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Turkey defies Washington
As feared by many moderate Turks, the fix is going in. Last week the country’s Supreme Electoral Council ruled that six pro-Kurdish mayors from the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) elected last month cannot take office. Their jobs are going to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP). On Tuesday the AKP submitted a formal demand for a rerun of the Istanbul election, which it lost narrowly to the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). But the AKP’s humiliating loss of the capital Ankara was so overwhelming that it will take very creative thinking and constitutional fixing to overturn it.Meanwhile, a Turkish delegation in Washington has demanded that the Trump administration waive economic and defense sanctions over the imminent delivery of...
April 18, 2019

Turkey defies Washington

Few executives pay the price of failure
Unless they are self-employed, the majority of people spend their working lives in organizations that are often run by distant bosses. In recent years in North America and Europe, the pay gap between the ordinary salaried worker and leading executives has widen substantially as top managers are awarded remuneration packages, including bonuses and share options that border on the outrageous.The justification for such massive financial awards is that corporate leaders with their large offices up in mahogany row at the top of head office buildings carry immense responsibilities on their shoulders. In the world of joint-stock companies their job is to drive ever-greater profits in return for these generous rewards by shareholders. This laudable model is, however, becoming increasingly...
April 17, 2019

Few executives pay the price of failure

Ukraine’s comic election
Since embattled Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is being challenged by a comedian, it was very probably meant to be a joke. His opponent TV comedy star Volodymyr Zelensky failed to turn up for a pre-election debate this weekend, so Poroshenko found himself arguing with an empty podium in front of an audience of thousands in Kiev’s Olympic stadium.Many of those watching are likely to have been highly-amused Zelensky supporters since in the first round of the presidential election, the actor, who has zero political experience, won more than 30 percent of the vote. By contrast Poroshenko garnered just under 16 percent. Both men now face the voters in this weekend’s runoff. All the polls indicate Zelensky is going to win.If they are right, a Zelensky triumph will be the more...
April 16, 2019

Ukraine’s comic election

Assange: The good and bad
Julian Assange, who was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London after nearly seven years of self-imposed confinement, is now in UK custody, charged by the US Justice Department with conspiring with a former American soldier in around 2010 to hack into a government computer. Assange may also have to face authorities in Sweden as it considers whether to reopen an investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against him. But the US will have a much harder time of extraditing the founder of Wikileaks and trying him in court on charges of espionage. And therein lies the rub, the question that has always followed Assange: Is he a hero or a villain?The US knows that a charge of espionage will be difficult and so has gone for the lesser but surer charge of hacking. The US seeking...
April 15, 2019

Assange: The good and bad

Parallel paths
In only this month of April, two sitting Arab presidents have been forced out of office in the wake of popular uprisings. The common denominator of the two back-to-back revolts has been the call by the people of the two countries for a sea change in their governments, the interim takeover by the armies of both countries and the continuation of protests after their presidents left as people demanded to show the ruling elite the door.The departure of Sudan’s Omar Al-Bashir on April 11, after 16 weeks of demonstrations against him, was the second time this month that a leader in the region has been forced out after mass demonstrations. Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down on April 2 after six weeks of protests.In both cases, a hitherto hidden disconnect between the people and those...
April 14, 2019

Parallel paths

Losing the bug battle
GREED and stupidity are contributing to a potentially disastrous global health crisis. Beginning with penicillin, a family of antibiotic drugs was created capable a combating a wide range of conditions that would once have been deadly to the majority of those infected. But the challenge has always been that bugs gradually build up resistance to antibiotics that were once able to check them. This is an inevitable and natural process. Medical scientists need to deploy different, often more powerful antibiotics. The urgent concern now is that the armory of different drugs, is almost exhausted. There are already bugs, such as Acinetobacter baumannii in Iraq, which cannot be knocked out by any antibiotic. Thus, surviving infection depends on the age and strength of the patient, the quality of...
April 11, 2019

Losing the bug battle

The wolf no longer bleats
Those who despair at the strong likelihood that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has won himself a record fifth term in office are missing a key point. Without exception, each and every Israeli government, regardless of its political color, has quietly pushed the agenda of a Greater Israel, inevitably at the expense of the Palestinians.Had the challenger Benny Gantz won the weekend general election, the tone of the government might have changed but its direction would have been the same. Different sheep’s clothing but the same wolf.Therefore, all the talk of “right-wing” Netanyahu or “centrist” Gantz is meaningless. For years Netanyahu protested that he wanted a peaceful settlement with the Palestinians. Yet every time that peace looked in danger of arriving, he found some...
April 11, 2019

The wolf no longer bleats

Iran’s terrorist guardians
Tehran has reacted with predictable hysteria to Washington’s announcement that the ayatollahs’ Revolutionary Guard is now considered to be a terrorist organization. To some observers, it is a mystery that this did not happened earlier, not least because the Quds Force, the foreign expeditionary arm of the Guard, has been deemed by Washington to be a terrorist group since 2007.Had the Trump administration wished to go the extra mile, it could also have included the Basij militia, the thuggish band that played a major role in putting down the 2009 popular protests following the fixed presidential election.The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is not simply committed to protecting the ayatollahs from the anger and despair of their own people. It has also seized for itself a pivotal...
April 10, 2019

Iran’s terrorist guardians

Will Haftar’s Libyan advance finally bring peace?
The long-expected military showdown in the Libyan capital Tripoli has begun.General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) is closing in on the city on three fronts. The internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has vowed to defend itself with what its leader Faiez Serraj called a “Volcano of Rage”.However, the reality is that the GNA has no forces directly under its command. It has been forming a Presidential Guard for two years. Commanders have been appointed, arms and equipment sourced and a few ordinary soldiers recruited. But their pay and conditions simply do not compare to what can be earned in the militias. Besides being paid by the government, these gangs pull in substantially more cash through fuel and people smuggling, blackmail, extortion and...
April 09, 2019

Will Haftar’s Libyan advance finally bring peace?

Little to choose from in Israel’s elections
On any other day, the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is considering formally annexing certain Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and that he is not ready to evacuate ”a single person” from West Bank settlements would be blockbuster news. But these pronouncements come just before the April 9 general elections, and they come from Netanyahu who could be victorious at the ballot box, producing further banner headlines.Netanyahu, who also recently ruled out a Palestinian state as being an existential danger, is the only Israeli leader who has accepted the two-state solution only to do everything to prevent it from happening. He is certainly in no hurry to seek a Palestinian settlement. It used to be that the Palestinian-Israeli problem took...
April 08, 2019

Little to choose from in Israel’s elections

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