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Gas vs. resistance!
The recent speeches of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the terrorist organization Hezbollah, have included the media message that Saudi Arabia is today a more important and dangerous enemy than Israel. The reason for this new tactical policy is now understood following the announcement of a preliminary agreement between Israel and Lebanon on the sharing of gas resources. This was followed by statements by senior officials in Lebanon and Israel that “there will be no attacks or military confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah,” as economic interests are clearly more important than resistance. Although Hezbollah is financed through money laundering, smuggling and drug trafficking, its leader will find nothing wrong in justifying his “principled” stance against Israel...
June 29, 2019

Gas vs. resistance!

Trump and Xi squaring up at the G20
WHEN the G20 representatives of the world’s most advanced states sit down together in the Japanese city of Osaka on Saturday, they will be aware that the most significant business is going to take place outside their conference room. The scheduled meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping will very probably start with a smiling photo call but, once the two leaders are alone, get down to some hard talking about the Sino-US trade war.The latest negotiations between the two biggest world economies broke down with both sides accusing the other of bad faith. Now Trump is threatening to add to the current tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports which Xi has warned will trigger further retaliatory tariff hikes from Beijing. It is probable that the best...
June 27, 2019

Trump and Xi squaring up at the G20

Will President Trump respond to Iran?
Analysts are surprised over the failure of US President Donald Trump in responding with a military strike to the downing of an American drone by Iran. Perhaps, they are even more surprised when Trump revealed to the press that he had abruptly canceled the attack10 minutes before the launch. Iran’s claim of it showing wisdom for not downing the aircraft, which was carrying American personnel while accompanying the drone, has triggered talks about how far Trump is serious in providing a military response. As the analysts point out that if there is a war, it would begin unilaterally with a US decision and not by the decision of Iran, because of the latter’s myriad transgressions in the region including attacks on oil tankers and shooting down of the American drone. Iran fired the...
June 27, 2019

Will President Trump respond to Iran?

Should a new Cold War be welcomed?
NATO is giving Russia a final opportunity to end what it claims is Moscow’s long-standing flouting of the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. The 1987 pact between the then Soviet Union and the United States and its allies banned missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. Moscow’s 9M729 rocket system is alleged to be designed to carry nuclear warheads and reach anywhere in Europe.Vladimir Putin is unlikely to back down on the missile program which has been in development for some years. Therefore, given President Donald Trump’s no-nonsense approach to international politics, he is almost certain to tear up the INF this summer.Will the world thus become a more dangerous place? The existence of any nuclear weaponry, particularly in the unpredictable...
June 27, 2019

Should a new Cold War be welcomed?

The interconnected world is not all good
The evermore interconnected world about which technology journalists like to enthuse has always had its dark side. This is, of course, that being connected to the Internet does not only provide users with the enthralling opportunity to find out whatever they want to know; it also gives malign operators the chance to find everything they want to know about you. Anyone who has any sort of computer that links to the Internet is effectively leaving the front door of their homes wide open. Strangers with the appropriate software tools can enter their lives and see who their friends are, what they like to eat, where they have been, where they are planning to go and how much money they have. It is not too much to argue that there is no longer any true privacy. Users of social media have...
June 26, 2019

The interconnected world is not all good

Taken for a ride
Until recently, the last time I remember being taken for a ride was more than 20 years ago. Then, I recollect being led to a perfumery off a dusty street in a province just outside Cairo. The driver that my wife and I had hired for the day suggested an excursion to this establishment which dealt with natural essences and oils of flowers, plants and herbs. So off we went. I recall walking through the place and noticing a glittering array of natural perfumes, all priced per milligram or milliliter. And the prices were dirt cheap. Just imagine! Jasmine and rose for pennies. Lavender and Opium, a popular fragrance then, could be had for next to nothing. Or so I thought. And going along with the recommendations of the helpful salesman who was kind enough to offer my daughter a soda, we...
June 25, 2019

Taken for a ride

Erdogan suffers humiliating blow
AFTER 16 uninterrupted years in power, Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was unused to losing. Now he has received a major political blow which could mark the beginning of the end of his increasingly imperious and uncompromising rule. On paper Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development (AKP) party are not due to face the electorate for the next four years. But 2023 must now seem a long way off to Erdogan in the one-thousand room presidential palace he built for himself in the capital Ankara.On Sunday the voters of Istanbul went to the polls for a second time in three months following the triumph of the opposition Republican Peoples (CHP) party in the city’s mayoral election at the end of March. The margin of victory for the CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu was a wafer-thin 13,000. At...
June 25, 2019

Erdogan suffers humiliating blow

Trudeau keeps pursing equality, better life for Aboriginals
Later this year Canadian voters will decide which party will govern them for the next four years. In the last election four years ago, the Conservatives were highly favored. But the trailing Liberals won a stunning victory and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, despite his lack of governing experience, did well - with no major scandals, steady governance, full liberty to cabinet ministers to speak freely and an effort to include women and visible minorities in the cabinet. His predecessor Stephen Harper had kept his ministers on a tight leash and ran the government himself as much as he could and ignored the Aboriginal people. Trudeau indicated four years ago that among his priorities would be to empower women and to treat Canada’s Aboriginal people as equals. In the past both groups...
June 23, 2019

Trudeau keeps pursing equality, better life for Aboriginals

Vaccination programs should be trusted
VACCINES have saved the lives of billions by giving protection against infections that at worst can kill, such as the effect of measles during pregnancy, or at the very least can seriously damage future quality of life. Since the 18th century British scientists turned a Turkish discovery into a viable vaccine against smallpox, there has been a steady advance in such protection against wide range of conditions, including influenza. Indeed thanks to worldwide inoculation, the disfiguring and life-threatening smallpox has been eradicated.Yet health experts, including the United Nations’ World Health Organization are warning that the extraordinary achievements of vaccines are being undermined by a growing resistance against inoculation, motivated in large measure by distrust.This is not...
June 21, 2019

Vaccination programs should be trusted

Trump goes for a second term
UNFORTUNATELY, truly rational argument, even among the scientific community, has become something of a minority sport. In today’s democratic politics, rationality is rarely practiced. More often than not, driven on by the baying hounds of social media, politicians prefer to highlight vapid sentiment rather than engage in closely-argued debate.When politicians stand up and tell an audience they “want to be clear,” it is almost a given that they are about to produce a statement of almost pure fudge, especially if this is in response to an awkward question they do not wish to answer.It is small wonder that throughout Europe and North America, trust in politicians is so low. It was the contempt in which most US voters held their bipartisan and deeply polarized political establishment...
June 20, 2019

Trump goes for a second term

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