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Delhi can win its fight against pollution
Throughout history, almost all the great capitals of fast-expanding economies have suffered from pollution. Beijing and Delhi are no exceptions. However, the Chinese Communist party has been able to use its draconian powers to shut down polluting plants, move whole factories out of the metropolitan area and organize traffic rostering. Such moves are proving altogether more challenging for the authorities in Delhi.Yet pollution levels are dangerously high, this week reaching 30 times the World Health Organization’s recommended levels in some parts of the Indian capital. The Indian Medical Association is deeply concerned and said Delhi was in a “medical emergency”. It has pressed for the cancellation on health grounds of the city’s half marathon on November 19.Much of the blame is...
November 07, 2017

Delhi can win its fight against pollution

Enough of the ‘Guns don’t kill people’ nonsense
THE National Rifle Association (NRA) has long trotted out the argument that it is not guns that kill people but the people who have guns. It is time, in the light of the latest mass shooting in the United States, to call the NRA’s bluff. If it is people, not the guns that kill other people, then it is high time the guns were taken away from them.The circumstances of the massacre of 26 people at a small town church in Texas are still unclear. A young white male, dressed in black and wearing a bullet-proof vest walked into the church and opened fire with a semi-automatic weapon.It appears he was driven from the church when a member of the congregation returned fire with his pistol. The gunmen fled in a vehicle followed by the man who had defended the church and a passing motorist. The...
November 06, 2017

Enough of the ‘Guns don’t kill people’ nonsense

ICC: Questions raised by Burundi
Burundi has decided to quit the International Criminal Court, the first country to do so. Like other African countries who at one time toyed with the idea of leaving The Hague-based tribunal, Burundi has accused the ICC of bias against the continent. It went one step further, saying the ICC is an instrument used by Western powers to effect regime-changes in Africa. Gambia, while announcing its decision to quit last year (withdrawn by the new government in February), said the ICC was “persecuting and humiliating the people of color, especially Africans”. The fact that the tribunal has not moved against former British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his role in the Iraq war was specifically cited by Gambia as another reason to severe its connections with the organization. “The ICC is in...
November 05, 2017

ICC: Questions raised by Burundi

How the Catalonia vote threatens EU
THE struggles for and against independence in the Spanish province of Catalonia are emblematic of the European Union’s present strength and its future weakness. They also display the weaknesses, present and future, of the two leaders of the contending parties: Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish prime minister and Carles Puigdemont, president of Catalonia.The declaration of independence made by Catalonia’s parliament a week ago was constitutionally illegal. Shots of huge pro-independence rallies obscure the fact that, in an opinion poll in the summer, 49.4 per cent opposed breaking away from Spain while 41.1 per cent supported it. Unionists have held their own large rallies and a new poll in El Mundo shows their parties with a slight polling lead in the December Catalan elections.The...
November 05, 2017

How the Catalonia vote threatens EU

Freelance foreign policy
Priti Patel, Britain’s international development secretary, apparently did some official business in Israel without telling the Foreign Office. The visit took place over two days in August while Patel was on a private holiday in Israel, which she paid for.Normally such an issue would concern only the relevant parties: Britain and Israel. However, there is a third silent party involved: the Palestinians. Britain currently spends approximately $85 million a year on aid to the West Bank and Gaza, most of which comes from Patel’s own departmental budget. Some of the money is given directly to the Palestinian Authority, the rest through the local UN agency or individual groups. But Patel has long been known to oppose some of this spending on Palestine. The fear among some is that Patel used...
November 04, 2017

Freelance foreign policy

Balfour is not to be celebrated
Nov. 2 marked 100 years since former British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, the first Jewish British MP, stating that the British government viewed with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and would use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this objective. This pledge became known as the Balfour Declaration, and the rest is history. The Jews proved most adept at turning the promise into an immigration permit and a “national homeland” into a nation state. They also turned this very small state into an empire that would seize and occupy territories of three Arab states in addition to the whole of Palestine.On the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, Israeli Prime Minister...
November 03, 2017

Balfour is not to be celebrated

Ayatollah Khamenei’s little joke
If it were not so serious, it would almost be funny. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has announced he has ordered his scientists to limit the range of his ballistic missiles to 2,000 kilometers. This, said a general in Tehran, was sufficient to target US forces should Washington attack. The unspoken part of this message was, of course, that Iranian missiles are already capable of reaching targets throughout the region. The threat could not be clearer.In a desperate attempt to close the stable door that, in an act of the greatest foolhardiness, Barack Obama threw wide open with his 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal, the US House of Representatives has voted a new round of sanctions on individuals and organizations involved in the Iranian missile program and other “destabilizing...
November 02, 2017

Ayatollah Khamenei’s little joke

Students walk past police line tape on their way to school a day after a man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City, in New York, US October 31, 2017. - Reuters
Trump’s first terror challenge
Another bigot. Another awful atrocity. Another pointless waste of human life. Uzbek-born Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov a 29-year-old father of three mowed down bicyclists on a dedicated cycle lane not far from Ground Zero, the site of New York’s 9/11 atrocity.By comparison, Saipov’s abhorrent crime was small - eight people died and eleven were injured when he drove a hired truck at high speed into the cyclists on Tuesday. But the effect of this latest slaughter, which Saipov claimed in a note was carried out in the name of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS), is likely to be even greater.America’s relations with its Muslim citizens were put on edge in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. A subsequent series of killings and failed attacks, generally carried out by individuals inspired by online...
November 01, 2017

Trump’s first terror challenge

The dangers of hunting the US president
The charges against a former Trump election aide have brought deafening cheers from the US president’s vocal opponents, whose social media disparagement of virtually everything he does now borders on the unhinged.But truth is the first casualty of every war, not least the political civil war around President Trump, which threatens to tear the country apart. Paul Manafort, who briefly led the president’s election campaign, is simply accused of 12 instances of tax fraud, which relate to the dealings he and a business partner had with individuals in the Ukraine.Probably more serious for the administration is the case against former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, who has admitted he lied to the FBI, denying links with Russians who said that they possessed “dirt” on Hillary Clinton....
October 31, 2017

The dangers of hunting the US president

Masoud Barzani
Barzani’s bungle
The ancient Greeks might have said that Iraqi Kurdish president Masoud Barzani was a victim of hubris, of arrogant overconfidence. Yet his calling of the 25 September independence referendum was in fact the act of an incompetent leader, whose subsequent resignation should not be regretted, even by his most ardent supporters.Before making such a fatal move, an adroit politician would have ensured that he was not leading his people into an international vacuum. He would have lined up at least some countries to support his independence bid. He would also have taken care to try and sell the case to the seriously-concerned minorities within the territory over which he held sway. These included Turkmen and Yazidi communities to say nothing of the Arab minority, particularly in the important city...
October 30, 2017

Barzani’s bungle

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