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Shooting the messenger
A MAJOR prestige project of the sort that has marked the second half of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s sixteen years in power saw the deaths of no less than 55 workers and injuries, some of them life changing, to scores more. But this outrageous health and safety record has seen only minor official action taken against the bosses of the firms working on the airport. This has incensed Turkish trades unions who sought to represent the interest of the 35,000 workers employed on the vast site. But their protests have been ignored. And when workers downed tools and demonstrated following two more unnecessary deaths, the police moved in and 500 were detained. Many were later fired.One of the workforce’s major complaints was that local managers were under pressure to finish the...
December 17, 2019

Shooting the messenger

Aramco losers: Sue Western media!
It seems like the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal are not ready to admit that they were dead-wrong about Aramco. The Big Name papers are not brave enough to explain how and why they took their sharpest shots against the Saudi giant and missed.Just before the sale of 1.5 percent of the company in its Initial Public Offering, the FT and WSJ led a coordinated negative campaign with some US and European investment firms. They claimed that the company at 1.7 - 1.8 trillion dollars was overpriced. The right value, they argued, was 1.2-1.3 trillion. They also warned that the Saudi stock market, Tadawul, was too small and vulnerable to accommodate the IPO.Even though Aramco was, by far, the most profitable company in the world, much higher than Shell or British Petroleum, had the largest...
December 17, 2019

Aramco losers: Sue Western media!

2020!
As 2019 draws to a close, it is time to look forward to some of the important events to be expected in 2020.The new year may witness an historic trade agreement between China and the United States of America. China has been affected by the financial sanctions imposed on its goods, and the Trump administration desires an important achievement before November’s presidential election.A formal and final exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union is also expected, and this will have significant and important domestic consequences and may increase the appetite of Scotland to leave the UK, resulting in the gradual transformation of Great Britain to Lesser England. Europe may experience greater tension with the Trump administration, along with greater exploitation of this circumstance by...
December 16, 2019

2020!

Letting it stay wrong
THIS is not currently American aviation’s finest hour. Disastrous crashes within five months of two brand new Boeing 737 Max aircraft with the loss of 346 lives have seriously damaged the reputation of the largest US plane maker. Now it has emerged that the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is no less culpable.After the first crash in Indonesia, it quickly emerged that the suspected cause lay with the MCAS automated control systems responding to erroneous data from a single sensor which misread the aircraft’s attitude. Shortly after takeoff, the sensor registered wrongly that the Lion Air plane was climbing and in danger of a stall, which triggered the automated control system to take over. After the pilots had wrestled back control of the Boeing, the same fatal error kicked in...
December 13, 2019

Letting it stay wrong

Does Russia enjoy being thought unreliable?
THERE will be those who feel some sympathy for Russian athletes who are now subject to a new ban by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada), meaning that they will not be able to compete under their national colors at next year’s Tokyo Olympics nor at the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar.However, it is not a blanket ban. Wada’s edict means that individual athletes who have not been caught up in the doping scandal that has besmirched Russian sport, will be able to compete, though a little absurdly, if they win, the Russian national anthem will not be played as they stand on the podium for the medal ceremony.Bemoaning Wada’s latest sanction, Russian premier Dmitry Medvedev admitted that there were significant doping problems but insisted the ban was prompted by “chronic anti-Russian...
December 10, 2019

Does Russia enjoy being thought unreliable?

Our young men and women, our future!
“The moment I arrived at King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah, I noticed the difference,” observed the Asian Consul. “It has been many years since my first visit to Saudi Arabia. Since that time I was stationed in Tehran, before being transferred back here. The first thing I witnessed was that all passport officers were now female.That’s a first, even by world standards,” he added. “My family and I were warmly impressed when the passport officer greeted us in our own language, and talked gently with our kids. She was very efficient, too. Our passports were stamped in seconds, and we were on our way within minutes - no lines, no questions, no waiting. The airport is the same as it was the last time, but the system efficiency and female touch make all the difference,” he smiled...
December 10, 2019

Our young men and women, our future!

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

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