Double-Dealing: Financial elites loom over Lebanon’s proposed capital controls

The latest draft capital control law purports to impose formal rules on this unfair situation. Yet, in doing so, the bill would place the system’s management in entirely untrustworthy hands. Under the legislation, the nation’s rapacious politico-banking elites would have ample opportunities to twist capital controls to serve their narrow, selfish interests.

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Resistance Revived: BDS Movement Gains Momentum Amid Gaza Genocide

Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli Sympathies in the United States.

Fighting Words: An Analysis of Hezbollah’s Narrative since the War on Gaza

How the Party of God’s narrative has evolved, and what it means. Read the full analysis.

Running From Disaster: A Roadmap for Rescuing Lebanon’s Telecoms and Electricity Sectors

Reform of state-owned enterprises is both possible and necessary, starting with electricity and telecoms. Read the full paper.

Don’t Let It Burn: Lebanon’s Last Chance for a Progressive Deposit Recovery Plan

A guide for recovering the lifesavings of Lebanese depositors. Read full article

Onwards and Upwards? The Lira’s Treacherous Route Ahead

Will Mansouri succeed where Salameh deliberately failed? Read full article

Crude and Green: Energy Giants Scoop Up Lebanon’s Oil, Wind and Solar

Oversight absent as TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy take over the energy sector.

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