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  • Repatriation of Syrians from Lebanon

    According to Human Rights Watch, between April and May there have been 2000 Syrian refugees forcibly returned to Syria from Lebanon. They were undocumented, but that hides the real reason that Syrian’s are being forcibly returned. Since 2013, donors have disbursed $13 billion for the 1.5 million refugees who have entered Lebanon to escape the…

  • The Syrian problem

    The Middle East welcomed Syria back into the Arab League, and yet the country is still divided through conflict. By welcoming al-Assad back into the fold of the Arab League, Arab leaders who once provided the weapons and finance to oust him have taken a step back from pressuring the regime. If anything it was…

  • Is Putin safe

    There is not that much difference from totalitarianism than fascism. The autocratic state that Putin has created is just a mirage for its extreme arguments, but what Putin has done is provide his population with secure government after the chaos of the break up of the Soviet Union, but is this enough? Prigozhin’s rebellion last…

  • Blinken did a hell of a job

    “Blinken did a hell of a job,” said Biden, when talking about his Secretary of States visit to China. “I had a candid, substantive meetings. We must make sure that competition does not move into conflict,” said Blinken. The US has moved on from the last meeting between Biden and Xi Jinping, which took part…

  • The Libyan problem

    Twelve years since the fall of the autocratic regime of Ghaddafi, Libya a country of over seven million is split between two factions: The Government of National Accord (GNA), based in Tripoli, dominates the political landscape of the west, and the Libyan National Army, dominates the east of Libya. Despite the calm over the last…

  • Part two Lebanon politics

    Politics in Lebanon is normally a dull affair where the same names and parties dominate arguments that morph into a singular contention of – what’s in it for me -. But since the uprising of October 2019, where hundreds and thousands of Lebanese took to the streets to demand political change, there has not been…