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Lebanon – Mired in crises, Lebanon marks one year since Beirut blast (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: Hundreds of Lebanese have marched in Beirut to mark one year since a cataclysmic explosion at the port ravaged the capital, protesting...

Lebanon/Europe – Here is why the EU should sanction Lebanon’s bankers (Al Jazeera)

Sami Halabi writes: One year has passed since the Beirut Port explosion of August 4, 2020. As summer temperatures are hitting record highs, so is the...

France/Lebanon – Macron criticises ‘failing’ Lebanon politicians at fundraiser (Al Jazeera)

Al Jazeera writes: French president renews call for formation of government able to implement reforms in crisis-hit Lebanon during donor conference on anniversary of...

Global Pandemic – The Summer of Disaster (Project-Syndicate)

J. BRADFORD DELONG writes: The world is facing two disasters that are making the COVID-19 crisis doubly worse than it ought to be. The...

Central Banks/Inequality – Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality? (Project-Syndicate)

KENNETH ROGOFF writes: Judging by the number of times phrases such as “equitable growth” and “the distributional footprint of monetary policy” appear in central...

Global/Economics – Are Economists in Love with Tough Love? (Project-Syndicate)

RICARDO HAUSMANN writes:  Mark Twain purportedly said that “History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.” Typically, however, what rhymes is not the underlying historical facts but...

Belarus – The Diplomatic Triumph of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and the Fate of the Belarusian Opposition (The Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe writes: On July 28, United States President Joseph Biden held a 15-minute face-to-face talk with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who many in the West...

Russia/Pakistan/South Asia – Pakistan Stream Gas Pipeline: Russia’s Key to South Asia? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Sergey Sukhankin writes: Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov and Pakistan’s ambassador to Moscow, Shafqat Ali Khan, signed a revised agreement on May 28 that...

Russia – Putin’s Response to Bridge Collapse Highlights Infrastructure and Political Problems (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Globe writes: The collapse of a single short river crossing on the Trans-Siberian Railroad 300 kilometers from Chita, in late July, and President...

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