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The great vape debate
BRITISH MPs have come up with a new idea concerning e-cigarettes: Allow vaping on public transport and other public places. The theory is that since about 470,000 smokers in Britain are using e-cigarettes as an aid to help them give up the habit and that tens of thousands are successfully quitting each year, vaping would be a useful tool to help tobacco smokers quit. The idea has generated much debate, starting with how safe e-cigarettes really are. The definitive answer is that nobody knows for sure. As e-cigarettes have only been on the market for about a decade, there is no authoritative research yet available. It may take several more years for such research to emerge which can show beyond doubt that vaping does not affect users’ lungs or other aspects of their health. But a report...
August 26, 2018

The great vape debate

Israel interferes in US politics all the time
RUSSIA’S meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections is nothing compared to Israeli interference in US electoral politics. So says the American linguist, philosopher and historian Noam Chomsky who recently accused Israel of “brazenly” interfering in US politics in a way that vastly outweighs any efforts that may have been carried out by Russia. As evidence, Chomsky cites the invitation extended by then Republican House Speaker John Boehner to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who in March 2015 addressed the joint houses of Congress about the yet to be signed Iran nuclear deal. Boehner did so without formally informing the White House, something which is said to have infuriated Barack Obama, whose administration would the following month join a seven-party agreement to...
August 25, 2018

Israel interferes in US politics all the time

Libya’s impossible elections
THE multiple forces pulling Libya apart show no sign of losing their grip in this tragic country’s entrails. Under a deal brokered by the UN and backed by the US and the EU, there is supposed to be a referendum on a new constitution on Sept. 16 followed by parliamentary and presidential elections in December. The president of the Tobruk-based House of Representatives, Ageela Saleh, was among the four key Libyan leaders who agreed in May to the electoral timetable proposed by French President Emmanuel Macron. The other three were Fayez Al-Sarraj, head of the internationally-recognized Presidency Council in Tripoli, Field-Marshal Khalifa Haftar, based in the east and the State Council’s Muslim Brotherhood President Khalid Al-Mishri. Saleh promised the parliament would be debate the...
August 23, 2018

Libya’s impossible elections

Pushing water uphill
BY the calculation of the International Monetary Fund, Venezuela’s inflation is running at one million percent. The left-wing government of president Nicolas Maduro has introduced yet another package of emergency economic measures which are every bit as astonishing as the country’s inflation rate. The minimum wage is being increased by three thousand percent, fuel subsidies, which meant gas cost just one cent a gallon, are being abolished, value-added tax is being hiked and a new currency has been introduced which lops five zeros off the old banknotes. The desperate nature of the re-monetization is demonstrated by the fact that the old currency was called the “strong bolivar”, while the new, in a reference to Maduro’s claim that his country has been undermined by malign foreign...
August 22, 2018

Pushing water uphill

Who is really to blame?
Eurocrats in Brussels and the European Central Bank in Frankfurt are congratulating themselves on the bailout of debt-burdened Greece which, in their terms at least, “officially ended” on Monday. In three successive tranches since 2010, when the Greek crisis broke, the EU, along with the ECB and the International Monetary Fund provided $332 billion to keep the country from bankruptcy. This was not done out of the kindness of their hearts. Greece’s financial collapse endangered the credibility of the whole European single currency project. Although the Greek economy was insignificant measured against larger EU states, as part of the eurozone its financial failure would have impacted upon all other users of the single currency. And there was another important reason for EU action....
August 22, 2018

Who is really to blame?

Putin’s hidden threat
GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel’s hosting of Russian President Vladimir Putin at her official retreat outside Berlin was important for two reasons. The first lies in the very meeting itself, which served to end Putin’s US-led international isolation. Though they met briefly at Sochi last year this was their first bilateral encounter since 2014 when Merkel protested at the seizure of Crimea. A key part of these talks was the completion of the North Stream 2 pipeline which will double the amount of gas that Russia can export to Europe. Germany, busy abandoning its nuclear power generation, will be a prime customer for this fresh supply for its conventional power generation. However, Washington has long opposed the pipeline and Trump has even said it will make Germany “captive to...
August 21, 2018

Putin’s hidden threat

Improving Indo-Pak ties
Sixty-five-year-old Imran Khan, chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has taken over as his country’s 22nd prime minister. Saturday’s swearing-in-ceremony ended not only years of waiting for the former cricket star but decades of political dominance by two family-based parties: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). PTI won the largest number of seats in the National Assembly promising a “Naya (new) Pakistan.” But the wafer-thin majority could make it difficult for Khan to push through his reforms agenda. The opposition, which controls the Senate or the upper house of the National Assembly, can make things difficult for him. This may force him to go slow in his fight against corruption. The slender majority may also act as constraints when it...
August 20, 2018

Improving Indo-Pak ties

Stopped at Ben Gurion Airport
IF you are a critic of Israel these days, it’s very possible you will be stopped at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, pulled aside, questioned and maybe even detained. And of all people, it is Americans who are being stopped. By detaining them and other activists for expressing critical views of Israel, the country obviously is far from being the democratic state it professes to be. Peter Beinart, a progressive American Jew and political commentator was, by his account, asked about his participation in a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron during a visit two years ago. The Shin Bet internal security agency, which carried out the interrogation, issued a rare apology for Beinart’s detention, calling it an “error of judgment” by a field officer. Prime Minister...
August 19, 2018

Stopped at Ben Gurion Airport

Fifa
No more ‘corruption’ in FIFA
Although FIFA’s new code of ethics has done away with the word “corruption”, that’s not how corruption is eradicated. It needs a transparent environment that has honest people working for the good of the game. Up until 2015, FIFA was synonymous with vote buying, bribery, and other shady dealings, culminating in US prosecutors indicting dozens of football officials and entities for corruption, and the toppling of the 17-year czar of football’s world governing body Sepp Blatter. Blatter’s successor Gianni Infantino has done an admirable job of cleaning up the Zurich-based organization, however, he must keep his eyes wide open because football is a billion-dollar industry and wherever there is that kind of money, there will always be unscrupulous individuals seeking an illegal...
August 18, 2018

No more ‘corruption’ in FIFA

The war in space
IT cannot have been a coincidence that days after President Donald Trump announced the formation of the US Space Force as the sixth American armed service, a Washington official should have revealed the “very abnormal behavior” of a Russian space satellite. State Department assistant secretary Yleem Poblete told a conference in Switzerland that the satellite, launched last October, could possibly be a weapon since it was not operating in a way consistent with standard observation and communications satellites. The implication is it could be an anti-satellite weapon, which Poblete said would raise a “serious concern”. This of course is cant. American research has been going on for years into just such a device and it will doubtless be one of the very first programs to be placed...
August 17, 2018

The war in space

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