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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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.