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Fix it yourself
When a person’s personal or home gadget stops working, the first impulse is to throw it away and buy something new. But there is a new movement which wants people to repair rather than replace.The biggest reason for the Right to Repair movement concerns the environment. As incomes rise and prices fall, E-waste is the fastest-growing waste in the world. Every year, we create two billion tons of waste, and 99 percent of the things we buy don’t make it past six months. Electronic waste has created mountains of toxic trash that’s hazardous to people and the planet.That’s why consumers and lawmakers in the US and Europe are fighting back using the burgeoning Right to Repair movement. It consists of a series of proposals from European environment ministers to force manufacturers to make...
January 14, 2019

Fix it yourself

Two exoduses
Israel is preparing to demand compensation totaling a reported $250 billion from seven Arab countries and Iran for property and assets left behind by Jews who left those countries following the establishment of Israel.On the flip side, however, there is the 1948 Palestinian exodus, the nakba, when more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during the 1948 Palestine war after Israel was founded. Contrary to the Jewish narrative, there is no parallelism between the Jewish and Palestinian exoduses.For the past 18 months, the Israeli government has been researching the value of property and assets that Jews left behind. It is now moving toward finalizing claims as the Trump administration prepares to unveil its Palestinian-Israeli peace proposal. A 2010 Israeli law...
January 13, 2019

Two exoduses

Russian sport on trial
RUSSIAN athletics has been humiliated by the doping scandal which has seen many of its competitors banned from the 2016 summer Olympics in Rio and the Winter Games in South Korea last February. Two years ago, after the Rio Games, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) reported that as many as a thousand Russian athletes had cheated, among other ways, by taking performance enhancing drugs and having blood transfusions. WADA accused the sporting authorities in Moscow of being involved in this cheating, with the alteration or plain deliberate loss of samples taken from the country’s athletes during the Sochi Games. Russia has form on cheating in sport. The-then Soviet Union and its Communist allies in the Eastern Bloc saw sporting victories as a way of enhancing the prestige for their...
January 10, 2019

Russian sport on trial

China’s economy still on the rails
CHINA’S Communist leadership is taking a new class in economic management. The new subject is how to cope with a downturn. And the lessons might be coming hard to the world’s second largest and most vibrant economy which has become used to decades of vertiginous growth.Though China’s stock market is notoriously unruly, its 28 percent fall over last year, which accelerated in December, is a reflection of business anxiety over the Sino-US trade confrontation that President Donald Trump has brought about. While apparently encouraging Beijing talks between American and Chinese officials have been taking place in recent days, it seems unlikely President Xi Jinping is not about to fold in the face of Trump’s demands which include a level trading playing field and the proper protection of...
January 10, 2019

China’s economy still on the rails

Turkey gives no guarantee
There is an interesting contradiction to Donald Trump. This is a president who revels in US power but at the same time has strong isolationist instincts. He has long railed against his country’s involvement in foreign wars. His surprise announcement last month that US troops would be pulled out immediately from Syria and the hints from his administration a similar Afghan drawdown was also on the cards were therefore in line with promises he had made during his campaign for the White House.Yet Trump is also committed to the war against the international terrorists of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS). That being the case, his Syrian decision was plain wrong. Daesh has not, as he claimed, been defeated in Syria. Therefore, this is not the moment to “bring the boys back home”.The...
January 09, 2019

Turkey gives no guarantee

India’s stunning test triumph
India’s first ever series win in Australia is a new high point for Indian cricket. The celebrations would have been even greater had the fourth test in Sydney not been a draw because the last day was washed out. India had forced a follow-on, the first in 30 years for Australia playing at home. Had the Australians managed the 323 runs needed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, it would have been an epic achievement, but there was far more chance that the Indian team, enthused by their success, could have skittled out the Australians to claim a triumph on the field.Tim Paine, captain of the once all-conquering Australian team was generous in defeat, admitting that, by and large, his men had been outplayed by a better Indian team. Sports-mad Australian cricket fans may be less...
January 08, 2019

India’s stunning test triumph

The ‘Occupying Power’
For outgoing US Ambassador Nikki Haley to call the United Nation’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization “corrupt” and a “cesspool” was a harsh assessment. Coming one day after the US and Israel officially quit UNESCO, Haley’s social media tirade was also ironic. UNESCO was co-founded by the US during the founding of the UN after World War II to foster peace and protect ancient historical sites.This latter role has been constantly undermined by Israel. Israel has been severely criticized for its failure to fulfill its legal responsibilities with respect to holy sites in Jerusalem. It was specifically charged with denying access to Muslim worshippers and not taking adequate steps to curb the campaign of settler extremists to assert Jewish claims in the Al-Aqsa Mosque...
January 07, 2019

The ‘Occupying Power’

Boycott Israel and you’re fired
The new 116th US Congress has much work to do: ending a two-week partial government shutdown, passing bills on healthcare, infrastructure and deciding whether to impeach President Donald Trump on perceived charges of obstruction of justice. However, the House of Representatives should put one more item on its to-do list: annulling a law that states that American citizens must promise not to boycott Israel or else be fired from their job.One recent axing happened to a child language specialist in Texas who was told she could no longer work for her school which provides support for Arabic-speaking children after refusing to sign an oath promising that she “will not” boycott Israel.This new job requirement is the result of an anti-Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions bill that the Texas...
January 06, 2019

Boycott Israel and you’re fired

Is space too big, even for China?
The landing of a Chinese spacecraft on the dark side of the moon throws a great deal of light upon the advanced state of Chinese technology. Even the America’s NASA described this first landing on the far side of the moon as an “impressive achievement”. The challenge has always been that there can be no direct communications between a space vehicle and the earth. The Chinese have overcome the problem by using a specially-launched satellite to relay signals between their mission control and the craft. The unmanned Chang’e-4 module made a perfect landing in the scientifically intriguing Von Kármán crater in a region thought to have been hit by a huge meteorite early in the moon’s history. The impact may have driven the object deep into the moon, throwing up part of its inner...
January 03, 2019

Is space too big, even for China?

Brazil’s Bolsonaro
IT was hardly surprising the Brazilian electorate voted last year for radical change. In 2017 an astounding 63,880 people were murdered. Robberies and kidnappings are commonplace. Brazil is by far South America’s largest economy with a population of 209 million. However, once-strong growth turned into recession, in no small measure due to a collapse in domestic and international confidence coupled with a series of devastating corruption scandals.The victory of right-wing congressman Jair Bolsonaro in last October’s presidential election, brought to an end 14 years of socialist rule. The once hugely-popular icon of this period, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula, president for eight years until 2011 is currently serving a 12-year jail term for corruption. Other left-wing...
January 03, 2019

Brazil’s Bolsonaro

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