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A rocky NATO alliance
THE 70th birthday party of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been a shambles. But then this Western military alliance has been showing its age for the best part of two decades. The problem has been that this alliance of 29 countries ran out of a reason to exist when the Soviet Union collapsed and the countries of Eastern Europe threw off the Communist yoke.The Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact dissolved with the Iron Curtain that marked the nervous Cold War frontiers. In the late 1990s, after the old Soviet empire had fallen apart, there was a reasonable argument that NATO could be wound up. It had indeed never fired a shot in anger at the enemy, but had trained vigorously all the same. Just as the possession of nuclear weapons on both sides kept the Cold War cool, so the...
December 06, 2019

A rocky NATO alliance

Climate change and panic
BECAUSE they believe so ardently in what they say, the warnings emerging from the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference known as COP25 are largely apocalyptic. To listen to some of the 29,000 attendees at the Madrid climate summit, the future of the human race, if not of many other life forms, is already doomed.Over the last twenty years the environmentalist lobby has been outstandingly successful. The argument has moved from a relative handful of dedicated activists to center stage. No politician dares be without some sonorous policy pronouncements on mitigating, if not actually reversing climate change. Virtually all the media are on board. Renewable energy and the polluting effects of internal combustion engines and fossil-fueled power generation are the subject of disapproving news stories...
December 05, 2019

Climate change and panic

Iraq in angry turmoil
IT now seems possible that at least 500 protesters have been gunned down in two months of anti-government riots in Iraq. Though police and soldiers have been responsible for some of the killings, much of the slaughter has been done by Iranian-backed militiamen. In Najaf this week, unidentified thugs attacked demonstrators with knives and batons as well as guns.Resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has been accepted by parliament and the influential cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called for new elections. On the face of it, the widespread popular protests have brought results. The truth however is that another general election is extremely unlikely to solve the mess into which Iraq has been plunged by its leaders. And the tens of thousands of demonstrators are perfectly...
December 04, 2019

Iraq in angry turmoil

The grim story in the “China Cables”
THANKS to leaked documents, there now seems no doubt that the Chinese authorities are holding upward of a million Muslims in detention camps in the supposedly autonomous Xinjiang region in the far West of the country. Within these forbidding installations, with multiple high walls and concrete watch towers inmates are being “reeducated”.Beijing has always pretended that all those in these high-security prisons were there voluntarily for education and training. A bundle of official documents that has found its way into the public domain now proves these claims are false.The majority of the detainees come from Xinjiang. Earlier this year, the government allowed strictly-controlled access to foreign media. The journalists were shown happy Uighur inmates, singing and dancing and protesting...
November 29, 2019

The grim story in the “China Cables”

Trump and Mexico’s narcoterrorists
PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s apparently sudden decisions often bring confusion in their wake. But there ought to be no mistaking the significance of his plan to designate Mexican drugs cartels as “terrorists”. When these death-dealing gangsters are legally defined as “terrorists,” it will be possible to deploy a whole new panoply of organizations and measures against them.There is, in truth, little to choose between the sadistic and gross violence of Daesh (the so-called IS) and the South American drugs cartels, of which those in Mexico are by far and away the most brutal and ruthless. Like Daesh, the Mexican butchers have also filmed their depraved killing and torturing, but unlike Daesh, this footage is not for broadcasting round the world on social media, but kept largely for the...
November 28, 2019

Trump and Mexico’s narcoterrorists

Third World lessons for the First
THE devastating fires in California and Australia have had an added horror, in that they have not simply consumed relatively scattered rural properties, they have actually reached the very edges of Los Angeles and Sydney.The iconic Australian city is this week covered in a thick haze of smoke from the inferno licking at its suburbs. Exhausted firefighters are being relieved by crews brought in from other parts of the country. Continuing high temperatures and strong winds threaten to fan the blaze. Though New South Wales is the hardest hit, there are also serious blazes elsewhere, all brought about by a three-year drought. Some parts of the country have just recorded their driest ever nine months.Environmentalists may argue many tree species require fires to help them to regenerate....
November 21, 2019

Third World lessons for the First

The masks come off
The Palestinian politician Saeb Erekat was surely wrong on Tuesday to describe the US endorsement of illegal Israel settlements as “the law of the jungle”, because even jungles have laws. What Israel has long been doing, and what the Trump administration has so foolishly accepted, flies in the face of every tenet of international law. It trashes the long-standing claim by the United States that what the Israelis have been doing in the Occupied Territories is unacceptable.If Erekat meant that the jungle was ruled by the strongest, then he was also off beam. Ever since 1948, a militarized Israel has been pursuing a carefully-calculated campaign against the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world. But its survival as a state has been in no small measure thanks to the financial,...
November 20, 2019

The masks come off

The EU must act on Iran
IRAN’S ayatollahs are once more on the ropes. Swingeing fuel price rises have so far triggered four days of rioting across the country which are thought to have left scores of dead, though officially the government only admits to a dozen killings.Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has backed the increases in fuel prices of up to 50 percent and blamed the protests on “hooligans” and “counter-revolutionaries”. The fact that the angry demonstrations have attracted widespread support suggests that far from being “hooligans,” those who have taken to the streets are ordinary people whose patience has once more been tried to the limit by the regime’s manifold failures. But Khamenei may well be right that the protesters are “counter-revolutionaries”. After 40 years of rule...
November 19, 2019

The EU must act on Iran

Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan
US president Donald Trump’s relationship with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Turkish opposite number is a curious one. Trump, along with most legislators in Washington were incensed when Erdogan pressed ahead with the purchase of the Russian S-400 antiaircraft missile system, in defiance of US pressure and at complete variance with Turkey’s obligations to the US-led NATO alliance of which it is a member. Washington hit back by dropping Turkey from its F-35 fighter production program on the very obvious grounds that allowing Turkish plane makers to produce parts of this new advanced fighter was an absurdity in terms of security, given Ankara’s new close defense relations with Moscow. Turkey had been due to buy 100 of these new US warplanes but the complete fulfillment of the order is now...
November 15, 2019

Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan

A sad boost for Spain’s racists
THE body of Spain’s ruthless fascist dictator Francisco Franco was moved last month from the huge mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen where it has lain since 1975 to a humble family plot 50 kilometers away. Yet did the ghost of the man who had ruled his country with rod of iron for 35 years somehow leach from his coffin?The general election this week, Spain’s fourth in as many years, saw the far right Vox party add a million new votes to its three million at April’s election. This makes it the third largest party in the Cortes, the parliament, doubling its seats from 24 to 52. It is clear that Vox has become stronger thanks to its outright opposition to the independence demands from the Catalans. It has presented itself as a highly conservative party embracing family values while...
November 13, 2019

A sad boost for Spain’s racists

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