Protection Money: Who Lebanon’s Budget Recovery Actually Benefits
The government is making more money than it spends by feeding on the poor to protect its banking class
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Power Struggles: Lebanon’s Summer Heat Exposes Energy Divide
The crisis-ridden ownership of energy in Lebanon has created an energy divide of haves and have-nots and a system reliant on imports
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Bogus Budget: Lebanon’s 2022 budget punishes the poor to protect the rich
By kicking the can down the road on comprehensive reform, the 2022 budget is just another power grab by the establishment
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Why Lebanon Needs Renewable Energy Now
We really need solutions, because people can no longer pay for their generator bills.
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No More Bread and Games
Since Roman times, the tried and tested tools used by the ruling classes in order to appease the poorest have always been “panem et circenses,” or bread and circuses. And for the past three decades, Lebanon’s political circus has kept many a politician, pundit and plebeian much amused with a mix of spectacle, sectarian posturing […]
