WHEN the United States talks about coalitions, one should realise that it is all about finance. Not about bringing together countries to fight a war together. Back in 1990, when[...]
They call them anti-terror raids, though one has to ask seriously whether they are stopping anything at all. An idle conversation where a man who is worked up blurts out,[...]
AT THE end of World War I, many ethnic groups were able to get a patch of land for themselves, with the area and population therein largely dependent on the[...]
EMMA ALBERICI: And the question is: can air strikes drive the Islamic State out of the Middle East? – The ABC’s Lateline programme on August 13, 2014 I KID you[...]
WOULD Tony Abbott be indulging in all the grandstanding he is doing abroad if his government had brought down a budget that was, in the main, acceptable to the people[...]
The moment a Western journalist is treated in the Middle East in a manner that is deemed to be different to that in his own country, the West does tend[...]
IRAQ was a curiously complicated country; one uses the past tense because of the turmoil the country is going through and the likelihood that the Islamic State of Iraq and[...]
At the beginning of the year, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was making pronouncements about poverty coming to an end. Now, he is advising graduates at Stanford that profit should not[...]
THE explosion of online publishing has seen a breed that knows little or nothing about journalism assume posts as editors, writers, and so on. But when one comes to such[...]
THE Australian Open tennis tournament, the first of the four grand slams, is slowly coming to an end. The women’s finalists have been decided – Li Na of China will[...]