Saudi women’s work and challenges in the council just starting
I was disappointed, dismayed and depressed to say the least. Before the news came out, many women and men supported the stand taken by...
Stop using toilet paper: Rinsing with water more sanitary
While the coronavirus pandemic is affecting us all differently depending on where we live, our financial situation and our basic health, one universal is...
Pope-onomics Francis' keys to a better economy – and world
During a long flight home from Paraguay to Rome in July, after a South American tour full of jeremiads against global capitalism's ills, Pope...
Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
Nearly 150,000 Syrian refugees have already claimed asylum in Europe and tens of thousands more are flooding the borders in search of places to...
How Saudi Arabia helps Britain keep the peace
Over the past few weeks, there has been an alarming change in the way Saudi Arabia is discussed in Britain. The Kingdom has always...
Why you can't just wipe out mosquitoes to get rid of the Zika virus
On Saturday Colombia's national health institute confirmed that more than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the Zika virus, which has been linked...
Western dream of regime change in Iran is over, so what's next?
The signing of the nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1 answered a question that has bedeviled the U.S.-Iranian relationship for 36 years.
Decades after...
Meet the angriest man running for president – no it's not Trump
What better time to gauge the emotional profile of Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an avowed Socialist, than during his Labor Day speech to the...
IEA sees oil below $80, what could go wrong?
Oil prices are unlikely to rise consistently above $80 per barrel before the end of the decade, the International Energy Agency (IEA) predicted in...
Catalonia and Iraqi Kurdistan: A time of disenchantment
Obviously, the circumstances of the separatists in Catalonia and Iraqi Kurdistan have nothing in common since the political and geographical situations are different. But...
