From Foreign Waters

After over two weeks of violence clashes over gasoline price hike in Iran, the President Hassan Rouhani has asked for the release of innocent unarmed civilians. Iran has been reeling under dissatisfaction over bad governance.   On November 15, Iran government increased the prices of gasoline by 300 percent sending waves of fears over almost 100 cities. Most of Iran is a poor country, where people are finding it difficult to make ends meet.   Most youth do not have jobs and there is virtually no self sustained economy. Civilians have been asking for the clerical leaders to step down. However, the Iranian clerical rules have comfortably pinned the blame of the outburst on “thugs” linked to its opponents in exile (Qatar for example) and the country’s main foreign foes like the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia to name a few. Speaking through its own channels, chief commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Hossein Salami spoke out words of wisdom. He has be...

Wisconsin is one of the American states which still has its hopes pinned to Donald Trump. It is one of those economies that derives its output from farming and factories, both industries worst hit this term, thanks to Trump’s trade wars. Other states that have been affected include Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Louisiana.   There is an evident slowdown on production in these states, due to the pull down of prices and oversupply which was never consumed for one or the other reason.   Wisconsin’s dairy sector has also taken a big hit with a reported 634 of the state’s roughly 8,000 dairy farms being closed down this year itself. The trade war with China is to be solely blamed for low exports of milk and dairy products. According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, manufacturing has also been hit by tariffs and trade uncertainty. Wisconsin factory payrolls are down 1.6% in the past year. State factory output grew at a 0.5% annual rate in the nine months through June, c...

Pro- Hezbollah protestors could be seen chanting anti American slogans outside the US Embassy in Lebanon recently. The protestors marched into Awkar, 11kms from Beirut and were protesting against US meddling with their government affairs. The demonstrators were seen burning US and Israeli flags with some trying to cut the barbed wire to break through the security cordon. This has led to riots and the crowd had to be dispersed by internal security forces with tear gas. Participants included young men from the Communist Party, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party and some Palestinian refugees participating in a demonstration where they gave out a message of “resistance and non conformity to US meddling expressed by former US Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman.” Protests under a solid civil disobedience movement have been going on in Lebanon. Various protests are being seen across the country that are demanding the right to a proper government representation that works in favour of the...