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The torture of Theresa May
Now is the time for all good citizens to put their elected politicians on the rack. Torture is what tyrants visited - and, often, still visit - upon real or presumed enemies among their own people. But subjecting their leaders to prolonged public humiliation has come to be a default position among democracies. None knows this better than the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister, Theresa May.The rack was an invention popular in Europe among rulers and their enforcers, in use from antiquity to the 18th century. It stretched the victim’s limbs, causing excruciating pain and at an extreme dislocated or even tore them from the body. Its use was declared illegal in Britain in the early 17th century but it is now being practiced (in a non-physical form) on the British prime minister as competing...
December 16, 2018

The torture of Theresa May

New alliance for peace and security in Red Sea region
Okaz newspaperA new and important event recently took place in Riyadh. This event is just as important as many other historical events, such as the creation of the GCC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Muslim World League. Maybe this latest development is even more important taking into consideration the current conditions of growing political and economic conflict.The recent event was the launching of a new regional alliance of seven Arab and African countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. The alliance aims to strengthen peace and security in the region and secure sea navigation and world trade.The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden are like a bottleneck in the movement of commerce and energy. The area is the entry point to countries rich in natural resources....
December 16, 2018

New alliance for peace and security in Red Sea region

Racism on and off the field
It would be easy to say that after Raheem Sterling of Manchester City became the latest victim of racist abuse, there’s something’s morally wrong with only a small bunch of Chelsea football fans. But the ugly truth is that racism is still very much alive in British football and British society.There were 520 less than pleasing incidents in the 2017-18 season, up from 469 in 2016-17. Most of these reports (53 percent) were about racism. Out of the 1,500 football-related arrests last season, 15 arrests were for racist and indecent chanting. That’s more than double the arrests in the 2016-17 season. For good measure, Arsenal star Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang recently had a banana thrown at him by a fan.As the Sterling story shows, racism in British soccer stadiums is growing. Standing in...
December 16, 2018

Racism on and off the field

The Saudi man and paternity leave
Okaz newspaperLATELY an unfair prejudice against Saudi society it noticed on social media. Women were the lucky number in this social and psychological bullying and this may explain the recent radical feminine wave, which made me believe that the Saudi women’s movement this year was the most visible and the most effective ever.Aside from the women who faced the media bullying in many of the sarcastic events, there was this poor Saudi man who received his share of neglect. I will dedicate the rest of this article to talk about this poor man.We have to admit here that the Saudi man is considered one of the most generous and giving, compared to the rest of the men in this world. He brings the interests of his family before everything including himself.In the past decade, we have started...
December 16, 2018

The Saudi man and paternity leave

Twitter boss discovers his inner idiocy
UNLIKE their Robber Baron railroad, banking and industrialist predecessors, US IT moguls such as Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple’s Steve Jobs were predominantly young when they came into great fortunes. Silicon Valley went on to produce a new generation of youthful billionaires who were lauded by the media, as much for their often tofu-munching, keep-fit lifestyles as for their innovations. Perhaps it was inevitable that, as has happened with so many other celebrities, press and broadcasters would one day start to take down the golden reputations of these IT superstars they had done so much to create. But it has to be said that many of Silicon Valley’s tycoons have often served themselves up on platters for negative publicity. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is beleaguered over...
December 14, 2018

Twitter boss discovers his inner idiocy

The Water Company is deaf
OkazThe water company’s employees have made it a point never to respond to the complaints of subscribers.THOUGH many complaints have been made against the Saudi Water Company (SWC) by the public, the company has been not listening or responding. It is as if its ears have been filled with wax so it does not hear anything.The water company’s employees have made it a point to never respond to the complaints of subscribers. They will shamelessly tell them to pay the bill or the supply to their homes will be cut.Hassan Niqaiti, an educationist, told me that he lived in a duplex villa in Makkah with four other people. He said his monthly bill for water and sewage never went beyond SR100.However, all of a sudden, the company sent him a bill of SR40,000 for his consumption of water during one...
December 13, 2018

The Water Company is deaf

A forlorn bit of foreign policy
US President Donald Trump has a stunning record for hyperbole and apparently shooting from the mouth, speaking, or more usually tweeting first and then, perhaps, thinking later. Yet this controversial leader has established a pattern of action which is hard for his political enemies, who are many, to tackle. Basically Trump is proud to boast that he doesn’t “do” politics. He presents himself as the antithesis of a seasoned politician. He is rather a businessman who has found his way into the White House and is running the United States as an old style, no-nonsense corporate mogul from the days before Political Correctness was invented.But while Trump himself seems to get away with his behavior, those members of his revolving administration who try the same approach can come unstuck....
December 13, 2018

A forlorn bit of foreign policy

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Saudi Arabia keeps OPEC afloat
Last week, energy representatives from OPEC and non-OPEC governments flocked to Vienna, Austria to attend the 175th “Meeting of the OPEC Conference” and the 5th “OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting”, which took place over a period of two days. Energy ministers and representing-delegations walked into the meetings with much uncertainty. It was clear that a global production cut of around a million barrels per day would do the trick in rebalancing the market, but it was also clear that not everyone was on board for such a decision.In June, the Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (OPEC) had agreed to increase global oil production by a million barrels per day. Several dynamic changes have impacted the market since then, and that ultimately resulted in the need for OPEC...
December 13, 2018

Saudi Arabia keeps OPEC afloat

Saudi Arabia at the G20 Summit: Effective presence in the global economy
The G-20 was founded on September 25, 1999 to replace the Group of Eight summit in Washington, which was established in response to the financial crises of the late 1990s, especially the financial crisis in Southeast Asia and in Mexico. The group is an international forum that aims to discuss policies related to the promotion of international financial and economic stability, combating poverty and climate issues. The economies of this group together represent 85 percent of the world’s gross domestic product (GDP) and 80 percent of world trade. Two-thirds of the world’s population inhabit these countries and constitute about half of the globe’s area. Thus, we are talking about an important summit; the repercussions of its meetings can have a positive or negative impact on the present...
December 13, 2018

Saudi Arabia at the G20 Summit: Effective presence in the global economy

China’s relentless persecution of its Muslim minority
Authoritarian regimes often persecute innocent people but cover their crime by denouncing their victims as “terrorists.” China is doing so on a massive scale as numerous reports indicate.Gay McDougall, vice-president of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, told committee members in Geneva in August that more than one million Uighurs (Muslims) are estimated to be in detention in “counter-extremism centers” which are internment camps. Their crime is that they are Uighur and Muslim in a land of atheists and a Han ethnic majority. Another two million have been forced into “re-education” camps for indoctrination.Uighurs, now numbering some 20 million, have lived in Xinjiang (Sinkiang, East Turkestan), for 4,000 years. They are a Turkic people...
December 13, 2018

China’s relentless persecution of its Muslim minority

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