Israel’s assassination of Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hizballah, in an apocalyptic bombing attack on Beirut’s southern suburb on Friday is likely, at least in the short term, to cause enormous shock, despair and demoralization among supporters of the resistance to Zionism in Lebanon and across the region.
Corruption
Frances Coppola: Britain’s Longest-Running Financial Scandal has come to an End
Atoning for their mortgage and pension mis-selling scams has cost the UK banks billions, but their payouts perversely kept consumer spending alive. What happens now? Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Searching for the scapegoat – wages in the ECB’s focus
If the German Federal Statistical Office hadn’t officially announced it last Friday, you wouldn’t have believed it. In Germany, the part of collective wage agreements that leads to a permanent collective wage increase actually amounted […]
Geopolitics
Times of Israel: Blinken approves $20 billion sale of weapons to Israel, including F-15s
February 14, 2020, in Deland, Florida. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has approved weapons sales of more than $20 billion to Israel, including F-15 fighter jets and nearly 33,000 tank […]
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