Opinions

Yanis Varoufakis has resigned from his post as Greece’s minister of finance, the economics professor and SYRIZA member announced as he was made aware that he is unwelcomed by "some Eurogroup participants, and assorted ‘partners’" to be part of the meetings.

There are reasons why the most glorious country of ancient times defaulted to the IMF and went bankrupt, beyond the crimes committed by the Troika.

Diamonds are our most "popular" gemstone and dubbed by luxury companies as a "Girl's Best Friend". But popular does not mean expensive, and expensive does not mean luxury, and luxury does not mean thoughtful especially for a woman.

The Pentagon has made use of $8.5 trillion of U.S. tax money handed over by Congress since 1996, and no one has a clue where it went or goes, including The U.S. Department of Defense.

President Noynoy Aquino (P-Noy)? comparison of Nazi Germany and China is absurd and bears no scrutiny. Instead of giving irresponsible, inappropriate, inflammatory remarks and totally misleading historical speeches, Aquino should concentrate on making the Philippines, like South Korea, an economic, social and environmental success story which its population so much deserves.

Throughout Europe, national identity is now central to public debates on immigration and integration, which has become a highly politicized issue, where concerns about security and migration are often conflated. Norway is a case in point.

China warns that Manila's continuous attempts to drag the United States and some other countries further into what is a bilateral issue, are irresponsible and counterproductive, and it will only exacerbate the already complicated situation, because South China Sea disputes are part of an obvious tactic of America to sow discord and embolden its Asian allies like the "troublemaker" Philippines as part of the Asian Pivot strategy to contain the Dragon.

The mainstream media have been compromised because of the Clintons' ability to manipulate the press by using the appearance of humanitarian work via the Clinton Foundation and its project, the Clinton Global Initiative platforms.

It's not just Ramadi that Obama has neglected. Fact is, the so-called air war against ISIS is a fraud.

IMF calculates subsidies that the governments pay their own citizens to enable them to buy energy more cheaply than the market price, ten times than the “price-gap” methodology figures.

The demise of big city print media, displayed in full by the painfully slow sale of the mammoth New York Daily News, is going nationwide as ad sales decline 50 percent and circulation plummets, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.

The overwhelming victory for the Yes side in the marriage equality referendum in Ireland is not as good as it looks. It’s much better. Goodbye 'tolerance', hello 'acceptance'.