said to have placed the bag which contained TNT explosives. Her accomplices were…

This century’s worst-case climate scenario isn’t global warming of 4 or even 5 degrees Celsius. It’s a nuclear winter that would trigger global cooling up to 12 or 13 degrees C. That would happen within weeks of the start of a nuclear war, as smoke from burning cities blotted out the sun. The…

President Biden met President Xi Jinping in Indonesia last week and told the world that there need not be a new cold war. Is he serious? Any observer watching world politics now understands that America is trying to reduce Chinese growth and Chinese power. At the same time, the Chinese…

President Joe Biden performed better than expected in the Midterms, which pollsters had predicted Democrats would lose. Despite the failures of his first two years in office, with the country in an economic downturn, inflation rising to 8 percent, and fuel prices increasing. And the economy…

The fiercest general is called time. It is the master of open battle. It tests individuals, peoples and nations and smiles tauntingly at the defeated. It is a fierce warrior that does not rest. It closes one chapter and moves on quickly to the next. This enemy is a gamble to those who have the…

There are well over 100 currencies, from the Angolan kwanza and the Bhutan ngultrum to the Uzbekistan sum and the Vanuatu vatu. Is that the right number for the global economy? Not really. A multiplicity of unpredictably fluctuating currencies discourages trade and investment by injecting…

In September, scientists at the University of Hong Kong published the most complete census of ants ever assembled. The numbers are so big as to seem made up. The study estimated that there are at least 20 quadrillion — that is, 20,000,000,000,000,000 — ants on Earth. That’s about 2.5 million ants…

It seems as if the world is encountering a “perfect storm” of simultaneous crises: The coronavirus pandemic is approaching the end of its third year; the war in Ukraine is threatening to go nuclear; extreme climate events are afflicting North America, Europe, Asia and Africa; and inflation is…

A few days ago, the British daily “The Guardian” published a cautionary column by Gordon Brown, who was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 and is currently a WHO ambassador for global health financing.    The column laments the reasons for the current state of the world. International…