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Mexico City police on Thursday freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps, authorities said.
Police raided the factory, which was hidden inside an alcohol and..
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The Lebanese navy said it has recovered 38 people and four bodies off the coast of northern Lebanon after a ship with 83 aboard sank Thursday.
The rescue mission was...
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What Israel did to Lebanon in 2006.
Although Israel launched the war on Lebanon in 2006 - Israel in this case was acting as an American proxy. This is not to excuse...
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The use of the term “Arab Street” is one of the most racist Western cliches directed toward Arabs. First, there is still a stubborn reluctance in the...
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The Arab states are responsible for less than 5 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions, but according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development...
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Meet Mini-Hariri (or Sa’ad Hariri), the prime minister of Lebanon who inherited his position after his late father was killed (probably by the Syrians) in 2005....
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It’s absolutely shameful how Lebanese and Palestinian television glorify and promote suicide bombings to children.
This video aired on al-Quds TV in Lebanon on...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Dr.Samir Al Taqi from SyriaTribune discusses a possible milestone in the development of militant political Islam, mostly in the light of Nasrallah’s last...
made popular Dec 9 2009
Hezbollah has an image in the West as a thuggish, terrorist Iranian-proxy that shares the same fundamentalist views of Iran. While it is appropriate to state that...
made popular Dec 7 2009
“Beirut Diaries” is a documentary (directed by a Palestinian-American) set in the days following the spring 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime...
made popular Dec 4 2009
Four years ago, at 16, Rana’s husband forced her into prostitution. Despite the risks of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), Rana, like many local sex workers -...
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Meet the Joe Isuzu of Lebanon: Zayn al-Athat (for those unfamiliar with American culture Isuzu was a lying spokesperson who appeared in Japanese cars ads).
Zayn...
made popular Nov 30 2009
There is something terribly wrong in Beirut, Lebanon. Female migrant domestic workers are apparently killing themselves in droves, at least one per week, according to...
made popular Nov 21 2009
It’s been an almost endless summer in Lebanon, with beach weather and relative political harmony continuing well into November. The only thing marring what could...
made popular Nov 11 2009
In the last few months, several videos or documentaries shown in North America about the Lebanese have misrepresented them and their culture.
For instance, Oprah’s...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Lebanese troops found and dismantled four rockets near the border with Israel on Wednesday, a day after a brief flare-up across the tense boundary, a Lebanese military...
made popular Oct 29 2009
Israel often likes to brag that it is ostensible “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Considering that this “democracy” is a...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Second only to Israel, no nation has mistreated the Palestinians worst than Lebanon. Although Palestinians refugees live in squalor in all Arab nations (and the...
made popular Oct 19 2009
When I heard the news that Lebanon had won a seat on the rotating part of the Security Council (made up of five permanent members and 10 rotating 2-year non-renewable...
made popular Oct 19 2009
As they say: Talking, or typing in this case, is much easier than experiencing or seeing. What the writer, who seems to have so much love for Lebanon due to his ...
made popular Oct 13 2009
I have recently been having a back-and-forth with an IB member from Lebanon. He accuses me of attacking his country. I am doing anything but: I never attack Lebanon or...
made popular Oct 9 2009
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3 monkeys anyone?
The birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi that fell on 2nd October is also a time when we recall the 3 monkeys that we have always associated with him....
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In front of Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Rio de Janeiro, with a view of Christ, the Redeemer, is the site of one of the most beautiful stories of black resistance in...
made popular Aug 11 2009
The Brazilian Public Defense has released a new listing of employers involved in slave work in Brazil. According to the Labor Ministry (MET), the “dirty...
made popular Jul 24 2009
There are few stories more tragic than the plight of foreign maids in Lebanon. Those familiar with their circumstances now how much they suffer under cruel employers,...
made popular Nov 12 2008
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