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HILLARY Clinton has described as “inexplicable and shameful” a decision by the UK government of Boris Johnson not to release a parliamentary report into Russian interference in British elections and particularly the 2016 referendum vote to quit the EU.London has said the report will be published after the Dec. 12 general election. However, given the febrile atmosphere around one of the UK’s most bitterly-fought campaigns in a generation, it seems more than likely that one of the members of the all-party Intelligence and Security committee will leak the contents. Meanwhile Johnson’s opponents will accuse him of covering up findings, which they will claim prove Moscow’s interference in the decisions of the British electorate. This would destroy his key argument that the Brexit vote...
November 13, 2019

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Deadly urban pollution
IN many of the world’s great cities, pollution is an unpleasant fact of life. Tragically it is also a fact of death. Statistics on the rates of mortality it causes in crowded urban areas can be hard to pin down. However, it stands the reason that anyone with an existing condition such as asthma, is in immediate danger. But the poisons carried by unseen particulates belched from engine exhausts, power stations and home fires have a more insidious effect on previously healthy individuals.Delhi is currently caught is a smog which has reduced visibility to just meters. The authorities blame the burning off of stubble in farms outside the capital. But though such activity is clearly contributing to these record levels of pollution, the underlying causes are far wider spread. According to the...
November 08, 2019

Deadly urban pollution

Ayatollah appeasement
FOR how much longer will the Europeans seek to appease the Iranian regime? Appeasement is the act of pacifying or placating someone by acceding to their demands. Notoriously in 1938 the French and British governments appeased Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler, allowing him to seize first part and then all of Czechoslovakia. Then British premier Neville Chamberlain spoke of the German’s demands on the Czechs as “a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing”.Iran is not a far away country of which Europeans know nothing. Rather the opposite. Since the overthrow of the Shah 40 years ago, the ruling ayatollahs have made no secret of their determination to throw over the principles that govern international relations. The ordinary supporters of a revolution that...
November 07, 2019

Ayatollah appeasement

Trump trashes climate deal
THERE are no surprises to any aspect of the withdrawal of the United States from the UN’s Paris climate agreement. On his way to the White House, President Donald Trump promised voters he would quit the deal. This week was the earliest under the agreement’s rules that Washington could serve formal notice. The actual end to its involvement in the Paris Agreement will be in a year’s time, exactly one day after the US presidential election.Nor has the reaction been surprising. While other governments have been restrained in their expressions of disappointment at the American move, Trump’s many detractors, including the vocal and well-organized environmentalist campaigners, have howled with anger and damned him in the most vituperative and indeed violent terms.Yet the one thing of...
November 06, 2019

Trump trashes climate deal

Why Tehran fears growing Iraqi protests
As public protest in Iraq continues to snowball, there is one very good reason why Iranian-backed Iraqi militiamen are shooting demonstrators. The ayatollahs in Iran fear that the contagion of anger and unrest that has erupted in their neighbor could well spread across the border and infect their own long-suffering citizens.Iran has long been a byword for corruption and incompetence. The economic illiteracy of the regime’s leaders has been staggering. The patience of ordinary Iranians has already been severely tried, resulting in a series of huge, nationwide protests, the last of which between 2017 and 2018 were only suppressed with extreme brutality by the ayatollahs’ enforcers, the Revolutionary Guard. Even without the original sanctions that drove it to the nuclear negotiating...
November 05, 2019

Why Tehran fears growing Iraqi protests

Lebanese seek big changes
WITHIN 24 hours of resigning, former Lebanese prime minister, Saad Al-Hariri was asked by President Michel Aoun to form a caretaker government, which is supposed to be of technocrats rather than the country’s widely-discredited crew of politicians.Hariri had quit in the face of unprecedented protests by tens of thousands who took to the streets to demand an end to corruption at the highest levels and collapsing public services as well as root and branch financial reform which would stop to country’s descent into a serious debt crisis. Ten days into the protests he agreed a modest raft of changes, which included cutting the generous salaries of politicians. These concessions were not enough and came too late. The public mood is one of burning anger at the venality and incompetence of...
November 01, 2019

Lebanese seek big changes

Tough times for Argentina
UNLIKE individuals, states can borrow money that will only be repaid over generations. They will also borrow to repay outstanding debt. Very few countries do not carry a burden of borrowing and the extent of that financial weight is measured in its relation to the country’s earnings, its Gross Domestic Product (GDP).Eurozone member states for instance are obliged by the rules underpinning the single currency to have debts that are no more than 60 percent of GDP. Though this formula is more honored in the breach by the likes of Italy, France, Belgium and of course Greece, the euro has the apparent might of the European Central Bank behind it and the Union’s economic powerhouse, Germany.Argentina’s debt to the GDP is currently around 86 percent, modest when compared to Belgium’s 160...
October 31, 2019

Tough times for Argentina

Relentlessness in California
A European journalist newly posted as a correspondent to the United States used the word “relentless” to describe his first impressions of his new home.He meant relentless in the pace of life in New York, where he was based, and relentless in the drive of industrialists and entrepreneurs and developers. Were he still working in America, he would doubtless have been using the same word to describe the two major forest fires that are currently raging at either end of the state of California. Just as the flames are relentlessly consuming hundreds of hectares of land and threatening thousands of homes, so the efforts of the fire departments are showing no let up. And this being California, whose $3 trillion gross state product makes it the equivalent of the world’s fifth largest economy,...
October 30, 2019

Relentlessness in California

The monster is dead
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, leader of the monstrous terrorist organization Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS), is dead. Nothing better epitomized him than that in his final seconds, he chose to murder three of his own children when, cornered in a tunnel, he detonated his suicide vest. A blasphemous creature, who threw over every standard of decency and humanity in his crazed and brutal campaign for power, Baghdadi’s demise is a cause for joy. It not only, as President Donald Trump made clear, makes the world a safer place, but it brings some sort of closure to the families of Baghdadi’s tens of thousands of innocent victims.As long as this man lived in the shadows, there would have been willing dupes ready to go out and do his bloody business. But, of course, his death does not spell an end to...
October 29, 2019

The monster is dead

Facebook’s planned currency not so sweet
THE German name Zuckerberg translates as “sugar mountain” and Facebook founder Mr. Zuckerberg has without a shadow of a doubt built for himself and his partners a very sweetly profitable mountain that dominates all the other social networks out there.By allowing people to keep in touch effortlessly, follow and comment on products, services, causes, dear or not so dear to their hearts, and daily news, he has empowered 2.5 billion users, 1.5 billion of whom reportedly log in at least once a day. The current world population is around 7.7 billion. Facebook has therefore made its fortune by gathering and selling on to third parties, an extraordinary amount of detailed information on more than a third of the people on the globe. National regulations on privacy are proving largely puny in...
October 25, 2019

Facebook’s planned currency not so sweet

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