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Greek ire
GREEKS have been through hard times recently, thanks to the financial collapse of their country and the tough austerity imposed on them. It might therefore be thought they had enough in the way of troubles without seeking to add another in the form of mass protest over the name of a neighbor state.On the other hand, so great has been the economic humiliation resulting from the false accounting of past governments with the help of leading US investment bankers, that maybe the ordinary Greeks feel they need an external cause to get themselves riled.The issue is of course Macedonia, which gained its independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991. The northern Greek region with its capital in Thessaloniki is also called Macedonia. The large Syntagma Square protest in Athens this weekend was...
February 06, 2018

Greek ire

Gitmo: Obama’s failure
US PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s failure to close Guantánamo, a prison camp located on the US naval base on the eastern tip of Cuba, has been described as “an epic one”, not just because so many lives have been destroyed by years of unlawful and unfair detentions and torture, “but because Obama hands (his successor) Trump the ability to keep using it”, as Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch put it.She was not the only one to warn of the terrible consequences of this failure. Before Trump took office, 40 progressive Democratic legislators wrote to Obama insisting: “Mr. Trump must be deprived of the use of Guantánamo Bay.”Obama made the closing of Guantánamo a central promise of his campaign for president. And he signed an order, on his second full day as president, to close the...
February 05, 2018

Gitmo: Obama’s failure

Education is priceless
Some 1.3 million Saudis discontinued their education in 2017 for various reasons, even though there should never be a reason good enough not to finish one’s education.According to the General Authority of Statistics (GaStat), the reasons for dropping out are multiple: A total of 20,771 after failing academically; 415,264 to pursue a career; 203,463 to support their families; 203,951 were not accepted in an educational institute; 94,729 people wanted to postpone their education; 53,780 due to illnesses and disabilities; and 28,223 had difficulty finding transportation, while 121,629 had other reasons to stop their education.The reasons for discontinuing education differ between men and women. Some 27.7 percent of men wanted to postpone their education to another time, 19.6 percent...
February 04, 2018

Education is priceless

Lorde strikes the right chord
Pop star Lorde is not just a singer, songwriter, record producer and Grammy-award winning artist. The New Zealander is these days the lightning rod that has come to the defense of the Palestinians. By cancelling a planned concert in Israel, Lorde has joined the overwhelming majority of the world which rejects the Israeli occupation and supports the freedom and justice that this oppressor regime has denied the Palestinian people.Lorde had been urged to cancel the scheduled concert in Tel Aviv by Palestinian solidarity activists. Lorde responded by saying she was considering her options. A few days later she opted to nix the concert.It was the right decision. Lorde’s concert, which was to be held in June, would have shown support for Israel’s occupation of land the Palestinians claim for...
February 03, 2018

Lorde strikes the right chord

Kenya’s courageous judges
Once again Kenya’s courts have intervened in the political process. Last year they forced a rerun of August’s flawed presidential election. Now the Supreme Court has lifted for fourteen days a government ban on three TV stations that were showing the staged inauguration of Raila Odinga, the failed presidential candidate in the still-flawed rerun of the vote.With the exception of the country’s judges, no one is coming out of this political imbroglio with any credit. It seems clear that Kenya’s politicians, with their discreditable record of corruption, strong-arm tactics and inefficiency, need to take a long hard look at themselves and what they are doing to their country.Odinga is most obviously at fault. He lost the August vote and had grounds to complain that the ruling party of...
February 02, 2018

Kenya’s courageous judges

The State of Trump’s Union
To the dismay of his dedicated critics within the US political establishment, President Donald Trump had many positives to laud in his first State of the Union address to Congress. Unemployment is indeed down and the stock market up, both to almost historic levels. Some Democrat legislators were so overwhelmed by their hatred of Trump that they boycotted his speech, a sign of the deepest disrespect for the office of president and a sad demonstration of just how unhinged the US political system has become.Others, including Bernie Sanders, the left-of-center presidential candidate who came very close to beating Hillary Clinton to the Democrat nomination, listened to Trump in stony silence and kept to their seats when Republicans gave the President a standing ovation.Though Trump’s policies...
February 01, 2018

The State of Trump’s Union

The North Korean guessing game
It may be deliberate or it could just be a byproduct of its extraordinary isolation and paranoia, but North Korea is nothing if not an enigma.There were sighs of relief around the world that the regime in Pyongyang was prepared to use the upcoming Winter Olympics in South Korea to reopen ruptured relations with Seoul and even to prepare to send teams to compete in the Games. It seemed that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was indeed, as he claimed, once more open to dialogue.The hand of Beijing was suspected in this sudden change of mood. US President Trump’s uncompromising talk appears to have concentrated minds in the Chinese leadership. North Korea is now apparently experiencing its toughest-ever sanctions thanks to a sharp cut in China’s economic and material aid crossing the Yalu...
January 31, 2018

The North Korean guessing game

Protecting the Holocaust narrative
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fury over a piece of Polish legislation is at first mystifying, but when considered more closely, highly instructive. The Poles are changing their law to forbid the words “Polish death camps” when anyone refers to the six Nazi extermination camps set up in Poland during the World War II.The most notorious were Auschwitz and Birkenau but there were also Treblinka, Majdanej, Belzec and Sobibor. To conceal their horrific crimes, the Nazis sought to erase all traces of the last two, removing all buildings, exhuming and pulverizing corpses before planting trees over the sites.It may be puzzling that the Polish government is making it a criminal offense, in Poland anyway, to refer from now on to “Polish death camps”. The preferred style will...
January 30, 2018

Protecting the Holocaust narrative

No end to Rohingya ordeal
Bill Richardson has resigned from an international panel on the Rohingya crisis. The veteran US diplomat quit as the 10-member advisory board was making its first visit to Myanmar’s Rakhine state from where nearly one million Rohingya Muslims have fled in recent months.The Advisory Board for the Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine State was set up by Myanmar last year. The board is to advise the Myanmar government on enacting the findings of an earlier commission that investigated the condition of the Rohingya.The commission was headed by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Announcing his resignation last week, Richardson said he could not in “good conscience” sit on a panel that was only “whitewashing” the causes of the Rohingya crisis. He accused...
January 29, 2018

No end to Rohingya ordeal

One puff is all it takes
No matter which way you look at it, smoking cigarettes is harmful to one’s health. And that goes for just one cigarette a day. People who smoke just one cigarette a day still share a full 46 percent of the increased odds for heart disease that a heavy smoker has, and 41 percent of the risk for stroke. People who smoke even one cigarette a day are still about 50 percent more likely to develop heart disease and 30 percent more likely to have a stroke than people who have never smoked.The bottom line, as suggested recently by the National Cancer Institute and the BMJ: There is no such thing as safe smoking. Inhaling any amount of cigarette smoke is bad for your health. Lighting up just once a day is linked to a much higher risk of heart disease and stroke than might be expected.There’s...
January 28, 2018

One puff is all it takes

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