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Congress’ wrong strategy
INDIA’S opinion polls are notoriously unreliable, as previous state and national elections have proved only too well. Still everybody takes a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the two states that went to polls last week (Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh) granted, as predicted by almost all the exit polls. BJP has been in power in Gujarat, Modi’s home state,continuously for two decades. Himachal Pradesh, currently ruled by the Congress, has alternated between the two main parties.Elections were a serious challenge to both Modi and Rahul Gandhi who has just taken over as the head of the Congress.Modi and his party were worried over the implications of a defeat or decline in its fortunes in Gujarat on the party’s prospects in the 2019 parliamentary...
December 17, 2017

Congress’ wrong strategy

One-way ticket
It’s controversial, but to lessen the migrant exodus that flooded their cities two years ago, several west European governments are employing one creative idea: Pay the migrants to go back where they came from.France, Austria, Britain, Sweden and Norway have some form of pay-to-go programs. Probably because it let it more migrants than any other European country, Germany is leading the way. Families can get up to $3,540 to cover rent or resettlement costs back in their home countries.The so-called “voluntary return” programs for asylum seekers are not new; they have been around for at least 20 years. But recently there has been a significant softening of previous proposals due in part to Angela Merkel’s efforts to silence criticism of her open-door border policy. As she fought for...
December 16, 2017

One-way ticket

UN instead of the US
Not for the first time has Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the United Nations to replace the United States as the No 1 mediator between the Palestinians and Israelis. In 2014, with peace talks under President Obama and Secretary Kelly floundering, Abbas wanted the UN to replace the US as the leading peace broker between the two sides. But in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that the US was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Abbas has a much stronger motive to ditch the US as the premier dealmaker and seek another party for the job.At least in the UN, the Palestinians would find a party that shows concern over their plight. Since its founding in 1948, the Security Council has adopted over 80 resolutions directly related to the...
December 15, 2017

UN instead of the US

South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma
South Africa’s humiliated president
It has been said that most political careers end in failure. South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma is heading toward the end of his 10 years in power in humiliation. His failure has not been personal, as much as it has been national. The verdict already seems clear. Zuma has let the Rainbow Nation down. He has failed his people.His decade in power has always been overshadowed by allegations of corruption and sexual misdemeanors. In 2005, before he became president he was charged with raping a family friend. He was acquitted though other allegations of sexual misconduct, such as those that are currently destroying political and showbiz careers in North America and Europe, continued to circulate. In that same year he was charged with corruption over a 1999 multi-billion dollar arms deal....
December 14, 2017

South Africa’s humiliated president

Who was defeated in Alabama?
Why did the highly conservative state of Alabama go against its deep-set political grain and reject the Republican candidate Roy Moore in favor of his Democrat rival for a US Senate seat?Did Moore’s rival, Doug Jones, win as part of a rising tide of opposition to Republican President Donald Trump or because Alabama voters were repelled by allegations that Moore, a former judge, had been guilty of sexual misconduct with teenage girls? It is interesting that in the final stages of the campaign, the Republican party establishment, which had originally distanced itself from Moore, held its collective nose to give him its support. It was not difficult to see why. The GOP had a two-vote majority in the Senate, now cut to one.As voters went to the polls on Tuesday there was still considerable...
December 13, 2017

Who was defeated in Alabama?

A better solution for Libyan migrants?
The European Union has been accused of being complicit in the torture and abuse of migrants in Libya. Amnesty International claims that Libyan people smugglers are being paid not to send migrants to sea in flimsy rafts to be picked up by a European warship or an NGO vessel and taken to an asylum camp in Italy.Indeed, the human rights organization says the Libyan Coastguard, which has been trained and equipped mainly by the Italians, is being paid to intercept migrant crafts.What has outraged world opinion are the conditions in which migrants are kept in official and unofficial detention camps, the majority of them in the west of the country supposedly under the control of the UN-backed government of Faiez Serraj. Amnesty says there are 20,000 detainees but this omits those, largely from...
December 12, 2017

A better solution for Libyan migrants?

Time for wider nuclear missile treaties
ALMOST 30 years ago to the day, Mikhail Gorbachev, the leader of the-then Soviet Union, flew to Washington and sitting alongside President Ronald Reagan, signed a groundbreaking nuclear arms agreement.The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INFT) eliminated all nuclear and conventional missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers. Inside four years, more than 2,600 of these missiles had been destroyed by both Washington and Moscow.Three decades on and America is accusing Russia of welching on the INFT. This March this year a US general told Congress that Moscow had deployed a cruise missile, the Novator 9M729 that breached the treaty. The Kremlin has denied this. But at the same time it has said the United States is about to break the INFT with its deployment to Romania and...
December 11, 2017

Time for wider nuclear missile treaties

Change of guard in India’s Congress
AFTER the results of India’s 2014 parliamentary elections were announced, a group of agitated Congress workers gathered outside the party office in New Delhi. Some people thought they were going to demand the resignation of the mother-son duo (party president Sonia Gandhi and the No. 2 Rahul Gandhi) responsible for the party’s worst drubbing in its history. No, they were demanding Priyanka Gandhi, Rahul’s sister, too be brought into active politics. They thought Priyanka who is more charismatic and more energetic could rejuvenate the party.Nothing revealed the relationship between India’s grand old party and Nehru-Gandhi family better than this spectacle of Congress workers waving posters, which read "Priyanka Lao; Congress Bachao" (Bring Priyanka; Save Congress)...
December 10, 2017

Change of guard in India’s Congress

UN peacekeepers are supposed to be supermen
Fifteen UN peacekeepers were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the worst ever attack on a UN peace mission anywhere in the world. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that it was an attack not just on the individuals, but on what the UN and its peacekeeping operations stand for.The UN said the peacekeepers were attacked by suspected rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in North Kivu province. The group is described as Islamist and apparently it claims allegiance to Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS). But as with most of the groups in this area of mass poverty, perpetual instability and vast mineral resources, motivations for the attack can be numerous.It’s hard to find a country on the map that has had so many problems in its history. The DR Congo suffered through...
December 09, 2017

UN peacekeepers are supposed to be supermen

The air children breathe
Whenever air pollution is discussed, the talk is almost always about the adults who suffer. But children are involved as well. If anything, children, starting from infancy, are hit harder than their parents. They are more susceptible to the harmful effects of air pollution because children breathe more air per pound of body weight, so their exposure to air pollution is much greater than adults. Children’s organs, including their lungs, develop until they reach their late teens, usually around the age of 18. Developing organs are sensitive to the toxic effects of air pollutants and environmental toxins, and children absorb pollutants more readily than adults and retain them in the body for longer periods of time.A recent UNICEF report has only verified what scientists have known for a...
December 08, 2017

The air children breathe

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