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February 07, 2019
The State of the Union
February 06, 2019
Trump and his generals are both wrong
February 05, 2019
Can Russia now afford guns before butter?
Politics and sports are not supposed to be mixed, especially politics with an international sporting event for athletes with a disability. However, when the parties involved are Muslims and Arab states, plus Israel, then the twain invariably meet. So, as Malaysia has been stripped of hosting the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships for refusing to let Israelis compete, Kuala Lumpur upended the oft-stated adage. But at the same time, the issue is not about Israeli athletes competing per se, but what is happening in the occupied territories, a realism that is much bigger than a sports event.Malaysia, which is a majority Muslim country, banned the athletes because of what Kuala Lumpur sees as Israel’s poor treatment of Palestinians. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed recently said Malaysia...
February 03, 2019
Malaysia’s moral compass
Khalifa Hafter, eastern Libya’s strong man, may be poised to take control of two major oilfields in the south of the country, which along with the major production in the east, will place some 90 percent of all Libyan output under his control.
Hafter’s Libyan National Army is currently moving towards the Sharara and El Fil (Elephant) fields, the first shut down since December after being occupied by members of the inappropriately-named Petroleum Facilities Guard. The decision to lock in the field was made by Mustafa Sanalla, head of the National Oil Corporation, a hard-headed technocrat who, despite all the violent unrest, has nevertheless managed to boost national production past a million barrels a day.
After the PFG seizure of the Sharara field, Faiez Serraj, the UN-backed head of...
January 31, 2019
Libya’s oilfields
January 31, 2019
Tragic Afghanistan
There was always a small-print subtext to President Donald Trump’s trade confrontation with China which has now suddenly been writ large. There had long been a strong conviction that Chinese firms were, almost certainly with some level of state-support, managing to plunder the technological secrets of other advanced economies, most particularly those of the United States.The formal Beijing-Washington trade talks include the protection of intellectual property. Chinese courts need to do a better job of enforcing international laws, including World Trade Organization rules, to which, as a member, China is subject. Only rarely have the country’s judges accepted that a foreign company’s copyright has been stolen or, put more politely, infringed. It is believed that, with official...
January 30, 2019
US gloves come off in trade war
It is now two years since the Trump administration introduced its travel ban on citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. Coming in the wake of the candidate’s clearly Islamophobic comments on his campaign trail to the White House, the clampdown caused understandable concern in the Muslim world.The executive order the new president signed was widely condemned, not least by professionals within his own State Department. Opponents took to the courts, initially mounting successful challenges that forced the order to be suspended. However, last year the Supreme Court ruled that a president did have the executive power to ban immigrants.Trump’s action initially brought chaos at airports, as well as heartache for US Muslims who suddenly found that they could no longer...
January 29, 2019
Two years of the Trump travel ban
January 28, 2019
Open government or open border?
January 27, 2019
How to be a hero
