Opinion

South China Sea’s resource wars

Joshua Frank: THE South China Sea is an ocean of conflict and ecological decline. Despite its vast size — 1.3 million square miles — the South China Sea has become

Towards systems change that ensures well-being

The Lanka government needs to heed the opposition to ensure the sustainability of economic reform programmes. This could mitigate the danger that a change of government could lead to a

Twisted Israeli logic of murdering Palestinian children

Ramzy Baroud: ISRAEL kills Palestinian children as a matter of policy. This claim can easily be demonstrated and is supported by the latest findings of a Human Rights Watch report.

The pedagogy of power

by Chris Hedges: I AM standing in a classroom in a maximum-security prison. It is the first class of the semester. I am facing 20 students. They have spent years,

NATO expansion caused Russian invasion

It is the damnedest thing how you are called a Kremlin agent for saying the war was provoked by NATO expansionism and it serves US interests, even when NATO and

On morals and manners

Abu Muhammad Zakir Hussain: WHAT would be the score that we might garner if there were ever a global scoring system on the sense, appreciation and practice of morality, civility,

Taxation without accountability a volatile mix

Jehan Perera: THE increase in the price of petrol and diesel has been accompanied by the removal of the QR Code quota system for the purchase of fuel. The elimination

Bad faith and blank checks

Patrick Lawrence: SOME years ago, as the decline of American media became evident even among those not in the profession, friends and acquaintances began to ask two questions. Do journalists