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New Australian PM pledges ‘generational change’ to heal ruling party

HossenSohel: New Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison promised generational change in the warring Liberal party yester day, seeking to end an internecine battle that has scarred the conservative government ahead of an election due by May 2019, reports Reuters.Morrison, ...বিস্তারিত

Imran, Pakistan, and South Asia

Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, Professor and Founder Chair, Dept. of Television, Film and Photography, University of Dhaka The newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, a popular sports star turned politician, in his inaugural speech exhorted for peace in Sou ...বিস্তারিত

Vandana/Daily O, India Gandhi's style of speaking often feels like he is trying to explain things in the simplest possible terms to his audience, taking a leaf from how someone explained those things to him. Congress president Rahul Gandhi's foreign tours are known to keep both social media users and journalists (many of whom are also social media users) on the edge. Whether Gandhi goes untraceable after taking off from India or emerges at some platform abroad to speak, like he did in Germany, a lot of interest is manufactured around his visits. The speech in Germany, which is now 'the most important thing that India needs to discuss', is an everyday example of how empty our political discourse has become. Politicians make political speeches because it is their job. In the process, they lie through their teeth, obfuscate facts and vitiate the atmosphere. Leaders of the opposing camp then counter the 'facts' made in the speech with 'counter-facts'. Time passes, nothing changes. What has come under attack in Rahul Gandhi's address made before a gathering at Kampnagel Theater, Bucerius Summer School, Hamburg, Germany as part of the party's NRI outreach programme, is the comparison he drew between the rise of ISIS and instances of lynching being reported from across the country. In short, what Gandhi tried to tell not just NRIs, but also the foreigners gathered at the event, was that the government's failure to create jobs and its destructive policies such as demonetisation and the faulty implementation of the GST, which claimed a lot of jobs in the small and medium sector had led to discontent among the unemployed youth — also leading to many people losing their businesses. He went on to warn that such discontent among youths leads them to participate in incidents such as lynching. So far, so good. He then rushed into explaining the rise of ISIS attributing it to the denial of government jobs to a certain tribal community of Iraq. Gandhi said, Modi "demonetised the Indian economy and destroyed the cash flow" of all small and medium businesses rendering millions jobless. "They imposed a badly conceptualised GST which complicated lives further," he said. "Large numbers of people who worked in small businesses were forced back to the villages and these three things that the government has done has made India angry. And that's what you get to read in the newspapers. When you hear about lynchings, when you hear about attacks on Dalits in India, when you hear about attacks on minorities in India, that's the reason for it," he stated. "In the 21st century, when the world is connected, it is very dangerous to exclude people. When the US attacked Iraq in 2003, they introduced a law that didn't allow one particular tribe from getting public jobs... It was easy for the US to take down Saddam Hussein within a few months without much casualty. But, a few months later, the network that was excluded from jobs in Iraq, the Tikriti tribal network, linked up with a cell phone network and the network of artilleries left in villages, and what you got was an insurgency that fought the US and caused massive casualty. It didn't stop there, but slowly entered empty spaces, in Iraq, in Syria, and connected with the global internet to form the horrific idea — ISIS," Gandhi said. Gandhi's style of speaking often feels like he is trying to explain things in the simplest possible terms to his audience maybe taking a leaf from how someone explained those very things to him. That, however, is a matter of pure conjecture. While when Rahul Gandhi will gain the maturity to understand the complexities of politics and political speeches remains a matter best left to time, the BJP has succeeded in giving the speech a spin calling it a justification of the ISIS and extremism. By making it a communal issue linked to the national security, BJP does not have to answer on the other issues of joblessness and discontent raised in the speech. It is not without a reason that children are seen begging on the streets of the national capital and the state of education is so bad that many can't read and write despite attending schools. Real issues facing the common man are not saleable commodities. And therefore this needless debate — over whether the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria and lynchings in India have a link — must go on.
Rahul Gandhi compares lynching in India with the rise of ISIS. So what?

Vandana/Daily O, India Gandhi's style of speaking often feels like he is trying to explain things in the simplest possible terms to his audience, taking a leaf from how someone explained those things to him. Congress president Rahul Gandhi's foreign tours are known to ...বিস্তারিত

Idlib awaits war’s final showdown

Sami Moubayed/Gulf News A major assault on the Syrian province depends on the outcome of diplomacy between the Turks and the Russians The once sleepy city of Idlib, perched in the Syrian northwest, was supposed to be next on the battle list of the Syrian and Russian ar ...বিস্তারিত

And Cohen is now practically begging to sing against Trump to special counsel Robert Mueller. Chat Conversation End
The true perils of betting on impeachment

Seth Lipsky/The New York Post None too soon to think about the prospect of impeachment. It’s in the headlines, after all, in the wake of the guilty verdicts against Paul Manafort and the guilty pleas by Michael Cohen. It may be claimed that none of the crimes of Presid ...বিস্তারিত

"The power is with the people, and the people will and can decide their destiny and decide the future," she said, addressing a crowd of supporters and journalists after her release.
Ahed Tamimi and the power of Palestinian women

Ramzy Baroud/Al Jazeera Lamia, Reem, Shaima and Dwlat are powerful Palestinian women just like Ahed, but their stories have been ignored. Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old Palestinian activist from the village of Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, is an icon of a rebellious young ...বিস্তারিত

Breaking the cycle of lower pay for women is complex, but bosses could start straight away by simply putting a stop to the “salary question” in interviews, and including wage details in job adverts.
The ‘current salary’ question harms women. It must go

Bex Bailey/The Guardian, UK I am 26. At the current rate of progress, I will be retired – or worse – before women in the UK are paid as much as men. The gender pay gap starts the moment women enter the workplace and continues – often getting wider with age – until ...বিস্তারিত

Fifteen years after coming to power on the back of a foreign-exchange crisis, Erdoğan now seems intent on manufacturing a new crisis of his own.
Tough Times for the Tough Guys

Chris Patten/Project Syndicate Authoritarian leaders worldwide are confronting mounting crises of their own making. But while Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin face slower-brewing challenges, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US P ...বিস্তারিত

Incidents such as Hurricane Sandy in September 2012 have shown how disaster response teams can leverage the “power of collective intelligence” given by social media.
Opinion: Social media’s not all bad – it’s saving lives in disaster zones

Paul Reilly and Ioanna Tantanasi/WION News Social media was recently credited with reducing the number of casualties caused by air strikes in the Syrian civil war. The early warning system, developed by tech startup Hala Systems, uses remote sensors to detect aircraft fly ...বিস্তারিত

US Democrats are struggling to make sense of a socialist surge

Anne McElvoy/The Guardian, UK Anti-Trump activists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of the Democratic Socialists of America have galvanised disillusioned voters On the well-kept shores of Martha’s Vineyard, Bill and Hillary Clinton and the Obamas arrived this month, ...বিস্তারিত

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