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August 23, 2019
Erdogan deporting Syrian refugees
AT first sight, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s record over the handling refugees fleeing carnage in Bashar Assad’s Syria is admirable. Turkey hosts more than 3.6 million refugees many of whom are housed in massive camps not far from the border with their homeland. The best of these camps, which the authorities have been eager to show off to media and visiting officials from around the world, are self-contained fully-serviced ...
August 21, 2019
Trump peeved he can’t buy Greenland
EVEN those who have quietly reveled in the way that Donald Trump has trashed the political and diplomatic norms of the US establishment will have probably caught their breath this week over the President’s hissy fit about Greenland.Trump has canceled an upcoming state visit to Denmark after the government there refused to consider selling its vast dependent territory of Greenland to the United States. The idea itself is not outlandish. ...
August 20, 2019
Tunisia needs better elected politicians
Tunisia’s revolution, the first and only surviving manifestation of the Arab Spring, faces a new test with the election next month of a successor to the late Beji Caid Essebsi followed by a general election in October.These second free elections since the ouster of the Ben Ali regime in 2011 are notable for the number of independent candidates. Around a hundred people have cast their hats into the ring for ...
August 19, 2019
Another tragedy in Bangladesh
The images have been heartbreaking. Families who had little enough already were pictured rummaging desperately through the burnt-out wreckage of their homes in a shanty town in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh.They were looking for any items that might have survived a devastating blaze that swept through Chalantika late on Friday evening. Some 1,500 shacks were destroyed making, by some estimates, up to 50,000 people homeless and destroying everything they owned.Mercifully, ...
August 15, 2019
Israel defies Trump … but why?
Given that he clearly prides himself on his no-nonsense approach to everything including foreign policy, international trade and immigration, President Donald Trump must be ruing his administration’s outstandingly slavish support for Israel.Thanks to the Zionists within his top team of advisers, among them his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump has defied international law and moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and effectively endorsed the expansion of illegal Jewish ...
August 14, 2019
Argentina’s fumbled reforms
Since Monday, there has been a gaping hole in the floor of the handsome domed building of the Argentinian stock exchange in Buenos Aires. Through it plunged the value of leading shares and the country’s currency, the peso. Stocks fell by a record 30 percent and the peso collapsed fully 15 percent against the US dollar. This financial mayhem was caused by the shock result of the first round ...
August 13, 2019
Hong Kong warned of an ‘abyss’
How much longer will Beijing’s patience last with riotous Hong Kong? What began as a peaceful protest against key legislative change that would have seen suspects deported from the territory for trial on the mainland has grown over the last three months into major confrontations with the police and a general strike that has severely affected the airport and urban transportation.At issue has been the proposal of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing ...
August 12, 2019
Hating hatred is not enough
Hatred based on race, religion or background is itself hateful. Less than a century ago, still within living memory, the Nazi government of Germany, one of the cradles of European culture, adopted official antisemitism which grew in scope until it ended with the horrors of the gas chambers and the extermination of some six million Jews. The Vichy government of a defeated high-culture France also connived in the ...
August 9, 2019
A corrosive soup of inaccuracy
Devoted users of social media sites regularly enthuse over their benefits. Less attention is paid to the downsides, perhaps the greatest of which is the severely limited attention span these media seem to encourage. Content is scribbled down with little forethought and even less revision before the Send button is hit. Hardly worse is that these often ill-informed and deeply inaccurate messages are read rapidly by others, who then immediately ...
August 8, 2019
Yet more blood flows during Afghan peace talks
THE chilling reality appears to be that while the Taliban is in peace talks with the US in Qatar, it is making clear it is negotiating from a position of strength. Thus even as its delegates sat across the table from American representatives, a car bomb smashed into a Kabul police station, killing 14 and maiming some 150 more.Though the Taliban proudly claimed the attack was directed against the government ...
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