Opinion | Columnists
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Friday May 3
For tolerance we stand
Citizens and residents alike have the duty to spread the truth about the UAE because it has provided us with much that we are envied for
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Friday May 3
‘Manufacturing’ terrorists
The Boston bombing is clearly not the FBI’s finest hour when you consider that it spends $3 billion annually to hunt down an enemy that is largely its own creation
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Friday May 3
Obama’s weakness keeps Guantanamo open
It is a testament both to the scale of the legal and moral morass it represents and president’s persistent inability to translate his words into action
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Friday May 3
Feeding the hand that bites
It was known all along by McChrystal and Petraeus how corruption was interwoven with the nature and structure of Karzai’s regime
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Friday May 3
Hardly anything new in latest CIA revelation
Afghans will have to back their own state in order to change foreign powers’ century-old system of buying leaders’ loyalty
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Friday May 3
Disastrous Libyan situation
‘Liberation’ of Libya was actually an invasion led by the US Special Forces and was part of a similar philosophy that Bush had for Iraq invasion
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Friday May 3
Are Chinese banks sitting on a loan tinderbox?
Concerns grow over rising NPL ratio among the biggest lenders
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Thursday May 2
Sri Lanka needs to come clean on rights issues
Tamils’ rights need to be restored and they should be allowed back into the nation’s mainstream
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Thursday May 2
Uphill task for ruling coalition
Many who vote for the opposition in Malaysia will do so not because they have great faith in its policies, but in the spirit of ‘anyone-but-Umno’
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Thursday May 2
Let US not toe the Iraq-line in Syria
Allegations of chemical use by the Al Assad regime must be double-checked and backed up by conclusive evidence, not based on hearsay
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Thursday May 2
Traditional habits leave an imprint on societies
Socrates noted that understanding a question was half the answer
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Thursday May 2
Institutions can foster critical thinking
Students must be prepared to best utilise wealth of experience and knowledge
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Thursday May 2
Opposition squabbles harming Syrian cause
Clearly, a struggle for power is already underway within a unit that is yet to seize power and bring down the Al Assad regime
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Thursday May 2
How Israel manipulates US policy
Tel Aviv’s aim seems to be to persuade Washington to destroy both the Al Assad regime and its Hezbollah ally
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Wednesday May 1
Alternative fiscal medicine?
Reducing the public debt/GDP ratio will challenge most countries
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Wednesday May 1
It’s time for nuanced judgement
The America of 2013, unlike the America of 2001, is willing to recognise its own pathologies before looking for enemies abroad
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Wednesday May 1
W’s library: ‘Fiction accomplished’
With the inauguration of the $250m facility, the world witnessed celebration of a man and an administration that failed to defend the interests of the US
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Wednesday May 1
Ankara’s new sphere of influence
Turkey is working hard to develop a much more active approach to the emerging new Kurdish powers south of its borders
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Wednesday May 1
Value of life above everything else
The most insidious aspect of the sweatshop debate is in the way commentators blithely offer up a description of the status quo as a defence of it
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Wednesday May 1
UK press in a state of hallucination
British premier will be well advised to put aside his newspapers and investigate the facts of the case involving the trio held in Dubai over drug possession
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Wednesday May 1
Barack Obama may soon need a policy reboot on Syria
It may be worthwhile to send Kerry to Moscow and work out a mutually agreeable plan with the Russians who have been supportive of Al Assad
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Wednesday May 1
Brent crude falls towards $102 on Chinese data
Supply side concerns also weighing on market
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Wednesday May 1
GCC investments: Wiser counsel needed
Arab economies need to create welcoming conditions for GCC investors
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Tuesday Apr 30
American internationalism
Washington’s disengagement will foster the emergence of military, diplomatic or economic forces that will fill the vacuum created by US absence
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Tuesday Apr 30
Don’t link Syrian crisis to Iran
There are good reasons for intervention in Damascus, but proving that Washington is ‘tough’ to Tehran is not one of them
Opinion Editor's choice
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Prevarication of the US president
For all intents and purposes, the US has opted to leave Syria to its own devices
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Pakistan broad coalition may be bigger headache
Little change in status quo between Pakistan and US regardless of poll outcome
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Nigeria president: A dismal report card
You don’t have to be a great man to be a great president
