Hypocrisy is a well-known phenomenon in world politics, but every now and then, one is left breathless by the mendacity of some states. Russia has just made a statement that it has “never” supported the Syrian President Assad. Apparently the fact that Syria buys about 10% of Russian arms sales and that the Russian fleet regularly docks at a Syrian port does not qualify as support. One wonders what Russian opposition to a regime would look like.
The London-based Arabic daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, conducted an interview with Muhammad Al-Zawahiri, brother of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri on the situation in Egypt. If you would like a good insight into a non-liberal view of politics in Egypt, I would highly recommend that you read the interview.
There is a stealth argument emerging in discussions about the global economy: the end of the cheap labor era and the consequences for future economic growth. No one has really developed the idea in any detail, but the argument is that as labor costs rise in India and China, producers will turn to robots and artificial intelligence instead of using human beings for labor. It is a very difficult argument to test empirically, but more and more hints are being dropped as jobless rates in the world remain stubbornly high.
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