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November 05, 2018
Sri Lanka’s political crisis
It is odd that for the first time since the return of democracy in 1985, Brazilians have elected a far-right president. But Jair Bolsonaro is not just the choice of the Brazilian majority but the latest example of right-wing nationalist and anti-immigrant political leaders and their parties taking or consolidating power, or who have made major gains in elections, especially across Europe.The political situation in Europe serves as a good case in point of this wider phenomenon. In recent years, right-wing populist parties have grown in strength in nearly all the countries on the continent. In Austria, Germany, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, it feels like every time there is an election somewhere in Europe, a xenophobic populist party makes electoral gains. The post-war...
November 04, 2018
Right-wing populist nationalism
November 03, 2018
Born in the USA
November 02, 2018
Termagant Trump
It will soon be eight years since the Tunisian street trader Mohamed Bouazizi, harassed out of business by thuggish police and oppressive regulators, burnt himself to death in protest. That desperate act triggered a popular revolt against the corrupt rule of president Ben Ali who fled within a month. That was the start of the so-called “Arab Spring” which spread, ultimately with disastrous consequences, to Egypt, Libya and Syria.This week in Tunisia, there appears to have been another protest suicide by a 30-year-old unemployed graduate. Mouna Guebla blew herself up in the capital’s Avenue Habib Bourguiba, with what is being described as a homemade bomb. Nine people nearby, most of them policemen, were injured, none of them seriously. This was not an obvious Daesh (the...
November 01, 2018
Troubled Tunisia needs support
October 31, 2018
Merkel’s long-distance departure
October 30, 2018
Air safety must be paramount
There seems to be no end to the ordeal of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims.Those who survived last year’s brutal military campaign in that Buddhist-majority country are enduring “ongoing genocide”, according to Marzuki Darusman, the head of a UN fact-finding mission. The estimated 250,000 to 400,000 who have stayed “continue to suffer the most severe” restrictions and repression, he told a news conference at the United Nations on Wednesday.Yanghee Lee, the UN special investigator on human rights in Myanmar, said Aung San Suu Kyi, the former political prisoner who now leads Myanmar’s civilian government, “is in total denial” of what is going on in her country. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who spent years under house arrest for her pro-democracy activism, continues to...
October 29, 2018
Rohingya ordeal continues
October 28, 2018
For a change, Arabs recover
land from Israel
October 27, 2018
Palestinians vs. Palestinians
