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Serena Williams
Serena Williams is not above the rules
THE fallout from Serena Williams’ US Open tirade continues as tennis umpires are reportedly threatening to boycott matches that Williams is playing in, and unionize. Williams gave chair umpire Carlos Ramos a verbal lashing after he issued her three violations — a warning about illegal coaching, racket abuse and verbal abuse. Williams eventually lost the match in straight sets to 20-year-old Naomi Osaka of Japan. Williams has received an onslaught of backlash and support after accusing Ramos of sexism. She and her proponents accuse Ramos of holding her to a different standard because she’s a woman, that she wouldn’t have been penalized that harshly if she were a male player. It is doubtful that things would have been different if Williams were a man. Ramos is an extremely...
September 15, 2018

Serena Williams is not above the rules

Basra protests Iranian influence
IN Iraq, Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) has been defeated, the Americans and their Coalition allies are long gone and oil production has just reached a new peak of 4.36 million barrels a day, making the country the second largest OPEC producer after the Kingdom. So why has the southern city of Iraq erupted in a week of protests which have seen government buildings attacked and around a score of demonstrators shot dead by the security forces? The government of Haider Al-Abadi has no one else to blame except itself. Since he took over in 2014, Abadi has failed to undo the distortions and harm done to the country during the appalling administration of Nuri Al-Maliki. Maliki had hollowed out the army by firing competent and generally Sunni officers, replacing them with lickspittle military...
September 14, 2018

Basra protests Iranian influence

Libya’s golden geese
The terrorists of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) have claimed responsibility for this weeks’ attack on the Tripoli headquarters of National Oil Corporation (NOC). There is little reason to doubt them. Daesh with its fanatical blasphemies is all about fear and destruction. It killed two and injured a dozen innocents in the assault on the NOC building but all three gunmen died, two by their own hand when they detonated suicide vests. The consolation for all decent Libyans is that these three deluded bigots are no longer a threat to civilized society.But then it could be argued that the rule, principally in the capital, of rival militia gangs jockeying for power and money is itself hardly civilized. Libya, once a wealthy and relatively stable country albeit under the capricious and at times...
September 13, 2018

Libya’s golden geese

Trump dooms his own peace plan
Whether President Trump delivers his much-vaunted Middle East peace plan in a speech or on Twitter, it is very probably dead before he opens his mouth or his fingers hit his smartphone.Every peace plan is about negotiation and compromise. And such talks are hardly going to work if you throw one of the parties out of the room before a word has been spoken. That is what the Trump administration has done with its extraordinary announcement it is closing down the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Washington mission. The PLO, recognized internationally for over 50 years as representing the Palestinians, opened the Washington mission in 1994.It is hard to see how this move is anything less than ill-advised, if the president is really sincere in his own Middle East peace plan. The grounds...
September 12, 2018

Trump dooms his own peace plan

Sweden’s beleaguered bastion of decency
THE good news from the Swedish general election is that the Islamophobic Sweden Democrats failed to achieve their promised breakthrough. The bad news is that the two mainstream parties, the Social Democrats and the Moderates both lost seats. Indeed, the Social Democrats, the dominant liberal force in Swedish politics, recorded their worst result since 1945. Sweden Democrats boosted their vote, adding 13 seats to their 2014 tally, giving them 62 seats in the new parliament.The country’s system of proportional representation means that there is now an extended period of horse-trading before a coalition is formed. The outgoing government led by the Social Democrats in alliance with the Greens and backed in parliament by the Left Party will have to seek other partners if it wishes to return...
September 11, 2018

Sweden’s beleaguered bastion of decency

North Korea: Trump’s dilemma
Korean diplomatic stage is brightening again. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and North's leader Kim Jong-un will meet in Pyongyang in the third week of this month for their third summit this year. This is to discuss "practical measures to denuclearize" the Korean Peninsula.According to the North's official media, Kim has reaffirmed his commitment to “a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and the suspension of all future long-range missile tests.”Music to the ears of US President Donald Trump who was feeling frustrated with a lack of progress in denuclearization to which both he and Kim had committed in the joint agreement issued at their historic Singapore summit on June 12.Though the phrase, “complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula” is repeated thrice...
September 10, 2018

North Korea: Trump’s dilemma

The final days of Khan Al-Ahmar
The countdown has started for the doomed Palestinian Bedouin community of Khan Al-Ahmar. After Israel's Supreme Court rejected the last appeal against the demolition of the village in the occupied West Bank, it is now just a matter of time, possibly this coming week, before the arrival of the Israeli army accompanied by bulldozers to drive the residents out and tear the village down.After years of legal battles amid international criticism, Israeli judges ruled that the demolition can go ahead because the Bedouins do not have building permits – but that’s because the Bedouins have no way of getting permits. The Israeli military refuses the vast majority of Palestinian building requests, thus leaving the Palestinians with little option except to build without permission.That does...
September 09, 2018

The final days of Khan Al-Ahmar

Mobiles out of French schools
THE sight of hundreds of children simultaneously glued to their phones at school is a thing of the past in France. As the school year begins, pupils in France have been banned from using their mobile phones during school hours after a new law was passed prohibiting their use. Students in both primary and middle schools up to the age of 15 will now have to leave their phones at home. The only exceptions are for disabled children, in case of an emergency or if they are needed for educational use. Other than that, mobiles in French schools are banished, as are tablets and smart watches. The new rule, a campaign pledge of President Emmanuel Macron, comes with many advantages. It will reduce distraction in the classroom and encourage children to be more physically active during recess. It...
September 08, 2018

Mobiles out of French schools

A decade on unlearned lessons
TEN years ago this month that the once mighty US investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed and the international financial system went into meltdown. The warning rumbles of this volcanic global eruption had been felt for over a year as doubts began to spread about the real value of trillions of dollars of securitized debt that banks had sold to investors and each other. At the heart of this disaster was the realization by banks and other lenders that once they had made a loan, they could sell on that credit and its expected returns and lend the same money all over again. But this so-called “securitization” brought in its train clever investment bankers who hoovered up multiple loans, put them together and repackaged them into new marketable securities, giving them various names but...
September 07, 2018

A decade on unlearned lessons

Argentinian woes
A government that decides to do away with half it civil servants would not appear to be thinking straight. Government departments generally exist for a purpose. They spend taxpayers’ money discharging the responsibilities in their portfolio. These might be an Industry Ministry charged with the oversight of manufacturing and productive industries, making regulations and offering incentives to promote growth. A Social Services Ministry must administer a welfare system and a Pensions Ministry the care of the retired, including probably the rules that govern the investment of the pensions pots build up when people are still in employment.It is not yet clear which ministries Argentina’s beleaguered President Mauricio Macri intends to shrink so radically but it is equally hard to see how,...
September 06, 2018

Argentinian woes

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