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Libya: A model for chaos
LIBYA is located a long 6,000 miles away from the Korean Peninsula. Still, this North African country figures in all discussions about the cancellation of the planned summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The reason is the developments leading to the cancellation began with a mention by Trump’s National Security Adviser Joh Bolton of “the Libyan model.” He was referring to the 2004 negotiations that led to the shipping of Libya’s nuclear components to the US.No link has been established between Muammar Qaddafi’s renunciation of his nuclear ambitions and the 2011 uprising that led to the tragic end of the long-time Libyan strongman. But nobody can deny the link between the US-led military intervention that Barack Obama called the “worst...
May 28, 2018

Libya: A model for chaos

The on again, off again summit
It now appears that the summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un might still be held on schedule after all. It is possible that Pyongyang’s polite reply to Trump’s surprise cancellation of the summit was enough for Trump to give the meeting another shot.But should a summit take place, either on its target date of June 12 or beyond, the two parties should better prepare themselves for what they want to come out of it. In pulling out of the summit just as fast as he surprised the world by accepting it, Trump perhaps acted impulsively without considering where it might end up. A summit of this scale should be preceded by months of diplomacy. Trump and his team needed to put in the difficult and tedious preparation needed before the meeting....
May 27, 2018

The on again, off again summit

Jerusalem photoshopped
Already furious over last week’s transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and after Washington recognized the city as the capital of Israel, Palestinian anger has been further inflamed by a photo illustration depicting an artist’s impression of a Jewish temple in Jerusalem in place of Al-Aqsa Mosque. The alteration demonstrates in black and white terms the radical Jewish claims and beliefs about Al-Aqsa and the city of Jerusalem.During a tour of Bnei Brak, an ultra-religious Jewish area near Tel Aviv, US Ambassador David Friedman can be seen grinning broadly while standing next to an aerial view of the digitally altered poster which had been gifted to him by an activist who works with a Jewish charity organization.The explanations and apologies came flying soon after. The...
May 26, 2018

Jerusalem photoshopped

Iran seeks to split America and the EU
There should be no surprise at Tehran’s obdurate and challenging response to President Trump’s reimposition of economic sanctions. The threat to resume its nuclear weapons program, which it has, in point of fact, almost certainly not completely curtailed, is designed to frighten the Europeans who are still clinging to Obama’s lackluster 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).The ayatollahs clearly hope to drive a wedge between Washington and its European allies. This ambition will have been enhanced by the looming possibility of a trade war between the two blocs over Trump’s measures to protect US industry. But it is also typical of a regime that does not “do” moderation. By raising the stakes for any future negotiations, the Iranian leadership thinks it is giving...
May 25, 2018

Iran seeks to split America and the EU

A new Zionist song and dance
The Eurovision song contest is normally a harmless joke, which since the European Broadcasting Union began it in 1956 has built up worldwide television audiences claimed to number up to 600 million.The songs are generally dreadful, though in 1974, the winning Swedish group ABBA thereafter enjoyed an outstanding international career. The jury is renowned for the partiality of its voting, generally backing their own country’s entry while sometimes giving “nul points” to political rivals, even when the songs are not entirely awful.The normal rule is that the winning country will host the next contest. It is said that many national broadcasters are so embarrassed by the event that they go out of their way to avoid having the winner.Nevertheless, in terms of sheer entertainment,...
May 24, 2018

A new Zionist song and dance

Italy’s alarming new coalition
Italy’s new prime minister-designate, a 54-year-old law professor, Giuseppe Conte, is a complete political unknown. Nervous EU leaders in Brussels will be struggling to find out more about the man who is likely to be leading one of the most serious challenges ever to the Union.Conte, who is not even an MP, is a frontman for the new coalition dominated by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, led by Luigi di Maio and now the largest party in parliament, and the rightwing League headed by Matteo Salvini.After 11 weeks of wrangling following the March 4 general election, on Saturday di Maio and Salvini agreed on their political program and it is nearly all bad news for Brussels. The victors campaigned on radical economic and social policies and peddled an extremely hardline on...
May 23, 2018

Italy’s alarming new coalition

US-China trade war is only on hold
IT is premature to believe a Sino-American trade war has been averted. Saturday’s agreement between Beijing and Washington merely was they would talk about the yawning $337 billion trade deficit in China’s favor. The Chinese government has not signed up specifically to cutting the trade imbalance to $200 billion as the US administration had been insisting.Nevertheless, it is clear that President Donald Trump has got Beijing’s attention. The detailed negotiations due to start in coming weeks, probably on a sector by sector basis, will explore where the balance can be restored. It is not that Washington wants to stop the Chinese selling so much to the US but that it wants far greater access for American business to Chinese markets.Trump appeared to shoot himself in the foot last week...
May 22, 2018

US-China trade war is only on hold

Karnataka lessons for BJP and Congress
THE political and constitutional crisis that gripped the south Indian state of Karnataka after an inconclusive election seems to be over. In the election held on May 12, neither the ruling Congress party nor the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) could win absolute majority in the 224-member house. But both the BJP which emerged as the largest single block and the Congress, which entered into an alliance with a regional party after the results were out, staked claim to form the government. The New Delhi-appointed governor, ignoring the claims of Congress and its ally, invited BJP’s B.S. Yeddyurappa to form the ministry but he had to resign 55 hours after he was sworn in because he could not prove his majority on the floor of the house.The dramatic developments since Tuesday once...
May 21, 2018

Karnataka lessons for BJP and Congress

E-cigarettes: Still many questions to be answered
That e-cigarettes can cause negative health consequences that had not been seen with conventional cigarettes was recently taken to the extreme. One man in the US died when a vape pen blew up, with parts of the pen fracturing his skull in what was believed to be the first US death from a vape pen explosion. He also suffered burns over 80 percent of his body in the subsequent fire. Again in the US, a woman required a breathing machine after chemicals in the e-cigarettes she was smoking led to lung damage and inflammation.These incidents are, to be sure, rare. In the main, e-cigarettes are safer than conventional cigarettes, although their health consequences are still unknown because it is still too early to tell. Still, e-cigarettes cannot possibly be worse than traditional smoking because...
May 20, 2018

E-cigarettes: Still many questions to be answered

Palestinian deaths are a waste of Haley’s time
Many countries have expressed varying degrees of anger over Israel’s killing of over 100 Palestinians since the protests erupted at the Gaza border starting on March 30. They lined up to criticize Israel for the excessive and disproportionate lethal force it used against the protesters which led to the mass carnage on Monday, the day the US transferred its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and which alone left 60 Palestinians dead.The US, though, took an entirely different tack, particularly its ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley. At an emergency UN meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday Haley said Monday’s bloodbath wasn’t worthy of a UN meeting at all. It was, she said, not worth the Security Council’s time.So, the 61 people, including eight children, killed and the 2,700...
May 19, 2018

Palestinian deaths are a waste of Haley’s time

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