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Apr 29, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | David Brooks |Tariq Al-Homayed |Nabil Amr |Najib Saab
Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of money, sometimes in response to national emergencies and sometimes to do the things people thought were worth doing. We gave ourselves permission to incur all this debt because interest rates were low and many people assumed that things would stay that way, so the costs of carrying that much debt wouldn’t be too onerous.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Nabil Amr |Najib Saab |Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda
The persistence of the Gaza war for many months was a major surprise that the world had not anticipated and accounted for, and there are no indications of when it will end. Even the two parties directly involved, Israel and Hamas, had not prepared for anything more than another cycle of the conflict like the others that have broken out since Hamas took control in Gaza. Hamas did not anticipate the astonishing and unforeseen outcomes of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.
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Apr 28, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Najib Saab |Amir Taheri |Suleiman Jawda |Hazem Saghieh
The $20 billion provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency this month to support the transition to sustainable energy in local communities represents a milestone. Until now, the benefits of environment and climate subsidies around the world have been almost limited to the wealthy, who are able to meet the difficult conditions for loans and grants.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Andreas Kluth |Najib Saab |Cass Sunstein
The night of April 13-14, 2024 has taken up a distinguished position in the memory of the region. It has been a long time that newsrooms were so fervent to learn the latest developments. Perhaps the night of March 19-20, 2003 - when American rockets rained down on Baghdad to oust Saddam Hussein - comes close.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Andreas Kluth |Najib Saab |Cass Sunstein |Abdel Rahman Shalgham
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, as Mahatma Gandhi allegedly said. After Iran’s massive retaliation for the Israeli strike against Iran’s diplomatic compound in Damascus, it now falls to US President Joe Biden to prevent subsequent rounds of escalation from blinding the entire Middle East, or even the world. Biden must punish Iran diplomatically but also restrain Israel. This will be unfathomably hard. Since the attack by Hamas against Israel on Oct.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Hazem Saghieh |Ghassan Charbel |Andreas Kluth |Najib Saab
It is perhaps acceptable, during national wars, to calibrate cultural life to wartime necessities. Accordingly - and only as an exception and for a limited period of time - some expressions seen to potentially benefit the side fighting the nation and its people could be banned. However, it is very clear that Lebanon is not currently engaged in a national war. The war is being waged by a particular segment of the population.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Najib Saab |Cass Sunstein |Abdel Rahman Shalgham |Mustafa Fahs
Can technology alone stop the collapse of natural systems, without addressing the root of the problem and changing production and consumption patterns?
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Ghassan Charbel |Hazem Saghieh |Tariq Al-Homayed |Najib Saab
He lies down to sleep. He is exhausted. This is the toughest war Israel has ever fought. Fighting armies was easier than this. Its headlines would have been known and these armies would eventually be broken. Strike their airports, headquarters and burn their tanks. They can be forced to swallow the bitter pill and stop the fighting without reclaiming their land. The deterrence power was perfect. This war is unlike all the others. Before going to bed, he goes over reports.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Najib Saab |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani |Hazem Saghieh
Achieving the goal of tripling the production capacity of renewable energy by 2030 will not be possible if the world continues on the current path. But the objective is technically viable and economically feasible, provided that countries adopt supportive policies and provide large-scale investments.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
english.aawsat.com | Tariq Al-Homayed |Najib Saab |Amir Taheri |Osman Mirghani
Since Joe Biden began his term as president, his administration's only strategy for the Middle East has been not to have a clear strategy. While it was said that its strategy was to withdraw from the region, it has no clear strategy for doing so, and the proof is the manner in which the US pulled out of Afghanistan. The Biden administration had no clear strategy for dealing with allies, Iran, or the Houthis.
