Tag: Politics
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Xi Jinping and Chinese hegemony.
Xi Jinping is one tough nut to crack. The inscrutable leader who demonstrates no emotion and has no equity in any emotional outcome challenges anybody who has to face him. Behind the veneer are life lessons of being an outsider within the establishment, but he can also be characterised as being an insider. The poverty…
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Will the 20 point plan lead to more….
Having read Yair Lapid’s argument for change in Israel there is one lesson and that is not to take anything coming out of the mouth of Netanyahu as having any value when in negotiation. In announcing Trump’s proposal for his 20 point peace plan, there is a realisation that Netanyahu had decided to destroy the…
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The Rage
It has been bothering me for over a month…. The words of Trump – that the Palestinians holding the hostages in tunnels were inhuman “ not a word – no humanity, nothing. There was no warmth, a little word of encouragement. A lot of bad things . Hamas have said they are going to use the…
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For authoritarians who take themselves to seriously
I am not a fan of psychologists or psychiatrists, I have never been. One is a pill pedaller and the other delves into the psych to perform arguments that at times are theoretical and at others are damn right dangerous. There is a way to come to truths, arguments and mostly reflect on the internal…
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The miracle of Lebanon
The miracle of Lebanon is that it did not de-generate into the mess of the 1970s and 1980s. The Lebanese security forces have managed a crisis through extraordinary diplomacy even though it has been starved of funding by a political class that has been driven by infighting. Parliament has managed to elect a new government,…
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Long term security
They term it a summit, a place that has been designated a neutral spot where the elements of an argument can be settled. Maybe these are just exploratory talks between two men delving into the dark side of a war that has cost hundreds and thousand of lives, but the candidness of Trump to welcome…
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Witness of war….killed
The argument that you can assassinate a journalist without evidence, challenges all journalists in war zones. Israel is yet to provide evidence that Anas al-Sharif, a journalist for Al Jazeera was a Hamas mole. The idea that voices are being lost in this war is also an act that closes down independent voices from media…
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At first it was denials, then admittance – the excuses…. Is the Tony Blair foundation above criticism
The Neenah Cherry song 7 seconds, is about starvation, war, pestilence and disease. Bob Geldoff got onto the phone to his mates and pushed to save the millions dying in Ethiopia, but the originator of the war in the Middle East – Tony Blair took advice and argued that $9,000 would cut the population of…
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America, trying to move into manufacturing. (will it work)
It won’t be the tariffs that Trump will regret, it will be the way he is going about negotiating at the top table that will challenge his ideas and arguments. Honda and Toyota, are already manufacturers in the United States and may find themselves in an advantageous position, but that really does not tell the…
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Intelligence and the move towards realising the hole Iran is in
Apart from the decision to think Israel was bluffing, the Iranians have made a catalogue of mistakes that have made its decisions to fight a war impossible. The concept that Ayatollah khamanei is threatening the United States falls into the bracket of not registering the reality of the states weakness. Trump may buy into the…
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