#Lebanon

Very useful background to the "negligence" that caused the tragedy in Lebanon by @glcarlstrom of @TheEconomist https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/08/06/its-unbelievable-negligence-even-on-the-scale-of-the-perennially-negligen
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I'm really having trouble reconciling this new FBI that is suddenly bound by due process and red tape with the one that was pulling people into unmarked airport rooms without
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A "brief" recapitulation of monthly events/turmoil in 2020 :- LONG THREAD JANUARY-US airstrike killed one of the most important leader of Iran, Gen.Qassem Soleimani-Philippines Taal Volcano eruption-Trump impeachment inquiry-Irani
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1/ Crises like the many Lebanon faces can only be confronted by governments that can take decisive and difficult decisions. Two features of our system impede Lebanon’s ability to do
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BDL Governor Riad Salameh to France 24 (interview airs tonight): The era of the LBP peg is over and Lebanon is moving to a market-determined floating exchange rate. Governor doesn’t
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Unfortunately history is written by force/realities on the ground and if there is no conceivable chance of changing that by force then getting the best terms for "surrender" is the
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A thread on the United Nations’ annual #WorldHumanitarianDay (19 August), and its campaign to highlight aid workers’ achievements and the risks – sometimes fatal – they face. This year’s theme
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1/ A small thread on the exchange rate 2/ Again with the basics: rate will be set by supply and demand. Any attempt to force the market will fail
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Former Iraqi PM Al-Maliki: We Would Have Sent The Iraqi Army To Fight In Syria If It Were Needed To Prevent The Fall Of The Al-Assad RegimeIf Assad were to
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[THREAD] Soybean futures, Solidere shares and the #FourthTurning: Lebanon’s crisis from a historical and demographic perspective 1. In #Lebanon these days, it’s easy to get lost in the minutae of
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In 1981 two @YediotAhronot journalists investigated remarkable story: senior @IDF officers had created & were running #terrorist group that was behind bombings in Lebanon. Israeli military censor killed storyTerrorist campaign
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Even on its own terms, the “all uprisings against authoritarian ‘anti-imperialist’ states are CIA plots” narrative is so unbelievably disempowering. It’s amazing its exponents are allowed to get away with
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THREAD: To commemorate #WorldRefugeeDay and as part of the @UNHCRCanada #FromFarAndWide challenge, we will be highlighting the exceptional work of organizations around the world who are bridging divides and
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let’s talk about antifa!dean headcanonsdean votes. every election. even after hes been declared legally dead. sam refuses but dean all but drags him to the voting booth because “gop douchebags
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I'm skipping Wonder Woman. Want to know why? A THREAD.https://twitter.com/Elana_Brooklyn/status/1343970536364380161 You're all talking about ACAB, defund the police, yet you watch Wonder Woman, a movie where the lead actress was
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The tragic Beirut blast the other day is still in the news. It provides a good opportunity for us to take a look at a demographic group of Nigerians many
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