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December 11, 2018

Trump’s new Chinese gauntlet

The arrest in Canada of a senior executive of the Chinese communications firm Huawei on a warrant issued by the United States was always set to bring a quick end to the temporary trade war truce agreed between the Chinese and American presidents at the G20 only days before.Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder and now its chief financial officer, was detained in Vancouver when she was changing planes. ...

December 10, 2018

Car accidents don’t seem to matter

If any more chilling statistics were needed on traffic accidents, here are a few more: Road injuries are now the biggest killer of children and young adults worldwide, and have also moved up to the eighth leading cause of death in the world for people of all ages.These are the latest facts from the World Health Organization. Will they make a difference? The evidence suggests they will not. For the ...

December 9, 2018

Netanyahu won’t leave quietly

Indictment or no indictment, it will not be easy for Benjamin Netanyahu to be ousted as Israel’s prime minister, even after police recently recommended indicting him and his wife for fraud, bribery and breach of trust. His own Likud Party is with him, the other parties in the ruling coalition seem to support him and according to the polls, despite the scandals, he would win elections next year.Netanyahu remains popular ...

December 6, 2018

Hard knocks for European Mafiosi

It has been a bad week for international crime bosses. A two-year operation by European police forces just came to a triumphant end when law officers in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands swooped on Mafia operations. At least 90 suspects were detained. Over three tons of cocaine and 140 kilograms were seized along with millions of euros. The mobsters targeted in this apparently painstaking “Operation Pollino” belonged to the crime ...

December 6, 2018

Macron loses his way

The French are paying a high price for keeping the racist Marine Le Pen out of the Élysée Palace in last summer’s presidential election. Le Pen and her since-renamed far-right National Front promised a range of generous incentives for voters which were widely mocked as being completely unaffordable by a France already burdened by excessively open-handed health, welfare and social security systems.The only alternative was Emmanuel Macron, the clean-cut banker, ...

December 5, 2018

When was the Internet ever secure?

A succession of governments around the world is warning against the use of Chinese-built technology, particularly in the routers that distribute Internet traffic. The concern is that within the chips that run these devices there are hidden “backdoors” that will allow Beijing’s spies to monitor sensitive communications. The Chinese manufacturers of this equipment, including Huawei, of course deny their products pose any sort of risk to those who use them.Ever ...

December 4, 2018

Another electoral triumph for bigotry

Another European election and another set of gains for politicians who build their platform on prejudice, race-hate and Islamophobia. This time, the ugly head of bigotry has raised itself in Spain, where the far-right Vox party has done significantly better than expected in regional elections in the autonomous southern region of Andalusia.Predicted to win at the most only five seats in the regional parliament, voters in fact returned 12 Vox ...

December 3, 2018

Bush Sr. was tough on Israel

While the one term of US President George H. W. Bush, who died Saturday, is defined largely by the end of the Cold War and the 1991 war against Saddam Hussein, it should also be remembered that Bush Sr. was tough on Israel, perhaps more than any other occupant of the White House. Despite his inability to mediate a long-term peace settlement between the Palestinians and Israel, Bush’s readiness to ...

December 2, 2018

A Chinese scientist’s claim to have created the first genetically edited babies has evoked widespread condemnation from the scientific community, for good reason. Playing with humanity’s genetic code could open a Pandora’s box. Scientists could eventually be able to alter DNA to create genetically enhanced human beings, which goes against all the ethics and norms of life as we know it.The Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, used a gene-editing technique known ...

November 30, 2018

Purblind banking madness

A Danish bank, which once boasted a squeaky-clean reputation, has just been charged with money laundering involving at least $230 billion over a period of only two years. Danske Bank, owned by the Maersk shipping family, has already seen the ousting of its chief executive and chairman.The scam centered on the bank’s once obscure branch in Estonia, which it now admits became one of Danske’s most profitable operations as it ...

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