Panama Papers: Morality doesn’t matter even when lives are at stake

Many people took to the streets in Iceland to demand the resignation of Prime Minister, Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson. After widespread calls for his resignation, the Prime Minister stepped down, as an apparent casualty of the Panama Papers leaks. Using offshore accounts in tax havens with deliberately poor disclosure and transparency has already become something common […]

Baselworld: The women’s watch in 2016

Every year in this small town in Switzerland, more than 100,000 watch fans come together. Whether they are people from the watch industry, collectors or just visitors, they all reunite in what is called the largest watch event in the world: Baselworld. Although the attention is mostly directed towards watches for men, which represents the […]

Rewriting history: Vikings may have reached America before Columbus

With the help of the medieval sagas and satellite imaging, a team of archaeologists made an amazing discovery in Canada, a discovery that could rewrite the history of the journeys the Vikings have made in the New World. In medieval times, sagas were considered true works of literature that captured the prowess of the Vikings, […]

Matteo Renzi: “European leaders have chosen the wrong direction”

In a recent speech at Harvard University, Matteo Renzi, the prime minister of Italy, said that Europe should focus their attention on what is happening inside the continent and not outside, if they want to successfully face the terrorist threat . The former mayor of Florence agrees that it’s important to mobilize the military, to increase […]

Chinese story – Not Fully Cooked Iron Eggplant

A traditional Chinese story that teaches sacrifice and learning to think of others first. Also check out our Middle Land Youtube channel

Poem – Time to Move On

Although I don’t feel moved, I must do soon. Your views scorch air. I’m in their shadows’ land. You are more masculine, a sun at noon. Me, an acquiescent distaff hand, an unassuming dark side of a moon. We are not close. Between us ocean sea. We email, Skype, work on a website, too. The […]

Poem – I Must Go

Heart-wrenched, I realise I have to go. So long I’ve filled a niche in you so warm no hail, or freezing rain, or sleet or snow, tsunami, vulcan flame, or thunder storm could have dammed me out or damped your glow. Too much bedazzled like a moth sucked up in woozy lack of air around […]

How ISIS makes Europe question its identity

The bombings in Brussels that followed the events in Paris last November, have highlighted Europe’s vulnerability and the purpose the Islamic State has within its boundaries. In contrast with these events, ISIS has been pushed out of Palmyra in Syria by the Syrian army, canceling the gains that the group made 10 months ago. Seeing […]

Inventions of Ancient China That Shaped the Modern World

While Europe was going through the so-called dark ages, ancient China reigns supreme as the world’s technological superpower. Only now are we discovering that many of the invenstions that shape our modern world, have their roots in this remarkable oriental civilization. Machines with complex gears that allow production on an industrial scale, precision seismographs for […]

Ben Carson to Mitt Romney: The people should make the decision

Mitt Romney delivered a withering speech about Donald Trump, calling him a phony and a fraud, and saying he was playing the american public for suckers. Dr. Ben Carson reacts to Mitt Romney’s words saying: “…anybody who is trying to interfere with the process of determining what the will of the people are… it’s the […]