Opinion

Wednesday 02/March/2016 15:22 PM

The language of humanity

Greece is going through its worse financial crisis in the past 50 years. Greeks are suffering from an unemployment rate of around 30 per cent in the private...

Tuesday 01/March/2016 15:47 PM

Rubio goes nuclear, strengthening Trump

Senator Marco Rubio is finally getting wall-to-wall coverage. The debate of Republican candidates last week went his way: He portrayed Donald Trump as a con...

Tuesday 01/March/2016 15:38 PM

The end of big banks

After nearly a decade of crisis, bailout, and reform in the United States and the European Union, the financial system – both in those countries and...

Tuesday 01/March/2016 14:35 PM

What a new Iran means for Oman

Oman watched with great interest the Iranian elections on February 26, 2016. After all, under the keen guidance of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said,...

Monday 29/February/2016 16:02 PM

From Mussolini's slogan to Trump's soundbite

Donald Trump is getting lots of flak for allegedly retweeting a Benito Mussolini quote -- after a Gawker journalist set an elaborate Twitter trap for him....

Monday 29/February/2016 15:35 PM

The G-20 misses its Sputnik moment

The global economy needed this weekend’s Group of 20 meeting in China to produce a “Sputnik moment.” Instead, and despite growing awareness of the...