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Editor’s letter
‘Vladimir Putin has finally silenced Alexei Navalny. The Russian
president likes to poison his enemies: That's how whistleblower
Alexander Litvinenko was killed, how dissident Vladimir Kara-
Murza ended up in a coma, and how former Ukrainian Presi-
sent Viktor Yushchenko was disfigured, But after Navalny sur-
vived a Kremlin poisoning with the deadly nerve agent Novi-
chok in 2020, he refused to go into exile, instead bravely return-
ing to Russia and certain imprisonment. So Putin had Navalny
slowly tortured, starving and freezing him over months in prison,
and almost certainly gave the order to kill him last week. What
was Navalny saying that was so intolerable? In witty, mock:
ing YouTube videos, he exposed the wealth that Patin had stolen
from the Russian people, a dragon's hoard of palaces, yachts, pri-
vate jets. “This isn't a country house,” Navalny said in one video,
showing Putin's $1.3 billion private resort. “Its an entre ety, or
rather a kingdom. It has impregnable fences, its own harbos, 2
church, a no-fly zone—even its own border crossing.” That's the
video Navalny’s eam posted on his behalf soon after his 2021
arrest. If racked up more than 100 milion views in just two
weeks and inspired protests across the country
Though Navalny is gone, his message will not be silenced. His,
Anti-Corruption Foundation is still operating (you ean find it at
acf.nternational) and will keep on exposing the crimes of Putin
and the oligarchs, whae Navalny called the “party of erooks and
thieves.” Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, says she will carry
‘on her husband's work, and so will their daughter, Daria. They
will continue to remind the world that, as Daria said while ac
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Destroying
the Arctic
for profit
‘Simon Holmstrém
EU Observer (Belgium)
Where armed
militias are
still the norm
Allison Morris
Irish Independent (Ireland)
_Best columns: Europe
Norway has unilaterally decided to plunder the
Arctic, ravaging one of the world’s most pristine
environments for its own profit, said Simon Holm-
serm. A new law authorizing deep-sea mining,
passed by the parliament in January, opens up an
area of Arctic seabed roughly the size of Arizona
“to both exploration and exploitation.” In becom-
ing the first country in the world to mine the sea
‘on a commercial scale, Norway says it wants to
break the stranglehold Russia and China have on
the trade in rare earths, as well as gain aecess 0
the cobalt, copper, nickel, and manganese i will
need to make batteries and solar panels. But the
extraction of these minerals involves “big machines
grinding up habitats, releasing large plumes of
toxic sludge into ocean currents, smothering ma-
rine life” No wonder environmentalist are calling
i “ecocide.” Isa clear violation of the European
Union's laws protecting the environment, but
since Norway is not an EU member, it can't be
prosecuted in EU courts. Still the European Parlia-
rent has passed a resolution calling on Norway
“to respect its international obligation to not cause
harm beyond its own waters." The international
‘community must follow suit and pressure Norway
to abandon its mad plan before it's too late.
The Troubles ended 25 years ago, so why is North-
cen lreland still awash in paramilitary groups?
asked Allison Morris. The 1998 Good Friday
Agreement ostensibly resolved the conflict between
the Irish Republican Army and its unionist oppo-
nents from Northern Ireland. “Those interested
in transitioning” to civilian life “have had almost
three decades to wind up their structures an leave
the stage and yet they still exis, with leaderships
stil in place.” Splinter groups of the IRA “have
been involved in murders” and numerous “attacks
‘on members ofthe security forces.” Fortunately,
their numbers are relatively small, because Irish
republicans largely embraced the political process;
indeed, they now head up the government
Belfast. Loyalist paramilitaries, by contrast, “con-
tinued to recruit long after the cease-fire,” and to
this day they boast “thousands of members spread
across Northern Ireland.” These loyalist groups
claim they exist to defend Protestant communi-
ties against Catholic militants. In practice, most
members are just thugs who prey on their own
people, “using the cloak of paramiltarism as a
cover for drug dealing and extortion.” They feed
oon poverty and marginalization, not ideology and
patriotism—and nobody should romanticize them,
In any other country, they'd be “considered no
more than organized crime gangs.”
‘The British left is marinati
in “anti-
U.K.: Can Labour shake off its persistent antisemitism?
many other party members, but it will
Jewish prejudice” that “has plunged
the Labour Party into crisis,” said Leo
McKinstry in the Daily Express. Azhar
Alia Labour candidate for Parliament,
was revealed last week to have spouted
“the grotesque conspiracy theory” that
Israel deliberately allowed Hamas to carry
cour its Oct. 7 massacre in order to provide
a pretext for bombing Gaza. Rather than
immediately disowmning the candidate,
Labour leader Keir Starmer stood by
for days. Only after another recording
became public, this time showing Ali cast-
ing aspersions on “peopl in the media from certain Jewish quar
ters,” did Starmer finally ct him loose. The party has also had
to suspend another candidate for saying that Brits who volunteer
for the Israeli army “should be locked up.” Starmer elaimed to
hhave purged Labour of the antisemitism that permeated it under
the previous leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Yet since he took over in
2020, there have been more than 700 complaints of antisemitism
played by Labour lawmakers, candidates, or activists. Clearly,
the flames of enmity are burning out of contro.”
‘This isn’ entirely Starmers fault said Jack Kessler in the Evening
Standard. “Progress has been made”—it’s jus that there was
such an avwfully long way for Labour to go. Corbyn came from
the far left of the party, the part chat believes Israel isa colonialist
state working for evil capitalists. Under him, as an “excoriating
report” by the Equality and Human Rights Commission made
cleas, Labour was “responsible for unlawful acts of harassment,
and discrimination” against Jews. Starmer expelled Corbyn and
Starmer: Making progress, but not there yet
take longer to “achieve a proper elear-
‘out.” That Ali’ offensive comments came
ata local Labour meeting shows that the
candidate assumed his fellow party mem-
bers agreed with his “anti-Jewish con-
spiracy theories” That's because Starmer
hasnt “changed his party fundamentally,
‘only put an agreeable PR gloss on it,”
said Rod Liddle in The Spectator. Views
such as Al's are still “all too prevalent,”
particularly “within our Muslim commu-
nities” and they're likely shared by “the
majority of Labour activists.”
Yer this problem runs far deeper than one party said The Observer
in an editorial, The Conservatives, too, just had to expel one of
their own, Salsbury Mayor Atiqul Hoque, for social media com-
ments ranting about Zionist paymasters. The sad reality is that
antisemitism is “flourishing” across Britain. A Jewish charity that
‘tracks antisemitic incidents reported more than 4,000 in 2023,
the most in 40 years, with “a huge spike following the Hamas at-
tack on Israel” Depressingly, the abuse began the day of Hamas’
attack, well before Israel mounted its military response. That
shows that the trigger wasn’t Israeli ations, “bur the massacre
of Jews itself,” said Danny Cohen in The Telegraph. The terror-
ist radicalized a shocking number of British etizens, who now
feel free to act out their hatred. “Synagogues have been targeted,
posters of kidnapped babies defaced with swastkas, cemeteries
desecrated.” Everyone needs to denounce this loudly: the parties,
yes, but also ordinary people. Unless the antisemites face conse
‘quences, “I fear for where this story will en
"THE WEEK March 1,2024Best columns: International
NEWS 15
Indonesians just elected as president
a former general once banned from
the US. for human rights abuses, said
Saumya Kalia in The Hinds (India)
Exit polls show that Prabowo Subianto,
a somin-law to former military dicta-
tor Suharto who served in Suharto's
1967-1998 dictatorship, easily took
nearly 60 percent in the three-way race.
“Linked to military brutality and abduc-
tions” in the 1990s, when East Timor
rebels were batting for independence
from Indonesia, Prabowo was dishonor-
ably discharged after the dictatorship col-
lapsed. Bur since then, he has reinvented himself as a statesman.
He ran for president in the previous two elections, losing to the
popular Joko “Jokowi” Widodo both times and sparking deadly
riots in 2019 when he challenged his loss. Now that Jokowi
can’t run again, Probowo is finaly victorious at age 72, having
“changed his tack from being a populist to a loyalist and trans-
formed his image from strongman to cute, cuddly grandfather”
He's positioned himself asa caretaker of Jokowi’s legacy, taking as
his running mate Jokowi’s son Gibran Rakabuming Raka.
Prabowo's win shows that public memory of the dictatorship
“is quickly fading,” said Poltak Partogi Nainggolan in Jase Pos
(indonesia). Those under 40 now make up more than half the
electorate, and most have no memory of the regime's “political
repression and authoritarian practices.” Prabowo has admitted
responsibility for some of the abuses he’s accused of, including,
the kidnapping and disappearance of student protesters. But
a US. ban on his entry was lifted when he became Jokowis
Prabowo and his veep, Jokowi's som Gibran
Indonesia: A former general and the makings of a dynasty
defense minister in 2019, and his re
habilitarion seems complete. That is
cause for alarm. Indonesia's intellectual