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The advance on Tripoli
Although Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar has threatened the Libyan capital before, the current military advance to take over Tripoli is a major assault that could easily blow up into a fresh military confrontation. Despite all of Libya’s instability since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, Libya has not seen a move as potentially explosive as this in years.While there have often been questions about whether Haftar has the military forces to seize the capital, because he commands the Libya National Army which controls two-thirds of Libya, he stands a chance of realizing his objective while at the same time raising fears of a major showdown with rival militias. Libya has long been ripe for chaos. Even though the two main parties to the conflict are Haftar and the internationally recognized...
April 07, 2019

The advance on Tripoli

NATO at seventy
THE North Atlantic Treaty Organization has spent the last 70 years readying itself for its primary task, which has always been to defend Western Europe from attack by the Russians and their allies. When in 1991 the Warsaw Pact collapsed along with the old Soviet Union, the argument was made that NATO no longer had any enemies and had outlived its usefulness. But thoughts of disbanding it were put on hold. To keep its multilateral military formations working with each other, the Brussels-based organization had deployments to shooting wars in Afghanistan and Bosnia. The armed forces of the 29-member countries continued to train together and send senior officers to NATO headquarters. The principle has always been that in the event of a threat, NATO should ready itself to field a credible...
April 04, 2019

NATO at seventy

Is Nancy Pelosi politically incorrect?
Thestandard wisdom is that revolutions eat their own children. Driven by social media, political correctness has stormed popular opinion, with allegations of all types of misbehavior dragged up from the distant past. Reputations and careers have been ruined, lives wrecked, or indeed lost through suicide. The consequences of this public shaming have been devastating.These social media memes have mostly been generated by liberal or ultraliberal groups. They produce tidal waves of posts condemning, often in the most vicious terms, anyone who voices views contrary to their own. Thus a respected professor such as the clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson of Toronto University in Canada has become a figure of demented hatred because he criticized small but extremely vocal groups promoting ideas...
April 04, 2019

Is Nancy Pelosi politically incorrect?

Business as usual for Erdogan
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose to make Sunday’s municipal elections a vote of confidence in his 16 years of rule. In the view of some commentators, he has suffered an humiliating defeat, losing control of the capital Ankara and apparently also of Istanbul, the country’s commercial and cultural hub.The result in Istanbul is being disputed by his Justice and Development Party (AKP) which has referred the count to the Supreme Election Board. According to the official figures, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) candidate Ekrem Imamoglu scraped a win by 25,000 votes. However, AKP organizers protest there were over 300,000 spoilt ballot papers and are, therefore, demanding a recount.Two factors stand out in this vote. With his nationalist ally the MHP, Erdogan’s...
April 03, 2019

Business as usual for Erdogan

Narendra Modi
Modi targets votes in space
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who faces a general election starting in 10 days time, has targeted voters with news that their country has become a “space superpower”. Last week, an Indian missile deliberately destroyed one of India’s own satellites. Modi hailed the Anti-Satellite (ASAT) test as proof the country was now one of the four global space superpowers.The ability to destroy satellites was first demonstrated by the US in the1950s, Russia 1968 and then China in 2007. In the event of a major conflict, while rival powers will seek to monitor or disrupt each other’s vital communications and infrastructure via massive computer hacking operations, a key tactic may also be to destroy spy satellites which from high orbits are supposedly able to read a vehicle registration...
April 02, 2019

Modi targets votes in space

Where is Algeria heading?
The decision by Abdelaziz Bouteflika not to seek a fifth term as president has failed to placate Algerians who descended on the capital on Friday yet again.Because this was the biggest demonstration – one million people – since unrest erupted six weeks ago, it is clear that neither Bouteflika’s pledge to eventually step down nor the succession of loyalists calling on him to leave have pacified the increasing number of protesters. They want more. They want to replace the establishment with a new generation of leaders capable of modernizing the country and giving hope to a population impatient for a better life.The protesters of Algeria have ambitious demands in a country long dominated by the history of the independence war against France. Those wars in the 1950s and the early 1960s...
April 01, 2019

Where is Algeria heading?

Special Olympics still carrying the torch
Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organization for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, providing year-round training and competitions to five million athletes in 190 countries. It is one of the greatest success stories of the times.So it is with great relief that President Donald Trump has said he is reversing a request to eliminate funding for the Special Olympics in the US. What is disturbing is that his remarks were prompted a day after a proposed $17.6 million cut to the organization, about 10 percent of Special Olympics’ overall revenue.US Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had been under fire since her budget proposal introduced the cut. Before Trump overrode her proposed cut, DeVos said that while she personally supported the Special Olympics and its...
March 31, 2019

Special Olympics still carrying the torch

Brexit Bedlam
FOR all the talk of British politicians messing up the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, it is now emerging that leaders in Brussels have also been miscalculating. Business Europe, an umbrella body for business groups in all EU countries, is expressing urgent concerns the EU has not made adequate preparations if Britain crashes out of the Union without an agreed deal. Unless UK legislators have a sudden outbreak of sanity and agree to work together, there is no obvious hope of agreement in parliament on the terms on which the British exit (Brexit) should take place. Given that negotiations between London and Brussels have been going on for two years, this is little short of incredible. The problem has partly been that EU negotiators played hardball, seeking to impose...
March 28, 2019

Brexit Bedlam

Tactical voting in Turkish election
IN one important respect, Turkey’s upcoming municipal elections do not matter. Even if the ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party and its far right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) ally lose badly, as some commentators expect in a free and fair vote, it is unlikely to wobble President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who still has four years of his mandate to run.Since he drove through radical constitutional changes that created a powerful executive presidency, which he then won, Erdogan has been busy centralizing government powers. He will not regard defeat in local polls as in the least bit critical to his increasingly autocratic presidential rule. In parliament, the AK party does not have an outright majority and is having to work in coalition with the MHP. But since legislators have been...
March 28, 2019

Tactical voting in Turkish election

Corruption sinks ferry
The Mosul ferry disaster on Iraq’s Tigris river, in which at least 120 perished and dozens more are still missing, is an awful tragedy for a city that in recent years has seen more than its fair share of catastrophes.The public fury over the sinking of the overloaded ferry before it reached a popular holiday island was very real. Some distraught survivors lost most members of their families when the overcrowded boat capsized. The death toll was undoubtedly greater because the vessel lacked life jackets and adequate lifeboats. The primary responsibility for this terrible tragedy undoubtedly rests with the ferry operators. They had been warned the Mosul Dam upstream had been opened to let out excess water. The level of the Tigris along with the extra speed of its current had, therefore,...
March 26, 2019

Corruption sinks ferry

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