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Erdogan involves Libya in his maritime claims
INTERNATIONAL diplomacy is about making friends and influencing people. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems determined to turn the principle on its head by making enemies and annoying them.He has championed the Muslim Brotherhood and quietly sponsored Daesh (the so-called IS) terrorists by allowing them to move men and supplies through Turkey. He has betrayed NATO and his alliance with the United States by buying Russian anti-aircraft missiles and threatening to purchase Russian warplanes. He has poisoned the waters of the international campaign against terror by assaulting the Syrian Kurds who have done so much to combat Daesh. And now he is trying to make a grab for waters in the Eastern Mediterranean in defiance of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea...
December 09, 2019

Erdogan involves Libya in his maritime claims

The role of geopolitics in GCC unity
Stereotypes and generalizations are both associated with an uneducated mind, as relations and interests are subject to change. Furthermore, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have a common history, with Saudi Arabia leading the group with its geographical size and large population. The objectives of the GCC are to effect coordination and interconnection between member states in all fields, so as to achieve unity between them and to deepen and strengthen cooperation between their peoples.All current member states are monarchies, two absolute monarchies (Saudi Arabia and Oman), three constitutional monarchies (Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain) and one federal monarchy (United Arab Emirates).Prior to the 21st century, Saudi Arabia and Qatar developed a historical bilateral relationship and...
December 09, 2019

The role of geopolitics in GCC unity

China and America: A political war!
Supporters of the protest movement in Hong Kong were elated when their candidates swept the recent municipal elections defeating central government candidates and causing severe embarrassment to Carrie Lam the provincial executive appointed by Beijing.This news reminded me of the American writer George Friedman, who said that America’s strategy with China would not be direct confrontation, but would be rooted in the spirit of democracy and economic liberalism as opposed to the political weight of central decisions made in Beijing.There are convictions (supported by statistics) that the dynamism that generated amazing creativity during the dualism of capitalist technology has shortened the time it takes for any state to develop, and thus to reach a respectable level of prosperity.Britain...
December 09, 2019

China and America: A political war!

A rocky NATO alliance
THE 70th birthday party of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has been a shambles. But then this Western military alliance has been showing its age for the best part of two decades. The problem has been that this alliance of 29 countries ran out of a reason to exist when the Soviet Union collapsed and the countries of Eastern Europe threw off the Communist yoke.The Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact dissolved with the Iron Curtain that marked the nervous Cold War frontiers. In the late 1990s, after the old Soviet empire had fallen apart, there was a reasonable argument that NATO could be wound up. It had indeed never fired a shot in anger at the enemy, but had trained vigorously all the same. Just as the possession of nuclear weapons on both sides kept the Cold War cool, so the...
December 06, 2019

A rocky NATO alliance

Climate change and panic
BECAUSE they believe so ardently in what they say, the warnings emerging from the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference known as COP25 are largely apocalyptic. To listen to some of the 29,000 attendees at the Madrid climate summit, the future of the human race, if not of many other life forms, is already doomed.Over the last twenty years the environmentalist lobby has been outstandingly successful. The argument has moved from a relative handful of dedicated activists to center stage. No politician dares be without some sonorous policy pronouncements on mitigating, if not actually reversing climate change. Virtually all the media are on board. Renewable energy and the polluting effects of internal combustion engines and fossil-fueled power generation are the subject of disapproving news stories...
December 05, 2019

Climate change and panic

Dr. Ghadeer Talal Melibari
Doing your best means setting and achieving ambitious goals
“Ghadeer, look when I say do your best, I mean for you to be the best you can be,” my MA supervisor said. “And I’m sure this is not your best.”This blunt assessment of my work shocked me as I felt it was of a decent standard. But he was right to dismiss it as not good enough. I had always thought if I was better than my classmates, I was a success - a notion he told me was plain silly. This taught me a harsh lesson that doing your best is not a grade you achieve or even being top of the class. It is a vision you set for yourself to be the best you possibly can be.Recently, it was announced by Minister of Education Dr. Hamad Al-Sheikh that foreign universities would be allowed to open branches in Saudi Arabia. He said the aim was to instigate a qualitative leap forward in the...
December 04, 2019

Doing your best means setting and achieving ambitious goals

Iraq in angry turmoil
IT now seems possible that at least 500 protesters have been gunned down in two months of anti-government riots in Iraq. Though police and soldiers have been responsible for some of the killings, much of the slaughter has been done by Iranian-backed militiamen. In Najaf this week, unidentified thugs attacked demonstrators with knives and batons as well as guns.Resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has been accepted by parliament and the influential cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has called for new elections. On the face of it, the widespread popular protests have brought results. The truth however is that another general election is extremely unlikely to solve the mess into which Iraq has been plunged by its leaders. And the tens of thousands of demonstrators are perfectly...
December 04, 2019

Iraq in angry turmoil

Middle East Winter: The people have spoken!
What is happening in the Middle East? First, people revolted in Algeria and Sudan. Those in power for a long time decided to renew their rule over the youth. It would have been accepted if their achievements had been exceptional. Instead, both countries have been in decline for ages, due to incompetency, corruption, nepotism and authoritarian rule. In Algeria, the president suffered from the results of a stroke for years. His family and friends were ruling in his name, and making fortunes. Since business was thriving, they decided to renew the contract and put the dysfunctional boss up for another “guaranteed” election. In Sudan, the president was about to break the Constitution, once again, for another term. In both nations, the people revolted and resisted. The old guard tried all...
December 03, 2019

Middle East Winter: The people have spoken!

Different writer with bold ideas!
There are some writers, like Alvin Toffler and John Naisbitt, who can be described as great and “different”, because they have the ability and insight to see what others do not see and in their scientific way they can extrapolate what they have learned from different sources.Today, there is a writer who does not receive enough attention and who only seems to be followed in elite circles, but whose name will inevitably be at the forefront of writers influential in the fields of technology, energy, climate and economics.The writer I refer to is Vaclav Smil, a Canadian of Czech descent, who has written over 40 very important books on topics, such as “energy and civilization”. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada, and is the favorite writer of the...
December 02, 2019

Different writer with bold ideas!

The grim story in the “China Cables”
THANKS to leaked documents, there now seems no doubt that the Chinese authorities are holding upward of a million Muslims in detention camps in the supposedly autonomous Xinjiang region in the far West of the country. Within these forbidding installations, with multiple high walls and concrete watch towers inmates are being “reeducated”.Beijing has always pretended that all those in these high-security prisons were there voluntarily for education and training. A bundle of official documents that has found its way into the public domain now proves these claims are false.The majority of the detainees come from Xinjiang. Earlier this year, the government allowed strictly-controlled access to foreign media. The journalists were shown happy Uighur inmates, singing and dancing and protesting...
November 29, 2019

The grim story in the “China Cables”

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