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Cutting emissions at sea
FOR most people, unless they live near a port, seeing an ocean-going vessel is a rarity. Around 90 percent of world trade is carried by merchant vessels which spend the greater part of their time operating far out to sea. But when a ship is close to shore, it is not unusual to watch a plume of black smoke rising from its funnel.The burning of heavy fuel oil by ships’ engines clearly causes pollution though not as much as that created by the less efficient coal-fired ships boilers of late nineteenth and early twentieth century. But there are now far more merchants ships at sea and the clouds of oil smoke they emit is therefore greater than the combined output from coal-fired merchantmen.Environmentalists have produced the striking calculation that combined, world shipping now produces as...
April 17, 2018

Cutting emissions at sea

Powell and right-wing populism
IT is a measure of the dramatic changes in the thinking and attitudes of people in the West that some leaders are making huge electoral gains for expressing anti-immigrant views for which British politician Enoch Powell was removed from his party’s shadow cabinet. A brilliant academic and a decorated soldier, Powell was an MP for 37 years, first for the Conservatives and then the Ulster Unionist Party. He also served briefly as minister for health and financial secretary to the Treasury in the Macmillan government. He never again held high office, though he remained a MP until 1987.It was on April 20, 1968 that Powell made his incendiary speech that cost him his position in the Conservative Party and made him a political pariah. Addressing a Conservative Party association meeting in...
April 16, 2018

Powell and right-wing populism

Israel changes tack
When compared to the 34 Palestinian deaths of the past two Fridays, this week’s casualty toll at the Israeli-Gaza border is, though still unacceptable, fortunately much less: one dead and the injury of hundreds more.Although as many as 10,000 Palestinians massed along the dividing fence, this time the deaths were kept to a minimum. Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman attributed the low body count to “the other side” having understood Israel’s resolve. However, it is more likely that the stinging rebuke Israel received from the world community after using live fire against peaceful Palestinian protesters during the first two weeks of the Great March of Return forced Israel to follow, at least a little bit, the proper rules of engagement.The Israelis could also have been...
April 15, 2018

Israel changes tack

OPCW in high demand
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is traveling an awful lot these days. From Salisbury in the United Kingdom to Douma in Syria, the people of OPCW are racing from west to east in the search for possible chemical weapons that have, if all the reports are true, been used on civilian populations. In attempting to confirm the recent findings of the parties concerned, the organization has had to go to two continents at almost the same time. Since it was founded in 1997, this is unprecedented. In this modern age, when it was assumed that chemical weapons had been banned for good, this hunt for forbidden offensive substances that were never to have been used again is as frightening as it is unparalleled.The OPCW is in high demand because the stakes are extremely high. In...
April 14, 2018

OPCW in high demand

The tragic farce in Myanmar
The world is clearly now supposed to believe that the wicked campaign of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar is not the policy of the government of the deeply-tarnished Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. A military court has just jailed seven soldiers, including four officers, for the murder of 10 Rohingya Muslims. The killers have each been given 10 years hard labor.The trial has clearly been forced to take place in the face of overwhelming evidence that the police and military had been actively involved in murder, rape and robbery in Rakhine state. These were crimes that were calculated to spread terror amongst the local Muslim population. As a result some 700,000 Rohingya have fled to neighboring Bangladesh. There they barely survive in sprawling and overcrowded refugee camps where they are...
April 13, 2018

The tragic farce in Myanmar

The risks of social media
The rapid growth in the use of social media has had a lot to do with the almost effortless way in which friends and family can keep in touch. A big part of its popularity rests on the fact that it costs nothing to use. But there is no such thing as a free lunch. As has become startlingly clear in recent weeks, the hundreds of millions of social media users, not least of Facebook, the dominant provider, are having data about themselves, often highly personal information, harvested by banks of powerful computers.Much has been written in recent years about big data and how it can be “mined”. Less attention has been given to the nature of those data. The assumption was that they were perhaps something to do with financial market statistics or corporate performance. The reality, however, is...
April 12, 2018

The risks of social media

The real costs of corruption
There is always a tendency to focus on the financial costs of corruption. Money is syphoned off by greedy individuals who have some power over deals where bribes are either offered or demanded. Generally bribes go to politicians. But payola is not confined to them. At a corporate level, executives may demand kickbacks for choosing a particular supplier.However, there are two other costs of graft, which in their different ways could be just as significant and possibly even greater. The first is the distortion of the decision-making process. Business or political leaders are assumed to be doing their best to improve the performance of their country or corporation. If, however, their choice among a range of important options is dictated purely by what they themselves can get out of the deal,...
April 11, 2018

The real costs of corruption

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 8, 2018. — Reuters
Hungary’s Orban gives Brussels a bigger problem
THERE was never much doubt that Hungarian voters would return Viktor Orban as their prime minister. But EU mandarins in Brussels had been hoping that they would clip his Euroskeptic wings by robbing his Fidesz party of the constitution-changing powers of a two-thirds parliamentary majority it has enjoyed at the previous two elections.But Orban is back, arguably stronger than ever and the danger to EU cohesion has been enhanced. On Sunday night, after the polls had closed and when the extent of his victory was becoming clear, Orban told cheering supporters the country’s voters had given themselves “the opportunity to defend themselves and to defend Hungary”. This is precisely not the anti-collegiate talk that Brussels wanted to hear.Orban’s triumph is likely to have consequences far...
April 10, 2018

Hungary’s Orban gives Brussels a bigger problem

Why this anti-Corbyn campaign?
FOR decades, Britain’s Labour Party has been the natural home for Jews. In the early 20th century, the party put out a welcome mat to Jewish migrants. After all, it was under a Labour government, administering the British mandate in Palestine, that the State of Israel was created in 1948. But by some strange transformation, the party, which has a long tradition of fighting all kinds of racism has become a cesspit of anti-Semitism. At least, that is the impression being created by some sections of the media and some politicians, both Labour and Tory, and the Zionist lobby in United Kingdom. Last week it reached a crescendo, with Jonathan Goldstein, the chair of the Jewish Leadership Council, personally attacking the party leader Jeremy Corbyn calling him “the figurehead of an...
April 09, 2018

Why this anti-Corbyn campaign?

Where’s the Gaza inquest?
The international outcry that followed last week’s Israeli slaughter of 20 Palestinians along the Gaza border had minimal effect on Israel. On Friday, the start of the second week of the March of Return, in which protesters are demanding that Palestinians be allowed to return to ancestral lands that are now in Israel, Israeli troops killed up to 10 Palestinian protesters and wounded at least 1,000 more. The casualty figures were not as high as that of last week, but are high enough. Last week Israeli troops clearly had orders to shoot as Palestinian civilians poured out to take part in peaceful marches in support of their internationally recognized rights. This week, Israel shot again.Seeing that the protests will resume every Friday until mid-May when Palestinians commemorate the nakba...
April 08, 2018

Where’s the Gaza inquest?

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