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Articles & Analysis

The Left Between Memory and Reality: From Nostalgia to Action

More than a century has passed since the founding of the Lebanese Communist Party, along with a long history of sacrifices and disappointments, of struggle and confusion. But the question today is: What remains of the Left when it turns […]

Bashir Osmat

26/12/2025

Economy & Transformations

When the Financial Plan Becomes an Ethical Crime in the Name of Stability

The financial plan claims to protect small depositors but unfairly penalizes those with slightly larger savings, using time and complex rules to reduce real value and delay access. Heirs and joint accounts face extra difficulties, while “financial innovations” often benefit […]

Bashir Osmat

26/12/2025

Economy & Transformations

Lebanon Between the Sanctity of Deposits and the Sanctity of Banks The Debate That Became a Crime

The debate over deposits in Lebanon sounds like a complex academic discussion, but in reality, it masks a slow, deliberate theft of people’s savings. While officials talk about protecting small depositors, those with slightly more are punished, and the elderly […]

Bashir Osmat

26/12/2025

Articles & Analysis

Eighty Years of Mobilization: From “State as Mission” to “State as Arena” – Part One

Lebanon has spent eighty years shaped by wars and narratives that treated it as an arena for others’ conflicts rather than a sovereign state. The recent war proved that the country and its economy can no longer bear this role. […]

Bashir Osmat

26/12/2025

Articles & Analysis

The Left Between Nihilistic Obituary and Living History: From the Dilemma of Nostalgia to the Possibility of Renewal

The article critiques a recent pessimistic view of the left as dead and irrelevant, arguing instead that despite its struggles and failures, the left remains a vital and evolving force. It stresses that the left must overcome nostalgia for past […]

Bashir Osmat

08/12/2025

Articles & Analysis

Lebanon on Others’ Tables

Lebanon is no longer negotiating from a position of choice, but from a position of collapse. What is presented as diplomacy is, in reality, the management of defeat, while sovereignty is postponed, traded, or erased under the name of reform.

Bashir Osmat

04/07/2025

Articles & Analysis

Between Heroism and Self-Destruction: When Resistance Turns into a Collective Illusion

Heroism does not mean abandoning reason, nor does resistance justify destroying the state. True confrontation requires awareness, strategy, and national unity—not slogans that mask collapse and push societies toward collective illusion.

Bashir Osmat

02/07/2025

Articles & Analysis

May 4: Let Voting Be for the Nation, the Public Interest, and Change

Publication date: April 30, 2025 In Lebanon, when municipal elections approach, the scene no longer looks democratic as it is meant to appear. Instead, it turns into another arena of a cold war between sectarian brokers and networks of political […]

Bashir Osmat

30/04/2025