| The road to Syria | | The vicious Syrian civil war has put the world’s two biggest nuclear powers on a collision course over a small Levantine nation of no strategic interest to Washington. This cannot be allowed to go on. | | Of networking and society | | Since the Victorian era, human behaviourists and sociologists have been studying and remarking upon the occurrence and importance of social networks. | | In an era of austerity | | Time was when May Day symbolised the international significance of a labour movement that in the main reminded the capitalist world of their unfailing unity in the face of a changing global order that continues to disadvantage the working class. | | A confused legislature | | The results of the Pakistan elections should be far less important than the fact that elections took place. There will always be theorists who find comparisons between the past and present irresistible. | | When parents can’t afford… | | I was standing in a queue waiting to pay in a busy grocery shop when a little girl pushed her way to the front. | | Being politically correct | | These are turbulent times in the history of mankind at all levels existence. Strife is the general setting and hostility is the dominant sentiment. | | Syria needs aid | | The international community has given up hope for a negotiated settlement in Syria. All talk has turned to whether rebels should be armed to hasten the fall of the Assad regime. | | The Silk Road to leadership | | The fight against terrorism must start with the fight against its social and economic causes, says
Dr Dariga Nazarbayeva, an opera singer, a member of parliament and the daughter of Kazakhstan President Nursultan Abishulý Nazarbayev, in a free-wheeling interview with Khaleej Times | |
