The history of modern Lebanon is a story that has its roots in the deception game of empires hiding behind the minority treaties, called great probably to emphasise the greatness of the empires it served. That story however continues as a Nation-Sta...
“All governments even the most autocratic ones, even tyrannies, “rest on consent,” and the fallacy lies in the equation of consent with obedience. An adult consent where a child obeys; if an adult is said to obey, he supports th...
Lors de son arrivée à Amiens le 20 janvier 2022, où il participait à la réunion des ministres Européens de l’Environnement organisée par Barbara Pompili, Stefan Tidow, le nouveau secrétaire d’Etat allemand à l’environnement, a indiqué que le nucléai...
In August 2018 news surfaced about the killing in the Central African Republic of three Russian journalists who were carrying an investigation into the activities of the secretive paramilitary Wagner group. The Washington Post described the group at ...
The exponential growth in locally generated and globally circulating data has created a policy chaos and caused systemic gridlocks and sudden-shocks failures. From the Covid-19 pandemic management and, the accompanying whatever-it-takes policies, to ...
The World Bank (Europe & Central Asia – Chief Economist Office) is organising next week a video conference under the theme: Building a Greener Recovery: Implications for Emerging and Developing Economies. This is an important event given current ...
The circus caused in the B series-like raid orchestrated by an all but hysterical Mount Lebanon prosecutor, the Judge Ghada Aoun, has highlighted to all Lebanese the extent of institutional damage in what has become the unravelling of a nation. The ...
Monsieur le Président de la République,
Nous avons célébré avec vous le centenaire du Grand Liban, alors que les décombres de Beyrouth étaient entassés sur les bords des rues Gouraud et Pasteur. Cette semaine le Liban des Citoyens célèbre avec tr...
The latest tragicomic even unfolding near Lebanese east Mediterranean shores was the recent announcement of Syria’s award of its deep water “Block1” to a little-known Russian exploration company with four employees and based in Chelyabinsk, Capital ...
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