Sunday, October 11, 2026

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Cheney Halfwit

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The Third Shock… or the First Blunder 

Ah, Hezbollah and the Aounist movement. They must have thought they were sitting pretty, like a kid at the candy store. The first shock to their delicate little system came when Joseph Aoun was elected the new president of Lebanon. A second one foll...

Lebanese Circus …..At its Best

Ah, Lebanon. The country where everyone has an opinion about everyone else, except their own backyard. It's truly a marvel of human nature: talk all day about freedom, dignity, and resistance, but when it comes to, you know, actual decisio...

Of Princes, Tax Farmers and Revolts…

Lebanon’s relatively modern history (c.1500s to 1800s) has known ruling princes or Amirs, nominated by the Sublime Porte. They were Ottoman subjects with grand titles, and many degrees removed from the central power of Istanbul. They overs...

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