[ad_1] The message that President Michel Aoun wanted to convey to the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, can be summarized as follows: “No to the cancellation of subsidies” for medicines, fuel, wheat and the food basket. To do this, they met yesterday at the Baabda Palace, and …
Read More »A decision to open the country … and continue with the night curfew?
[ad_1] Al-Akhbar wrote: The decision has been resolved. No extension of the country’s blockade. This was announced by the Crown Ministerial Committee, after its meeting yesterday. This “cartridge” was the last in the battle against the virus, which spreads very rapidly in all regions without exception. As for the last …
Read More »Damien Short: redefining genocide
[ad_1] Genocide is historically known as the systematic mass killing of a group of people, but in reality it is a delicate and very complex phenomenon. In his book “Redefining Genocide: Settler Colonialism, Social Death, and Environmental Genocide” (Z Box 2016), writer Damien Short systematically rethinks how academia currently describes …
Read More »Al-Akhbar: Aoun blocks the road to Salama
[ad_1] Al-Akhbar wrote: The message that President Michel Aoun wanted to convey to the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, can be summarized as follows: “No to the cancellation of subsidies” for medicines, fuel, wheat and the food basket. To do this, they met yesterday at the Baabda …
Read More »The apartheid system between South Africa and Palestine
[ad_1] There are many comparisons between the apartheid regime in South Africa and settler colonialism in Palestine. Some of them went to “celebrate” the removal of the former, but American writer Andy Clarno, an assistant professor of sociology and people of color at the American University of Illinois, who spent …
Read More »Britain is “protecting” the Saudi oil fields
[ad_1] At the same time, the effectiveness of the British role in supporting the Saudi aggression against Yemen is revealed. It appears that London’s operational role has finally been expanded to include the “protection” of the Saudi oil fields, following the attack on the two “Aramco” oil facilities by the …
Read More »Bob Kaufman: Poet of Holy Obscenity
[ad_1] “Screaming louder than pain, we forgive ourselves; / Original sin seemed to be a broken cylinder. / The Lord played the blues, to kill time, all the time. / Red rivers brought us to life” . Before his poetry, the biography of Bob Kaufman (1925-1986) and his life in …
Read More »Triumph of Sisi, speaking for the first time: a failed whitening attempt
[ad_1] Cairo | For the first time, the first lady of Egypt appears in a dialogue (recorded) on the screen. Intisar al-Sisi, who is usually with her husband on official occasions, was delayed six years before going out to talk. However, her first appearance, which was too formal, was unsuccessful …
Read More »Trump’s surprises do not end: two months of “anguish”
[ad_1] In a further step toward acknowledging defeat, outgoing US President Donald Trump announced, for the first time, his intention to leave office if the electoral college confirmed, at its meeting scheduled for December 14, that his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, had won the presidential election. A step that was …
Read More »Iran accuses Israel of assassinating Fakhrizadeh: the latest adventure of a quarter of an hour
[ad_1] Tel Aviv, and Washington behind it, are risking the last fifteen minutes. The two sides are racing against time no more than two months from Joe Biden’s inauguration, to establish a fait accompli that is hard for anyone to beat. After the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, as responsible for …
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