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Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan
US president Donald Trump’s relationship with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his Turkish opposite number is a curious one. Trump, along with most legislators in Washington were incensed when Erdogan pressed ahead with the purchase of the Russian S-400 antiaircraft missile system, in defiance of US pressure and at complete variance with Turkey’s obligations to the US-led NATO alliance of which it is a member. Washington hit back by dropping Turkey from its F-35 fighter production program on the very obvious grounds that allowing Turkish plane makers to produce parts of this new advanced fighter was an absurdity in terms of security, given Ankara’s new close defense relations with Moscow. Turkey had been due to buy 100 of these new US warplanes but the complete fulfillment of the order is now...
November 15, 2019

Trump’s odd relationship with Erdogan

A sad boost for Spain’s racists
THE body of Spain’s ruthless fascist dictator Francisco Franco was moved last month from the huge mausoleum in the Valley of the Fallen where it has lain since 1975 to a humble family plot 50 kilometers away. Yet did the ghost of the man who had ruled his country with rod of iron for 35 years somehow leach from his coffin?The general election this week, Spain’s fourth in as many years, saw the far right Vox party add a million new votes to its three million at April’s election. This makes it the third largest party in the Cortes, the parliament, doubling its seats from 24 to 52. It is clear that Vox has become stronger thanks to its outright opposition to the independence demands from the Catalans. It has presented itself as a highly conservative party embracing family values while...
November 13, 2019

A sad boost for Spain’s racists

Fake views
HILLARY Clinton has described as “inexplicable and shameful” a decision by the UK government of Boris Johnson not to release a parliamentary report into Russian interference in British elections and particularly the 2016 referendum vote to quit the EU.London has said the report will be published after the Dec. 12 general election. However, given the febrile atmosphere around one of the UK’s most bitterly-fought campaigns in a generation, it seems more than likely that one of the members of the all-party Intelligence and Security committee will leak the contents. Meanwhile Johnson’s opponents will accuse him of covering up findings, which they will claim prove Moscow’s interference in the decisions of the British electorate. This would destroy his key argument that the Brexit vote...
November 13, 2019

Fake views

‘The shameful collapse of Indian judiciary’
Nothing coming out of India seems to surprise me lately. After the reported arbitrary arrests of Muslims in some states tending to their cattle business, to the mob lynchings that followed that did not appear to have been publicly censured by the ruling government, anything today seems possible. Add to this morass of bad tidings the Indian government’s intention of taking away the citizenship of over two million, mostly Muslims, in Assam and the unilateral abrogation of a decades-long treaty which allowed Kashmiris autonomy and you get the picture.On 6 December 1992, a violent crowd consisting of Hindu fanatics fueled by BJP/RSS mobsters demolished the Babri mosque, resulting in communal riots leading to over 2,000 deaths, most of them Muslims. The mosque was built in 1528–29 on orders...
November 12, 2019

‘The shameful collapse of Indian judiciary’

Global forces of change!
There are important factors impacting policies, decisions and legislation in Western society. Perhaps the most important forces of change are the following:1. Modern technology seriously threatens the labor market and has led to the dismissal of hundreds of thousands employed in the industrial sector. It also poses a threat to the privacy of citizens and can be used to influence democratic elections or attack the electronic infrastructure of banks and water and electricity companies.2. The rise of China as an economic power will soon make that country the largest economy in the world. However, China’s authoritarianism, suppression of liberties and communist rule are values ​​contrary to those promoted by the political system in the West. US President Richard Nixon and his secretary...
November 11, 2019

Global forces of change!

Students’ viewpoints
This is the second month in the school year in Saudi Arabia. Thousands of new students are enrolled in all higher education institutions across the nation. Newly accepted college students are settling down as they come across different aspects of university life. Students’ impressions of their college community are important indicators of how successful universities are in terms of providing the necessary tools for building good knowledge and doing well in life.Students who join English departments in Saudi Arabia are unique because they have decided to learn a foreign language with different literary and cultural implications. In a composition class, I asked my students at Umm Al-Qura University to write an essay about their first years’ experience in college and how that experience...
November 10, 2019

Students’ viewpoints

Deadly urban pollution
IN many of the world’s great cities, pollution is an unpleasant fact of life. Tragically it is also a fact of death. Statistics on the rates of mortality it causes in crowded urban areas can be hard to pin down. However, it stands the reason that anyone with an existing condition such as asthma, is in immediate danger. But the poisons carried by unseen particulates belched from engine exhausts, power stations and home fires have a more insidious effect on previously healthy individuals.Delhi is currently caught is a smog which has reduced visibility to just meters. The authorities blame the burning off of stubble in farms outside the capital. But though such activity is clearly contributing to these record levels of pollution, the underlying causes are far wider spread. According to the...
November 08, 2019

Deadly urban pollution

Ayatollah appeasement
FOR how much longer will the Europeans seek to appease the Iranian regime? Appeasement is the act of pacifying or placating someone by acceding to their demands. Notoriously in 1938 the French and British governments appeased Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler, allowing him to seize first part and then all of Czechoslovakia. Then British premier Neville Chamberlain spoke of the German’s demands on the Czechs as “a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing”.Iran is not a far away country of which Europeans know nothing. Rather the opposite. Since the overthrow of the Shah 40 years ago, the ruling ayatollahs have made no secret of their determination to throw over the principles that govern international relations. The ordinary supporters of a revolution that...
November 07, 2019

Ayatollah appeasement

The great offers in my inbox
The use of email as a form of communication has become an important part of our lives. With a few clicks, messages are sent instantly all over the world. Yet, this powerful business and social driver is now flooded with unwanted marketing literature.To find intended messages, you have to navigate through hundreds of emails from people trying to sell you products and services that you don’t need, or even worse, scam artists trying to get you to “invest” with them to get rich quick. Something must be wrong if you have not received a weekly email about your unclaimed inheritance from one of your extended family members you never knew existed who wrote your name in his will and then died in a car crash in another part of the world!The “smart” features of email service providers are...
November 06, 2019

The great offers in my inbox

Aramco: Kingdom’s jewel in the hands of its people
OkazThe announcement of Aramco’s IPO through Saudi banks represents a great opportunity for safe investment presented on a gold platter. This simply means placing the most precious Saudi jewel in history into the hands of its people so that they can make direct gains. This also represents a clear indication that decision makers are keen that Saudi citizens, before anyone else, should benefit from the wealth of their country and be real partners in the Kingdom’s resources.There is no company of this size in the world with such high profitability and those who miss the train of investment will be missing a huge profit which they deserve more than anyone else.Aramco made it clear through the media that it intends to distribute dividends of $75 billion (SR281.25 billion) in 2020 after the...
November 06, 2019

Aramco: Kingdom’s jewel in the hands of its people

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