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Snowballing consequences of nerve agent attack in UK
REFLECTING on the international expulsions of Russian diplomats, a US commentator drew a comparison with Sunday’s appalling mall fire in Kemerovo, Siberia, suggesting that as a result of the Skripal nerve gas attack in the UK, President Vladimir Putin found himself trapped inside a burning foreign policy.Over and above the bad taste — at least 64 people, including 41 children perished in the mall blaze — Putin is very far from trapped and probably does not believe this international display of anger, started by the UK and now followed the United States and some 20 other countries, will last for very long.Russia is still denying vigorously that it had anything to do with the nerve agent attack and has demanded the British send samples. This London has not done this. But last week...
March 28, 2018

Snowballing consequences of nerve agent attack in UK

Catalonia dreaming
IN years to come, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont may come to blame the British, and more particularly Brexit, for the failure of his bid to have his province of Catalonia break away from the rest of Spain. The EU has become highly sensitive to any further evidence of disunion and that is why on Monday night, Puigdemont found himself in a German jail.Last October, following a disputed referendum, Puigdemont declared unilateral independence for Catalonia. The Spanish government in Madrid was having none of it and took over the province, causing Puigdemont to flee with four confederates to Belgium. Spain issued European arrest warrants. However, in December these were dropped by a Spanish judge, who nevertheless warned that Puigdemont and his fellow independence politicians could all still...
March 27, 2018

Catalonia dreaming

South Sudan needs national reconciliation
AS the warring factions in South Sudan’s civil war quarrel over the venue of next round of peace talks, people continue to get killed in horrible levels of violence or die of starvation.The government side reportedly wants to change the venue from Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, that hosted the previous two rounds, but the opposition sees in this a plot to scuttle the peace process. The second round, held from Feb. 5 to 16, mainly discussed the implementation of a permanent ceasefire, part of the 2015 peace agreement and a timeline for elections.South Sudan, which won independence in 2011 after a bloody and protracted civil war, plunged into violence in 2013 when President Salva Kiir fell out with his deputy, Riek Machar. What was initially a power tussle between the two soon assumed...
March 26, 2018

South Sudan needs national reconciliation

For Facebook, it’s all about the money
Facebook’s data scandal is the perfect example of this social media behemoth prioritizing growth and its subsequent billions of dollars over security and privacy.Just to be clear, Facebook was not breached per say. The US researcher who started the whole episode in 2013 had no nefarious intentions. He created a personality-quiz app — the kind that offers to test your IQ, reveals your inner personality, etc. Around 300,000 Facebook users responded to the quiz, but that gave the researcher access to those people’s Facebook friends as well, producing details on 50 million users. The political consultancy Cambridge Analytica then accessed that user information to build profiles on American voters that were later used to help elect US President Donald Trump in 2016, going against...
March 25, 2018

For Facebook, it’s all about the money

Ahed Tamimi
Occupation slapped in the face
IT might seem disappointing that Palestinian teenage girl Ahed Tamimi pleaded guilty to four of the 12 charges she faced in an Israeli court, including the now famous slap she administered to an Israeli soldier. The plea deal means Tamimi will serve just a few months in prison when it could have been many years. But, there probably are those who would have preferred she not strike a plea bargain and accept a long prison term because, after all, she has become an icon of the Palestinian struggle, and struggle needs sacrifice.However, Tamimi’s much shortened prison stay — she will be given credit for time served, leaving her with only five months on her sentence — in no way diminishes her image as the symbol of Palestinian resistance. She did not state that she was sorry for hitting...
March 24, 2018

Occupation slapped in the face

Africa abandons internal trade barriers
AFRICA is a wealthy continent which has been impoverished by the generations of misrule, first by the imperial powers that carved it up between them and then by the leaders who emerged as states gained their independence.The politics of modern Africa have been bedeviled by the irrational frontiers often drawn by colonial administrators in far-away European chancelleries. These men simply took account of imperial rivalries and regularly sliced through communities, apportioning them between two or more powers.For those outside countries, Africa was to be exploited, first in the main for its slaves and later for its mineral resources, timber and fine farmland. Post-colonial states were often left with little save their freedom. Even that remained compromised by the enduring economic influence...
March 23, 2018

Africa abandons internal trade barriers

Saif Gaddafi’s real crime
THE idea that the favored son of the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi might be running in the country’s planned presidential election demonstrates at one and the same time the absurdity and the tragedy of this strife-torn country.Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi was once seen as pushing for reform and liberalization in the last years of his father’s rule. But once the revolution had broken out in Benghazi, he quickly joined his brothers and father in vowing to crush the insurrection without mercy.Saif fled when the regime toppled but was caught disguised as a local tribesman as his convoy headed across the Sahara to Niger. His captors were from Zintan, a town in the Western mountains which refused to hand him over either to the government in Tripoli or to the International Criminal Court in...
March 22, 2018

Saif Gaddafi’s real crime

Erdogan insists Turkish economy is fine
NO leader likes to be told his economic policies are wrong, if not indeed downright dangerous and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is more sensitive than most.In the wake of International Monetary Fund warnings and a rating cut by Moody’s into bigger junk status, Ankara came out fighting, accusing the IMF of peddling failed economic theories, the ratings agencies of “loan-shark logic” and labeling economists who criticized its economic direction as “dinosaurs”.The IMF has been wrong before and all the credit ratings agencies, including Moody’s, were once busy signing off extremely dubious subprime loans as rock solid premium grade. The rest is bitter international economic history.Nevertheless, there do seem grounds for concern about Turkey. In the wake of the 2016...
March 21, 2018

Erdogan insists Turkish economy is fine

Superpower showdown
RUSSIA and China, the two rivals to US superpower status have both just reelected their presidents. Washington’s relationship with Moscow and Beijing could well now be influenced by a resurgent Sino-Russian friendship, but whether this could amount to the apparent anti-US partnership of Communist days is another matter.At one level, there is no doubt that their interests do indeed coincide. Both countries want to expand their strategic reach. In the case of Russia it is a reassertion of its power and influence in Eastern Europe in the face of what the Kremlin sees as the threat from the US-led NATO alliance. NATO has expanded eastwards to include all the countries that were formerly members of the old Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact. The confrontation over Ukraine — the seizure of Crimea...
March 20, 2018

Superpower showdown

A Japan-North Korea summit?
IF US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un can have a face-to-face meeting, why can’t Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hold talks with Kim?Japan has no formal diplomatic relations with North Korea apart from occasional high-level talks concerning abducted Japanese nationals. Relations between the two are severely strained and marked by tension and hostility. But the leaders of these countries have not lobbed a series of insults at each other. Abe has not called Kim “Little Rocket Man” and Kim never referred to the Japanese leader as a “dotard”.But is North Korea willing? We don’t know. All we know is that Japan has left the door open to a possible summit between Abe and Kim. This dramatic change in Tokyo’s attitude toward Pyongyang is the latest in a...
March 19, 2018

A Japan-North Korea summit?

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