An Ethiopian maid was found dead in Ba`aqlin in Lebanon (a Jumblat stronghold) at the house of her employer. She hanged herself, said the police report. As usual, Lebanese police will not investigate deaths of foreign domestic workers in Lebanon. On the same crime page, the racist anti-Syrian Hariri rag, reports a rape of a Sri Lankan maid by "two Syrians." The same rag never notices the regular mistreatment and abuse of Sri Lankan maids by Lebanese.
Broken Spring? : Information Clearing House This is a sequel to my June 2011 article, ‘After the spring’, on the upheavals in the Arab world. It is an article that has been painful to write, because it brings bad tidings and offers a pessimistic analysis of the upheavals, at least in the short term, in a number of Arab countries. The outcomes and potential outcomes of these uprisings have also acquired new, very significant dimensions. These include a complex entanglement with the accelerated preparations for a possible attack on Iran, and a poisonous, sectarian aspect that could have the consequence of ripping Syria and the Middle East apart.
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