The need for action is clear, but count on it being “papered over.” Reflections on the G20 Hangzhou Summit.

Senior Obama administration officials were aware from 2012 that a war to overthrow Assad would inevitably become a sectarian bloodbath.

What happens when the need for economic adjustment moves from the global South to the North.

Six points about the EU’s Apple tax ruling.

How Western powers are nice to rich Saudi Arabia and assist it in covering up its disastrous war tracks.

The devious art of categorizing all political enemies as “terrorists”

Reflections on the emerging totalitarian form of Islamic democracy.

Paul Sochaczewski attempts to solve this conundrum in his latest book.

The monster that Saudi Arabia created may come to haunt itself — at home.

Intriguing parallels between Olympics, English football and the business landscape of the country.