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Simple arithmetic shows that the previous majority in the Parliament is now the minority. The designated Saad Hariri PM failed to form a government in over 45 days while he was the leader of the majority.  The President of the Republic should recall all the political blocks to designate another person for the job. Walid Jumblatt exit is not solely based on political divergences but mainly on his apprehension that the delay in forming the government is encouraging Israel to start another wave of political assassinations to destabilize Lebanon in this extended political vacuum.  Actually,...

Biden’s choice of William Burns as CIA director indicates that for the USA, foreign policy objectives have not changed and that the world

Ruchir Joshi   |     |   Published 12.01.21, 01:51 AM In early 1979, the US-backed Pahlavi regime was overthrown in Iran, bringing Ayatollah Khomeini to power. In November '79, Americans in the US embassy in Tehran were taken hostage; a month later, Soviet troops brazenly rolled into Afghanistan. In America, these events were widely perceived as national humiliations, ensuring that Jimmy Carter — one of the most decent and thoughtful men to occupy the White House — became a one-term...

Opinion December 22, 2020 It is noteworthy that in 1922 Belarus was one of the four units that formed the Soviet Union. And in 1991 three of the four units – Russia, Belarus and Ukraine – were the first ones to sign the death warrant of the Soviet Union in the shape of the Belovezha Accord. The new head of state in Belarus was Shushkevich, taking over as the first leader of independent Belarus. He ruled for three years and during that period Lukashenko emerged on the Belarussian scene. As the head of the Anti-Corruption Committee of Belarus, Lukashenko accused 70 top leaders in the gover...

Mon, Dec 21st 2020 12:09pm — Karl Bode It's generally understood that the latest Congressional COVID relief package is the policy equivalent of a band-aid on a lost limb, and the $600 being doled out to struggling American families is a joke (especially compared with international public aid efforts). We're also only just starting to take inventory of how much padding and nonsense is buried in the bill that couldn't be shoveled through standalone bills due to its innate terribleness and grift. But the bill did include a few helpful measures, including $7 billion to help shore up America's ...