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Environmental cleansing in Brazil
The social media hordes love a good cause, especially one where the only effort they need to make in support is merely pushing the “like” button. In among a kaleidoscope of their different concerns, one of the latest being “cultural appropriation” (owning a Japanese teapot when you are not Japanese), one constant has been the environment.It is thus no surprise that social media warriors are incensed by the fires currently raging over large parts of the Amazonian rainforest in Brazil. Farmers, ranchers and mining companies have long used the dry season to burn down millions of trees to create new fields or access to fresh ore deposits. Unfortunately, agriculturally, this “environmental cleansing” is largely useless. The cleared land is of poor quality yielding limited harvests....
August 27, 2019

Environmental cleansing in Brazil

Macron’s G7 stunt
PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron seems to have tried to play a flanker at the G7 meeting in the French resort of Biarritz. To the considerable surprise of President Trump and his US colleagues, Macron invited Iran foreign minister Javad Zarif to a meeting held on the fringe of the summit. Zarif used Twitter, Trump’s medium of choice, to gloat that he had had “constructive” talks with Macron. The French leader has been spear-heading efforts to frustrate Washington’s reimposition of tough economic sanctions of the regime in Tehran. At first sight, whether wisely or not, his invitation to Zarif to come to Biarritz for one-to-one talks might have seemed reasonable. But in reality, it was more like a stunt, because Macron had already met the Iranian minister in Paris on Friday, on the eve of...
August 27, 2019

Macron’s G7 stunt

Erdogan deporting Syrian refugees
AT first sight, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s record over the handling refugees fleeing carnage in Bashar Assad’s Syria is admirable. Turkey hosts more than 3.6 million refugees many of whom are housed in massive camps not far from the border with their homeland. The best of these camps, which the authorities have been eager to show off to media and visiting officials from around the world, are self-contained fully-serviced townships, with stores, workshops, schools, hospitals and perhaps most importantly, especially for children, psychological services to try and help them cope with the traumatic horrors they have experienced.The greater part of this major relief effort has been funded by the international community. It would have been absurd to expect Syria’s neighbors,...
August 23, 2019

Erdogan deporting Syrian refugees

Trump peeved he can’t buy Greenland
EVEN those who have quietly reveled in the way that Donald Trump has trashed the political and diplomatic norms of the US establishment will have probably caught their breath this week over the President’s hissy fit about Greenland.Trump has canceled an upcoming state visit to Denmark after the government there refused to consider selling its vast dependent territory of Greenland to the United States. The idea itself is not outlandish. In the past America has bought Florida and New Mexico from Spain, Louisiana from France and most famously, Alaska from Russia. The last has vast oil reserves conservatively valued at $200 billion.Since 1834 Washington has been considering buying Greenland, the world’s largest island, which is 80 percent covered in ice. In 1946 President Harry Truman...
August 21, 2019

Trump peeved he can’t buy Greenland

Tunisia needs better elected politicians
Tunisia’s revolution, the first and only surviving manifestation of the Arab Spring, faces a new test with the election next month of a successor to the late Beji Caid Essebsi followed by a general election in October.These second free elections since the ouster of the Ben Ali regime in 2011 are notable for the number of independent candidates. Around a hundred people have cast their hats into the ring for the presidency. There is also a plethora of would-be legislators who are saying they are aligned to no particular party. This potentially chaotic situation is evidence of the perceived weakness of the current electoral laws, a weakness which last year the late president recognized. He established a team of experts to recommend changes and also examine the possibility of adjusting the...
August 20, 2019

Tunisia needs better elected politicians

Another tragedy in Bangladesh
The images have been heartbreaking. Families who had little enough already were pictured rummaging desperately through the burnt-out wreckage of their homes in a shanty town in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh.They were looking for any items that might have survived a devastating blaze that swept through Chalantika late on Friday evening. Some 1,500 shacks were destroyed making, by some estimates, up to 50,000 people homeless and destroying everything they owned.Mercifully, it appears that this latest fire disaster killed no one, though some people were burned as they rushed to rescue a few of their possessions from the advancing blaze. Yet Bangladesh has an unacceptable history of conflagrations which in recent years have killed hundreds. Last February, the capital’s historic Chawkbazar...
August 19, 2019

Another tragedy in Bangladesh

Israel defies Trump … but why?
Given that he clearly prides himself on his no-nonsense approach to everything including foreign policy, international trade and immigration, President Donald Trump must be ruing his administration’s outstandingly slavish support for Israel.Thanks to the Zionists within his top team of advisers, among them his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Trump has defied international law and moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and effectively endorsed the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem and cut financial aid to the Palestinians. He has also continued the standard US policy of giving Israel money, weapons and intelligence, even though Zionist spies have stolen what secrets that have not been given and the Israel military has attacked US warships.Trump...
August 15, 2019

Israel defies Trump … but why?

Argentina’s fumbled reforms
Since Monday, there has been a gaping hole in the floor of the handsome domed building of the Argentinian stock exchange in Buenos Aires. Through it plunged the value of leading shares and the country’s currency, the peso. Stocks fell by a record 30 percent and the peso collapsed fully 15 percent against the US dollar. This financial mayhem was caused by the shock result of the first round of Argentina’s presidential election. Against all expectation, including it appears of the left-wing victor, Alberto Fernández, sitting president Mauricio Macri is now facing defeat in the final vote in October. More than two centuries of Argentinian financial failure have produced endless chapters in economic textbooks. However, it seemed with the 2015 election of the free market supporting Macri,...
August 14, 2019

Argentina’s fumbled reforms

Hong Kong warned of an ‘abyss’
How much longer will Beijing’s patience last with riotous Hong Kong? What began as a peaceful protest against key legislative change that would have seen suspects deported from the territory for trial on the mainland has grown over the last three months into major confrontations with the police and a general strike that has severely affected the airport and urban transportation.At issue has been the proposal of Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing leader Carrie Lam to revoke one of the key terms of the “one country, two systems” agreement when Britain returned its former colony to Chinese rule in 1997. This deal granted Hong Kong citizens a range of freedoms that are not available on the mainland. This high degree of autonomy except in foreign and defense affairs is due to last for 50 years,...
August 13, 2019

Hong Kong warned of an ‘abyss’

Hating hatred is not enough
Hatred based on race, religion or background is itself hateful. Less than a century ago, still within living memory, the Nazi government of Germany, one of the cradles of European culture, adopted official antisemitism which grew in scope until it ended with the horrors of the gas chambers and the extermination of some six million Jews. The Vichy government of a defeated high-culture France also connived in the Nazis’ abhorrent genocide. Now, thanks to the unscrupulous and amoral maneuverings of far-right politicians, Europe is gripped by a new phobia, which is directed against European Muslim citizens and over a million migrants from predominantly Muslim war-torn countries who have sought refuge there. A by-product of this fresh eruption of corrosive contempt which is Islamophobia is...
August 12, 2019

Hating hatred is not enough

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