Americas

Whose baby Daesh really is?

AIJAZ ZAKA SYED   ARABNEWS.COM Published — Friday 28 August 2015   Many western commentators have been raving about Barack Obama’s twin foreign policy triumphs in the last lap of his presidency. The best take came from Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Having trashed him in June as […]

Today’s dark Lords of Finance?

Aug 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES In his Pulitzer-Prize-winning book, Lords of Finance, the economist Liaquat Ahamed tells the story of how four central bankers, driven by staunch adherence to the gold standard, “broke the world” and triggered the Great Depression.  Today’s central bankers largely share a new conventional wisdom — […]