Monday, August 10, 2020

Notations On Our World (Special Edition): Weekly #RandomThoughts on Our World

The Prime Minister of Lebanon has resigned as protests continue.   Hassan Diab admitted the corruption and the ineptitude in his final speech as the future of Lebanon is murky--especially as in our view Hezbollah will not go quietly.  Al Jazeera's Marwan Bishara underscored it: 


   As our team continues to assess it, we decided to feature these clips from the 2019 protests by the Revolution DJ Madi Karimeh  that is so poignant for the moment:




This is as our team has been assessing the on-going developments in India & Turkey and analyzing the latest from the Financial Times' Gideon Rachman as , "..  Narendra Modi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have grandiose views of themselves as refounders of their own nations. In rejecting secularism, both the Indian and Turkish leaders are remaking their countries as faith-based states..."  

It has also been quite a week On the US Political Scene--We hereby present a sampling of the discourse over Social Media along with the on-going situation in Iran as COVID-19 rages and nationwide strikes continue--The National University Exams was postponed in light of the raging pandemic as we went to press: 







Sunday, August 9, 2020

Notations On Our World (Special Sunday Edition): ; #Lebanon

 As we went to press, protests were continuing in Lebanon in the aftermath of the horrific explosion that left an estimated 300,000 homeless, 5,000 injured and over 150 people dead at last count.   A number of ministries were attacked and taken over by protesters as the Lebanese Prime Minister said that he would introduce a bill Monday to call for early Elections--as we salute Lebanon, we are confident that Lebanon will rise again like the Phoenix not withstanding all the odds stacked against it: 


 




Friday, August 7, 2020

Notations On Our World (Special Friday Edition): On the Week That Was With #RandomThoughts From The Grid...

 It has been a challenging week as our World continue to grapple with COVID-19.   Our team chose a sampling of some of the discourse this week as our on-going assessments continue: