Economy | ANALYSIS
Households to take hit from tax hike
by Tomoko Otake
The consumption tax increase will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people’s financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the hike's impact.
Crime Sep 30, 2013
Australia central bank subsidiary in Hussein link
The Reserve Bank of Australia on Monday admitted that staffers from a subsidiary had visited Iraq at the height of U.N. sanctions after it was accused of attempting to strike an illegal deal with Saddam Hussein. A joint investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. ...
World Aug 27, 2013
Chemical attack weakens drive to destroy world stockpiles
by Ernesto Londono
The shelling of suburban Damascus with a suspected nerve agent last week was potentially the third large-scale use of a chemical weapon in the Middle East and may have broken the longest period in history without such an attack. If confirmed, the attack, which ...
Global-related Apr 10, 2013
Five myths about the Iraq war
by Ramesh Thakur
That the war changed Iraq into a stable and peaceful democracy is a myth. It has been left a broken and dysfunctional country. The big winner is Iran.
Global-related Mar 27, 2013
Lessons from the Iraq War are there for the heeding
by Walter Pincus
Do Obama policymakers really know the economic consequences of beginning military operations in Iran or supplying weapons to Syria's opposition
Global-related Mar 21, 2013
The disenchantment of Iraq
by Feisal Amin Rasoul Al-Istrabadi
Iraq is better off without Saddam Hussein, but if economic resconstruction and the establishment of democracy are considered, the Iraq war failed.