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Does Donald Trump understand just how the UN needs to be reformed?
DONALD Trump is right to criticize the United Nations’ red tape and bureaucratic ways. At a New York meeting Monday on reforms to the international organization he made the compelling point that the UN should be concentrating more on people and less on bureaucracy. That the UN is even thinking of reform is due to its new Secretary General Antonio Guterres whose bid for the job included a promise to change the way the organization does business.Two years ago, when the UN turned 70, the calculation was made that with its peacekeeping forces and its raft of different organizations covering everything from health, food, education and human rights, it cost every person on the planet just $6 a year. The proposal was that this figure should be increased to $40. In the euphoria of its...
September 19, 2017

Does Donald Trump understand just how the UN needs to be reformed?

A very silly court case
YOU couldn’t make it up. A British nature photographer set up some camera gear in Indonesia tempting crested macaque monkeys to take photographs of themselves. A picture of a grinning monkey known as “Naruto” staring into the lens with a big grin went viral on the internet and was used in a book by the photographer David Slater. An animal rights charity People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) went to a US court arguing that the monkey owned the copyright of this “selfie”. A lower court threw out the case on the basis that a wild animal could not own the rights to the picture. The charity went to an appeal court but before judgment could be given, Slater settled agreeing that he would give a quarter of his earnings from the monkey selfie photographs to animal causes.The...
September 18, 2017

A very silly court case

Aung San Suu Kyi
Suu Kyi: The price of compromise
MYANMAR’S de facto ruler Aung San Suu Kyi has decided to skip this week’s UN General Assembly session to deal with the Rohingya crisis. Of course, nobody expected Suu Kyi who doubles as her country’s foreign minister to travel to New York for two good reasons.One, her response to the crisis has drawn worldwide condemnation. Her words and actions, according to many, amount to complicity in the crimes against the Rohingya. A petition on Change.org to strip Suu Kyi of her Nobel Peace Prize has reached almost half a million signatures. The second reason is a corollary of the first: Her unwillingness to listen to pleas from the world community to do something immediately to alleviate the suffering of a people described as the world’s most persecuted minority.An estimated 400,000...
September 17, 2017

Suu Kyi: The price of compromise

A passenger sits on an underground train leaving Parson's Green station after it reopened following an explosion on a rush hour train Friday morning, in London, Britain. Reuters
The enemy within Britain
IT is extremely fortunate and astonishing that the explosive devise detonated on a Tube train in south-west London during Friday’s morning rush hour did not lead to a single fatality. The bomb appeared not to have gone fully off. Had it worked as intended, it would have killed everyone around it and maimed everyone else in the train carriage. In the end, 29 people were treated in hospitals, mostly for burns, but no serious injuries. However, the thought of what might have been and what might be next has forced Britain to upgrade its terror threat to the highest level, from severe to critical — meaning an attack is expected imminently.This is the fifth terrorist attack in England in 2017, coming on top of three incidents in London and one in Manchester from March to June, with a...
September 16, 2017

The enemy within Britain

The true face of Zionism
IN not so many words but quite clear in what she meant, Israeli Minister of Justice Ayelet Shaked has said Zionism stands in opposition to not only human rights but also universal justice.Shaked had been critical of the Israeli High Court of Justice’s recent decision in which it ruled that illegal aliens refusing to be transferred to a third African country cannot be detained indefinitely. In her speech organized by the Israeli Bar Association in Tel Aviv, she criticized the court for giving insufficient attention to Zionism and the country’s Jewish majority. “Zionism... will not continue to bow down to the system of individual rights,” Shaked said, considering national and Zionist values as an “absolute truth”. “The Jewish majority and not human rights,” said Shaked,...
September 16, 2017

The true face of Zionism

Trust and betrayal
THE depth and range of the corruption that has already been proven or is still alleged to have taken place at very highest levels in Brazilian politics and business is shocking. Politicians trusted by voters choose to use their power to enrich themselves and their cronies. In large part they did this when business leaders paid them for favors or contracts. It remains unclear for now whether it was by and large Brazilian business, which first offered the inducements to politicians, or the politicians, who first began to demand the payola.Either way, this essentially financial corruption has had a far wider impact. Leave aside the corrosive effect on the confidence of voters in the political establishment they elected, the waves of this scandal have crashed ashore around the world. A...
September 15, 2017

Trust and betrayal

Putin weakens NATO
GOOD friendships can sometimes actually begin with a fight. In December 2015 Turkish jets shot down a Russian Su-24 fighter which Ankara said had strayed from Syria into Turkish airspace. A furious Moscow protested and threatened a permanent breach in diplomatic relations. Yet just six month later Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Moscow and emerged alongside Russian President Vladimir Putin for a photo call that was all smiles and handshakes.The Kremlin’s anger at the downing of one of its warplanes was clearly outweighed by the opportunity to finesse the incident to its distinct diplomatic advantage. Erdogan did apologize but there was no attempt by Putin to make the Turkish leader eat crow. Rather, it is now clear that Erdogan’s Moscow visit opened a very new chapter in Russo-Turkish...
September 13, 2017

Putin weakens NATO

The Catalan message for Brussels
ACCORDING to the organizers, a million people thronged the streets of Barcelona Monday demanding Catalan independence from Spain. The Catalan parliament has passed a law authorizing a referendum which the Spanish government in Madrid had declared a breach of the country’s constitution. Federal police have reportedly seized ballot papers that have been printed, ready for the day when the Catalan authorities will dare to challenge the Madrid government and go ahead with an independence vote.It is reported that if any referendum were held, it would be a close run thing. There is a core of people living in this Spanish province, including native Catalans, who think a breakaway a very bad idea. A major motive for voting against is the plain fact that Catalonia already enjoys a high degree of...
September 12, 2017

The Catalan message for Brussels

So many Libyan peace plans, so little peace
IN some ways, the official photos of the African Union’s latest mini-summit on Libya said it all. Right at the front stood Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso who was hosting the meeting. To one side of him stood South African President Jacob Zuma. But at first glance there was no sign of the Libyan delegations.Closer inspection revealed Libya’s internationally-backed Presidency Council (PC) chief Faiez Serraj craning to look over Nguesso’s shoulder. Of Ageela Saleh, the president of the elected parliament, the House of Representatives (HoR), hardly anything could be seen but the top of his head behind Zuma.Whether Nguesso meant it or not — and if he didn’t he was extremely badly advised — he turned what ought to have been a crucial meeting about Libya into a...
September 11, 2017

So many Libyan peace plans, so little peace

Narendra Modi
Modi’s problems, opposition’s opportunity
IT is three years since Bharatiya Janata Party’s Narendra Modi came to power in India, promising “good days” which, among other things, meant better governance, faster development and an end to corruption.There was the excitement that comes from the injection of a leader who, though new to the national scene, had served as three-time chief minister of an important state and an entirely new ideology. Part of the reason for his government’s popularity was the discredited one it replaced. Any country usually awards some sort of honeymoon to a new president or prime minister. In Modi’s case, it has lasted longer than he could have hoped for. Media too was indulgent.But latest reports indicate that all this is not enough to mask his many vulnerabilities. News from the economic front...
September 11, 2017

Modi’s problems, opposition’s opportunity

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